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.

Albania’s parliament has passed a comprehensive LGBT rights law, but the bill does not include marriage equality as had been promised by the president. Albanian rights groups and the Alliance against the Discrimination of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) welcomed the law as a powerful legal tool to protect against any kind of discrimination. Approved by the ruling …

Billie Ray Martin covers the Cabaret Voltaire classic.

This here website thingy gained a (relative) ton of readers from India in the last few months. One year ago, India wasn’t even in my international top ten. Desis in the house, raise your hands!

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If you are a terrorist or are plotting the overthrow is the U.S. government, a new South Carolina law requires that your pay a $5 fee and register your group with the state. From the bill: SECTION 23-29-10. Short title. This chapter may be cited as the “Subversive Activities Registration Act.” SECTION 23-29-20. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter …

In reaction to the SCOTUS decision to allow corporations to advertise in political campaigns, a bill has been submitted in the U.S. House that will require CEOs to append “I’m So & So and I approve this message” to every ad. A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers have a response to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited …

Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist doesn’t want DADT repealed. Neither does his GOP primary opponent for the U.S. Senate, former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio. U.S. Senate rivals Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio both said today they oppose abolishing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy affecting gays and lesbians in the military. The 1993 policy was intended to be …

American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer is really pissed about my post regarding his call to criminalize homosexuality so that gays can be forced into “reparative therapy” programs. That post was picked up all over the progressive blogosphere and after an NBC reporter called him for confirmation, Fischer issued the following “denial” in a post titled Why Homosexual Behavior …

Scott Brown switched gears yesterday and demanded to be be sworn in today, one week before his originally requested date of February 11th. Democrats shrugged and said, “Whatevs, dude,” so he’ll be sworn in any minute now.

DC’s grocery stores are going all Lord Of The Flies this afternoon after the National Weather Service upgraded tomorrow’s snow forecast to 18-24 inches. That, on top of the five inches the city got yesterday and the 20″ deluge of December will put the nation’s capital within reach of breaking the all-time record of 46″ in one winter. (Sorry NYC, …

Immediately after the president and Hillary Clinton denounced Uganda’s pending “kill gays” bill at today’s National Prayer Breakfast, Cliff Kincaid, president of an American Christian propaganda group, issued a press release defending the bill as necessary to prevent “homosexual imperialists” from continuing their campaign to fuck as much AIDS into the children of Uganda as possible. Cliff Kincaid, president of …

Shielding his identity with a paper bag, a gay Ugandan spoke on Tuesday at an LGBT alternative to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC.

You’ve got to click over the AKA William for Andrew Belonsky’s lengthy interview with everybody’s favorite performance artist, Megan Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church. A snippet: Same-sex marriage is a fait accompli in this nation. I remember taking a government class and they were talking about the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. If all these states …

Duane Reade, 1st Avenue, 8:30am Hipster Dude 1: And then she said I was emotionally crippled, that my family is all freaks, that I’m going nowhere in my job, that I’m lazy, that I’ve got bad taste. She just went on and on. Hipster Dude 2: What did you say? Hipster Dude 1: I told her she’s fat. Hipster Dude …

The National Enquirer is claiming that Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend are going to adopt a Haitian baby. Hard-charging CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper was so moved by the suffering from the earthquake in Haiti, he’s decided to adopt a Haitian orphan, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. The silver-haired journalist and his hunky boyfriend, Ben Maisani, plan to raise the child …

Bearapalooza 2010 takes place in southern Georgia on the weekend of April 15-18th. Performers include Freddy Freeman, Kendall, Elijah Black, Roger Mapes, Martin Swinger, Rockcub, Don Harvey, Charles K. Brown, Jeffrey Altergott, Michael West, and others. RELATED: International Bear Rendezvous runs February 11th-15th in San Francisco. ALSO RELATED: The 10th annual Provincetown Bear Week runs July 10th-18th and we’re hearing …

Great stuff as Stewart and O’Reilly take shots at each other and each other’s networks.

Gayle Haggard explains why she is confident that her husband is now completely heterosexual. She says that she does believe that homosexuality is a sin, but tap dances around the question as to whether she agrees with that pesky abomination thingy. But: “Honestly, I don’t feel that the government should be in the marriage business. I feel as though the …