Joe.My.God. LGBT News

The New York Times reports on their latest poll: After 12 years with a peevish and pragmatic billionaire running the city, New Yorkers are eager for a mayor with heart. By a clear majority, the city’s voters say empathy is the most important trait in the next mayor, far more important than temperament, management experience, or the ability to recruit …

“Below is the ‘official’ promotional poster for the Folsom Street Fair, an annual, sadomasochism-celebrating street festival in San Francisco. The ‘fair’ is notorious for its open-air perversions, mocking of religion, sadistic whippings, ‘master-slave’ couples, and full nudity — and the latter will be allowed again this year due to an exemption granted to FSF to a new anti-public-nudity law passed …

I just about crashed my bike last night as I pulled over to say hello to pop crooner Matt Alber, Armistead Maupin, and his husband, Christopher Turner.  Tonight and tomorrow the Crown & Anchor will host An Evening With Armistead Maupin. Get tickets here.

The band writes: We are lucky in Britain to have laws that mean whether we are gay, straight, bisexual or anything in between, our relationships are recognised and our rights protected by law. But in Russia there is an anti-gay crisis happening right now: their government does not want to afford their people those same rights and are trying to …

A group of rabbis in California have certified a line of lube as kosher for Orthodox Jews. The US-made Wet range of lubes now has eight lines that have been given a religious stamp of approval, including its “Ecstasy” product. This means that rabbis from the Rabbinical Council of California have inspected Wet’s 52,000 sq ft production plant and researched …

“I am proud that we have made same-sex marriage happen. I am delighted that the love two people have for each other — and the commitment they want to make — can now be recognised as equal. I have backed this reform because I believe in commitment, responsibility and family. I don’t want to see people’s love divided by law. …

Yesterday the Loudoun County board of supervisors finally took some action against crackpot Eugene Delgaudio. In three separate votes, the supervisors moved to formally censure Delgaudio; to place his district budget under the control of the full board, except for minor expenditures; to remove his staff aides; and to prohibit him from serving on any county, local and regional committees. …

Well, at least Kennedy and Kagan.

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