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Via Towleroad: Joe Biden taped an episode with Ellen yesterday to air on Monday during which he reportedly expresses opposition to Proposition 8, the measure that would ban same-sex marriage in California. He repeated his opposition at a campaign fundraiser later in West Hollywood: “At the event, Biden told IN Los Angeles magazine journalist Karen Ocamb that he opposes Proposition …

Fascist Austrian leader Joerg Haider was drinking in a gay bar before he died Saturday in a single-car drunk driving accident. The former leader of the far right in Austria was drinking in a gay bar the night he died, it has emerged. Joerg Haider had never been open about his homosexuality, but his habit of surrounding himself with handsome …

Wow. Somebody at Florida’s Stonewall Legal Alliance is sharp. After the backers of Amendment 2 declined to appear at an FIU debate on the issue, the gay side invited the Westboro Baptist Church. And they are coming, over the objections of some marriage equality supporters. A church known for spewing anti-gay rhetoric and picketing military funerals is slated to debate …

That crazy “Obama is an Arab” lady from the McCain rally made an appearance on the Thursday edition of SNL last night. “He’s gonna change the White House to a pyramid.” Kristen Wiig kills me.

From Kanakee, Illinois: A Bourbonnais Elementary School District No. 53 bus driver was arrested Thursday for mob action after he allegedly taunted a 10-year-old student and encouraged others on the bus to chase after the boy. Russell A. Schmalz, 46, was arrested by the Kankakee Sheriff’s Police Department, Chief Deputy Ken McCabe said. Schmalz is also charged with endangering the …

Obama makes some really great jokes about the campaign, many of them at McCain’s expense. Great stuff.

Last week’s startling news that Proposition 8 appears poised for approval in California has brought an avalanche of donations to No On 8. After sounding the alarm last week about its $10 million fundraising deficit, Equality California, the lead organization for the No on 8 campaign, has raised more than $3 million within California since Oct. 6, including a $1 …

Here’s McCain’s “Joe The Plumber” ad. Via Daily Kos: So Joe (whose name is Sam) the Plumber (who isn’t a plumber) was used by McCain to attack Obama’s tax proposal, though Joe/Sam actually pays less tax under Obama (if he actually got around to paying his taxes.) At :12 seconds in, this professional ad shows the word “everbody”. Obviously, some …

-Hail Xenu. The revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons opens tonight starring Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, and Mrs. Tom Cruise. Will Anonymous be protesting outside? -Tony winners Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane will star in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. Previews begin April 10th at Studio 54. Anthony Page will direct. -Liza Minneli is negotiating a …

Jen Chung over at Gothamist found these on sale in Times Square. Nothing for Joe Biden?