Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via the Hollywood Reporter: It’s official: the latest chapter of Star Wars will be scored by John Williams. The composer, who has crafted the score for all six titles in the space opera saga, was confirmed to be joining J.J. Abrams’ Episode VII by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy on Saturday at a Star Wars fan event in Essen, Germany. The …

On Friday questions were raised by Right Wing Watch regarding a $50,000 donation made by Target to a GOP group that supports, among others, the gubernatorial campaign of anti-gay Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli.  Target has issued a response: “Target has a long-standing commitment to the LGBT community. We also believe strongly in our civic responsibility to engage in a …

“It’s official! The organising committee of Moscow Gay Pride and founders of the banned Pride House Sochi decided today against the boycott of Winter Olympics in Sochi and instead to organise Winter Sochi Pride on the day of the opening of Olympic Games on 7 February 2014. Join us! It will be much more effective to draw attention to official …

A new video for last year’s track. 400K views in two days.

As my pal Scott notes above, Skyy Vodka is sponsoring the Twitter hashtag #DumpRussianVodka. Skyy was founded in the US twenty years ago, but is now owned by Italy’s Gruppo Campari and is sold here through Campari America.

Twenty-eight anti-gay protesters were arrested today at Lithuania’s second-ever Baltic Pride parade in Vilnius, where attendees were pelted with eggs and verbal abuse. Several hundred gay rights activists took to the grand main street of Vilnius to show their pride, waving Lithuanian and rainbow-colored flags, with some standing on top of buses decked out in colorful balloons. They were met …

Yesterday the International Olympic Committee released a statement declaring that it had “received assurances from the highest levels” of the Russian government that athletes and fans would be exempt from arrest under the “homosexual propaganda” law during the Sochi Olympics. Buzzfeed‘s Chris Geidner reached out to NBC for a statement: “NBCUniversal strongly supports equal rights and the fair treatment for …

Yesterday I reported that the United Nation’s had launched a global campaign for the LGBT rights during a meeting in South Africa.  At the launch announcement was Archbishop Desmond Tutu. South Africa’s Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a “homophobic God” and will rather go to hell. The retired archbishop was speaking at the launch …

From the Facebook page of the NYC Eagle: Beginning immediately, the Eagle NYC will discontinue the sale of STOLI and any alcoholic product produced in Russia in protest of Russia’s anti-gay bill banning the “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations”. This archaic bill effectively strips every LGBTQ member in Russia of basic human rights and puts gays in danger of being …