Surveillance video has been released of this weekend’s gay bashing of Damian Furtch, 26, on a West Village street. GLAAD has been advising Furtch, who eloquently spoke out against the attack on local news channels last night. Furtch to GLAAD: “The attack against me is part of the larger issue of violence against gay and transgender people in New York …

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“A lot of the so called birthers, these are great people, these are really great American people. These are hard working, unbelievable, salt of the earth people. I’m proud to be, I mean I’m very proud of it. I don’t like the term ‘birther.’ I think it is a demeaning term to the people that believe that he should have …

And aims a lot of zingers at the GOP.(Via – Towleroad)

Known to some as Bulgaria’s version of Pink, at the age of nine Genova was the host of the popular television show Bon-Bon. Her title of her entry translates as Stubborn and is a call for young Bulgarians to resist emigrating to other countries.

Today the Washington state Senate voted 28-19 to recognize all legal partnerships (marriages, civil unions, etc) from other jurisdictions. The state House approved the bill last month. “This bill is about making sure that people who love one another – and that love and friendship respected and honored in another state or another country – when they come here they …

Today Liberty Counsel spokesdouche Matt Barber claims to Porno Pete that he’s received death threats since his Monday announcement that gay kids kill themselves because they intuitively know they are immoral. And that doesn’t bother Barber, because he knows that gays are really just mad at God. You know, scripture says ‘woe to those who call evil good and good …

This has nothing to do with the Bronx Zoo. Probably. Hutcherson, you may recall, led the failed effort to block Washington state’s Referendum 71, which grants most of the rights of marriage, but not the name. (Source: Towleroad via Pam’s House Blend)

The U.S. Census has ranked the fastest growing cities whose metro populations exceed one million. My exploding hometown of Orlando ranks at sixth fastest-growing with 2.1M residents. When my family moved there in 1971, the population was around 60,000. The day after we arrived, Walt Disney World opened.

“The site has accomplished much in its seven years. Congressmen and Senators who were first reported on here are no longer in office. Political operatives who worked against us are now on our team. The mainstream media has been educated and it’s no longer considered off-limits to report on the hypocrisy of closeted, anti-gay politicians. (Outlets like the Philadelphia Inquirer …

Calling on “gay left” groups to drop their “dishonest attacks” on Christian school vouchers, today GOProud issued a press release endorsing a House bill that would pay Washington DC parents to put their kids in private religious schools. This legislation, sponsored by Speaker John Boehner, would restore and expand the school voucher program for low-income children in the District of …

You know what to do. Vote “harm.”

A new campaign from the Men’s Sexual Health Project: With the kind support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, M*SHP will be unveiling a program to provide emergency HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in a streamlined and community-appropriate way. PEP has been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for high risk sexual exposures since 2006, but very …

“It’s unbelievable (literally) the rhetoric coming from President Obama today. This is coming from he who is manipulating the U.S. energy supply. President Obama is once again giving lip service to a ‘new energy proposal’; but let’s remember the last time he trotted out a ‘new energy proposal’ – nearly a year ago to the day. The main difference is …

Women24 reports from South Africa: We’ve heard of blind dates – but the thought of marrying someone the first time you get hitched to them is a little crazy, isn’t it? As part of a reality wedding show, Lloyd Kandlin and Shane Everts came face to face for the first time on their wedding day. The couple got hitched on …

That will come as a shock to public workers.

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More about the movie is here.(Tipped by Jmg reader Andy)

Just launched by Armistead Maupin’s husband, Chris Turner.