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Without a single vote from any Republican, today the U.S. Senate narrowly approved the nomination of Alison Nathan to the federal bench. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: Nathan, an out lesbian, will be the second out lesbian federal judge with lifetime tenure in the country, joining U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Batts on the bench of the Southern District …

From the National Minority AIDS Council: The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) has released a new video highlighting the crisis facing our nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs. Currently, more than 7,400 individuals in 10 states who have been placed on ADAP wait lists, while another 17 states and Puerto Rico have instituted various cost containment measures, including reduced formularies and …

Today the official blog of the Smithsonian remembers late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny and provides a link farm to his donated items and his papers on file at the Library of Congress.

Yet another anti-DOMA lawsuit, but this one’s from a new angle. The former sailor, Carmen Cardona of Norwich, married her partner in Connecticut last year. But when she applied for an increase in her monthly disability compensation because she was newly married, the Department of Veterans Affairs regional office in Hartford rejected her application, citing a federal statute that defines …

The federal government is sending letters to California’s legal pot dispensaries ordering them to close within 45 days. The state’s four U.S. attorneys sent letters Wednesday and Thursday notifying at least 16 pot shops or their landlords that they are violating federal drug laws, even though medical marijuana is legal in California. The attorneys are to announce their coordinated crackdown …

NOM has lost yet another attempt to evade Maine’s campaign finance law after a federal appeals court refused to hear their case. The appeal came after a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston a month ago rejected the National Organization for Marriage’s challenge to Maine’s political action committee laws, and upheld Maine’s law requiring disclosure of independent expenditures …

The anti-gay Judicial Watch and the Family Research Council have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, demanding that the DOJ release all internal documents and emails relating to the decision to stop defending DOMA. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton: “You know, they made this decision, and based on the timing of certain court filings it looks like it …

The Department of Justice today filed suit to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile, saying that if the companies were to join, millions of consumers would suffer with higher prices and fewer choices. “AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile would eliminate a company that has been a disruptive force through low pricing and innovation by competing aggressively in the mobile wireless …

Despite a number of recent wins on this issue.

This is a clear explanation, actually.

UPDATE: The live stream has concluded.

A 2009 NIH study of penis size and gay men is just now getting publicity. The study reveals little unknown to most of you, I’m betting. This particular research resulted in a 2009 report titled, “The Association Between Penis Size and Sexual Health Among Men Who Have Sex with Men.” The study reported, among its findings, that gay men with …

Marriage gay city employees of Cambridge, Massachusetts will become the first in the nation to be paid a small stipend to cover a federal tax that their heterosexual colleagues don’t have to pay. Like many people, these 22 school and city workers chose to put their spouses on their employer-provided health insurance. Because they’re in a homosexual relationship, the value …

The New York Times has posted a wonderful tribute. An excerpt: Few first ladies have been as popular as Betty Ford, and it was her frankness and lack of pretense that made her so. She spoke often in support of the Equal Rights Amendment, endorsed legalized abortion, discussed premarital sex and revealed that she intended to share a bed with …

“It took 18 months of protest, but FRC can finally celebrate a major victory at the Office of Safe and Drug-free Schools. The agency, which (until two weeks ago), was headed by radical homosexual activist Kevin Jennings, has been eliminated. Starting this summer, its duties will be absorbed by another program–knocking the Office’s LGBT indoctrination campaign down several rungs on …

And the recent good news on that front.

In what the New York Times says may be a precedent-setting decision, the federal government has dropped its deportation case against a gay Venezuelan legally married to an American man. The announcement comes as immigration officials put into effect new, more flexible guidelines governing the deferral and cancellation of deportations, particularly for immigrants with no serious criminal records. Immigration lawyers …

Thirteen U.S. Senators for the It Gets Better Project!

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