RuPaul is fighting the pirating of her new album, Born Naked, by posting fake versions to BitTorrent in which she disses music stealers with hilarious rants. Via Gizmodo: Every single track on the album features RuPaul admonishing would-be pirates for not paying up. The decoy version of “Freaky Money” starts off with 30 seconds of what sounds like the build-up …

ABC News reports: Singer Adam Lambert, who gained fame when he appeared on “American Idol,” will join the classic rock band, Queen, in a North American tour this summer, Lambert and original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor announced today in an appearance on “Good Morning America.” “Queen is one of the quintessential rock bands of all time…they’ve influenced …

Last August, New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued Donald Trump, allegedly that his Trump University real estate school was a fraudulent get-rich-quick scheme that charged seminar attendees thousands of dollars for useless training.  Yesterday Trump sued Schneiderman for $100M, saying that the state has damaged his reputation. Yeah. Reputation. In legal papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump …

Santa Fe has elected its first openly gay mayor. With his two young daughters and other family members by his side, Javier Gonzales, 47, was greeted by a mob of cheering supporters when he walked into a packed ballroom at the Hotel Santa Fe, many of whom he hugged and kissed as he made his way to the stage. “This …

“Any official participation from Log Cabin Republicans at CPAC needs to be meaningful, and in our estimation meaningful participation does not begin and end with buying a ticket to CPAC. We asked for a seat at the table — quite literally — at the ‘Reaching Out’ panel at this year’s conference. It seemed a natural fit for LCR, while also …

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The Obamacare deadline is approaching. Are you ready?

“When the Senate last year passed this dangerous bill, we worked with conservatives in the House of Representatives to stop it. The bill has not moved out of committee. Victory! Except that there’s no ‘quit’ in liberal efforts to radically transform America — and, therefore the Left is fanatically committed to passage of ENDA. So I’m sorry to report: it’s …

Via press release from the NCLR: On March 5, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in state court in Cheyenne challenging Wyoming’s laws that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying and refuse to respect the legal marriages of same-sex couples who married in other states. The couples include a university professor, a Major in the Army Reserve, …

The White House tonight issued a press release declaring that the National Institutes of Health has found that initial studies show gene therapy to be “generally safe” as a drug-free alternative for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Here is the press release in full. Scientists today report initial results from humans on the safety and tolerability of a novel strategy to …

According to newly-released 2012 tax documents, Chick-Fil-A ended nearly all of its corporate donations to anti-gay groups at the same time that homophobic statements from the company’s CEO became national headlines.  Via Josh Israel at Think Progress: A year after nearly doubling its anti-LGBT giving, Chick-fil-A’s WinShape Foundation apparently reversed course in 2012, eliminating nearly all its grantmaking. Its separate …

You might recall that last fall I reported that three Texas lesbians has been freed after 15 years of imprisonment on child molestation charges that have now been debunked. From the article I excerpted: Cheers erupted in a San Antonio court when a lawyer for the women told a packed gallery that a deal had been reached to allow the …

Mediaite recaps last night’s Stephen Colbert show: This past weekend, King told local TV station WHO-TV that these “self-professed” gays could just as easily be straight people “setting up a case” against a business that tries to discriminate them. Colbert recounted that familiar scenario in which someone pretends to come out to their family, then pretends to fall in love, …

“As a result of last month’s irresponsible judicial decision in Cook County which usurps the proper legislative process, county clerks are now issuing same-sex ‘marriage’ licenses across the state of Illinois. Making and implementing law is strictly a function of the General Assembly. Ignoring the proper roles of the three branches of government sets an extremely dangerous precedent. When unelected …

Via the New York Daily News: Things got ugly between Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Wednesday at a House Oversight Committee hearing on the IRS scandal. Former IRS official Lois Lerner was present to testify at the hearing, but she pleaded the Fifth and didn’t respond to questions about her leadership over the IRS division that improperly …