Just in from Freedom To Marry… Three years after the unanimous Iowa Supreme Court decision affirming the freedom to marry, three former justices ousted in a retention election following the ruling will receive the prestigious 2012 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Monday, May 7. Caroline Kennedy will present the award to former Iowa Chief Justice Marsha Ternus …

Thirty-five years later the song (arguably) still most closely associated with Grace Jones is her first chart smash, I Need A Man, which spent two May 1977 weeks atop Billboard’s disco report before being shoved aside by Marvin Gaye’s epic, Got To Give It Up. An early version of the track was first released in 1975, reaching a limp #83 …

From the Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina: On Sunday, the pastor of Fayetteville’s Berean Baptist Church preached about why his flock should vote for Amendment One. Many have heard and seen his shouted exhortations about “squashing like a cockroach,” the first signs of gender-variant behavior in children. Fewer have seen his searing denunciation of transgendered persons as “an affront to …

Today would have been Keith Haring’s 54th birthday.

Anthony is the patron saint of douchebag closet cases. Obvs!

The first person to be fined under St. Petersburg’s ban on “gay propaganda” is renowned activist Nikolai Alexeyev. A St. Petersburg court handed down its first conviction under the city’s new anti-gay law on Friday, ordering a leading gay activist to pay a 5,000-ruble fine for his picket against the law. The district court ruled that Nikolai Alexeyev had promoted …

Andrew Sullivan points us to a new campaign by wingnuts intent on making villains out of anybody who believes global warming is real. The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee …

Party mode at 3:00.

Romney says he didn’t pick Grenell because he’s gay and that he’s sorry that Grenell is gone. (Via Think Progress)

The “ex-gay” industry has been rocked to its core this year. First the head of its most infamous group announced that not one person had ever actually been “cured.” Then the researcher who authored the most widely cited “ex-gay” study recanted his findings and apologized to the gay community. So maybe it’s not surprising that nobody wants to attend an …

The American Family Association is now gunning for Campbell Soup due to their sponsorship of Philadelphia’s Equality Forum, which takes place this weekend. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania’s Diane Gramley [left] says the company has “tainted its clean-cut image.” “Equality Forum is a homosexual event that glorifies same-sex ‘marriage,’ is going to have a panel discussion on how homosexuals …

“Romney thinks Jesus is a created being, the spirit brother of Lucifer. Christians believe that Jesus is the Second Person of the Godhead, God eternal. Mormons also think men become a God. This is considered evil by Christians. Romney brought homosexual sin to schools in Massachusetts. Scripture teaches that voting for non-Christians causes economic decline and removes freedom. If you …

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“Let me lay down a public challenge to Dan Savage right here and now: You want to savage the Bible? Christian morality? Traditional marriage? Pope Benedict? I’m here, you name the time and the place and let’s see what a big man you are in a debate with someone who can talk back. It’s easy to make high-school girls cry …

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After some typically brutal and repulsive anti-gay testimony, last night Colorado’s civil unions bill advanced out of the state House Judiciary Committee by a one vote margin, surprising many observers. The winning margin was provided by the bill’s former opponent, GOP Rep. BJ Nikkel, seen above being swarmed by reporters after the vote. The measure faces two more committee votes, …

Remember all those times that Crazy Eyes said Mitt Romney could never ever beat Obama. Well, she doesn’t.