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In what may be a rerun of the battles fought in New York state, the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund is telling Christian clerks in Maryland, Maine, and Washington that they do not have to issue same-sex marriage licenses if they find that offensive. Three new legal memos advise municipal clerks in Maine, county clerks in Maryland and county auditors in …

Via Pink News: More than a million people took part in Rio’s annual gay pride celebrations over the weekend. On Sunday, mothers of gay men and lesbians opened the parade, which this year aimed to highlight homophobia in Brazilian society. Rio’s 17th gay pride event was backed by the local government, with the mayor’s office distributing around 400,000 condoms.

Advertising Age notes the new campaign from Gap: A stylish film running online in the U.S. and on broadcast outside the States accompanies colorful print ads featuring some famous celebrity pairings, including actors Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan, representing “True Love,” musician Rufus Wainwright and artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt, who stand for “Married Love,” while “Fatherly Love” figures rapper …

“I’ve always felt like something of an outsider. I’ve always had friends, but I’ve always come from an outside point of view. I think that’s important. If you grow up gay, or in a household that’s agnostic, when most people are religious, then from the get-go, you are saying that there are things that the majority of society believes that …

Many times here we’ve noted the difference between freedom of speech laws in Britain and America. Noted LGBT activist Peter Tatchell is among those interviewed in this clip about opposition to Britain’s Public Order Act.

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A member of the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, which has filed numerous lawsuits in opposition to LGBT rights nationwide, has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to child pornography. A Manchester lawyer took a teenage girl to Canada, had her engage in sexual activity and convinced her to let it be filmed, according to federal indictments. FBI agents swiftly …

Twitter’s wingnuts are screaming bloody murder at this writing after Florida’s St. Lucie County failed to finish their court-ordered recount by today’s noon deadline, prompting Patrick Murphy’s campaign to claim final victory over Rep. Allen West. Under Florida law, the final certified results were due from all of the state’s 67 supervisors of elections today. If the results do not …

Pastor Ken Hutcherson, Washington state’s leading anti-gay asshat, is blaming NOM, Focus On The Family, and other major hate groups for being too white and refusing to accept help from people like him.  From the Christian Post: “When I knew my involvement was going to generate controversy, I offered to step back and suggested others who were on the frontlines …

Gnarr’s link goes to a BBC story about an anti-gay marriage protest in France attended by 70,000 people yesterday.

It takes 3.5 hours to say and listening to this guy is almost hypnotic. Some compare this clip to hearing a religious chant. Note that he could not complete the reading in one take (despite the advancing clock on the wall).

Senator-elect Ted Cruz (R-TX), whose win was one of the very few Tea Party victories this year, has an interesting take on the presidential debates. Cruz said that conservatives failed to make their case to the American people, leaving Romney no choice but to move toward the president. “We didn’t win the argument, we didn’t even make the argument” throughout …

Billionaire gay music mogul David Geffen has agreed to pay a record-setting $54 million for an Upper East Side penthouse. The co-founder of Asylum Records and DreamWorks just closed on a $54 million duplex penthouse on the upper East Side owned by songwriter and socialite Denise Rich, real estate insiders say. The Brooklyn-born Geffen already owns an apartment in the …

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Last week Nate Silver ranked Gallup as the worst polling firm when it came to accurately predicting the 2012 election results. Gallup’s editor fired back on Friday. We have a reverse law of the commons with polls. It’s not easy nor cheap to conduct traditional random sample polls. It’s much easier, cheaper, and mostly less risky to focus on aggregating …

1946’s Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson.

There are three skating rinks around midtown Manhattan, but Bryant Park’s is the only free one thanks to pervasive corporate branding.

Hate group leader Linda Harvey has the super-sadz because so many companies scored highly on the 2013 Corporate Equality Index issued this week by the Human Rights Campaign.  And she’s created a boycott letter for her followers to send to, well, everybody. Dear [name of company]: I am writing to you as a [former or potential] customer, to tell you …

A Florida county has agreed to Rep. Allen West’s demand for a full recount of all early votes. The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board voted 2-to-1 late Friday in favor of the move in the 18th Congressional District contest, in which Murphy is the unofficial victor. A series of tabulation errors by the county has raised suspicion among West’s campaign …