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A large group of supporters appeared at a Manhattan courthouse yesterday to hear a judge dismiss all charges against the four members of Queer Rising who were arrested last week in a marriage equality protest. Via press release: Four members of the group Queer Rising, a group which advocates for civil rights for the LGBT community accepted pleas of ‘adjournment …

Tuesday’s blog swarm prompted many of you to suggest that calling one’s own representatives personally would be more effective than “lobbying readers to lobby the HRC to lobby the president to lobby Congress about DADT,” as one reader put it. I don’t disagree, but participated mostly because I was so curious as to how the HRC would react to such …

UPDATE: Today’s blog swarm has been picked up by FireDogLake, Mediaite, the Advocate, and numerous gay and gay-friendly blogs. Thus far, HRC’s official blog has remained silent, although its Palm Springs affiliate basically said it is a waste to time to contact HRC on this issue. I happen to think that’s true, but not entirely for the reasons given. —— …

LGBT activist group The Power has announced plans to crash next week’s speech by former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) at the NYC LGBT Community Center. On Wednesday, February 24th at 6 p.m., The Power invites you to join us in confronting anti-LGBT Senate hopeful Harold Ford, Jr. when he addresses the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York City at the …

Yesterday in Central Park, performance artist and famed NYC activist Rev. Billy performed a group unmarriage ceremony for straight allies unwilling to partake of the institution until “love is the law.”

Maxime writes from Paris this morning: It was originally supposed to take place in front of Notre Dame de Paris but Christian fundamentalist websites called in to “defend their faith against this provocation” by “AIDS bags”, “sodomites” and other homophobic insults. The websites called in for a violent answer so the organizers decided to change the location to place Saint …

Popular performance artist and one-time NYC mayoral candidate Rev. Billy will stage a group unmarriage ceremony in Central Park tomorrow in which participants will vow not to get married until everybody can. Join hundreds of couples at The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park this Valentine’s Day for a mass ritual in support of the rights of ALL people to marry …

According to Queer New York, four members of the new LGBT activism group Queer Rising were arrested at this morning’s protest at the NYC marriage license bureau in Manhattan. Their statement, in part: On Friday, February 12 from 8:00-10:00am, LGBT activist group Queer Rising lead a crowd of impassioned protestors in a Valentine’s Day action outside the new 24,000 square-foot …

Denied a license to marry her partner Cheryl, Buffalo, New York lesbian Kitty Lambert turned to ask if any random man would marry her. Here’s how it went down. In an act of civil-sorta-disobedience, local LGBT activist Kitty Lambert received a marriage license to a stranger named Ed at Buffalo’s City Hall today, after being denied a license to marry …

Brand new LGBT activism group Queer Rising will stage a protest tomorrow morning at the NYC marriage license bureau in lower Manhattan. This event is a public protest to highlight the fact that LQBTQI individuals in the state of New York and throughout America may not legally bind themselves into the institution of marriage with the person they love. There …

We already know who he picked, but here’s a clip of the women who showed up at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando on Monday to apply to randomly marry performance artist Brian Feldman.

As a Valentine’s protest against anti-gay marriage laws, heterosexual Orlando performance artist Brian Feldman announced that he would randomly marry any woman who happened to show up at the Orange County Courthouse this past Monday. Three women appeared! Therefore, having filed the paperwork and paid the license fee, Feldman will marry one Hannah Miller on this Friday. From the Facebook …

Garden State Equality is talking tough. Sending a bold signal that no political party should take the support of the LGBT community and its allies for granted, Garden State Equality’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved a new provision for the organization’s bylaws that immediately precludes Garden State Equality from giving financial contributions to political parties and their affiliated committees. …

Here’s a short slideshow from Saturday’s HRC gala in NYC, courtesy of my able photographer Dr. Jeff. Except for the HRC’s official photographer, media were kept tightly corraled in a roped-off pen in front of the HRC backdrop, so we were pretty much unable to photograph or interview attendees. After all the big shots were trotted off the pre-show stage, …

NY Gov. David Paterson took to the media pit podium for some brief remarks in praise of the HRC prior to last night’s fundraising gala in the adjoining grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. My apologies for the shaky camera work, I was getting jostled by the CNN crew on my right. At the end of the clip, I pan …

As the band played Hot Stuff, students at John Carroll University occupied center court during a basketball game to protest the school’s decision to exclude LGBT people from its non-discrimination policy.

Spurred by the recent anti-gay cartoon published in the student newspaper, yesterday a large group of Notre Dame students rallied at the school’s administration building to demand that the school president accept a letter calling for a more inclusive and welcoming campus environment for LGBT students.

Empire State Pride Agenda executive director Alan Van Capelle is stepping down for a position in the office of NYC Comptroller John Liu. The departure comes shortly after ESPA’s years-long attempt to bring marriage equality to New York failed in the state Senate. Van Capelle is breaking the news this morning to the staff at ESPA, where his seven-year tenure …

But the Phelps didn’t show. Via the University of Colorado’s Daily Camera: Hundreds of University of Colorado students gathered around the Dalton Trumbo Fountain on Monday night in a show of support for gay rights. The demonstration came before a same-sex marriage debate on the CU campus organized by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought. “I want to promote love …

As part of their Stonewall Profiles series, OURsceneTV talks to Heath Tucker, a young NYC activist who has helped create several well-attended events, most of which I’ve covered here. New Yorkers will know Heath as the energetic young man with the megaphone.