Via press release: Today Lambda Legal announced that it is in the planning stages of a new federal lawsuit seeking the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in Virginia with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). “The end of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act opens a new chapter in our work to ensure same-sex couples and their families across …
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FLORIDA: Broward Sheriff’s Office Issues Plea For Peace After Zimmerman Verdict
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office has posted a rap video in which young people plea for peace, whatever the verdict may be in the Zimmerman trial. Right wing sites have long predicted riots should Zimmerman be acquitted. Breitbart has posted a transcript: The video, titled “Raise Your Voice, Not Your Hands,” focuses on attempting to channel reaction into non-violent response. …
Read More »Robert Mugabe: Gays Should Make Babies With Each Other Or Go To Jail
“So how would they (gay couples) have children? I should like to shut them-up in some room and see if they get pregnant; if they don’t then its jail because they have claimed they can have children. So, to that kind of rot, we say no, no, no, no! Women are also engaged in this vile activity. We have some …
Read More »LISTEN: Pet Shop Boys – Electric
The new Pet Shop Boys album, Electric, is streaming live today on Pandora. If you’re in the UK, you can listen at the Guardian. The album will be released next week. “When we started work on it, it was more Chris’ project really, and we agreed that it wasn’t going to be Disco 5,” Neil Tennant recently told Popjustice. “But …
Read More »Complaint By Fred Karger Triggers FEC Investigation Of Rick Santorum
Former GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger, the eternal thorn in the backside of NOM, has struck again. The Federal Election Commission is asking former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats and an anti-gay marriage organization to tell the agency why it should not investigate an allegation that they violated campaign finance limits during the last election. …
Read More »PENNSYLVANIA: ACLU To File Lawsuit Against Ban On Same-Sex Marriage
The Associated Press reports: The lawsuit, to be filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples from getting married. It names Gov. Tom Corbett, Attorney General Kathleen Kane and three other officials. The plaintiffs are one widow, 10 couples and one of the couples’ two teenage daughters, and …
Read More »San Diego’s Gay Bookshop To Reopen
Two years after being damaged in a fire, San Diego’s gay bookshop will reopen just in time for this weekend’s pride events. (Tipped by JMG reader David)
Read More »More “Vomit” Talk From Pat Robertson
This time he reminds us that we should be stoned to death.
Read More »HomoQuotable – Robert Oscar Lopez
“Most kids of gay parents we know are struggling with sexual identity issues, recovering from emotional abuse, fighting drug addictions, or are so wounded by their childhood that they lack the stability to go public and face the onslaught from an increasingly totalitarian gay lobby, which refuses to admit that there’s anything wrong. [snip] For a movement like the LGBT …
Read More »Feds: Domestic Partners Are Ineligble For Benefits Now Granted Without DOMA
The federal government yesterday clarified that added benefits being granted now that DOMA has been (partially) overturned will not be available unless the couple is legally married. The Office of Personnel Management made that announcement in a series of memos to federal benefits administrators and insurance carriers, saying couples who are not legally married “will remain ineligible for most federal …
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