Joe.My.God. LGBT News

A symbolic but welcome gesture in Michigan: The city council voted unanimously last night to sever its “sister” relationship with St. Petersburg, Russia, over that city’s anti-gay policies, which effectively prohibits any expression of gay identity or support for equal rights for gay people. “I think all of us that sit at this dais believe that this is extremely important,” …

We’ve already heard advance tracks by Giorgio Mororder and Chromeo from the coming Donna Summer remix album and today Billboard tips us to some of the rest of the slate. “Love to Love You Donna” will be released on Oct. 22 through Verve Records, and is produced by Dahlia-Ambach Caplin and Randall Poster. The project features new re-workings of classic …

France’s English-language The Local reports: Shocked French Twitter users and gay rights groups have reacted angrily to the emergence of the hashtag “#LesGaysDoiventDispaîratreCar” (“Gay people must die/disappear because”), that trended over the weekend. The organisation SOS Homophobie, which fights anti-gay speech and violence, has launched a parallel campaign online, encouraging users to point out and report instances of the phrase. …

“I don’t feel the need to discuss my private life on this show or any other show. There’s the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there’s the part that’s mine to keep for myself. And that’s mine. For me.” – Queen Latifah, telling the Hollywood Reporter that only one topic will be off-limits on …

USA Today has the caption: A Navy sailor returning from a six-month deployment emerged from his submarine, dropped to one knee and proposed to his boyfriend during the homecoming celebration in Connecticut for USS New Mexico. About 200 people were gathered at the dock of the Naval Submarine Base New London where Machinist’s Mate Jerrel Revels proposed to Dylan Kirchner. …

There’s a short interview with me today over on the official website for Palm Springs, where I talk a bit about their coming pride event and the history of JMG.  We haven’t yet picked a venue for the readers meet-up that weekend, but I should have some news on that soon.

Check out Jeremy Hooper’s compilation of recent tweets from Bryan Fischer.

As we know, those “assurances” were shot down by the Russian government, but the comparison remains striking. Source.

“Our moral and cultural elites have put Putin on notice: Get in step with us on homosexual rights – or we may just boycott your Sochi games. What this reveals is the distance America has traveled, morally and culturally, in a few short years, and our amnesia about who we Americans once were, and what it is we once believed. …