It’s probably not a good idea to go around the workplace saying that gays should be put to death when your boss is in fact gay.  Also, if you believe that dinosaurs were created when a Satanic angel had sex with a woman, you might want to just keep it to yourself.

A 17-year veteran Dallas County jail guard has been fired after making numerous offensive statements to his co-workers, including that gays should be “put to death,” according to The Dallas Morning News. There’s no word on whether the guard, 59-year-old Stephen Johnson, was aware that his boss, Sheriff Lupe Valdez, is gay.

In any case, gays weren’t the only targets of Johnson’s hateful statements, and he apparently had a habit of interrupting private conversations among other guards to interject his beliefs. Johnson’s beliefs included the idea that whites are superior to blacks, and that slavery is supported by the Bible. He even showed a co-worker an ancestry binder that proved his family once owned slaves.

Under questioning about his statements by internal affairs investigators, Johnson offered his opinion about the origin of dinosaurs.

“I believe that all dinosaurs were born of Satanic angel who had sex with woman and the animal kingdom that created ungodly reptilian creatures none of these were on the ark,” he reportedly told them.

Not surprisingly, the investigators made note of this in their report.

“He continued making statements which included his belief that God had sex with angels, and that dinosaurs were destroyed because man had sex with them, as well as his belief that the Devil had sex with humans,” the report said.

I received my census form today, filled it out and put it in the mail. (The census comes with a postage paid envelope so no waiting on long lines at the post office for a stamp).

The census is short and easy to fill out. Several questions are about how you self-identify.

Transgender people should enter the sex that they identify as. However, there will be no count of transgender people. You will be counted as male or female. Period.

Gays or lesbians will be counted as same-sex couples if “Person 2″ marks “Husband or wife” or “Unmarried partner” and both people in the house are the same sex. Although we are not, Miguel and I marked “Unmarried partner”so we would count.

Well, actually we marked “Pareja no casada” because I filled out the form en espanol. Why? Porque yo could. Hopefully this will confuse somebody because I filled it out in the column that’s in Spanish and marked that I was not hispanic. Race, however, is another item that should be entered as you self-identify.

The one question I had a problem with is age and date of birth. I know my date of birth. I’ll say it. I was born in 1953. But I self-identify as 35. According to Elizabeth Lopez Lyon, the LGBT partnership specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau in Dallas, that should be filled out as actual age, not how I self-identify.

Examiner.com reports that author Tuan N’gai brings his Silence Equals Consent tour to Dallas this week. The author is using the tour to “challenge African-American gay people to collectively speak out against homophobia especially within black religious institutions.”

His speaking tour makes two stops in town. According to the post, N’gai speaks Friday at the Resource Center at 6 p.m. and then Sunday at 2 p.m. at Living Faith Covenant Church.

Last summer, we tracked the filming of Israel Luna’s locally-produced “transploitation” action comedy, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives!, without knowing exactly what would become of the finished product. Well, now we know. Only eight months later, Luna’s pic has been selected to appear in the Tribeca Film Festival — not a gay-only festival, mind you, but Robert DeNiro’s high-profile Gotham fortnight of film. Yeah, that Tribeca Film Festival. It’s big news.

Ticked-Off, which Luna shot largely with local talent (including Jenna Skyy, pictured) at locales like Station 4, is headed for New York with as many castmembers as he can wrangle for his highest-profile world premiere yet. And Luna says it’s the first film ever to screen at Tribeca with actual transgender persons in principal roles playing transgender characters.

The festival runs April 21 through May 2.

Jene Newsom was doing what the military’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy requires: keeping quiet about her sexual orientation and not telling anyone in the military that she was married to another woman.

But police in Rapid City, South Dakota told, and Newsom was dishonorably discharged.

From what I read, Rapid City police were looking for Newsome’s wife in connection with theft charges out of Fairbanks, Alaska. They went to talk to Newsome AT HER JOB at Ellsworth Air Force Base, and she refused to give them keys to her home. So they went to the house and in the process of peeking through windows, saw the marriage license from where Newsome and her partner were legally married in Iowa.

So then, the cops apparently felt compelled to call Newsome’s superiors at Ellsworth and tell them she was a lesbian — in a move that definitely seems like revenge against her because she did not cooperate. And Newsome received a dishonorable discharge.

From the U.K.’s Pink News:

“Police chief Steve Allender said that the marriage licence was relevant because it demonstrated the relationship between the two women.

“He said: ‘It’s an emotional issue and it’s unfortunate that Newsome lost her job, but I disagree with the notion that our department might be expected to ignore the licence, or not document the licence, or withhold it from the Air Force once we did know about it.’”

