Joe.My.God. LGBT News

You might need to embiggen to read it.

“Last week, it was a done deal. Or so thought some of the Boy Scouts of America’s national Board of Directors. The board was poised to revoke their longstanding policy against having openly homosexual leaders and Scouts. Only a perfunctory discussion this week stood in the way, and the board would make the decision, appeasing corporate elites and homosexual activists. …

“Marriage equality is coming to Illinois. Now, it’s time to take the next step in achieving full equality.  Let’s pass this bill for marriage equality and let’s do it now.  Our Illinois is not a land of discrimination.” – Gov. Pat Quinn, speaking today in his State Of The State address to the Illinois legislature. The marriage equality bill is …

I don’t think this is an official episode in Canada’s famed Heritage Minute series, which runs often on TV there. But it sure is lovely. Queerty has an earlier gay male version which features the filmmaker himself.

Diet Coke’s ad agency really loves the gay designers. Garth Johnston writes at Gothamist: When catsh*t crazy designer Karl Lagerfeld was named Diet Coke’s creative director and released his custom Diet Coke bottles we smiled. Because c’mon…Karl Lagerfeld. But that was back in 2011—he was followed by Jean Paul Gaultier at the “helm” in 2012, and now it is time …

Idaho GOP state Sen. John Goedde has introduced a bill that requires high school students to read Ayn Rand’s libertarian opus, Atlas Shrugs.  You don’t graduate if you can’t pass a test on the book. The 1957 novel has been embraced by libertarians and the tea party movement, in part for its opposition to “statism” and embrace of capitalism, as …

Jezebel has more examples from the ad campaign for a new line of “personal hygiene wipes.”

Britain has their own version of Kalley Yanta and today we meet their take on Penny Nance. Here’s Christian Concern’s Andrea Williams bleating out all of the tired objections as openly gay radio host Neil Sexton rolls his eyes. Entertaining clip.