Donald Trump appeared on the Christian Broadcast Network to work his Christianist bona fides. Trump tells CBN that while gays shouldn’t be discriminated against, he’s totally against gay marriage. The absurdity of that statement captures Trump’s candidacy in a nutshell, dunnit?

Out Magazine has issued this year’s list of the 50 “most powerful” gay people. New Apple “acting” CEO Tim Cook heads the list on his first appearance. Billionaire GOProud moneyman and libertarian whackadoodle Peter Thiel ranks at #7. Another GOProud member and the 21st century Roy Cohn, Ken Mehlman, debuts at #37. Hit the link for bios on everybody.

The four retired space shuttles have been doled out, but New York City is getting the Enterprise, which never actually went into orbit.

Seriously, this is fantastic.

“While governor of Arkansas, 11 years ago, [Mike] Huckabee commuted the 108-year prison sentence of Maurice Clemmons. Clemmons then went on a crime spree and ended up in Seattle, Washington, where on 19 November 2010, he casually walked into a coffee shop early one morning and shot and killed four police officers while they were eating breakfast. He fired at …

Illinois Republicans have quietly added an anti-gay adoption amendment into a bill to assist the blind. Windy City Times reports: An amendment to a proposed bill in the Illinois Senate states that “a child welfare agency that is religiously based or owned by, operated by, or affiliated with a bona fide religious organization may decline an adoption or foster family …

GOProud’s shot at being invited back to CPAC appears pretty dim, judging by the words Al Cardenas, the head of the convention’s sponsoring organization. Reviewing the recent national CPAC, Cardenas addressed the controversy surrounding participation [with a booth in the exhibit hall] by the Republican gay group GOProud. He feels “the problem is that GOProud didn’t help us any in …

Via press release: Pet Shop Boys will release their latest single “Together” on April 12th through Astralwerks. This track will be accompanied by new versions of “Glad All Over” and “I Cried For Us” plus exclusive remixes. “Glad All Over” is a version of the early 60s hit by The Dave Clark Five which Pet Shop Boys performed in Chris …

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AFA’s spokesdouche Bryan Fischer says that House Speaker John Boehner is like Pontius Pilate for his failure to defund Planned Parenthood. Also, he’s a Nazi.

We can totally use some fluffy news up in this joint today. Jeff Timmons, founding member of the platinum selling group 98 Degrees, will be joining the world famous Chippendales in Las Vegas as their Special Musical Guest Star and Emcee, where he will flex his vocal chords and muscles for four weekends only, May 12 through June 5, 2011 …

The Uniting American Families Act will be reintroduced in the U.S. House this Thursday by Rep. Jerrold Nadler and several other Democrats. Via press release from Nadler’s office: On Thursday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, and Representatives John …

Anti-gay sites are going nuts about the above J. Crew ad in which a mother playfully paints her son’s toenails pink. Jenna Lyons and J. Crew seem to know exactly what they’re up to. That’s why the photograph of Jenna’s son so prominently displays his hot pink, neon toe nails. These folks are hostile to the gender distinctions that actually …

Dr. Jennifer Morse of NOM’s Ruth Institute, whom was last heard from when she said that evil gays “stole the rainbow,” is now telling audiences that same-sex marriage will bring about the outlawing of preaching Christianity. First among her qualms—and no doubt foremost for her audience, considering the college’s unapologetic Christian Evangelical orientation—is the conflict same sex marriage has with …

“In 5,000 years of recorded human history… neither in the east or in the west… has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That’s an astounding fact and it isn’t until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time …

Today NYC’s Ali Forney Center remembers the birthday of their namesake, Ali Forney, who was brutally murdered on the streets in 1997. The Ali Forney Center opened in 2002.

“So a six-foot guy who shaves every day can come in wearing a dress, high heels, and earrings and tell his employer that he’s really a woman and he wants to use the women’s bathroom facilities, and there’s nothing the employer can do to stop him if he wants to do business in Metro. Clearly the Metro Council members, a …

Yikes: Two planes collided Monday while taxiing at Kennedy Airport around 8:15 p.m., according to Port Authority officials One of the planes was a Paris-bound Air France A380 — one of the largest in the world — which was carrying 500 passengers. While on its way to the runway for takeoff, it somehow ran into a taxiing Comair plane that …