But as blogger Rachel at AutoStraddle.com notes: “Really? Was the Air Force like calling them every day asking if they knew any gay people in the area who might be adequate to discharge? An ‘internal investigation’ assured no wrong was done, but this seems sketchy as fuck.”

Newsome and the South Dakota ACLU have filed a complaint against the police for violating Newsome’s privacy, and she is considering filing a lawsuit.

Rabid anti-gay attorney general Ken Cuccinelli is also a “birther.”

When asked about what can be done about President Obama’s birth certificate, he said that the situation would be resolved when someone who is convicted of violating a law enacted during this administration challenges the conviction on the grounds that someone unqualified to be president signed it into law.

Recently, Cuccinelli made national news instructing Virginia’s state universities to remove sexual orientation from their non-discrimination policies and restated his assertion that the universities had no right to not discriminate even after a non-discrimination order from the governor.

And you thought Sen. John McCain was bad on LGBT issues. McCain’s challenger in the Republican primary, former Arizona congressman J.D. Hayworth, is the new Rick Santorum. Hayworth told a Florida radio station over the weekend that he believes the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s decision authorizing same-sex marriage could lead to marriages between people and horses, according to The Huffington Post:

“You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage — now get this — it defined marriage as simply, ‘the establishment of intimacy,’” Hayworth said. “Now how dangerous is that? I mean, I don’t mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point — I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse. It’s just the wrong way to go, and the only way to protect the institution of marriage is with that federal marriage amendment that I support.”

Lady Gaga just released tour dates of the next leg of her American tour and finally, Dallas makes the list. She is scheduled to play American Airlines, July 22. It’s looking a little early for deets because both LiveNation and her site aren’t yet updated.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is American Airlines Center the next venue she’s played in Dallas after these two? Now that’s a major jump.

This prick, Sen. John Eichelberger, represents the area of the state  where my dad was born and raised.

In my home state of Pennsylvania, a state Senate committee is expected to vote tomorrow on a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, according to a brief editorial in The Philadelphia Daily News. I’ve been uable to find any other coverage of tomorrow’s vote, including in the state’s largest LGBT publication, The Philadelphia Gay News. Similar proposals have been defeated twice before in Pennsylvania, in 2006 and 2008. This year the amendment reportedly was introduced by Republican Sen. John Eichelberger. Pennsylvania is one of 20 states that don’t have constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage. But same-sex marriage is already prohibited by statute in the Keystone State. From the Daily News:

Uneeded [sic] reform

USUALLY, we’re delighted when state lawmakers talk about reforming the constitution. State government desperately needs to modernize, but tomorrow a Senate panel will consider taking a step backward. The Judiciary Committee is set to vote on Senate Bill 707, which would ban gay marriage in Pennsylvania.During these tough times, we can think of a few better uses of the Legislature’s time. How about a constitutional amendment to require lawmakers to pass a budget on time? Or to shrink the size and cost of the Legislature? How about updating the state’s antiquated tax code or campaign finance reform? All of these would be better than a constitutional amendment about gay marriage.

Gay marriage isn’t even legal in Pennsylvania. Nor are civil unions or any other kind acknowledgment of same-sex couples. There is no need for a constitutional amendment to ban something that isn’t happening anyway.

If supporters of traditional marriage are worried about the erosion of moral values, it would be more effective to ban divorce. Nearly 50 percent of marriages end in divorce.

We’re pretty sure gay people getting married isn’t the reason.

UPDATE: Write a note to the Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee by going here.

Mount Everest in Nepal

Just five years ago, gays, lesbians and transgender people were beaten in the streets in Nepal.

Now, the country has a gay member of parliament, is about to write a new constitution with LGBT equality including same-sex marriage and wants gays and lesbians to come trekking through the Himalayas on their honeymoon, according to an Associated Press story.

Two years ago, the country’s Supreme Court scrapped laws that discriminated against the LGBT community. At the time, homosexuality carried a one-year prison term, according to the BBC.

In their ruling, they said, “Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex are natural persons irrespective of their masculine and feminine gender and they have the right to exercise their rights and live an independent life in society.”

Tourism is one of Nepal’s biggest industries. Last year it generated $350 million. This year, they want to to double that with 1 million visitors and the hope is that the LGBT community will help them reach that goal.

Everest base-camp, elephant-safari same-sex weddings could be a draw. But the country does not officially marry people who are not citizens. The marriage would have no legal standing either in that country or in states here, even where same-sex marriages are recognized.

And one other word of warning — a report of human rights violations by the U.S. State Department. Four serious problems: impunity, threats against media, arbitrary arrest and lengthy pretrial detention.

There were many cases of arbitrary arrests, torture and manhandling by state authorities as well as threats against the media by groups, the report says. Citing the National Human Rights Commission of Nepal, the report says 835 people disappeared during the year. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) put the numbers of disappeared at 1,365.