Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Pope Francis today refused to condemn gay people during a conversation with reporters on his return flight from Brazil.  Via NBC News: Pope Francis said “who am I to judge?” gay people as he discussed one of the most divisive issues affecting the Catholic Church Monday. “I have yet to find anyone who has a business card that says he …

Phoenix City Council candidate Austin Head, who is openly gay and openly HIV+, is raising eyebrows with the above campaign sign.  Hit the link, he tells quite the life story. (Via JMG reader Mich)

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From the editorial board of the New York Times: To the long list of Russians whom President Vladimir Putin is persecuting, add gay people and those who support gay rights. Along with political dissidents, journalists and billionaire businessmen, they are increasingly the focus of repellent laws and repressive practices that could send them, and anyone who dares defend them, to …

A surprisingly straight-forward deep house track.

Via the Daily Mail: Imagine if the internet was mapped out like a solar system with the world’s biggest websites represented by individual planets. But instead of the map of just a handful of planets that we’re used to seeing when learning about space, The Internet Map, a website set up by a Russian data-visualisation designer, has in excess of …

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 …