Joe.My.God. LGBT News

Pride Of New York is just an industry group that promotes locally grown agriculture, but it seems to me that “pride” is one of those words have taken on a specifically gay connotation when used as the name of an organization. Rainbow, too.

A front-page story in today’s NY Times discusses the growing support movement for elderly LGBT Americans. Even now, at 81 and with her memory beginning to fade, Gloria Donadello recalls her painful brush with bigotry at an assisted-living center in Santa Fe, N.M. Sitting with those she considered friends, “people were laughing and making certain kinds of comments, and I …

Here’s the moving video from the Equality California Institute, which is working for marriage equality in the Golden State. The clip, part of a new multi-million dollar education campaign called “Let California Ring“, was created by the Seattle office of DDB Worldwide.

Astounding foreign observers, China’s state-run newspaper, the China News, has published a story in which academics call for the legalization of gay marriage. Since decriminalizing homosexuality in 1997, China has been reverting to its traditional non-judgemental stance towards gays. Buddhism and Taoism do not consider homosexuality a sin and generally promote diversity. Last year China permitted the formation of its …

Britain will consider making it illegal to incite violence against gays. Gay hate speech is already outlawed in Canada and France. American Christianists have been using examples of hate speech prosecutions in those countries to mobilize their side against all LGBT rights advancements in the U.S., claiming that soon Christians in the U.S. could be sent to jail for condemning …

Somehow I don’t think the word “raging” should ever be used when marketing air travel, but whatevs, the sign is cute.

Here’s the audio from Rep. Barney Frank’s appearance on the Michelangelo Signorile show on Friday. Frank’s position on ENDA marks the only time in recent memory that I’ve seriously disagreed with him. This issue notwithstanding, my respect for Frank remains deep. Download. Stream..

Sweden’s three opposition parties have formed a coalition and given Parliament a proposal to approve to gay marriage. With the ruliing party’s slim majority, activists are confident that the measure will pass. Sweden would join Holland, Spain, and Belgium as the fourth European nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

“I agree that Larry Craig was, at minimum, enticed. It takes two to tango. If the cop hadn’t been sitting there peering back and playing footsie, Craig probably wouldn’t have made the come-hither finger gesture. Instead, he likely would have left frustrated, caught his next flight and returned to the Senate to continue his 100 percent anti-gay voting record. In …