Joe.My.God. LGBT News

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?

The debate has begun. Watch it here.  The Lord speaking at this writing is denouncing the  “redefinition of an ancient institution to benefit a miniscule minority.” He added, “Marriage between a man and a woman predates nations and predates laws.” And gay marriage in Spain is causing the demise of opposite marriage. And something about school children “being forced to …

Carl Siciliano applauds Ksen Pallegedara: Last weekend I found myself in a gym in Portland, Oregon with tears streaming down my face. I was at Lewis & Clark Law School, at the graduation ceremony of Ksen Pallegedara, one of the first young people ever to stay at the Ali Forney Center. As I saw Ksen walk by in his cap …

Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) died of pneumonia today at the age of 89. The oldest member of the Senate, Lautenberg had struggled with health problems since late last year, when he missed several weeks of votes because of what he said was flu and bronchitis.  The death of Lautenberg, a Democrat who was the longest-serving senator in New Jersey history, …

Barber will be picketing tomorrow outside of the DC headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign.

I’ve not seen it yet, but judging by my Facebook feed last night’s Game Of Thrones was a doozy. The New York Daily News calls the episode “one of the most grisly in television history.” Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen it, otherwise dive in and dish.

Responding in part to France’s passage of marriage equality, the Russian government will ban all adoptions by foreign same-sex couples. An amendment restricting foreign adoptions to “traditional” families would be submitted by the government to parliament in its autumn session, Alexei Levchenko, a spokesman for the deputy prime minister, Olga Golodets, said on Saturday. Russian legislation sets several requirements for …

Clip description: Feature length sequel to the multi award-winning short film GROOM’S CAKE. A mockumentary following the three days leading up to the first birthday party of a child with two gay parents: television actor Steven James and his screenwriter husband, Daniel Ferguson. A movie about the family we are born into and the family we create. Two gay men, …

Britain’s right-leaning Telegraph reports: Despite vocal opposition from the Church to the Government’s plans to allow same-sex couples to marry, it is understood that senior officials have personally urged bishops to stay away from this week’s vote. They fear that a large bloc of clerics turning up to vote down the bill could rebound on the Church, reopening questions over …