Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Tomorrow a Brooklyn straight bar will host a smallest penis contest. Gothamist explains: Organizers at Kings County Bar confirmed with us yesterday that this is really happening: “The contest is absolutely happening this Saturday. Time has been moved up slightly, so we are anticipating starting between 3-4pm (doors will open to the public at 2pm). There are currently 12 contestants.” …

At the wingnut Daily Caller.

“No part of the story concerns Mr Card’s theories about society in terms of gay issues or homosexual issues. I think he has a right to his opinions and has also made it clear that it was a battle that he fought and lost and would like to get on with the rest of life.” – Harrison Ford, promoting Ender’s …

From his coming album, Innocents, which is due in October.

Yesterday the city of Detroit finally declared bankruptcy. The decision, confirmed by officials after it trickled out in late afternoon news reports, also amounts to the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in American history in terms of debt.  “This is a difficult step, but the only viable option to address a problem that has been six decades in the making,” said …

About 30 gay activists in Mexico City picketed yesterday outside Russia’s embassy in a “message of solidarity” to Russia’s LGBT people. Details (in Spanish).

“I don’t back something called ‘conversion therapy.’ I don’t even really know what conversion therapy is, and I’m not qualified to express an opinion on a particular kind of therapy. I back the right of gay people to seek the kind of counseling help they want, not the kind the SPLC lawyers want them to have, including help to live …