A 30,000-member gay rights group won’t support a current ballot initiative aimed at overturning Ohio’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples.
Equality Ohio’s executive director Ed Mullen tell The Columbus Dispatch he’s concerned there may be problems with the language proposed by backers of the constitutional amendment and that more analysis is needed.
It’s been “happily ever after” for Jenna Talackova, the transgender contestant who was initially disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada pageant but has since been allowed back.
Talackova found general support in the Twittersphere and the media, even from Bill O’Reilly. But today, fashion blogger BryanBoy tweeted this curious comment:
I’m very much pro-tranny but i don’t want them to take part in miss universe.
Last month, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — a Noble prize winner — made headlines when she refused to speak out against laws criminalizing the lives of gay people and predicted that legislation that would place additional restrictions on gay people would likely fail to advance in the legislature. On Tuesday, responding to international condemnation of her dismissive attitude, the president has released a statement clarifying her remarks.
The New York Times Magazine’s Andrew Goldman talks to Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski:
I’m surprised that your co-host, Joe Scarborough, is not only here with you now but that he also accompanied you to the photo shoot.
Here’s the bottom line. And don’t you jump out of your chair. He’s a little bit like a gay stylist.
Joe’s like a gay stylist?
Seriously. Talk to his wife or any of her friends. He has got a real side to him that knows style and look and color and hair. He’s amazing. Amazing. I can’t dress. I have a terrible eye.
As it turns out, coming out of the closet is good for your health—if your family members are supportive, that is.
A new study conducted by the Boston University School of Public Health found that two thirds of lesbian, gay and bisexual adults in a representative Massachusetts sample experienced significantly less mental health and substance abuse problems if they received positive support from their parents after coming out.
Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE) is pleased to announce that, after a lengthy grassroots campaign by transgender and gender non-conforming Philadelphians and our allies, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) plans to remove the gender stickers from all monthly transit passes by 2015. A fare policy proposal will be submitted to SEPTA’s board of directors that includes this change beginning in the second half of 2013.
Musto: As I mentioned here yesterday, Paul Iacono is the 23-year-old actor from MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger. He's also in some short plays, a new MTV show--and he's a gay role model!
Here's our interview from earlier today in which Paul came out:
At the end of January, New York’s Conservative Party, the most influential of the minor parties that complicate the state’s politics, celebrated its 50th anniversary at a Holiday Inn near the Albany airport, a vast and dingy venue that reminded me of athlete housing left over from the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Politicians like former Gov. George Pataki, who owed his election to the Conservatives, came to pay homage to the party for its record of steering the state’s politics to the right.
