Monthly Archives: October 2010

Essence Magazine Publishes Online Photo Essay Of Lesbian Wedding

With the guidance of GLAAD, Essence Magazine, which is aimed at black females, has published an online photo essay of a lesbian wedding. The article includes a profile of how the women met and later married in Washington DC. This is a first for the magazine.

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Washington Post Publishes Editorial From Mother Of Dead Bullied Gay Child

In response to widespread criticism for publishing an anti-gay editorial from Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, the Washington Post has posted a response from the mother of 11 year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who took his life last year after relentless homophobic bullying. An excerpt: I am a single mother and a devout Christian who had never been involved in advocacy …

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Facebook Works With GLAAD To Remove Homophobic Comments And Images

GLAAD reports today that Facebook has been working with them to remove homophobic comments and photos posted to a page memorializing LGBT teens who committed suicide. Hateful comments posted to the page included “god hates f*gs theyre b*tches i hope they all die” and “f*ggots deserve a good old lynching.” Over 1,800 emails were sent to GLAAD calling for Facebook …

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Ann Coulter Calls Gay Men “Pederasts” GOProud’s Christopher Barron Cheers

Ann Coulter only joined Twitter last week, but she’s wasted no time in calling her gay detractors “pederasts.” GOProud’s Christopher Barron apparently thinks it’s all hilarious. (Coulter doesn’t know it, but Twitter user Bujeeboo isn’t even male.)

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Carl Paladino Rented Space To Two Gay Clubs In Upstate New York

Even though Carl Paladino thinks gays are perverts from whom children’s eyes should be shielded, he didn’t have any problem collecting rent from two gay clubs in upstate New York. Carl Paladino says kids shouldn’t be “brainwashed” into thinking it’s okay to be gay or be taken to a “disgusting” gay pride parade. But he had no problem when his …

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Olbermann On DADT Ruling

Rep. Barney Frank joins Olbermann and Servicemembers United’s Alex Nicholson, who was the plaintiff in the case.

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New From Sharron Angle

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Glee Spoiler: Duets

Stay out of the comments if you haven’t seen last night’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.

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Tweet Of The Day – NOM ♥ HRC

Brian Brown is crowing that the HRC’s NOM Exposed website actually helped NOM in an online fundraising drive. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) today thanked the Human Rights Campaign for its NOMexposed.org website, leading to the successful completion of the most ambitious online fundraising drive in NOM’s history. “I had to laugh when I first saw HRC’s new website, …

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DOJ Appeals DOMA Overturn

Some of you will view this as good thing. Via Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly: In a move expected by most legal observers, the U.S. Department of Justice this afternoon filed notices of appeal in two cases striking down the federal definition of marriage, contained in the Defense of Marriage Act, as unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro had …

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Carl Paladino Apologizes

Teabagger whackadoodle Carl Paladino has issued an apology after all the uproar over Sunday’s comments caused some of the nation’s most right-wing GOP members to distance themselves from his campaign. I am Carl Paladino, a father, a husband, a builder and a business owner. I am neither perfect, nor a career politician. I have made mistakes in this campaign – …

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Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann Refuses To Denounce Carl Paladino

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Phase One, today’s Swag Tuesday booty is the latest edition of Dance Mix USA, mixed by Louie DeVito. The two-CD package goes on sale today online and at record stores in North America. After more than a decade, Phase One Communications revitalizes the best-selling Dance Mix USAseries. The 2 CD package, available October 12th, includes 30 dance remixes …

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NEW YORK CITY: Bronx Gay Bashing Victim Speaks To Media

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BREAKING: Federal Judge Orders Military To Suspend Enforcement Of DADT

This just in via Daily Kos: “U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips orders the Defense Department to ‘immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding.'” Phillips’ ruling regards the case brought by the Log Cabin Republicans. Here’s the text of the order: 1) DECLARES that the act known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” infringes the …

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Afternoon View – Dead Virgin

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On San Francisco’s Proposition L

Anybody who has visited or lived in San Francisco over the last decade might agree that after the city’s physical beauty, the single-most memorable feature of the town is its staggering, almost Third Worldly volume of homelessness. Many politicians have tried and failed to legislate the homeless out of town, but San Francisco has a deserved reputation as a haven …

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Bristol Palin Gets All Non-Abstinenty On Dancing With The Stars

With her parents looking on from the audience, last night abstinence queen Bristol Palin ripped her partner’s shirt off during their rumba on Dancing With The Stars. Palin scored poorly last week, but don’t expect her to be voted off tonight as the teabaggers have launched a massive voting campaign on Twitter.

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LAS VEGAS: Evangelical Pastor Arrested For Molesting Teenage Boys

In a case highly similar to that of Atlanta’s “Bishop” Eddie Long, a pastor in Las Vegas has been arrested and charged with 11 felony counts of molesting teenage boys. According to police, Pastor Billy Eskstine McCurdy used biblical verses to coerce the boys into sex. North Las Vegas police arrested Billy Eckstine McCurdy, 57, following an eight-month investigation into …

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Carl Paladino Backtracks To Matt Lauer

But Lauer is NOT having it.

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