Sunday night Olivia Newton-John performed at Chicago’s gay Market Days event. She told ChigagoPride.com: “To me love is love. It shouldn’t matter. I have so many close friends and family who are gay I don’t even think about it. I just want everyone to have the chance to love who they want to and it just shouldn’t matter. Some of …

Openly gay actor Ron Palillo died of a heart attack today at the age of 63. Some of you will remember him as Horshack on the hit 70s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. TMZ has the story: We’re told Palillo was found by his partner of many years Joseph Gramm around 4:00 AM. Gramm called an ambulance and Palillo was rushed …

“As a candidate, Barack Obama vowed to sign an executive order adding LGBT people to the list of groups federal contractors are barred from discriminating against. The White House then made it clear that no executive order would be signed, leaving 1.8 million Americans unprotected. It is wrong that federal contractors who are paid with taxpayer money are allowed to …

Virgin Airlines has launched an in-flight voter registration screen. Scan the QR code and you’ll be linked to Rock The Vote, who registered two million new voters in 2008.

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The Obama campaign goes for more cool cred.

“The First Commandment is to love God, not to get rid of Obama with a Mormon who blasphemes Jesus. Can a Christian vote for a Mormon? No. Romney thinks Jesus is a created being-the spirit brother of Lucifer. That is evil. Galatians 1:9 teaches Romney is ‘accursed.’ Christian Ron Paul will bring back freedom. Paul will cut $1 Trillion from …

The Secret Service is investigating after a cat was found burned to death and propped up next to an Obama campaign yard sign. The display was found near a Minneapolis polling location for today’s local primaries. A threat to President Obama in the form of a burned cat staked to a tree stump drew officers from several city and federal …

That didn’t take long. From the NOM affiliate Ruth Institute: REI is the latest corporation to take a stand against biological parenthood by supporting redefining marriage. Any company and any individual who supports redefining marriage is opposing your right as a biological parent. Biological parenthood says your rights come from God. REI, Starbucks, Best Buy, Nike, Microsoft, Google, Proctor & …

The press is having a field day after learning that yesterday’s Miami campaign stop by Mitt Romney was held at a business owned by a convicted Colombian cocaine smuggler. In media reports in November 1997, Bermudez was identified as one of 12 people accused in a Colombian drug smuggling operation. The arrests followed a seven-month investigation led by the FBI …

The nation’s first lesbian-run Super-PAC has launched a fundraiser for Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who would become the first-ever openly gay member of the U.S. Senate should she be elected. —Tammy is under attack from anti-women, anti-choice, and anti-equality forces.—Secret groups funded by the Koch brothers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and Karl Rove have already spent millions of dollars attacking …

From birther kingpin Jerome “Swiftboat” Corsi, who last week claimed that President Obama is secretly married to a Pakistani man. Source.

Tithing, farms, ranches, shopping malls, and theme parks. The LDS also owns $35B in property around the world. Source.

Many of the most expensive luxury cars have failed a new crash test sponsored by the Insurance Institute. The new test examines the results of front-corner crashes, one of the most common angles of crashes in two-way traffic. Most midsize luxury cars — including the Mercedes-Benz C-Class — performed poorly in a new frontal crash test developed by the Insurance …

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