Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Via SCOTUSblog: The California Supreme Court on Monday afternoon refused to order county clerks throughout the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The state court noted on the docket for the case (Hollingsworth v. O’Connell, S211990) that it had refused a stay or injunction that would immediately mean that licenses would be allowed only to opposite-sex couples …

While many nations have formally denounced Russia’s ban on “gay propaganda,” Reykjavik is doing something about it. According to the contract between Reykjavik and Moscow drawn up in 2007, the cities were going to cooperate on family issues. But now, a statement from the city council reads: ‘In light of the developments concerning the affairs of gay, bisexual and transsexual …

Judging by the letters to the editor in this week’s Provincetown Banner, lots of folks are very upset with the chief of police over a fracas he allegedly spawned at the Squealing Pig.  In other small town paper news: somebody caught a really big fish, the air conditioner at the library doesn’t work very well, and some lady got a …

Greece’s new minister of health has reinstated a measure that allows the police to detain and test any person for HIV. Health organisations say the decree stigmatises drug users, sex workers and undocumented migrants in particular. The text also states that any occupants of housing which “may cause danger to public health” should be evicted from their homes, without any …

Clip recap: Well, that’s it: we won. It’s impossible to overstate how monumental it is that Prop 8 is gone. Couples are getting married in the most populous state in the country. And nearly one third of Americans live in states with the freedom to marry. So now let’s take a look at what comes next.

The House Of Lords today approved its version of the marriage equality bill on its third reading. The upper, unelected chamber approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill without a vote in London today. Some members of the house wore pink carnations to mark the occasion. The legislation has already been passed by the Commons amid opposition from more than …

World Net Daily is promoting the latest campaign to impeach President Obama. Among the reasons: gay lovers, [Larry] Sinclair (who claims to have had sex with the president), and [Andrew] Breitbart, who was totally assassinated by Obama’s subsonic death ray fired from a low orbit satellite. The latest American group to seek formal congressional action against Obama says on its …

Today at 3:00 pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 109 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week?