Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Two Zambian men are about to go on trial for committing homosexual acts. Amnesty International reports: Philip Mubiana, a hair dresser and James Mwape, a brick layer, were charged with committing acts “against the order of nature”. They have been in custody for more than four months after being denied bail. If convicted they face a minimum of 15 years …

Illinois Unites, via press release: Because the Illinois House of Representatives has failed to enact the freedom to marry, Steve died before he and Robb could be married as Steve had wished. Their inability to marry in Illinois compounded the couple’s anguish, denying them more than a thousand federal protections available to married couples in the wake of the Supreme …

The man who last year shot a security guard at the DC headquarters of the Family Research Council will be sentenced tomorrow and the FRC has spent the week renewing their claim that it is the Southern Poverty Law Center (and not them) who is the true hate group. And the government should do something about that. Today World Net …

The Moscow Times today named President Obama as one of the top five heroes of Russia’s LGBT rights movement.   American authorities have long raised questions about human rights and LGBT issues in Russia, and Obama sent a clear signal during his visit to St. Petersburg for the G20 summit, where he organized a meeting with human rights and LGBT activists …

Hypnotic. (Via JMG reader Michael)

Starbucks is asking its customers to stop bringing firearms into their outlets. Gun nuts in “open carry” states have been staging parties in their stores and selling t-shirts with the logo seen here. In an interview, CEO Howard Schultz said the decision to ask customers to stop bringing guns into stores came as a result of the growing frequency of …

Last night I reported that openly gay Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims had announced a bipartisan coalition to enact a ban on the “ex-gay” torture of LGBT youth. Here’s Sims’ speech at the press conference to launch the campaign. (Via JMG reader Rudy)

“Three members of the Richmond City Council have introduced an ordinance that would recognize same-sex ‘marriages,’ in violation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia! This is the latest in a string of nationwide efforts by the same-sex ‘marriage’ lobby to circumvent the law and impose a genderless marriage regime on the American people against their will. We can’t …

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