Via Good As You.

GLAAD has launched a fundraising drive in which they ask for amounts in multiples of $6.50, the price of a Chick-Fil-A meal. The morning GLAAD spokesman and Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper appeared on CNN to talk about what Dan Cathy really said and what this brouhaha is actually all about. I’ll have that clip shortly.

Full results here.

The Illinois Family Association, former home of Peter LaBarbera, has petitioned the Cook County Circuit Court in a bid to be added as a defender against two marriage equality suits filed earlier this year by the ACLU and Lambda Legal. The Thomas More Society, which has already been granted standing to defend against both suits, issued this press release today: …

“Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, has said that we are ‘inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.’ How this unremarkable statement, which never mentions homosexuals, can be labeled anti-gay is astounding. But according to the editorial board of the New York …

GOProud wants activists to shut up about chicken and focus on the really important thing: money. Meanwhile, thanks to Chick-Fil-A, the marriage equality battle has consumed the national media to a degree we’ve probably never seen in the past. That’s a distraction!

Pithy, withering, astute, bold narcissist. Nobody tossed out bon mots like Gore Vidal. Here are just a few. “It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.” “The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven’t seen them since.” “Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope …

Eleven electronic billboards such as the above will greet the president during his Florida campaign stop this Thursday. The images rotate with messages from local business owners. The Romney campaign has certainly made hay over that one comment.

After North Carolina’s same-sex marriage ban was approved many LGBT folks declared that they’d never vacation there again. (The Outer Banks have long been a favorite summertime gay destination.) The city of Durham thinks you should still visit and has launched a new website promoting itself as a gay-friendly place. Via press release: Durham is widely known as an open …

Via Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.

“I was reading this snotty novel called ‘Burr,’ by Gore Vidal, and read how he mocked our Founding Fathers. And as a reasonable, decent, fair-minded person who happened to be a Democrat, I thought, ‘You know what? What he’s writing about, this mocking of people that I revere, and the country that I love, and that I would lay my …

Apparently this has become somewhat of a meme and people are making home versions with their DVR remotes.

The only New Hampshire Chick-Fil-A franchisee has signed on as a sponsor of this year’s LGBT Pride Fest. Via LGBT Nation: The announcement by franchise general manager Anthony Picolia came as a surprise to Pride Fest organizers in light of the ongoing public relations debacle over the negative remarks by Chick-Fil-A’s President last month regarding same-sex marriage. Picolia, in an …

Yesterday anti-gay, anti-immigrant Tea Party candidate Ted Cruz won the Texas GOP primary for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson. “We did it,” Mr. Cruz told the cheering crowd gathered at a Marriott Hotel in Houston to claim victory. “Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, defend …

(Via Towleroad)

So says Mitt Romney.

Verizon has been fined $1.25M for charging customers who used a third-party app to evade their tethering fee. The company had asked Google to remove “tethering” apps from its Android Market. Tethering allows users to plug a smartphone into a computer and use the phone’s cellular connection to power the computer’s Internet access. The apps circumvented Verizon’s own tethering service, …

Naughty language.

Legendary and pioneering gay author, actor, atheist, playwright, screenwriter, failed Senate candidate, Tony nominee, and all-around badass Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86. Vidal was preceded in death by Howard Austen, his partner of 53 years, and will be buried next to him in Washington DC’s Rock Creek Cemetery. Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the …