PHOTO OF THE DAY: Dangling ornaments for your Christmas Tree. BY SAM GREISMAN A look back at today's top stories GAY RIGHTS With last week's monumental decision handed down by the Supreme Court to hear Prop 8 and DOMA cases, our Ari Wal…
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Archives for December 10, 2012
Posts from December 10, 2012
IL Governor Pat Quinn Hopes to Get Marriage Equality Bill in January
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, in a roundtable with reporters, expressed hope that the state's marriage equality bill would pass next month, the Chicago Tribune reports: “I hope that bill goes forward,” Quinn said when asked about the possibility o…
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Chris Matthews Confronts Log Cabin Republican Head About GOP’s Lagging Support for Gay Equality: VIDEO
Chris Matthews confronted Log Cabin Republican Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper about the GOP's lagging support for same-sex marriage but had to pause his strategy for a moment after asking Cooper why he didn't oppose Karl Rove in 2004 whe…
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Nebraska Woman Found Guilty of Faking Anti-Gay Hate Crime
Charlie Rogers, the Lincoln, Nebraska lesbian who claimed she was attacked by three men who broke into her home and carved "dyke" into her stomach before setting her house ablaze pleaded no contest and was found guilty, the AP reports: Char…
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Adam Lambert is a Silver Fox for ‘Fiasco’: PHOTO
Adam Lambert ditches the eyeliner for a new cover story in the December 11 issue of Fiasco magazine. Said Adam to the magazine: “For the general audience they look at the way I style myself and they go ‘errrr, that’s gay’, but you ask a handful of ga…
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News: David Mixner, Ikea Monkey, Mario Lopez, Donkey Cheese
FOX News accuses Obamas of celebrating their dog, not Christmas. Longtime activist David Mixner just returned home from a too-long stay in a NYC hospital and turns in a powerful piece about how city hospitals are still being affected by Hurricane San…
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Rock Musical ‘bare’ Opens Off-Broadway: REVIEW
BY NAVEEN KUMAR An exhilarating and affecting rock musical that opened Off-Broadway last night at New World Stages, bare serves up an insightful depiction of emotional truths inherent to the sprawling, messy, and often wrenching experience of adolesc…
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Tracey Thorn’s Christmas ‘Joy’: VIDEO
Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn has a new holiday album out called Tinsel and Lights. She's just released a gorgeous video to one of the tracks on it: "Joy". Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP… To promote her new album, she has c…
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NOM’s Brian Brown is ‘Very Happy’ That the Supreme Court Took the Prop 8 Case: VIDEO
NOM's Brian Brown tells FOX News he is looking forward to having the Supreme Court "correct some wrongs that happened" in the 9th Circuit Court by taking the Prop 8 case. Elizabeth Wydra, the chief counsel for the Constitutional Account…
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UN Ambassador Susan Rice Laments Oppression of LGBT People in International Human Rights Day Statement
Today is International Human Rights Day and UN Ambassador Susan Rice released a statement marking it: On Human Rights Day, we celebrate a simple but powerful declaration that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Adopted 6…
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