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All Former NJ Govs Support Marriage

All six of the living former governors of New Jersey support marriage equality. Democrats Brendan Byrne and James Florio told NBC New York Monday they endorsed efforts in the Legislature to pass it. “I think the climate is right on a basis of civil rights,” said Byrne, the oldest of the former Garden State governors. “I would ask that the …

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Anti-Gay Hate Group Pushes Bill To Force Religious Services In NYC Public Schools

In a move some are calling an “end-run around the separation of church and state,” the anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund has authored a bill that would force New York City public schools to allow religious services on their premises. Sock-puppeting for the ADF is GOP Sen. Martin Golden. Legislation pending in the Senate and Assembly would overturn the city’s policy …

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On The Death Of Camp

With the new Broadway-themed show Smash as a jumping off point, Daniel D’Addario writes in the New York Observer: Sontag’s contention that “Camp is esoteric—something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques” suggests one culprit for the death of camp: The mainstream acceptance of gays—a welcome development, to say the least—seems to have come …

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