The boycott is back on. Heh.

“The Republican candidates, however compromised, are busy destroying themselves, with their attacks on each other. Each time one of them opens his mouth he helps produce another Obama/Clinton campaign commercial that will be effectively used by Dems during the lead-up to 2012 elections. And, as important, the media-hyped sleaze on any one of the Republican presidential candidates creates such a …

Tomorrow Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley will introduce his marriage equality bill. O’Malley (D) is scheduled to host a breakfast gathering of same-sex couples at Government House and then tout his legislation at a news conference afterward. Aides say O’Malley will be joined outside his residence by supportive legislators, clergy and labor leaders. Word of his plans spread as O’Malley prepared …

Manufactured talking points for tonight’s debate.

Ho hum. More misdirected anger from the Trans Mafia. Dan Savage was glitter-bombed before his appearance at The Vogue theatre in Vancouver Jan 21, the third such action against the high-profile sex columnist and political commentator in recent months. A group of six activists, who named themselves The Homomilitia for the event, said they confronted Savage as he entered the …

A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that a dismissed lawsuit for marriage equality must be returned to the lower court for another hearing. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three same-sex couples [left], will now return to Hennepin County District Court, where it will likely proceed to trial as debate heats up over a statewide vote next fall to ban …

(Tipped by JMG reader Brian)

SwapperNet says via press release: In response to recent allegations from Gingrich’s ex-wife, Swappernet.com, a dating site for swingers and open marriages, attempted to erect a billboard today in Tampa (where the website was founded) but was universally rebuffed by weary media outlets. The proposed billboard features the former speaker of the house in party mode surrounded by a bevy …

Washington United press release: Washington United for Marriage, a broad statewide coalition of organizations, congregations, unions and business associations that will work to obtain civil marriage for lesbian and gay couples in Washington State in 2012, today cheered the announcement of Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen’s support of marriage equality legislation in Washington State. The bills, SB 6239 and HB 2516 …

Think Progress has the transcript: “If you pass this bill you’re just as narrow minded, you are just as bigoted and you’re just as unloving to everything and everyone who wants to get married outside of one man and one woman, two men and two women.”

I’m betting he was carrying a gun. UPDATE: Local media reports that Sen. Paul was detained for refusing to submit to a full-body pat-down. UPDATE II: The TSA says Rand Paul is lying. Sen. Rand Paul’s chief of staff Doug Stafford responded to the TSA’s claim that the senator was “not detained at any point.” “Well, I don’t know what …

Clip description: “Journalist-turned-filmmaker David France unveils the courageous story of the activists and scientists who fought, sometimes with each other, to find a way to stop HIV from being a death sentence in “How to Survive a Plague,” a U.S. Documentary Competition film at Sundance 2012.”RELATED: Longtime activist Peter Staley discusses the movie at Poz.com. I suspect that this film …

Last night I attended Trippin’ On The Moon, the recurring disco oldies party for the members and performers of NYC’s legendary Saint disco. The featured entertainer was Tony winner and four-time Grammy nominee Melba Moore, who looked and sounded so amazing that I had to whip out my phone to confirm that it was, in fact, 42 years ago that …

The Gregory Brothers are BACK and this time they brought hottie Joseph Gordon-Levitt.(Tipped by JMG reader David)

During yesterday’s playoffs I idly wondered aloud when Nebraska had gotten a pro football team. I was tartly informed that the “NE” on the scoreboard actually stood for New England. Whatever. I liked the team in the purple blouses.

Clever prankster.