Joe.My.God. LGBT News

From the Spectrum Human Rights Alliance, which advocates for LGBT rights in Eastern Europe, comes a horrifying report: Infamous Russian ultranationalist and former skin head, Maxim Martsinkevich, known under the nickname “Cleaver” (or “Tesak” in Russian) spearheaded a country wide campaign against LGBT teens using a popular social network VK.com to lure unsuspected victims through personal ads. Mr. Martsinkevich’s numerous …

Talking Points Memo has a recap of the first poll taken since the Carlos Danger flap: Weiner’s standing in the race has clearly slipped due to the scandal, though he’s not entirely out of contention. The poll showed him in second place in the Democratic primary with 16 percent compared to 25 percent for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and …

Tomorrow it will have been one month since the repeal of DOMA’s Section Three. At the Washington Blade, Chris Johnson looks at the rapid moves taken since then: Almost like a domino effect, public officials and judges in Ohio, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Missouri this week alone have acted to advance marriage equality by drawing on the decision in Windsor …

Man, this thing looks terrible.

Yesterday afternoon President Obama formally nominated Caroline Kennedy to be the US ambassador to Japan. In naming Ms. Kennedy, whose nomination has been rumored for months, Mr. Obama is keeping with a well-established tradition of rewarding important campaign supporters with plum embassies. He recently put forward big-dollar fund-raisers to be envoys in London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Madrid. But Ms. Kennedy’s …

Yesterday the New York City Council voted 47-1 to renew the lease for Madison Square Garden for a mere ten years, rather than an “in perpetuity” lease as the venue had wanted. Ten years should be enough time, officials said, for the Garden to find a new location and for the city to devise plans for an expanded Pennsylvania Station, …

Yesterday New Jersey United For Marriage, a coalition of major local and national LGBT rights groups, held a press conference in Asbury Park to launch the latest bid to overturn Gov. Chris Christie’s veto of same-sex marriage.  From their website: New Jersey United for Marriage is the campaign to secure the freedom to marry for all loving and committed couples …

“Be It Resolved: We the Loudoun County Republican Committee respectfully request the board of Supervisors to reconsider censuring Delgaudio, We respectfully request the board to reconsider removing Delgaudio from all committees, We respectfully request the board to reconsider removing the district staff of Supervisor Delgaudio. Finally, we respectfully request the board to give Delgaudio specific charges and Supervisor Delgaudio and …

“I think he should withdraw, I think he needs serious psychiatric help. He should take care of his own problems and let New York figure its policies and its mayor. I mean, to have done it again after what we went through in the resignation, he has shown himself to be a serial liar. You can’t believe him, and he’s …