Monthly Archives: January 2013

HomoQuotable – Anthony Romero

“President Obama has utterly failed the first test of his second term, even before inauguration day. His signature means indefinite detention without charge or trial, as well as the illegal military commissions, will be extended. He also has jeopardized his ability to close Guantanamo during his presidency. Scores of men who have already been held for nearly 11 years without …

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O’Reilly Slams Al Gore Over Current Sale

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Temporary HIV Vaccine Shows Promise

A therapeutic HIV vaccine that temporarily “puts the brakes” on the growth of the virus has shown promise in a small study conducted by researchers in Spain. The vaccine, based on immune cells exposed to HIV that had been inactivated with heat, was tested on a group of 36 people carrying the virus and the results were the best yet …

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Wingnuts Warn IL Legislators

Last summer the anti-gay Thomas More Society was granted standing to defend Cook County, Illinois against marriage equality lawsuits brought by Lambda Legal and the ACLU.  Those cases are still active despite the recent push in the state legislature.  Yesterday Thomas More issued a warning to any politician that backs the marriage equality bill.

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Our Youngest Senator

When Vice President Joe Biden swore in Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) yesterday, Murphy’s toddler son Ryder played along.

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Barney Frank: I Want To Be Senator

This morning former Rep. Barney Frank told MSNBC that he has asked Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint him interim Senator to replace John Kerry. Two weeks ago Frank said he “wouldn’t say no” if Patrick appointed him.  Via Politico: “A month ago, or a few weeks ago, I said I wasn’t interested,” Frank said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It …

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IL Marriage Fight Moves To New Session

Despite last night’s win before an Illinois Senate committee, activists say that they will take the marriage equality fight to the next session of the legislature. Via press release from Equality Illinois: Today, the movement for marriage equality achieved a milestone victory, with the adoption of the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act by the Senate Executive Committee. This was …

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Maddow: Goodbye 112th Congress

Last night Rachel Maddow opened her show with a lengthy goodbye to all the scoundrels (plus the few good guys) of the 112th Congress.

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ILLINOIS: Senate Committee Begins Debate On Same-Sex Marriage Bill [UPDATE: Bill PASSES By 8-5 Vote!!!]

There’s a bit of confusion in the activism back channel as to what’s going on, since earlier reports indicated that we were done for the week in Illinois. But click over right now and watch as an Illinois Senate committee debates its marriage equality bill. At this writing some bigot is droning in the familiar manner about the oppression of …

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RHODE ISLAND: Marriage Bills Introduced

Marriage equality bills were introduced today in both the Rhode Island House and Senate. The identical bills were sponsored by Rep. Arthur Handy, D-Cranston, (House bill 5015) and Sen. Donna Nesselbush, D-Pawtucket. Handy said 42 of 75 House members had signed on as cosponsors, while Nesselbush said 11 of 38 Senate members had signed on as of 4:50 p.m. The …

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MISSISSIPPI: Five LGBT Couples Request Marriage Licenses In Vain

Yesterday five LGBT couples requested marriage licenses in Hattiesburg, Mississippi as part of the Southern Equality’s “WE DO” campaign. Read more here.

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LCR Slams DOMA Defense Funding

“At a time when sound fiscal policy should be front-and-center, diverting taxpayer funds to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act should not be a priority, period. But the beltway buzz about Congressional Rules ignores the big picture: this debate would be nonexistent if DOMA was repealed. Following a week in which Republican Congressmen Richard Hanna and Charlie Bass joined …

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Delgaudio Booted Off County Committees

The Loudoun County, Virginia board of supervisors has convened for their new session and one of their first actions last night was to boot hate group leader Eugene Delgaudio from all four committee posts he once held. In other organizational shifts Wednesday, controversial Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) will not serve on any standing committees in 2013, something sure to please …

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Sullivan’s New Model Booms In First Day

“If our goal was an annual income of somewhere around $900K (we erred on the safe side), we have gotten a third of the way there in 24 hours, which is why we’re all somewhat gob-smacked. We feared it would take far longer for us to get that kind of support. Total number of paid subscribers? Almost 12,000 right now. …

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No Illinois Vote On Marriage This Week

The Windy City Times reports: Senate Democrats had hoped for a vote on Thursday, but they failed to secure the votes to waive a 24-hour rule on the posting of the original marriage bill. Democrats then tacked marriage equality onto an unrelated bill in an attempt to push it through faster. But two supportive senators have been called away from …

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This Will Be Attempt #34

If at first you don’t succeed, try again 33 more times.

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Teabaggers: Bachmann’s Now A RINO!

It just doesn’t get any funnier, does it kids? UPDATE: Daily Caller has already removed the dig at Bachmann.

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You Stay Classy, GOProud

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Another Tea Party Defeat As Rep. John Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

How entirely shocking that Breitbart and Daily Caller totally got it wrong! Even more amusingly, there were two votes for ousted teabagger Allen West, one of which came from freakazoid wingnut Rep. Louie Gohmert.

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Tweet Of The Day

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