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Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Newsweek for this hilariously deranged photo of Crazy Eyes. Maybe somebody there has been reading JMG.

“Just got spam letter from M. Bachman! My reply: Woman go back to school take history! If I was on my deathbed & your best friend was JESUS, I wouldn’t vote for your gay-hating, bully-loving, poser Christian ass!'” – Cher, tweeting about Michele Bachmann. NOTE: I corrected a bit of Cher’s notoriously poor typing to make this more legible. The …

Dozens of New York judges have volunteered to officiate at same-sex marriages across the state on Sunday, July 24th, the first day they become legal. As one of several dozen judges across the state who have volunteered to play an official role in the new law’s first day, Justice Raffaele is part of one of the most unusual judicial mobilizations …

California Gov. Jerry Brown today signed openly gay state Sen. Mark Leno’s LGBT education bill. Leno’s legislation requires that California’s history textbooks including notable LGBT figures. “Today we are making history in California by ensuring that our textbooks and instructional materials no longer exclude the contributions of LGBT Americans,” said Senator Leno (D-San Francisco). “Denying LGBT people their rightful place …

Watch Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) take an unusual method to denounce the GOP’s spending plan.

(Via – Mother Jones)

“We have homophobes on our party. That’s disgusting to me. We’re all human beings. We’re all God’s children. Now if they’re going to get off on that stuff—Santorum has said some cruel things—cruel, cruel things—about homosexuals. Ask him about it; see if he attributes the cruelness of his remarks years ago. Foul. Now if that’s the kind of guys that …

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“I do not intend to ‘educate your college students,’ Maggie. Your college students—the offspring of NOM supporters—are being ‘educated’ at Brigham Young, Liberty University, Bob Jones, Seattle Pacific University, and other Christianist madrassas. My college tours typically take me to secular institutions of higher learning where the kids were hooking up and having sex long before my visit to campus. …

Sometimes it feels like Weiner and his college roommate Jon Stewart should totally switch jobs.

“I’m not the world’s most sensitive guy, but it does me good to see conservatives whine over DOMA. D-D-D-DOMA.” Sung from the president’s perspective with a clever reference to death panels thrown in. I bet the Kinks would approve.

Clip description: The Gay Preacher: A small group of Christian radicals came to Auburn University screaming at the students about how the are living unholy lives and how they are all going to hell, the students decided to respond back to the radicals. I love that he quotes the scripture of RuPaul.

An American Red Cross employee accidentally tweeted from the official account. Oops? No, not really, the mistaken tweet resulted in an avalanche of blood donation pledges. And for their part, Dogfish Beer staffers joined in.

The small town of Manhattan, Kansas, known locally as the “Little Apple,” has narrowly approved a sweeping LGBT rights ordinance by a vote of 3-2. This was the second required vote for the bill which was first approved by the same margin in December. As I noted at that time, the vote was hotly followed across major anti-gay websites as …

A cartoonist didn’t like it when NOM hot-linked one of his panels, so he replaced his image with a rainbow flag and a quote from Thomas Jefferson, which then ran on NOM’s blog for several hours. Heh.

Many thanks to all that participated in yesterday’s freeping of Pepsi’s “big ideas” contest as GLSEN finished in second place and WON the $250,000 grant for their safe schools project! You guys rock! JMG reader Tom notes via email: “Based on the rankings it [also] appears Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) got a $25k award, as did a …

From the online diary of Fake Steve Jobs: Let’s move on and return to our discussion of hating the homos. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone? Ring any bells? Or how about this: Judge not, lest ye be judged? Oh, and here’s one that you even put on your own Manhattan Declaration document, which is ironic …

Russia’s Pravda newspaper is blasting Sarah Palin as an unpatriotic traitor to the ideals of America because she has advocated what the paper characterizes as “cyber terrorism” to bring down WikiLeaks. She turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically-elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she …

George Takei fires a photon torpedo into the ass of Arkansas idiot Clint McCance in his inimitable style. LOVES IT. (Via – The Advocate)