April 3, 2014
Jury Convicts Mom Who Killed Toddler Because She Thought He Was Gay
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 8:00 PM |Jessica Dutro, a 25-year-old Oregon woman who savagely beat her three-year-old son to death because she suspected he might be gay, was found guilty last evening of all seven charges against her.Read More
MS Governor Signs 'Right to Discriminate' Bill Into Law
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 5:30 PM |As promised, this afternoon Mississippi's Republican Governor Phil Bryant signed into law a bill that creates the "right" for people and businesses to discriminate against LGBT people and other minorities, as long as they claim they're doing so for religious reasons.Read More
Anti-Gay Scouting Group Also Excludes Jews
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 5:00 PM |Turns out that Trail Life USA, the anti-gay splinter group that formed after the Boy Scouts of America dropped their longstanding ban on openly gay scouts, isn't too keen on Jews either.Read More
Russian LGBTs Defy Law, Speak Out Against Bigotry
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 4:30 PM |This week, in defiance of Putin's "gay propaganda" ban, Russian LGBT activists are holding a series of events - including public ones - to combat bigotry and call attention to LGBT rights violations.Read More
BREAKING: Mozilla CEO Steps Down Over Prop 8 Support
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 3:10 PM |Mozilla has just announced that Brendan Eich, their new pro-Proposition 8 CEO, is resigning.Read More
In GOP's 'ConservaCare,' the Bugs Are Actually Features
Filed by Terrance Heath | April 03, 2014 | 3:00 PM |The "features" of the Republican alternatives to Obamacare are actually the bugs voters have repeatedly squashed at the polls because they'd leave millions vulnerable.Read More
Arizona Senator to Newly Out Colleague: 'Act More Gay'
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 2:30 PM |Olivia Cajero Bedford, a Democratic Arizona state senator, shocked colleagues this week when she demanded a newly-out state senator "act more gay."Read More
WATCH: Honey Maid's Response to Anti-Gay Haters Is Absolutely Beautiful
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 1:30 PM |Honey Maid received a lot of angry, hateful messages in response to their LGBT-inclusive 'This Is Wholesome' campaign. They issued a response today that's absolutely beautiful.Read More
Dixie Chicks Cover Miley Cyrus Hit 'Wrecking Ball'
Filed by Bil Browning | April 03, 2014 | 1:00 PM |Miley Cyrus performed a fantastic cover of the Dixie Chicks' hit "Landslide" a few weeks ago, but now the Chicks have returned the favor by covering "Wrecking Ball."Read More
India Supreme Court May Reconsider Anti-Gay Ruling
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 12:30 PM |The India Supreme Court has agreed to consider a petition by LGBT advocates to overturn their decision late last year that reinstated the country's colonial-era sodomy ban.Read More
BREAKING: Married Same-Sex Couples Now Qualify for Medicare
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 11:55 AM |Huge news for married LGBT seniors: Obama administration has just announced that married same-sex couples now qualify for Medicare hospital and physician benefits.Read More
Irish Gaelic Football Star Makes Gay-for-Pay Porn Videos
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 11:30 AM |Cathal McCarron, a 25-year-old Irish Gaelic football star, is facing a torrent of anti-gay harassment after he allegedly appeared in two gay-for-pay porn videos posted to an adult pay-per-view website.Read More
AL House Demands Federal Anti-Marriage Amendment
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 11:00 AM |The Alabama House of Representatives, who apparently woke up yesterday morning in 1994 rather than 2014, passed a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to add a marriage discrimination amendment to the United States Constitution.Read More
Mississippi Governor Will Sign 'Turn Away the Gays' Bill
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 10:00 AM |Phil Bryant, Mississippi's far-right Republican governor, announced that he plans to sign an Arizona-style "right to discriminate" bill that would allow individuals and businesses to refuse to serve LGBT people and others in the name of "religious freedom."Read More
Bryan Fischer: Punish Adultery With 15 Years in Prison
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 9:30 AM |""I will be honest with you, I'm absolutely fine with a fifteen-year incarceration for the crime of adultery. It is a crime!"Read More
Tom Daley: 'I Am a Gay Man Now'
Filed by John M. Becker | April 03, 2014 | 9:00 AM |British diver Tom Daley told the world last night that he doesn't identify as bisexual, but as gay.Read More
