Joe.My.God. LGBT News

My apologies for the lack of posts yesterday. I wasn’t feeling well in the morning and couldn’t get to a computer for the rest of the day. Aside from a rare shirking of my duty to you, gentle reader, I was struck by the fact that since I’d also managed to misplace my cell for the day, I was completely …

Cpl. Adam Kokesh, Iraq vet, anti-war activist, UMSC reservist, and AMERICAN HERO, lost his case before the Marine Corps today as a three-member panel recommended that he be involuntarily released from the Individual Ready Reserves and have his honorable discharge from the Marine Corps downgraded to a “general”, or less-than-honorable discharge. Kokesh was brought up on charges that he had …

“One of the most annoying myths about celebrity is that it might get you laid. In fairness, the people I do sleep with are better-looking than the people I slept with prior to becoming famous. But I think it’s to do with being rich as well.” – Talk show host Graham Norton.

With Russian news cameras rolling, rainbow flag creator Gilbert Baker and gay activist Brendan Fay poured Stolichnaya vodka into the street in front of New York City’s Russian consulate in protest of the treatment of Russian gays by their government. Under the wary eye of the NYPD (who did NOT want to be photographed) and U.S. State Department operatives (the …

UPDATE: This post has been updated above, with photos. Late notice, but there’s a vigil taking place today at the Russian embassies in New York (noon) and San Francisco (4pm) in protest of the treatment of gay pride marchers at last week’s Moscow Pride event. Protesters intend to pour Stolichnaya vodka into the sewers in front of each embassy. Nikolai …

The Human Rights Campaign has come out swinging against the nomination of Dr. James “Conversion Therapy” Holsinger for U.S. Surgeon General. HRC head Joe Solmonese: “Dr. Holsinger has a record that is unworthy of America’s doctor. His writings suggest a scientific view rooted in anti-gay beliefs that are incompatible with the job of serving the medical health of all Americans. …

Courtesy of A&M Books, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is a double-whammy of beach reading pleasure. Take a peek inside the beach culture of fabulously gay Rehoboth Beach via bestselling author Fay Jacobs’ two compilations of stories about gay life on the summer playground for Washington DC’s homos: the bestselling As I Lay Frying: A Rehoboth Beach Memoir and Jacobs’ …

From a 1st Avenue bodega, where the rain has soaked their newspapers. Most of the papers they sell are in Hebrew, Arabic, or Russian. I’m not aware of a big Arabic community on the Upper East Side, so I’m guessing those papers might be racked for the cab drivers that favor this bodega.

“I do feel like I live a fabulous life. And I know that’s why a lot of the critics get so mad at me sometimes, because they’re just really jealous.” – Rufus Wainwright, talking to the NY Times, adding that his fans have “a tinge of sadness to their devotion. It relates with the alienation that I bring up. So …

Yesterday my mother’s neighborhood association performed a ritual burning of a banner bearing the names of this year’s hurricanes. This new tradition began last year, which turned out to be the first in several years that Orlando was not clobbered. Mom’s not claiming that this bit of homeowner voodoo worked, mind you. But it does make everybody feel a little …