Speaking to Perry vs. Schwarzenegger lawyer David Boies by phone, wingnut radio talker Don Imus revealed that he supports marriage equality. THUD. (Via – Queerty)

Same-sex marriage is already illegal in Indiana thanks to a state statute. But the haters want a constitutional amendment so it will be extra double illegal. The state Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment on gay marriage on a 38-10 vote late Thursday afternoon. The last time the Senate passed the proposal, the Indiana House blocked the effort to send …

Via Trip Advisor. Times Square’s Hotel Carter, which ranked #1 for three of the last four years, somehow does not appear on the latest list. 1. Heritage Marina Hotel, San Francisco, California 2. Days Inn Eureka/Six Flags, Eureka, Missouri 3. Tropicana Resort Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia 4. Super 8 Virginia Beach/At the Ocean, Virginia Beach, Virginia 5. Quality Inn, Stroudsburg, …

(Tipped by JMG reader BStewart23)

The publicists of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras sent us this promo clip this morning. Sigh. One of these days, one of the days.

Poor NOM. After being practically laughed out of the courthouse for requesting a last minute stay, they learned yesterday that Maine will proceed with an investigation into their violations of the state’s campaign finance laws. Barry Bostrom, an attorney for the group that contributed $1.9 million to a campaign to repeal the state’s gay marriage law, told the commission that …

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told PBS yesterday that she plans to leave the Obama administration at the end of the current term. Speculation as to what that means has begun. It’s hard for many politicos to imagine Hillary Clinton being content with “going back to private life and spending time reading, and writing, and maybe teaching, doing some personal …

Following up on Joy Behar’s widely reported comment about gay relationships and monogamy, today the New York Times published word of a new study which claims that 50% of gay relationships are non-monogamous. A study to be released next month is offering a rare glimpse inside gay relationships and reveals that monogamy is not a central feature for many. Some …

GLAAD has published out a full-page ad in the current issue of Variety to protest murder music reggae star Buju Banton’s nomination for Best Reggae Album. In an advert in Hollywood show business paper Daily Variety, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center urged Grammy organizers to use Sunday’s televised ceremony to …

It looks like four of the five NYC nightclubs set to be closed down for smoking violations have struck deals to live another day. Not surviving the city’s wrath is Chelsea’s M2 Ultra Lounge megaclub, host to the city’s largest gay dance parties. The Health Department’s top lawyer sat down with reps for M2 Ultra Lounge in Chelsea after he …

For no particular reason, here’s some cute bear cubs playing in yesterday’s snow at the Bronx Zoo.

NYC launches its latest and strongest campaign against cell-chatting cab drivers today with a three strikes system that will cost a driver his his hack license upon the third violation. Taxi and Limousine Commission agents and NYPD officers will be on the lookout for drivers using any electronic devices while not legally parked, including iPods, GPS devices and satellite radios. …

I don’t know if this is a fan clip or if Lady Gaga herself is behind it, but it’s hot and weird and probably NSFW.

Next month’s Tea Party Convention is falling apart over questions about where the money will go. Crazy-eyed Rep. Michele Bachmann has joined the list of those pulling out. Oh noes! Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has become the latest to pull out of a scheduled speaking gig at the controversial National Tea Party Convention next year. Like Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) …

(Via – Truth Wins Out)

Here’s the link to that 2010 Bloggies Awards thingy again. I have no idea how I’m doing and Post Secret is probably kicking my ass and the ballot design is full of the bite and you gotta scroll all way to the right to find me. But you should at least check out some of the groovy sites nominated in …

This just popped up on Marc Ambinder’s blog over on The Atlantic. This looks pretty major, folks. Before President Obama announced last night that he would work with Congress and the Pentagon to end the military’s ban on service by gays and lesbians, the White House consulted Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint …

At a town hall meeting in Tampa today, an audience member said to President Obama, “Last night you talked about DADT. My question is, what are you doing now to put it in motion so that same-sex couples, homosexuals, are treated as equal citizens as the United States, i.e. same-sex marriage and 1000+ benefits that heterosexual couples enjoy after marriage?” …

Maggie Gallagher has posted a letter she sent to Perry vs. Schwarzenegger Judge Vaughn Walker, in which she complains that Protect Marriage’s case was ruined, simply ruined, because of all those witnesses that fled the potential violent fury of raging homofascists. The price of participating in a trial should not be the willingness to tolerate even a minimum of reasonable …

Famously reclusive and iconic novelist J.D. Salinger died in his New Hampshire home yesterday at the age of 91. J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting …