Openly gay candidate Sean Patrick Maloney won yesterday’s Democratic primary for the U.S. House. With most of the votes counted at 11:30 p.m., Maloney had won 48.3 percent of the votes cast in the four counties that will make up New York’s newly redrawn 18th Congressional District starting next year. Westchester County cardiologist Richard Becker came in second with 32.5 …

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From NOM’s General Mills boycott petition.Suspiciously missing from the list: Fruit Roll-Ups!

Later in the clip, the number of stars shrinks to a mere 60.

Because of all the dough they spent on paid petition gatherers. The Maryland Marriage Alliance raised a mere $5,000 in the past month — and owes $88,000 to various vendors. The biggest unpaid bill, $74,000, is to MDPetitions.com, the outfit run by Del. Neil Parrott, a Washington County Republican. The group also owes about $5,000 in legal fees. [snip] McCoy …

I’d have chosen Crazy Eyes, Virginia Foxx, Randy Forbes, and Louie Gohmert, just for their sheer unrelenting douchenozzlry, but Think Progress made its selections based on bills submitted during the current session.

It’s a clever pitch for vegetarianism. Born into the swine class destined for an urban luau, Stinkerbell and Tiptoes fortuitously stepped in shit, and wound up living high on the hog in Malibu. Never forgetting their roots, they were determined to bring home the bacon by emancipating their fellow factory porkers whose squeals futilely echo through the slaughterhouse chambers. They …

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Steve Weinstein delves further into the demise of gay dance palaces for the Village Voice. Today, there’s only one dedicated big room, Pacha, by the Hudson River. The turnkey for a giant space like Chinatown’s Capitale starts in the $50,000 range—prohibitive for a promoter who still has to set up a sound-and-light system. That’s why Rica Sena, whose Alegria parties …

Friday night in Portland, Texas there will be a candlelight vigil for the two teen lesbians found shot in a local park. In San Francisco, a vigil will be held tonight in Harvey Milk Plaza at 7pm. In Washington DC, meet 6pm Friday night at Dupont Circle. Local police say there’s no evidence of a hate crime so far. There …

Today Walgreens launches a two year partnership with the CDC during which the pharmacy giant will offer free onsite confidential HIV testing at two dozen (mostly) urban locations. “The goal of having the project at a pharmacy or at a retail clinic is really because of the ease of accessibility and the closeness to people’s homes,” Paul Weidle with the …

Famed director, author, and screenwriter Nora Ephron has died of leukemia at the age of 71. The three-time Academy Award nominee was a prolific author, screenwriter, playwright and director who made a name for herself as a pioneer in Hollywood, where she was one of the first women to write and direct her own films. She contributed essays and journalism …

According to a YouTube commenter, the text at the end reads: “There are still dreams that are not legal to fulfill here. How much longer will we dream?”

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Tennessee’s legislature approved a statewide abstinence-only sex education bill in May, drawing wide ridicule because public school students were banned from “gateway sexual activity” like holding hands. The law went into effect this week with the revelation that it was a public service announcement from an AIDS group that had prompted the bill. A new law banning explicit sex education, …

The New York Times takes note of the massive “LGBT For Obama” campaign presence at the nation’s gay pride marches this weekend. Mr. Levine was one of hundreds of Obama field staff members and volunteers who fanned out at a dozen gay pride celebrations across the country over the weekend with a meticulous set of marching orders from the Chicago …