At yesterday’s Atlanta conclusion of the 25th annual Creating Change conference held by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, out American Idol and The Voice contestant Frenchie Davis performed her new track and invited attendees to perform as her background dancers. Joining Davis on stage are NGLTF head Rea Carey, comedian Kate Clinton, and many young people who are …

Long-foundering Research In Motion this week launches its first competitor to the iPhone and tech sites are rather excited. Note that commmenters at Gizmodo are quite suspicious of the above rendering of what the new Blackberry actually looks like.

Former Romney campaign senior advisor Dave Kochel has endorsed marriage equality as part of an Iowa event intended to draw young people to the Republican Party. Kochel helped to organize an event for the Iowa Republicans for Freedom. Monday, January 28th, the group will sponsor an event with Ken Mehlman, a former Republican National Committee Chairman and key adviser to …

Via Gay Star News: Two straight French members of parliament decided to show their solidarity with gay rights advocates in their own way – they kissed. Socialist MPs Yann Galut and Nicolas Bays joined the ‘Marriage for All’ protests on Sunday (27 January), where a reported quarter of a million people marched across the country. Galut said: ‘We’re both straight, …

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week?

Actress Cynthia Nixon yesterday endorsed Democratic NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio for mayor, citing Christine Quinn’s opposition to a long-pending bill that would require city businesses to offer paid sick leave. De Blasio officially launched his campaign this weekend at an event at his Brooklyn home. Azi Paybarah reports at Capitol New York: “To me, identity politics is not …

TMZ reports: Chris Brown was involved in an all-out brawl with Frank Ocean Sunday night, and sources connected with Chris insist Ocean started it. Chris was at Westlake Studio in the L.A. area listening to one of the artists he represents. The sources say as Chris went to leave, Frank Ocean and his crew blocked Chris from leaving. The sources …

The Southern Poverty Law Center has subpoenaed a notorious Colorado gun rights group in their copyright lawsuit against Virginia hate group leader Eugene Delgaudio, who is accused of illegally using the wedding photograph of a gay couple in an anti-gay flyer campaign. Court records connect Dudley Brown, a Windsor Republican, to the “preparation” of the mailers, which targeted state Senate …

“Marriage has an identity distinct from any other relationship, no matter how much love or commitment may be involved. Marriage is and always has been the union of one man and one woman, for love and mutual support, open to procreation. Marriage has, over the centuries, been the enduring public recognition of this commitment and it has rightly been recognised …

From the New York Times: Now that Mr. Obama has declared that he believes denying gay people the right to wed is not only unfair and morally wrong but also legally unsupportable, the urgent question is how he will translate his words into action. To start, he should have his solicitor general file a brief in the Proposition 8 case …

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Remember NOM’s typically lie-filled claims about marriage in their full-page Rhode Island newspaper ad? Politifact took a look at those claims and gave NOM their worst rating: Pants On Fire. That’s no surprise to most of us here, but enjoy: The National Organization for Marriage-Rhode Island said in a newspaper advertisement that “religious groups like Knights of Columbus have been …

Clip description: Joe was in the Special Forces in the military — he was “trained to kill”. But, he had a generational curse of “Bloodlust” and “Revenge” going back four generations! You’ll notice in this one how Bob uses the Bible as a “Sword of the Spirit”. It’s literal in the Spirit world, and the demon is actually getting stabbed. …

There was a great turnout today for the same-sex marriage march in Paris. Demonstrators waved banners emblazoned with phrases like “Equality of rights is not a threat” and chanted: “What do you want? Equality! When do you want it? Now!” Another placard showed a version of the French government’s seal, but with two Mariannes kissing, and under the words, “Liberty, …

The Rio Times reports: At least 245 people have died in a nightclub fire in central Rio Grande do Sul, police have said. A band’s pyrotechnics reportedly started the blaze at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria at 2:30 AM Saturday night. Police finished removing bodies from the scene late Sunday morning, Folha de São Paulo reported. In addition to …

Grand Central Terminal celebrates its 100th anniversary on February 1st with lots of events, including “1913 pricing” at some of the restaurants and shops. There will be appearances by Cynthia Nixon, Melissa Manchester, and Caroline Kennedy, whose mother is widely credited with helping save Grand Central from the wrecking ball.  (Ugh, Penn Station.) Representatives of the Vanderbilt family are also …

A former Episcopal priest who is pissed off about his sect’s acceptance of homosexuality has become New York state’s first married Catholic priest.  As part of the deal, he’s agreed to stop fucking his wife. John Cornelius will be ordained a Roman Catholic priest this weekend — and with the blessing of his wife they’re giving up their sex life. …

Tomorrow night PBS will air The Revisionaries, which examines the Texas Board Of Education and its campaign to insert Christianist dogma into public school textbooks. RELATED: Visit the PBS blog Independent Lens for “ten interesting lessons from creationist textbooks.“ They link the below clip as an “in a nutshell” recounting of what’s already being taught in some schools.

NYC’s famed Roxy nightclub, arguably the city’s last gay megaclub, closed in March 2007 and was supposed to be immediately demolished for luxury condos. Almost five years later the Chelsea building is still standing and this week it opened as a massive gallery space.  Via Hyperallergic: The new gallery, the site of the former Roxy nightclub and roller rink on …

“Market demand is a powerful thing, and it is growing because of the increase in LGBT couples as well as the cultural messages convincing young gays that they will be given children or else society is oppressing them. Here in Los Angeles, I’ve seen the eerie proliferation of designer babies in gayborhoods, and the increasingly anesthetized reaction of gay couples’ …