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“Shouldn’t there be safeguards against the majority voting on the rights of a minority? If people voted on civil rights in the 60s, it would have never happened. It took somebody like [President] Lyndon Johnson going, ‘F all of you! I’m going to do this.’ Obama won’t do it. He’s a huge disappointment to me.” – GLEE star Jane Lynch, …

GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign have issued denouncements of last night’s anti-trans skit on the David Letterman show. GLAAD is asking that notes of complaint be sent to CBS. The HRC has sent a message directly to Letterman. GLAAD: Depicting people reacting in horror to transgender individuals is a dangerous stereotype for popular media to perpetuate because it contributes …

Following her live New Year’s Eve F-bomb, a CNN “insider” says they will not be inviting Kathy Griffin back, according to gossip columnist Rob Shuter. “She was a total embarrassment to the network that calls themselves ‘The Most Trusted Name in News.’ Even Anderson (Cooper, her co-host) thinks it’s time to say goodbye to Kathy,” a CNN insider tells me. …

Harlem-based Pastor James David Manning says that President Obama is “pure evil borne of the womb of 16 year-old white girl.” (Obama’s mother was actually 18 when she had him.) He also claims that the Marxists in the black Suburbans are coming to get him for saying so, blah blah blah. I doubt that Pastor Wacko is very well known …

A few days ago One Life To Life aired what some are calling the first gay sex scene in the history of daytime television. “Kish” is what the show’s fans call the two gay characters Kyle and Fish.

To promote last night’s New Year’s Eve show on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Kathy Griffin made the rounds of talk shows, where she reported that a stipulation in this year’s contract required her to return her paycheck if she swore on the air, as she did last year. You be the judge of what was said at 0:57.

This week you’ll find yours truly on the year-end episode of Gay USA, the nationally broadcast weekly LGBT news show hosted by Ann Northrop and Andy Humm. Happy New Year! On this week’s show, Ann leads an end-of-the-year roundtable discussion of 2009’s events and issues. Our guests are Joe Jervis, author of the JoeMyGod.com blog; Pauline Park, veteran transgender activist …

According to OURSceneTV, here are #11-#20 of the top 20 TV moments of 2009. The top ten comes out tomorrow.

Likely every social phenomenon in history, the flash mob was long ago co-opted by marketing and advertising firms. Here’s how Fox is promoting GLEE in Italy.

Alaina Reed, known to millions as Sesame Street’s Olivia, has died of breast cancer in Los Angeles. Previously known as Alaina Reed Hall, she remarried in 2008. Her stage credits include “Chicago” and “Hair.” She appeared in several movies, including “Cruel Intentions” and “Death Becomes Her,” and in guest-starring roles on numerous TV shows such as “ER,” “NYPD Blue,” “The …

The Ninth Circuit Court has authorized televised trials in some cases, leading to the expectation that the Olson/Boies attempt to repeal Proposition 8 will be be viewed nationwide. Guess who doesn’t like that? The Judicial Council of the 9th Circuit authorized television cameras in certain district court proceedings Thursday, reviving a national controversy just weeks before a groundbreaking trial over …

“I’m so thankful for the freedoms that we have in this country; the freedom of speech, the freedom to vote and the freedom to love who we want. And I want to say that what’s happening in Uganda makes me incredibly sad. There’s an “Anti-Gay Bill” that’s proposing to jail homosexuals. They are trying to give life sentences to same-sex …

RuPaul is promoting the second season of her hit LOGO series Rupaul’s Drag Race with a dig at Sarah Palin. If you recall, I got ridiculously engrossed in last season’s show – to the point where I actually squealed a little bit when I met the out-of-drag Nina Flowers on the dance floor at the Black Party. Season two begins …

That’s a headline I wasn’t expecting to write today.

Adam Lambert returned to live television on last night’s season finale of So You Think You Can Dance. This time there was no wardrobe gay sex malfunction, other than a little male back-on-back rubbing, but that move is a rock-n-roll staple anyway. There was, however, a little bit of guyliner malfunction.

There’s a whole website for it too.

Pioneering televangelist Oral Roberts has died. Evangelist Oral Roberts died today in Newport Beach, Calif., due to complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from OralRobertsNews.com. His son, Richard, and daughter, Roberta, were at his side, the release said. The founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association and Oral Roberts University was 91. There will be a private family internment. …

Via Muckety, a Broadway to GLEE chart. Interactive version here.

Gossip queen Perez Hilton is warring with a local LA news channel over his walking out of a planned interview. Meow!

Andrew Sullivan appeared on Joy Behar’s HLN show last night to talk about his long-running campaign against Sarah Palin. Near the very end of this clip, Behar mentions Sullivan’s recently announced departure from the right-wing, presenting him with a welcoming “lefty gift basket” including a Dixie Chicks CD and a Michael Moore DVD.