Clip recap: “We have breaking news from New Mexico, where lawsuits and rulings are coming faster than ever. Plus Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett is unhappy to discover his lawyers insulting gay and lesbian couples. And Tennessee is launching an aggressive campaign to overturn the state’s marriage ban.”

Yesterday the lawyer for Chelsea Manning formally requested a pardon from President Obama. You can read the documents in full at the website Pardon Private Manning.

“I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don’t see anything out of the ordinary here. They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don’t love him because of that, but he …

Now there are seven counties: Grant County Clerk Robert Zamarripa said his office will comply with a judge’s ruling issued Tuesday and will begin providing the licenses next week. “We’ll let the Legislature and courts decide after this what needs to be done,” Zamarripa said in a telephone interview. His comments came shortly after District Judge J.C. Robinson issued an …

One month after he was sentenced to more than 1000 years in prison, notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro has hanged himself in his cell. Castro, 53, was in a cell by himself in protective custody at the Correction Reception Center in Orient, Ohio, wrote JoEllen Smith with the state corrections agency. Castro was found at 9:20 p.m. ET in the …

An Ohio judge has ordered that a recently deceased gay man be listed as the legal spouse of his partner on his death certificate. Judge Timothy Black’s order Tuesday came just hours after attorneys asked him to rule quickly so that 54-year-old William Herbert Ives is listed as married on his death certificate before being cremated on Wednesday. Ives and …

“When you voted against pulling the tax-exempt status of Zymurgy, you already knew that its real goal was to promote child rape, yet you did so anyway. Were it not for Attorney General Dennis Vacco, who persevered on appeal to deny the child molesting activists their tax-free status, they might still be in business. Your spokeswoman, Audrey Gelman, said you …

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Tea Party supporters have launched the Twitter hashtag “McCain’s other phone games.” Sample responses: Grand Theft RINO, Call Of Doody, Angry Old Birds.

The top line above is the latest poll result in the New York City mayoral race. Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has skyrocketed to 43 percent in the latest mayoral race poll, an astonishing climb that puts him past the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff. The poll of likely Democratic primary voters from Quinnipiac University released one …

Anthony Weiner was the only New York City mayoral candidate with his own float in this weekend’s West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. (Other candidates marched or made appearances.) Today comes the news that as he danced on the float, Weiner’s DJ played a Jamaican dancehall record that calls for murdering gay people. Complex provides a verse from the artist …

Sorry about that fang-bangers, but True Blood will face its true death next season. From the president of HBO: “True Blood has been nothing short of a defining show for HBO. Alan Ball took the books by Charlaine Harris, assembled a brilliant cast led by the magnificent Anna Paquin in the role of Sookie Stackhouse, and crafted a show that …

Contrary to a report published yesterday by Politico, homocon former San Diego City Council member Carl DeMaio will not be running again for mayor and will continue his campaign for the US House. The decision by DeMaio comes after lengthy behind-the-scenes deliberations among Republican power brokers this past weekend in which they urged DeMaio to stay in the congressional race …

The crackpot “ex-gays” over at PFOX have announced “the end of homosexuality.” Training sessions will be conducted by Richard “Tennis Racket” Cohen and Christopher Doyle.  For a mere $295, these totally and forever gay scamsters will train you to be a certified “Sexual Orientation Coach” via 12 thirty minutes sessions of de-gaying by means of beating pillows while screaming “Why, …

Cleveland’s WKYC reports: A man walking to a bar on Cleveland’s west side overnight Sunday was attacked in what police are calling a hate crime. Jared Fox says he was walking from his car toward Cocktails bar, a well-known gay bar, on West 93rd Street and Detroit Avenue just before midnight Saturday. Fox says a group of 20 young men …

Straight ally and uber-hottie Ben Cohen has confirmed his casting for the upcoming season of Britain’s Strictly Come Dancing.