Joe.My.God. LGBT News

GOP Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a bill that forbids local governments from enacting mandatory paid sick leave measures for businesses. Scott rejected calls by progressives and South Florida leaders for him to veto it. With other parts of the country, such as New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, passing similar sick-time measures, it’s an issue that now …

Today at 2:30pm 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?

Via press release: New York, June 17, 2013— NYC Pride announced singing sensation Deborah Cox will perform at the annual Dance on the Pier. Fresh off her captivating Broadway performance as Lucy in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum-selling artist will rock the stage on Hudson River Park’s Pier 26 as part of the closing for NYC Pride’s official …

The MTA has posted a slideshow about the progress being made at the future 72nd Street Station of the Second Avenue subway.  Cool photos within.  The blasting has ended and the muck houses on Second Avenue started to come down this week after three years of destroying businesses and blocking apartment windows.  And only three more years (allegedly) until I’ll …

At last night’s Miss USA pageant, Miss Utah came close to rivaling the answer famously given by Miss Teen South Carolina a few years ago.

In another release from the latest survey from Pew Research, we learn the unsurprising news that gays are more than twice as likely to be atheists or religiously unaffiliated. When it comes to religion, the LGBT population has a distinctly different profile than the general public. Fewer LGBT adults have a religious affiliation. About half of LGBT respondents describe themselves …

Via this Instagram account. (Tipped by JMG reader Cheryl)

The show airs on Thursday.    In a special episode, Lisa Ling is joined by a group of survivors of the condemned and damaging practice of “reparative therapy” as they confront Alan Chambers. Chambers recently asked Ling to help orchestrate an opportunity in which he could formally apologize to those who felt deceived and defrauded by Exodus’ practices and to announce …