Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Self-loathing homosexuals David Benkof, Doug Mainwaring, and Robert Oscar Lopez have jointly filed a Supreme Court brief against the overturn of Proposition 8.  Here’s an excerpt: Note that this repulsive trio cites several articles from fellow homocon writer Jonathan Rauch as well as the French homocon group HomoVox, whose videos have been posted by NOM.  If you are unfamiliar with …

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops today filed Supreme Court briefs against the overturn of DOMA and Proposition 8. From their DOMA brief: The USCCB brief in United States v. Windsor says that “there is no fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex.” The brief also states that “as defined by courts ‘sexual orientation’ is not …

You may recall GOP Tennessee state Rep. Stacey Campfield’s continuing attempt to ban any mention of homosexuality or LGBT people in public schools.  Campfield has reintroduced his bill in the new legislative session, this time with the command that schools notify parents if their child is deemed to be “at risk” of having the gay.  Think Progress has some excerpts …

NRA head Wayne LaPierre says that the government is already failing to prosecute people who illegally apply to purchase a gun, therefore it’s pointless to impose background checks on people that buy guns at gun shows.

Queens middle school teacher David Rangel, 53, was found strangled in his apartment this weekend. Police suspect that Rangel may have met his killer online and are inspecting his computer’s history. Rangel taught Spanish to seventh and eighth graders at the Paul Klapper School (P.S./M.S. 219) in Flushing, where the flag flew at half-mast Monday. “Everyone was walking around, mourning,” …

NOM’s arch-nemesis Fred Karger, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination last year, appeared at NOM’s DC headquarters this week to demand their 2011 tax filings, which by law must be produced to any member of the public. Via press release: “They tried their best to avoid me, were rude and evasive, but what else is new?” said Karger on …

If you enjoy the bizarre Swedish performer Fever Ray, you might like her latest collaboration with her brother.  There’s a story somewhere in this weird clip, right?  (Maybe not.)  Several years ago The Knife swept the Swedish version of the Grammys, including the Best Pop Group category.  I quite like this.

Yesterday a federal court dismissed an attempt to block San Francisco’s recently-approved ban on public nudity.  The ban will go into effect as scheduled on Friday. Matthew Bajko has more at Bay Area Reporter: In his ruling Chen wrote that “the court concludes that the ordinance does not conflict with state law, that plaintiffs’ facial challenge to the ordinance based …