Monthly Archives: December 2012

Log Cabin Cheers Newt Gingrich

“Log Cabin Republicans welcome former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s remarks calling for a Republican reality check on marriage. Gingrich speaks for many Republicans who are concerned about our party’s future, and who are ready to accept the freedom to marry matters to many Americans, gay and straight. As Gingrich noted, LGBT people are part of every family and every community, and …

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Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver: Same-Sex Marriage Will Spark A Civil War

“This is the thing that revolutions literally are made of. This would be more devastating to our freedom, to our religious freedom, to the rights of pastors and their duty to be able to speak and to Christians around the country, then anything that the revolutionaries during the American Revolution even dreamed of facing. This would be the thing that …

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Miss Peppermint – The Mayans

No more Grindr, you heathen.

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Anderson Cooper Tributes Spencer Cox

With help from fellow AIDS activist Rosie Perez.

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Anti-Trans Beauty Queen Ordered To Pay Pageant $5M For Defamation

Back in July, Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin abruptly quit the Miss USA pageant, declaring that the parent organization was “fraudulent, lacking in morals, inconsistent, and in many ways trashy” because they had allowed a “natural born male” to compete in Canada. Both would have represented their respective nations at Miss Universe had they won. Monnin went on to claim that …

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Cory Booker Announces 2014 Senate Bid

Booker couches his announcement in the usual “exploring the possibility” language, but there it is. Sorry, New Jersey, there will be no Governor Booker. Not in 2014, at least.

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Headline Of The Day

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Newt Gingrich: I Can Accept The Reality Of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

This is a major reversal for one of our movement’s most vocal and nasty opponents. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he can accept the “reality” of marriage between same-sex couples as a “legal document issued by the state” — as strong a sign as any that the landscape for marriage equality has changed dramatically …

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TEASER: Los Amantes Pasajeros

Directed by Pedro Almodovar.

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Madge Tops 2012 Tour Grosses

From Billboard’s year-end ranking of tour grosses: 1. Madonna – $228M 2. Bruce Springsteen – $199M 3. Roger Waters – $168M 4. Cirque Du Soleil “Michael Jackson Immortal” – $147M 5. Coldplay – $147M 6. Lady Gaga – $125M 7. Kenny Chesney & Tim McGraw – $96M 8. Van Halen – $57M 9. Jay-Z & Kayne West – $47M 10. …

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Senator Ted Kennedy Jr.?

The Boston Herald reports that top Massachusetts Democrats are urging Edward Kennedy Jr. to submit himself to replace Sen. John Kerry, who will likely succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. “Several people have approached (Kennedy) about running,” said the source. “They are all mindful that his name is Edward M. Kennedy.” If Teddy Jr. runs, it will be the …

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TRAILER: The Great Gatsby

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NEW YORK CITY: Time Warner Donates Technology Lab To Ali Forney Center

Just in via press release: Time Warner Cable today announced it has selected the Ali Forney Center (AFC), the nation’s largest services and advocacy organization working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) runaway and homeless youth, to be the recipient of a Time Warner Cable Learning Lab. This grant provides a state-of-the-art technology center for the young people served …

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BRAZIL: Sao Paulo State Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Brazilian Law Blog reports: Brazil is about to see something that we only heard about from the United States: a massive movement of people going to one specific State, in order to get married there. This is because São Paulo State (where São Paulo city is located) has updated its registration rules in order to allow the automatic registration of …

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Minnesota Moves Towards Marriage

Encouraging news from Minnesota: Supporters of legalizing same-sex marriage hope to speedily pass legislation in the first weeks of the upcoming legislative session. That is, they hope to send a bill to Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton’s desk prior to the release of February budget forecast. “This kind of closes the loop of the election,” said Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, …

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Barack Obama – Deck The Halls

(Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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Maggie Gallagher To Defend Jewish “Ex-Gay” Group Against SPLC Lawsuit

A recently-formed legal group chaired by Maggie Gallagher announced today that they will defend the “ex-gay” Jewish group JONAH against the fraud lawsuit filed last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center. JONAH is a faith-based, nonprofit organization that offers assistance to men and women seeking to resolve their sexual conflicts, including unwanted same sex attractions. JONAH has been unjustly …

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NOM Posts 2012 “Victory” Reel

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Email Of The Day – Eugene Delgaudio

“Dear Joe: One stormy night, I drove to a mailshop hidden deep in a nearly deserted stand of warehouses. I’d heard something was up and wanted to see for myself. As I rounded the final turn, my eyes nearly popped. Tractor-trailers pulled up to loading docks, cars and vans everywhere and long-haired, earring-pierced men scurrying around running forklifts, inserters and …

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Open Thread Thursday

What were you favorite songs of 2012? I’ll post my own top ten later today.

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