Tag Archives: JMG community

As our JMG comment threads frequently now reach far beyond 100 responses, the comments service provider has helped me increase the one-page comment limit to 500. (It used to be 20!) If you’d prefer shorter comment thread pages, let me know. And as I mentioned last week, I’ve just about reached Facebook’s (arbitrary) friends limit, so I’ve been forced to …

I’ve reached the friends limit on Facebook so I’ve been forced to create, UGH, a JMG fan page, where I’ll be posting breaking stories and clips as I’ve done on my regular page. I encourage you to use the new page to post your own news items of LGBT interest and add your own commentaries.

It’s time for our quarterly E-Z JMG reminder for your lazy-ass convenience. 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 Facebook page. And if you’re …

Angered by NOM’s cries of victimization during the national Hate Tour, JMG commenter AdBo sends us his comparison of the signs recently seen at marriage rallies around the nation.

As many of you know by now, JMG reader Sam Storicks died unexpectedly ten days ago at the age of 30. Sam was a popular member of the West Coast’s bear community and was a well-known DJ in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Two memorial services are planned. The first will be Wednesday, August 11th at 6pm at the San …

Yesterday my able homo-guide started our excursion at the famous St. Viateur Bagels in Montreal’s hipster-heavy Mile End, home to many of the city’s artists, musicians, and writers. Think Billyburg, but with slightly fewer sleeve tattoos. The bagels aren’t very New York-y, more like unsalted warm pretzels, therefore I liked them. After bagels, Daniel rented me an orange electric scooter …

Hello Montrealers, we’re planning a little JMG-meetup at Gotha Salon Bar on Amherst at 9PM on Friday (tomorrow.) I imagine the night will continue from there to far more debauched locales, but we’ll start with pretty. Hope to see you there!

Give it up to longtime JMG reader Birdie for standing up to NOM for all of us.

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 …

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 …

This here website thingy gained a (relative) ton of readers from India in the last few months. One year ago, India wasn’t even in my international top ten. Desis in the house, raise your hands!

JMG reader Sean McGrath sends us a comic made by him and some friends titled Rise Of The Pink Ninjas (PDF). If you scroll down to the bottom, you’ll find comic versions of Rob Tinisai, Pam Spaulding, Dan Choi, and…me! A way too hot and musclebound me, but I’m not complaining about that. Thanks guys! And ooh-wee, what y’all did …

JMG readers Vivian Cummins and Erney Breytenback write to let us know that their December wedding in South Africa is the first same-sex union ever to be noted in the wedding announcements section of the Irish Times. Published on Saturday: Vivian Cummings and Erney Breytenbach were married at their holiday home in Hermanus, South Africa, by the Reverend Pieter Oberholzer, …

Several times in recent weeks, commenters on this and other LGBT blogs have feuded over reader statements that the perpetrators of hate crimes deserve to get raped in prison. This has generated a number of complaining emails to me, including a couple from LGBT prisoner activists. Pertinent to that issue, the photos above are part of a new awareness campaign …

It looks like we might have overworked the Barefoot Bride’s hosting agreement with Monday’s post. Her anti-gay marriage post has been our top outgoing link for 48 hours. Sorry about that, Rebekkah!

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 …

If you’re not really bored with the story, here’s a roundup of some of the news coverage about Peter LaBarbera, Matt Barber, and the Liberty Counsel calling the FBI about this here website thingy. Like an internet game of “Telephone,” the story bounced from one wingnut site to another, getting worse along the way until it looked like I, myself, …

Today Peter LaBarbera took his baseless claims of “terrorist threats” by JMG readers to World Net Daily, the nation’s most widely-read conservative site, which reposted lengthy excerpts from JMG readers, accompanied by more inane changes from LaBarbera and Matt Barber. A homosexual blogger passed off as a “joke” a suggestion by a contributor to his website that there might be …

“Twenty-five years ago, at the height of the AIDS crisis, there were hundreds—thousands—of gay men walking around with two or three T cells and six-months-or-less to live. The religious right was doing what it always does: it’s worst, demonizing gay people, kicking us when we were down, attacking us on the airwaves and in Congress, and neglecting us to death …

According to arch homophobe Peter LaBarbera, the Christianist legal firm Liberty Counsel has called the FBI to report “terrorist threats” made by JMG commenters. Dear Readers, Homosexual activist blogger Joe Jervis of “Joe.My.God” website contains a post attacking AFTAH founder Peter LaBarbera followed by a reader comment suggesting that “domestic terrorism” against pro-family leaders who oppose the homosexual agenda is …