Joe.My.God. LGBT News

A teacher at a Catholic high school in Minnesota has been fired shortly after coming out to other staffers. After enduring the Catholic school version of “don’t ask/don’t tell” for several years, Totino-Grace High School English/religion teacher Kristen Ostendorf unexpectedly came out to her colleagues at the 47–year-old Catholic school in Fridley on Aug. 21. “I’m gay, I’m in a …

Radio Free Europe reports: A popular television channel in Russia has been warned for allegedly propagating same-sex relations. Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media announced on September 12 that it had warned the EvroKino television channel for airing the 2007 French musical “Les Chansons d’Amour” (Love Songs). The agency said the film contains “propaganda …

Drag ball realness. Stereogum recaps: “All Night” is probably the best non-”I Love It” song we’ve yet heard from Swedish dance-pop screamers Icona Pop. Its new video, from director Dori Oskowitz, takes the song’s kineticism and really does something with it. The video works as a sort of mini-documentary about New York’s ridiculously photogenic vogue-ball culture, showing the two members …

“Dear Joe, ‘Sank Like a Stone’ — that’s how same-sex marriage faired in Australia this past week. Australia held elections for Prime Minister the other day, but it was as much a referendum on whether the Aussies would redefine marriage or not. You may remember I had traveled to Australia in August for the World Congress of Families, and I …

BET reports: DJ Mister Cee was a guest on Hot 97 Thursday (Sept. 12) morning addressing the latest rounds of sex allegations, and admitted to being “in denial” about rumors that he solicited oral sex from men. “I never had actually sexual intercourse with another man, and vice versa,” Cee said in the nearly 30-minute interview. But he did admit …

Breaking news from ABC’s Philadelphia affiliate: A Pennsylvania judge is stopping a suburban Philadelphia court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, saying it was a clear violation of his legal authority. Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini on Thursday issued an order that said Montgomery County Register of Wills Bruce Hanes didn’t have the power to decide on his …

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Teabagistan’s always classy and erudite Daily Caller (owned by Tucker Carlson) today published a before-and-after slideshow of prominent Democrats with the above headline. Back in 2008 it was fun. Daring. Exciting. The rush was unbelievable. The visuals? Man, this dope is like the best parts of coke and acid. Plus all the cool kids were doing it, but, like, for …

IO9 has posted a stunning collection of photographs taken through powerful microscopes. Above is common household dust “with cat fur, long hair, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, a pollen grain and insect remains.” I posted the least gruesome example.