Colonel Margaret Cammermeyer, you should know, was played by Glenn Close in the 1995 movie Serving In Silence, which tracked her successful court battle to be reinstated to the Washington National Guard after her 1989 disclosure that she is a lesbian. Cammermeyer now serves on a civilian advisory committee to the Department of Defense after retiring from the National Guard …

Via Slog blogger Dominic Holden: After learning that City Hall is fully booked for weddings on December 9, the first day gay couples can legally wed in Washington State, King County Superior Court judge Susan Craighead called this afternoon to let me know that judges have made a plan. Judges will come into the courthouse on their day off, unpaid, …

In a televised interview with NBC, Apple’s quietly gay CEO Tim Cook yesterday revealed that next year his company will be opening a manufacturing facility in the United States. Mac fans will have to wait to see which Mac line it will be because Apple, widely known for its secrecy, left it vague. “We’ve been working for years on doing …

Via the Deseret News: With a clear invitation to gay Mormons to “stay with us,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today launched a new website aimed at providing “greater sensitivity and better understanding” among Latter-day Saints with regards to same-sex attraction.  “When people have those (same-sex) desires and attractions our attitude is, ‘stay with us,’” said Elder …

God, our nation is flooded with sin and debauchery. (Just quoting the Family Research Counsel, who will surely have conniptions about this.) More on today’s ceremony can be found here. (Tipped by JMG reader Ed)

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue is super upset about this cartoon. The Kansas City Star and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have long been among the most anti-Catholic newspapers in the nation. So it is not surprising that their love for abortion rights and the right of two men to marry would lead them to suffer apoplexy over the pope’s Twitter account. …

The anti-gay group that just won the battle to uphold Nevada’s same-sex marriage ban is apparently fearful that Lambda Legal’s promised appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court won’t go their way.  Yesterday they went directly to the Supreme Court even though they just won their case. The Coalition for the Protection of Marriage said the case crystalizes the fundamental question …

Today Page Six Magazine published a lengthy interview with Calvin Klein’s former boytoy, Nick Gruber, who is about to publish a tell-all account of their relationship.  An excerpt: Gruber claims, Klein’s jealousy started to sour the affair. That spring, the designer left town, and Gruber invited a male friend to sleep over at Klein’s Perry Street residence for, he says, …

Click over to Buzzfeed for Stacy Lambe’s 60-item recap titled Reasons To Be Proud In 2012. Lambe’s list ticks off landmark moments from pop culture, to sports, to politics. This really was our best year. SO FAR.

The Wall Street Journal reports today that GOP Sen. Jim DeMint will resign from office next month in order to head the nation’s most prominent right-wing think tank. South Carolina U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will replace Ed Feulner as president of the Heritage Foundation. Mr. DeMint will leave his post as South Carolina’s junior senator in early January to take …

The New York Daily News reports that the approaching fiscal cliff has prompted a rash of slashed mansion prices in the Hamptons.  Some homes have been marked down to only $20 million! Hamptons homeowners have launched a selling spree, offering fire sale prices to get rid of their properties before higher capital gains tax rates are expected to kick in …

From one of YouTube’s most popular educational channels, here’s a wonky explanation of why the five-second rule doesn’t necessarily work.

Forbes has posted its annual ranking of the estimated 2012 incomes for the world’s highest-paid musicians. Here’s their top ten. 1. Dr Dre – $110M 2. Roger Waters – $88M 3. Elton John – $80M 4. U2 – $78M 5. Take That – $68M 6. Bon Jovi – $60M 7. Britney Spears – $58M 8. Paul McCartney – $57M 9. …

The Family Research Council’s prayer of the day: God, our nation is flooded with sin and debauchery. Move upon our Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution, the laws of Congress, the will of the people, and “the laws of nature and of nature’s God.” Cause us to return to you. Send revival to your Church and awakening to our nation …

Shortly after midnight last night, Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller were among the first Washington state couples to receive to their marriage licenses.  Savage and Miller first married in Canada in 2005. Hundreds of couples lined up in downtown Seattle Wednesday night for the state’s first batch of same-sex marriage licenses, in a historic, jubilant event that began …

Four big names on our side of the aisle earned Grammy nominations yesterday in the Best Spoken Word category. Via Deadline: They both campaigned with President Barack Obama to help him secure a second term. Now both First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton have landed Grammy nominations. Both are up in the Best Spoken Word Album category …

The accolades continue to roll in for recently-out R&B star Frank Ocean, who yesterday landed Grammy nominations for Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, and Best Urban Contemporary Album. Others tapped for Best New Artist are Alabama Shakes, Fun, The Lumineers, and Hunter Hayes. More on the rest of the categories: There were no major …

Two weeks ago we learned that MTA head Joe Lhota, who has earned widespread praise for the response to Hurricane Sandy, was being touted in GOP circles as a candidate to succeed Mayor Bloomberg. Now he’s got Giuliani in his corner. Via New York Times: Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, under whom Mr. Lhota was a deputy mayor and with …

Bloomberg News reports an interesting rumor: President Barack Obama is considering nominating Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, as his next ambassador to either the U.K. or France as he looks to reward his biggest fundraisers with embassies never out of fashion, according to two people familiar with the matter. Wintour, 63, may have some competition for the London posting; Matthew …