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News: Toledo, Phoebe Snow, Cameroon, Brian Brown, Friendster
Singer-songwriter Phoebe Snow dies. Social network pioneer Friendster to erase all user photos and blogs on May 31. Boy Culture's Matt Rettenmund has a huge post up interviewing many of the girls from...
View ArticleOn PBS Newshour: Discussion Of Issues Regarding Possible Return Of ROTC...
On PBS Newshour last night, they ran a segment on the controversy over an ROTC program possibly returning to Stanford. The transgender & intersex issue -- that transgender and intersex people...
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DOMA Pullout: Did King & Spalding Fear A Chilled Coke?
An interesting tidbit in the Talking Points Memo article on the decision by King & Spalding to drop out of the DOMA defense case. From Brian Beutler comes this bit of reporting on the role megacorp...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Bryan Fischer
Dear Mr. Fischer,It has come to my attention that you have read my recent post, Love Amongst the War Wounds and cited it in your online swamp of hate as "proof" that gay people can change. I would like...
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MUSIC NEWS: The Wombats, Poly Styrene, Rufus Wainwright, M.I.A., Bon Iver,...
NORMAN BRANNON Norman Brannon is a pop critic, musician, and author based in New York City. He presents a weekly music update here on Towleroad and writes regularly at Nervous Acid. Follow Norman on...
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Minnesota GOP Introduces, Fast-Tracks Ballot Initiative to Ban Same-Sex Marriage
Despite an economic crisis in the state and a budget that is still pending, Minnesota Republicans have decided instead to focus on bashing gays, the Minnesota Independent reports: Republicans in the...
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DOMA Repeal Has Enough Support to Advance to Senate Floor
The Washington Blade's Chris Johnson reports that DOMA repeal legislation has picked up enough votes (at least 10) in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance to the Senate floor: Last week, the...
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Watch: CNN Talks to TN 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Author Stacey Campfield
Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield must be giddy that the anti-gay bill he's been trying to push through his state legislature for six years finally made a breakthrough. A senate panel advanced the...
View ArticleAnti-gay hate group mad at Obama over no 'Easter Proclamation'
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless MonstersThe American Family Association - named an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center - has come out with a new video attacking President...
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Attorney General Eric Holder Defends DOMA-Defender Paul Clement; Employees...
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out in defense of former King & Spalding attorney Paul Clement in a news conference with reporters yesterday, Politico's Josh Gerstein reports: "Paul Clement is a...
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Watch: Male Student Sent Home from Tampa-Area High School for Wearing Women's...
A male student at Riverview High School near Tampa is in the news after being sent home for wearing high heels to school: "He likes the way they make him feel. They make him feel more confident, and...
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White House Releases Long-Form Obama Birth Certificate
President Obama today released his long-form birth certificate, the document so-called "birthers" have been demanding to see from the beginning of his presidency. The White House writes, in a blog...
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Watch: Henry Cavill Beefs Up New 'Immortals' Trailer
Henry Cavill plays a hunky Theseus, on whose story the upcoming film Immortals, is loosely based. Here's a new trailer and still (below) from the film, which shows Cavill using his sword, sandals, and...
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Daughter: Cary Grant Wasn't Gay
In a new memoir, Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer talks about her father and addresses rumors that he was gay: "Can't blame men for wanting him, and wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted...
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Watch: Man Mourns His Late Partner, Faces the Indignities of DOMA
Another clip from Freedom to Marry illustrating the "stark injustice" same-sex couples face under DOMA. 55 years together. Legally married. And still completely disrespected by the federal government....
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Photo: Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin
Filming on the HBO drama Game Change reportedly begins today. (SNL tumblr via buzzfeed)
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Gloria Allred: Major League Baseball Coach Used Anti-Gay Slur
TMZ reports that attorney Gloria Allred is planning an announcement for later today about a Major League Baseball coach who used "shocking gay slurs" at a recent game: Allred says the comments and...
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Prop 8: Motion to Vacate to Crazytown
ARI EZRA WALDMAN Ari Ezra Waldman is a 2002 graduate of Harvard College and a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School. After practicing in New York for five years and clerking at a federal appellate court...
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Watch: Trump and Obama Press Conferences on Birth Certificate
Donald Trump and President Obama held consecutive press conferences this morning about the release of Obama's long-form birth certificate, for which Trump gives himself full credit. Watch both of...
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Bane Glorious: Tom Hardy Shows Some Muscle
Two new shots of Tom Hardy from the set of The Dark Knight Rises reveal he's in top shape to play Batman villain Bane. One more shot, AFTER THE JUMP... (via tomhardy.org)
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