Joe.My.God. LGBT News

My headline is just one take on the above tweet regarding the claim that pro-choice activists chanted “Hail Satan” as Christians sang Amazing Grace in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol.  In Teabagistan this tweet is being touted as evidence that “Texas Democrats are too evil even for Satan!”

The Thomas More Society is representing two downstate Illinois county clerks who are defending against the ACLU’s lawsuit to legalize same-sex marriage.  Totally not gay US Rep. Aaron Schock is very sorry that he couldn’t be there for the group’s annual function, but he recorded the below video clip to congratulate them for their hard work to deny civil equality …

JMG reader Dean noticed this Craigslist posting: NOW CASTING — MTV’S TRUE LIFE: I’M A GAY ATHLETE (USA) Is being gay affecting your game? Is your love for sports interfering with the love of your life? Is your desire to be the MVP keeping you from coming out to your coaches and teammates for fear of losing their acceptance? Are …

On Monday the national legislature of Costa Rica approved a bill that some claim “accidentally” legalizes civil unions or marriage for gay couples. Most had expected the president to veto the bill and that it would be rewritten.  But she has signed it. Via Google Translate: Chinchilla signed the law that was not raised to give rights to homosexuals, but …

Today the Vatican released an 82-page document co-written by Pope Francis and former Pope Benedict in which the pair says that marriage is only blah blah blah. Francis paid tribute to pope emeritus Benedict XVI in the encyclical, saying that the ex-pontiff had “almost completed” the text before stepping down in a historic resignation this year and that he himself …

“In the American language you have a distinction between the word ‘homosexual’ and ‘gay’. A homosexual is a person who has, to some extent, this homosexual condition. Somebody may have this difficulty, and his friends, his neighbors will not know about this. He’s dealing with this in cooperation with the grace of God and may come out of this difficulty …

Yesterday my pal Jerry accompanied me to the Invasion Of The Pines, the 37th annual marking of the day in 1976 when a drag queen was denied service at a restaurant in Fire Island Pines. Every Fourth of July since then, hundreds of drag queens board a chartered ferry in Cherry Grove and “invade” the Pines for a day exploding …

The religious right has a new martyr in former Los Angeles County police officer Tony Miano, who was arrested in Britain earlier this week for allegedly using homophobic speech as he preached to passersby on the street. Via the Christian Post: He was found to be in violation of Public Order Act Section 5, for “using homophobic speech that could …

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JMG reader and filmmaker Sean Chapin writes: Moments after Prop 8 fell and the first same-sex couple wed in San Francisco City Hall, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus celebrated the marriage of Prop 8 Plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, singing to then an excerpt of a new song called “San Francisco” from Andrew Lippa’s oratorio “I Am Harvey …