All the usual “hired help” for the all-white, all-Catholic NOM makes their appearances: Harry Jackson, Ruben Diaz, etc.

ACT UP will demonstrate on Wall Street tomorrow. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the AIDS activist group ACT UP will return to its roots and stage a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street — on Wednesday, April 25 — starting at 11 am at City Hall and ending on Wall Street. Hundreds of protestors are expected to converge for …

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“If you are to give us aid for men and men or for women and women to marry, leave it; we don’t need your aid because, as long as I am the President of The Gambia, you will never see that happen in this country. One thing we will never compromise, for whatever reason, is the integrity of our culture, …

Clip description: “Civil unions head to the Senate in Colorado, but nobody seems to be quite sure who’s going to sponsor the bill once it reaches the House. Early voting’s begun in North Carolina, just in time for a big TV ad buy starting this week. And the bumpy road to repealing Ohio’s marriage ban just got bumpier.”

Pundits pointed at Portman this weekend, but it’s Rubio that’s on the campaign trail by Romney’s side today. As you can see, Intrade’s gamblers are hedging their bets.

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Michael Triplett is a vice president of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association and their most prolific blogger. He’s also just reached the first anniversary in his battle against HPV-related oral cancer, about which he’s just written for the Good Men Project. An excerpt: In the past year, I’ve had: three surgeries, 42 days of traditional radiation treatment, five …

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Fellow blogger Alvin McEwen has uncovered a secret Facebook group whose members share tips on how to flag and take down gay blogs, Facebook pages, and YouTube clips that they find contrary to the Christianist cause. According to McEwen, among the group’s members are well-known religious leaders and anti-gay activists. Based upon information I received from an anonymous source, there …

Playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival is Una Noche, a Cuban film about defecting to the United States. Two of the movie’s young stars were flown in from Havana to attend the premiere. Guess what they did?

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What would be your top five gay news stories this week?

Pastor Down Low Foster takes time out from planning his “ex-gay” circle-jerk in the woods to announce that gay people are just like Hitler. Reminder: We also deserve to be put to death.

Tammy Faye’s son is one of the good guys.

NOM blogger Thomas Peters today points his readers to a German court case about incest. Because that has something to do with same-sex marriage in the United States.

Good As You continues to document how completely North Carolina’s marriage battle has been framed in theocratic terms. Apparently civil government does not exist in the Tarheel State.

In order to fight the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and armed with a recently-tweaked city ordinance, the New York City Health Department is issuing $300 tickets to people with “standing water” on their property. That includes birdbaths. In a city where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has all but banned smoking and waged war on soda and trans fats, some New …