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Talking Points Memo reports that the GOP is furiously trying to scrub the net of the below video in which freshman Tea Party-backed GOP Rep. Sean Duffy (WI) complains about his annual salary of $174,000. A day after TPM posted the video we obtained of Duffy talking about his salary at a Polk County town hall meeting earlier this year, …

Equality Florida tips us to a new campaign in which legally married gay couples will “refuse to lie” and will therefore file joint tax returns. Each year the federal government demands that thousands of married couples lie. The federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) not only denies legally married gay couples the benefits of heterosexual marriage, but we are also …

Surveillance video has been released of this weekend’s gay bashing of Damian Furtch, 26, on a West Village street. GLAAD has been advising Furtch, who eloquently spoke out against the attack on local news channels last night. Furtch to GLAAD: “The attack against me is part of the larger issue of violence against gay and transgender people in New York …

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“A lot of the so called birthers, these are great people, these are really great American people. These are hard working, unbelievable, salt of the earth people. I’m proud to be, I mean I’m very proud of it. I don’t like the term ‘birther.’ I think it is a demeaning term to the people that believe that he should have …

And aims a lot of zingers at the GOP.(Via – Towleroad)

Known to some as Bulgaria’s version of Pink, at the age of nine Genova was the host of the popular television show Bon-Bon. Her title of her entry translates as Stubborn and is a call for young Bulgarians to resist emigrating to other countries.

Today the Washington state Senate voted 28-19 to recognize all legal partnerships (marriages, civil unions, etc) from other jurisdictions. The state House approved the bill last month. “This bill is about making sure that people who love one another – and that love and friendship respected and honored in another state or another country – when they come here they …