-Steve Hayes (Tired Old Queen At The Movies) stars with playwright Bradford Scobie and drag legend Murray Hill in Moisty The Snowman Saves Christmas, now running Off Broadway at Dixon Place. Get tickets here. – Michael Urie (Ugly Betty) will replace Christian Borle as Prior Walter in the critically raved Off Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels In America. Urie …

More Christianist bullshit about the gay video exhibit that I reported on yesterday. (Via – Truth Wins Out)

Russia’s Pravda newspaper is blasting Sarah Palin as an unpatriotic traitor to the ideals of America because she has advocated what the paper characterizes as “cyber terrorism” to bring down WikiLeaks. She turns not only against the fibre and backbone of her country, but against its democratically-elected President, accusing him of being incompetent for not stopping Wikileaks. Where was she …

Why is it that almost every “ex-gay” person we hear about is also a former drug addict and/or alcoholic and/or felon? Could it be that happy, well-adjusted, healthy people in control of their lives don’t need to run to Jeebus and blame their gayness as the source of their fucked-up existence?

Wonk Room’s Igor Volsky ticks off the ways that GOP objections have been dispatched so far today.Read more Volsky’s analysis. Here’s his video recap.

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“Liberals don’t care. Their approach is to rip out society’s foundations without asking if they serve any purpose. Why do we have immigration laws? What’s with these borders? Why do we have the institution of marriage, anyway? What do we need standardized tests for? Hey, I like Keith Richards — why not make heroin legal? Let’s take a sledgehammer to …

A jury in Delaware has awarded a record $30M settlement to a man who says that he was sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest more than 100 times while he was a boy. That is the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in any clergy abuse case. In an unusual turn, the judgment rules that the man’s parish …

Defense Secretary Gate and Admiral Mike Mullen appear today before the Senate Armed Services Committee. I’ll bump this video player to the top of the blog a few times as the hearings go on today. UPDATE: The hearing has concluded for today.

Ninth Circuit Court Judge Stephen Reinhardt has refused to recuse himself from next week’s hearing of the appeal of the overturn of Proposition 8. Here’s his legalese-laden refusal. “Filed order (STEPHEN R. REINHARDT) I have before me defendants-intervenors-appellants’ motion to disqualify myself from this appeal. I have not hesitated to recuse from cases in the past when doing so was …

1939’s Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert, Dom Ameche, Mary Astor, and Rex O’Malley.

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga now says he’s been misquoted and that homosexuals will not be rounded up and arrested. Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday denied that he had ordered a nationwide crackdown on homosexuals but maintained that such unions were illegal. He argued that he was misquoted and that his statements were not meant to victimise anyone because: …

The European Parliament has declared that official documents such as marriage, civil union, birth, and death certificates must be recognized by all members of the European Union. Rex Wockner reports at Pink Paper: “This is a great development for the many couples and families who see their fundamental rights diminished every day when crossing a border inside the EU,” said …

Hungary has adopted a new constitution which stipulates that marriage is for heterosexuals only. Human life will be protected from conception and marriage will be defined as heterosexual co-existence in the new Constitution, according to the specimen The Principles of Regulating the Constitution of Hungary. Hungary would continue to be a republic and a democracy governed by the rule of …

For a couple of weeks I’ve been following the YouTube channel of a user calling himself “JesseTheStraightGuy.” Jesse says he’s a high school student who has successfully completed an unnamed “ex-gay” program. In this latest clip, he drops the n-word and refers to fellow students as “fags” and “fag-enablers,” all while declaring that he’s “not sick anymore.” It’s all so …

A new Tumblr blog.

I missed this message from Britain’s Prime Minister yesterday. “We have made a lot of progress in fighting HIV and AIDS so far and I believe that by working together, we can help reduce the stigma, reduce the number of new infections and enable those living with HIV to lead full productive and happy lives.”