The Los Angeles Times reports that Google is negotiating to purchase Hulu. The bold push into the entertainment sphere signals Google’s growing ambitions to snap up more mainstream programming that would entice online viewers — and those in the living room — to watch longer, while capturing an even bigger advertising payload from major brands. Google’s YouTube is already planning …

There’s really no escaping them.

So claims NOM on their blog. But here’s what the article they cite really says. New Yorkers United For Marriage, a coalition composed of gay rights groups such as the Empire State Pride Agenda and Marriage Equality New York, and underwritten in part by the Gill Action Fund, reportedly spent $3 million on the spring campaign to pass the marriage …

Three Marine corporals stationed at Camp Pendleton are facing charges over allegedly sham marriages created in part, those charged say, to evade the restrictions of DOMA. The scam was hatched when a lesbian couple, one a Marine and the other a civilian, decided to live together off base, according to 1st Lt. Maureen Dooley, a Marine spokeswoman at Camp Pendleton. …

Against the vehement objections of some LGBT rights groups, today Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee signed his state’s controversial civil unions bill into law. The new law includes a section that says no religious organization — including some hospitals, cemeteries, schools and community centers — or its employees may be required to treat as valid any civil union, providing a …

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World Net Daily has dug up those years-old anonymous internet comments (some from JMG) to illustrate a story about the latest attempt to block the names of those that signed an anti-gay petition in Washington state. A federal court in Tacoma, Wash., has been asked to order that the names of signatories of a state petition seeking to protect traditional …

“[The law] does not protect individuals. It does not protect private business owners. It does not protect, for example, a bed and breakfast owner who is using their own private personal property in the type of intimate setting that a bed and breakfast is. It does not protect licensed professionals. For example, it does not protect counselors. It also does …

A really cute and classically Shatner-esque bit that includes a shout-out to same-sex couples and universal health care.

Thomas Peters is the NOM staffer who embarrassed himself by posting a preemptive National Review article declaring that same-sex marriage had been defeated in New York. He’s also the son of the Vatican adviser who earlier this week called for Gov. Cuomo to be denied Holy Communion. Yesterday the younger Peters appeared on a Catholic news program to explain why. …

Former NGLTF executive director Matt Foreman takes to the Huffington Post today for a thoughtful essay on why we continue to see hard-fought gains in the LGBT movement. An excerpt: While opponents of LGBT rights have at least eight national advocacy organizations with budgets of more than $10 million, the LGBT movement has just one. In fact, the annual budget …

Ronald Coleman in 1937’s Lost Horizon.

Elections prognosticator Nate Silver has published another super-complicated voting trends analysis. Even though there’s no plan to place a repeal of Prop 8 on the 2012 California ballot, Silver predicts that voters would overturn the measure if given the chance. Even the relatively cautious Linear Model predicts that 54 percent of Californians would vote against a measure like Proposition 8 …

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