Monthly Archives: December 2012

Matt Baume: 2012 Marriage News Recap

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Headline Of The Day

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Billboard Posts Pop Music Obit Slideshow

Click over to Billboard for their photo essay on this year’s passings in the pop music world.  Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, Adam Yauch, Don Cornelius, Davy Jones, Robin Gibb, Etta James, Dick Clark…and on and on. I can’t remember the last time so many huge names died in the same year.

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Ruben Diaz Has 10 Wishes For 2013

Crackpot anti-gay New York Sen. Ruben Diaz has ten wishes for the new year. 1. For Senator John Sampson, to find better and more faithful friends. 2. For reporters Bob Kappstatter, from the Bronx Times and Jim Odato from the Times Union, to learn how to be impartial and objective journalists. 3. For Senator Jeff Klein and his Gang of …

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George H.W. Bush Moved To ICU

The elder Bush has been in a Houston hospital for more than a month. Yesterday he was moved to the intensive care unit.

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Open Thread Thursday

What did Santa bring you? Worst and best.

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Holiday Lights Winner

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HAWAII: Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz Tapped To Succeed The Late Sen. Daniel Inouye

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has named his second-in-command, Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz, to replace Sen. Daniel Inouye, who died last week after almost 50 years in office. “I asked how best could we ensure that Hawaii remain strong in the long run,” Abercrombie said, adding that rebuilding the state’s seniority in Congress was a priority. “I made this decision with …

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World’s Longest High-Speed Rail Line

Launched in China, of course. It used to take the best part of 24 hours to travel by train from Beijing to the southern boomtown of Guangzhou. But as of Wednesday, when the world’s longest high-speed rail line opened for business, the 1,428-mile journey has been cut to a mere eight hours. The trains travel at an average speed of …

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BRITAIN: Marriage Support Surges

Public support for same-sex marriage has surged across Britain in just the last few months. The Guardian reports: The ICM poll conducted just before Christmas found 62% of voters now support the proposals, with half this number – 31% – opposed. Most previous polls have found opinion leaning the same way, although the two-to-one margin revealed on Wednesday is particularly …

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Lambda Legal Rated Top LGBT Org

Guidestar, the watchdog site for non-profits, has ranked Lambda Legal as having the best practices among the LGBT rights and progressive organizations it monitors. Lambda Legal reacts via press release: “I am very proud of the amazing talent and leadership of the Lambda Legal staff, board and volunteers that has resulted in this top ranking from our colleagues and peers,” …

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Michael Musto As Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie’s bare leg was a hot internet meme for a second or two in 2012. Inside the year-end issue of Village Voice, you’ll also find Musto as the Tan Mom. Read his 2012–in-review essay at the link.

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Uruguay Postpones Marriage Vote

Uruguay’s Senate was widely expected to pass its marriage equality bill today.  No such luck. Via On Top Magazine: The “Marriage Equality Law” seeks to modify some 20 articles of the Civil Code, including whose surname goes first when children are named. Opponents asked for the bill’s vote to be postponed until the Senate’s first meeting in April to allow …

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Fox News Site Labels Westboro Baptist Church As A “Left-Wing Cult”

John Aravosis writes: “This is how Fox News operates. You can argue that MSNBC has a bias, and the network does – now, and in response to Fox. But while MSNBC has a liberal bias, Fox just lies.”

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Today In Christian Love

Above is how Ugandan Pastor Martin “Eat Da Poo Poo” Ssempa, one of his nation’s leading gay death penalty advocates, responds to a local teen on Twitter. RELATED: Ssempa’s next Twitter message was retweeted by Liberty Counsel spokesbigot Matt Barber. We’ll take that as Barber’s endorsement of the gay death penalty.

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Mexico Lifts Gay Blood Ban?

Andres Duque has the news at Blabbeando: A little noticed Mexican health norm first approved in August and then published in the country’s regulatory Official Federation Diary on October 26th has gone into effect today essentially doing away with a two-decade ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. The old norm (NOM 003-SSA2) explicitly banned gay and bisexual …

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Glenn Beck: Obama’s Going To Prison

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Pew Poll Religions Breakdown

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The Hottest Movie Actors Ever

As he did a few weeks ago for television actors, Boy Culture blogger Matt Rettenmund has begun counting down the hottest men of the big screen. Click over and make the case for your own favorites.

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