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(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

Today is the 5th annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day. Tell us about your gay family. Do you have two moms? Are you a family of two dads? Tell us about your kids. And if you don’t yet have any, but want to have kids some day, tell us about that too.

…for another gay blog impostor. Anybody remember the gay firefighter dad of two adopted sons who turned out to be a Canadian grandmother? UPDATE: Michael Triplett at Mediaite recaps the story nicely.

All the George Rekers buzz pushed this here website thingy into Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs this week, a place mostly populated by group blogs like the Huffington Post. I’m way down at #88, but that’s still totally braggable. Interestingly, I’m the only blog with a Google domain on the list, but since those busy-busy-busy anti-gay hackers would have to bring …

Ben Smith reports at Politico that a coalition of military bloggers have called for the repeal of DADT. The community of “mil-bloggers” — often hawkish, critical of White House and military leadership, devoted to both the First and Second Amendments — isn’t easy to define politically, but has proven an increasingly powerful voice from the ranks. The statement, which says …

We’ve gained a lot of new readers at this here website thingy over the last week, welcome! You can subscribe to JMG via any RSS reader, my feed link is also in the left sidebar. (I recommend Google Reader for its simplicity.) New posts are also automatically pinged to my Twitter feed and I’ll often post breaking stories to my …

It’s a criticism worth discussing and one that I (probably too glibly) addressed yesterday on Signorile’s show. As I noted in a post on Tuesday, I had decided to cloak Geo/Lucien/Jo-Vanni’s identity, but once he was revealed on Unzipped, that plan, obviously, became moot. I’ve also been criticized for using the words “hooker” and “prostitute,” rather than the more PC …

Today is the sixth blogiversary of this here website thingy. As is tradition for today, here is my very first post. I was born and raised in rural North Carolina. My fondest childhood memory is of playing in the dense, acrid, poison fog that was belched out by the county mosquito control truck during its daily dusk-time trip down our …

California police raided the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen on Friday after the tech blogger posted a story about the next generation iPhone. Chen had paid a source $5000 for the phone after it was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple researcher. Gizmodo.com editor Jason Chen came home Friday to find cops in his house, looking for …

Over at Mediaite, Michael Triplett has posted an interesting look into the editorial decisions of (mostly male) gay bloggers, who must carefully tread the line between hard news LGBT activism and the desire of some of their readers to see the occasional bit of beefcake. The column arises out off a feud between (now former) Bilerico blogger David Badash and …

Next weekend I’ll be in Fort Lauderale for the 2010 Gay & Lesbian Literary Arts Festival, where I’ll join Miami Herald columnist Steve Rothaus and author Steve Petrow for a panel discussion titled “The Art Of Blogging.” Fancy! The panel will be moderated by South Florida Gay News columnist and blogger bon vivant, our very own Father Tony. Festival registration …

Folks, traffic on this here website thingy has more than doubled in the last year and our already comparatively high volume of commenting has zoomed along with that, usually running about 900 – 1000+ comments per weekday. As I simply don’t have the time to monitor 25,000+ comments per month, please take this post as my semi-annual caution and plea …

You can read new JMG posts in their entirety via this RSS feed. Any feed reader will work, I recommend Google Reader for its simplicity. (You will have to come to the blog to participate in the comments discussion.) New posts are also automatically pinged to my Twitter feed where I also post links to breaking stories not yet on …

Here’s the link to that 2010 Bloggies Awards thingy again. I have no idea how I’m doing and Post Secret is probably kicking my ass and the ballot design is full of the bite and you gotta scroll all way to the right to find me. But you should at least check out some of the groovy sites nominated in …

How not to blog and how not to comment, all in one hilarious read. I somewhat see this here website thingy in this post and you may see yourself in the comments. At the least, you’ll see some of your fellow JMGers. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

“Priests are thus challenged to proclaim the Gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources — images, videos, animated features, blogs, Web sites — which, alongside traditional means, can open up broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.” – Pope Palpatine, urging priests to take up blogging and social networking.

Last month the Weblogs Awards, for which this here website thingy has been a finalist and winner in years past, announced that they were packing it in and there would be no awards for 2009. Which was kind of a relief, because as Monica Geller as I tend to get about these things, that Air America nonsense burned us all …

It was a year of homophobes and haters, but also one of heroes, milestones, and some pretty terrific victories. I cranked out about 6000 posts on this here website thingy and you folks responded with over 300,000 comments as traffic more than doubled. JMG got some great notice from the Anti-Violence Project, the Advocate, Instinct Magazine, and After Elton, although …

Well, it was a fun distraction for a couple of weeks, but Open Left’s Mike Lux has won Air America’s “Favorite Progressive Blogger” contest. I came in second, which is pretty damn good considering I didn’t know about the contest until I was a semi-finalist! Congratulations, Mike! After five weeks of competition, dozens of tweets, emails, and blog posts — …

Entertainment/pop culture site After Elton has given JMG their 2009 Visibility Award as their “Website Of The Year.” Very nice! Like a little whiskey in your coffee and personality in your blog? JoeMyGod.com started out as an ever-changing Manhunt profile of cheeky observations that eventually started developing a following of its own, and became a full-fledged blog in March 2004. …