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Learn more about the International Day Against Homophobia. The goal: “To make the general population and, more specifically, ethno-cultural communities of all backgrounds more aware of gay and lesbian issues, and sexual diversity.”

A reporter put White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on the spot today, asking about the logical disconnect presented by the president’s decision not to release torture photos because “they would endanger troops still in Iraq”, yet he’ll fire a critical Arab linguist like openly gay Lt. Dan Choi, whose valuable work surely protects the troops. Gibbs pretends not to …

I can’t get enough of these.

The NYPD is asking for tips if anybody witnessed a gay man being brutally assaulted the near the corner of Christopher and 7th Avenue late on Wednesday night. Alan Williams, 50, is in a coma after the attack. Roving hoodlums were out for blood when they bashed in the head of an accountant on a West Village street Thursday, possibly …

(Via – Good As You)

Germany’s Eurovision entry is a Ricky Martin-ish big band/pop mashup featuring an orchestra led by German house DJ Alex Christensen. Vocals are by openly gay California-born Oscar Loya, a first generation Mexican-American who resides in Munich. Eurovision doesn’t care much about the contestants’ actual nationality. After all, Celine Dion won for Switzerland in 1988.

Anti-gay legal group Alliance Defense Fund has filed a federal lawsuit against the “gay anarchists” who last November disrupted a Michigan church service by pulling the fire alarm, dropping pro-gay leaflets, and shouting “Jesus was a homo” at parishioners. Via Christian site The Voice: “The use of violent threats and criminal behavior to make a political point should never be …

Led by openly gay reps Tammy Baldwin, Barney Frank, and Jared Polis, a coalition of 48 congressional members have sent a letter to the Office of Management and Budget demanding the the 2010 census count LGBT couples. Last year, the Bush administration, citing the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions, announced that lawfully …

Remember when I grumbled about getting 20 calls a week from scamsters claiming that my car warranty had expired? The FTC is finally suing the fuckers after NY Sen. Chuck Schumer complained that he had been getting the calls during meetings on Capitol Hill. In two related complaints filed in federal court on Thursday, the FTC said it was taking …

At Wednesday’s blogging panel at the NYC LGBT Community Center, gay blogging pioneer Bradford Shellhammer happened to have a copy of 1965’s Always Ask A Man: Arlene Dahl’s Key To Femininity, a book he says he frequently seeks on Ebay to give to friends. You may remember the five-times married Dahl (who is Lorenza Lamas’ mother) from such bad ’50s …

Azerbeijan’s Eurovision entry totally reminds me of late ’80s Miami freestyle – sort of Johnny O & Cynthia go to Baku. Power 96, represent!

Yesterday Wisconsin’s Supreme Court added a challenge to that state’s ban on same-sex marriage to its calendar. The state Supreme Court on Thursday said it will hear a challenge to the 2006 constitutional amendment that prohibited same-sex marriage. The order added the case to the agenda for the court’s next term, which begins this fall and ends in June 2010. …

I’m hearing that New Hampshire’s legislature is going to “move quickly” to agree on the changes to the marriage equality bill requested by Gov. John Lynch, meaning the bill could be signed into law within a few days. More when I have it.

Last week San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester offered the LGBT community a total of $125K in cash and room credits to call off their year-long boycott, which arose over Manchester’s financial backing of Proposition 8. The offer came via famed gay PR king Howard Bragman, whom Manchester had hired for the project. But nobody is biting. The Human Rights Campaign …

Her home town of Vista, California is considering staging a “Carrie Prejean Day” day because she’s “such a good role model.” Trustee Jim Gibson said last week that he wanted to make June 1 “Carrie Prejean Day” in the district. He called Prejean, a 2005 Vista High School graduate, a “good, strong role model.” Gibson was reportedly a local backer …

I’m going to post a few of my favorite Eurovision entries over the next few days. Let’s start with Sweden’s startlingly drag queen-ish Malena Ernman, a mezzo-soprano who regularly performs in Europe’s most vaunted opera houses. As my buddy Troubled Diva says, THIS is camp – the dancing gay boys, the disco beat, those higha-than-Mariah notes! The last note literally …

This video is so frickin’ sweet, you might need a tissue. On Saturday, Singapore will see the first public display of support for its LGBT citizens in which thousands are expected to gather in a public park to create a giant pink dot to be photographed from the sky. “Do you support the freedom of LGBT people to love? Then …

If being jobless has you down, Pfizer wants to perk you up. Pfizer Inc. says it will provide 70 of its most widely prescribed prescription drugs — including Lipitor and Viagra — for free to people who have lost their jobs and health insurance. The world’s biggest drugmaker said Thursday it will give away the medicines for up to a …