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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 …

I usually complain about getting so damn behind on my blog emails, but I want to thank everybody for sending in so many tips, photos, and links today. I can’t get back to everybody personally, but y’all are making it a lot easier to run this here one-man website thingy. A lot of what I get, I get a couple …

If you visited yesterday’s Carrie Prejean posts you noticed an avalanche of anti-gay trolls as this here website thingy saw about ten times its normal traffic from people Googling variations on “Miss California topless.” Some of the conversation threads no longer “track” because I had to delete and ban so many “your all sick fagets” types of comments. My apologies …

Today is my 5th blogiversary. My 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 dirt road. The cry of ‘Smokey! Smokey!’ would fly up and down Nine …

OK. Looks like the comment system is back up. You can now go crazy on the wacky shit from earlier today.

Our commenting system host is working through some programming bugs at the moment. A few comments may have been “eaten” today and I’m not sure if they’ll reappear or not. But nobody has been banned here in ages, so don’t feel like it was something you said if you find your comment gone. Carry on as usual.

In case you didn’t visit here over the weekend, we’ve installed a new commenting system for JMG, courtesy of JS-Kit. You can now create a personal profile for yourself and include permanent links to your own blogs, your Facebook page, your Twitter account, etc. You can also embed YouTube clips and personal photos into your comments, as well as upload …