Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Tomorrow’s gay pride event in Sofia, Bulgaria has been canceled due to fears of anti-gay violence.  Gay Star News reports: Organizers of Sofia Pride that was scheduled for tomorrow (22 June) say the event has been canceled due to the insistence of city’s municipality and the Interior Ministry. Since peaceful protests against the appointment of a controversial media mogul as …

From last night’s Oprah Winfrey Network special, which was taped before yesterday’s announcement that Exodus would be shutting down.

In anticipation of the coming Supreme Court rulings, a coalition of Christianist and anti-gay hate groups have jointly issued yet another blah blah fucking blah blah declaration that they will never bow to Obama’s police state and obey laws regarding same-sex marriage. An excerpt: Experience and history have shown us that if the government redefines marriage to grant a legal …

“Let me make it clear that when I heard the person make a remark, it was in a scrum of literally dozens of people around me on a street corner. When I heard that woman make that remark, I immediately admonished her not to say anything further I have no memory of saying anything beyond that to the woman.” “Let …

“I discovered that MSNBC’s socialist news commentator Rachel Maddow played a soundbite of me on her program last night. Thank you, Rachel. I appreciate the publicity even though there aren’t that many people watching MSNBC, but I’ll take all the publicity I can get. The people who do watch it, however, have a visceral hate for Jesus Christ and Christians. …

Facebook-owned Instagram will now support very short video clips just like the Twitter-owned Vine. Instagram’s Kevin Systrom said video clips on Instagram will be 3 to 15 seconds long and include new shaky hand video stabilization technology called Cinema. Instagram now has 130 million users. Systrom: “The frame shown to people is typically the first frame. We think that’s silly. …

The New York Times is wondering what Ken Mehlman’s legacy will be regarding LGBT rights. Mr. Mehlman, 46, remains the hyper-intense, guarded strategist he was in his Bush days, with the same habit of looking past people instead of meeting their eyes. He shuns most interviews and still deflects personal questions, as he did back when rumors about his sexuality …

Wingnut sites are blaming the incident on “leftist infiltrators.” Because no Tea Party member would EVER yell something like that. Yeaaaah.

Boy George has made a string of really lovely tracks in the last few years. You might also enjoy his 2010 single Amazing Grace, which I still play often. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)