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Marriage gay city employees of Cambridge, Massachusetts will become the first in the nation to be paid a small stipend to cover a federal tax that their heterosexual colleagues don’t have to pay. Like many people, these 22 school and city workers chose to put their spouses on their employer-provided health insurance. Because they’re in a homosexual relationship, the value …

Nine Springfield, Massachusetts youths have been charged with hate crimes in the beating of an openly gay man. Sgt. John Delaney said the beating occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday as the 30-year-old victim walked down a Springfield street. Delaney said the victim told police he was then attacked by the suspects who knocked him to the ground, kicked him …

Earlier this week I reported that the Archdiocese of Boston had moved to cancel a planned “All Are Welcome” Catholic mass in honor of gay Pride. Yesterday the Boston Globe reported that the local priest behind the idea is standing up to his bosses. Sunday Mass at St. Cecilia’s Church in the Back Bay brought the first standing ovation any …

After enduring ugly anti-gay attacks from Christianists during her nomination hearing, open lesbian Barbara Lenk has won confirmation to the Massachusetts Supreme Court. The Governor’s Council confirmed Lenk on a 5-3 vote. She is Governor Deval Patrick’s fourth appointment to the seven-member SJC, which issued the landmark 2003 ruling that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Lenk, …

Openly gay Massachusetts Supreme Court nominee Barbara Lenk endured some Christianist assholery yesterday during her marathon seven hour confirmation hearing. Lenk is married to a woman and therefore placing her on the state’s highest court will turn children gay. Or something. During her confirmation hearing before the Governor’s Council, some critics testified that her marriage is part of a broader …

Provincetown Magazine laments the passing of local legendary street performer Ellie Castillo. Ellie was Provincetown. Her spirit – one of reinvention, fun, glamour, joie de vivre – came through as she sang up and down Commercial Street year-round for the past decade, making her not only a town favorite, but also an instant icon. Ellie arrived in Provincetown at the …

The SPLC-certified hate group MassResistance has just issued an e-book attacking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over the advances made in LGBT rights during his tenure. Christian Newswire has the press release: Massachusetts pro-family activist Amy Contrada has just released her definitive study of Mitt Romney’s role in implementing “gay marriage,” promoting GLBT “rights,” and supporting the sexual-radical agenda in …

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will hold a DOMA press conference at 3:30PM today. In the meantime, you know what to do.

Yesterday Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick “quietly” signed an executive order protecting state workers from discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Christian groups have denounced the protection as “the bathroom bill” and are screaming the usual nonsense about men in dresses stalking little girls in public restrooms. “This Executive Order ensures that all employees in the executive branch will continue …

Openly gay Springfield, Massachusetts cop Mike Carney appeared on local television with his It Gets Better message. Carney has been an occasional JMG tipster!

Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has filed a DOMA amicus brief with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. In 2003 Moore was booted from office for refusing to remove a two-ton monument to the Ten Commandments from his office. A member of the Christian Nationalist movement, which seeks to overturn democracy in favor of a …

Yesterday a legal arm of the Family Research Council filed a DOMA amicus brief with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Massachusetts. Via Christian Newswire: The brief, authored by Thomas More Society’s special counsel Paul Linton, argues two points in defense of the constitutionality of DOMA: 1. There is no Federal Constitutional Right to enter into a same-sex marriages. …

And I have repeatedly tweeted Porno Pete, calling on him to denounce his BFF Scott Lively for hiring a convicted child molester to work with school children. Lively has been the subject of numerous praising posts on LaBarbera’s site and the two have appeared together at an event held by the SPLC-certified hate group, MassResistance. Last year, MassResistance endorsed Scott …

Police have arrested a convicted child molester working at the Springfield, Massachusetts coffeehouse of infamous anti-gay activist Scott Lively, who runs the business as a Christian outreach to local teenagers. A local man who served as manager of the Holy Grounds Coffee Shop on State Street — a cafe operated by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively that serves free coffee and …

Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) says that he will vote for the Senate’s stand-alone DADT repeal bill, bringing the number of probable pro-repeal votes in the Senate to 61. For now, anyway. “Sen. Brown accepts the Pentagon’s recommendation to repeal the policy after proper preparations have been completed. If and when a clean repeal bill comes up for a vote, he …

The best part about Barney Frank’s win is that GOProud just pissed away a shitload of money running ads in support of anti-gay teabagger Sean Bielat, who infamously said that since short people don’t complain about not getting into the military, queers should just shut the fuck up. Let’s all turn and give GOProud our best Nelson Munz: HA HA!

As seen through the wingnut lens of Sean Hannity.

A just-released poll shows Rep. Barney Frank leading GOP candidate Sean Bielat by 13 points, a tighter margin than some had expected.