The government of St. Petersburg, Russia today enacted a broad ban on any action that could be seen as “promoting” homosexuality. The new law also specifically links pedophilia to homosexuality. The law, passed in the third and final reading, imposes fines of up to $16,000 on individuals and up to $160,000 on legal entities for the promotion of homosexual, lesbian, …

“In the old days, the Republican ego had control of the party’s id. The id, sometimes described as a galloping horse or crying baby, ‘the dark, inaccessible part of our personality … chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations,’ as Freud called it, was whipped up obliquely by candidates. Nixon had his Southern strategy of using race as a wedge, …

(Tipped by JMG reader James)

The Sacramento Bee reports: The new Field survey shows support has leapt markedly in the three and a half years since California voters approved Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, 52.3 percent to 47.7 percent. The poll showed increases in support virtually across the board – among voters under 64, non-white voters, Catholics, Republicans and nonpartisans. Poll Director Mark DiCamillo …

“Ann Coulter has lied about and vilified conservatives who threaten the candidacy of Mitt Romney, whom she calls the “most conservative” candidate. Just this week, she again falsely claimed Romney to be the most conservative, falsely asserted that Sarah Palin is an establishment Republican, and falsely contended that Romney really won in Iowa. Coulter has also dismissed the Tea Party …

Via press release from Freedom To Marry: Today Freedom to Marry announced that in under six weeks its Mayors for the Freedom to Marry campaign has more than doubled, from 80 to 175 participating mayors. In addition, Freedom to Marry released a video of 13 mayors talking about why they’ve joined the campaign to talk about why marriage matters, and …

It’s magical day where anything can happen and nothing has consequences. Real life is for March!

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As I mentioned here earlier, there may be two anti-gay voter measures on Washington state’s November ballot. But attorney general candidate Stephen Pidgeon claims there is no intent to confuse voters. The initiative language clearly states that a successful modification of the law would ban homosexual marriage. But while Referendum 74 needs “no” votes and Initiative 1192 needs voters to …

“Judge White is out of order. He is unconstitutional by ruling DOMA unconstitutional. This is a judicial act of tyranny and it must be appealed, and I’m glad that it is being appealed. Barack Obama won’t even defend marriage rights between a man and a woman, so House Republicans are defending against this lesbian attack on the exclusiveness of marriage.” …

Moderate GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe will retire at the end of her current term. “Unfortunately, I do not realistically expect the partisanship of recent years in the Senate to change over the short term,” she said in a statement explaining her decision to retire. Snowe said her ability to win re-election was not at issue—she was heavily favored to win …

The seventh annual edition of Broadway Backwards plays this Monday at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. This gay gay gay show features major stars performing numbers written for the opposite sex. Think one dozen hot nearly naked chorus boys singing I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair. Or Cheyenne Jackson singing You’re The Top to Sandra Bernhard.

NYC Queers Against Israeli Apartheid intend to occupy Manhattan’s LGBT Center this weekend. Last February the LGBT Center refused meeting space to the group after a threatened donor boycott by porn producer Michael Lucas, who is an ardent Zionist and what some consider to be an anti-Palestinian racist. That refusal resulted in an anti-Center petition campaign from the opposing camp, …

Time Out New York today posts their ten hottest chorus boys cast in Broadway shows set to open this spring. Now THAT is how you promote the new season. (And naturally, my example is the furriest one of the bunch.)

These guys are pastors, unsurprisingly.

“In proving that every verse of the Biblical story of creation is in exact sync with the teachings of modern science, Huriash provides the details that explain the dinosaurs place in the scheme of creation.”