Via Andres Duque at Blabbeando, the mother of murdered gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado shares her grief.
"It’s funny how we crave the authentic, the unspoiled, the genuine — the un-globalized and un-homogenized and un-gentrified — only to destroy them.
The PR firm hired to promote The Manhattan Declaration, a vow of disobedience to gay rights laws signed by about 150 Christian leaders, is the DeMoss Group, the wingnut outfit hired by Mitt Romney for his 2008 presidential campaign.
"A new homosexual website, ChurchOuting.org, is intent on publicly disclosing who the gay priests are in the Archdiocese of Washington.
A lesbian U.S. Army private fled to Canada after being outed by a fellow soldier, claiming she'd received a death threat from fellow soldiers.
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My late aunt used to say that you weren't a real New Yorker until you saw a dead body. Therefore I almost earned my Gothamite stripes last night when a smiling young man climbed down onto the subway tracks at 68th Street, then started taking off his clothes while walking back and forth on the wooden cover over the third rail.
Over on Mediaite, Michael Triplett of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association covers the demise of the Washington Blade and other LGBT print titles and what physical gay newspapers have meant to us.
Fans of Sarah Palin staged a mini-revolt around her tour bus when they didn't get to meet her during a book signing as they'd been promised.
...Oh No They Didn't has a full leaked set of Levi Johnston's Playgirl photos. My review: "Eh."(Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)
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The Stonewall Family, a community of LGBT players in the massively popular World Of Warcraft game, has been honored by the site's operators as their "Guild of the Month.
After weeks of shamed silence during which NOM scrubbed all mention of Carrie Prejean from their website, Maggie Gallagher has at last commented on the Miss Ladyfingers USA scandal in a column published on the wingnut site Townhall.
A Brooklyn resident has launched a text message and Twitter based system of finding parking spaces in Park Slope, which car-owning locals derisively call "No Park Slope.
Good As You has posted the complete text of The Manhattan Declaration, the anti-gay screed issued today by a pan-denominational group of Christian clergy that vows disobedience of laws that protect gays from discrimination.
The Democratic National Committee has just posted this health care reform clip on President Obama's official YouTube channel.
"My burden is not to show that originalism is perfect but to show that it beats the other available alternatives.
The right wing is stepping up their anti-gay campaign against openly lesbian Houston mayoral candidate Annise Parker.
Today Oprah Winfrey will tell her audience that she's calling it quits. Sounds like major news, but in fact her contract with ABC runs for two more years and after that she will launch the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in a deal with the Discovery Channel.
A coalition of leaders from numerous Christian denominations have issued The Manhattan Declaration, a manifesto declaring the intent to disobey any laws that force them to recognize same-sex marriages.