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“For the first time in my life, when Barack Obama became elected, for the first time in my life, I am actually afraid that America may diminish to a point where it’s just unrecognizable. Not just on the economic front, but where he puts people on the Supreme Court that have no fealty or loyalty to the Constitution and weakening …

Yesterday Dan Savage appeared on the Gayle King Show to talk about bullying and the It Gets Better book. Savage points out that straight kids are often the victims of anti-gay bullying.

As expected, today the Colorado state Senate approved its civil unions bill by a vote of 23-12. Via press release from One Colorado: “Today is a tremendous victory for gay and lesbian couples across the state—and for all fair-minded Coloradans,” said Brad Clark, Executive Director of One Colorado, a statewide LGBT advocacy organization. “We look forward to working with House …

Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has been hired by The Daily Caller as a reporter. “We are thrilled to have Ginni Thomas join The Daily Caller as a special correspondent to interview both established and emerging leaders about the serious questions facing our country,” said Neil Patel, publisher and CEO of The Daily Caller. “Ginni …

NOM president Brian Brown is gleefully tweeting out the link to a story about the declining number of children living in San Francisco. Because them there evil homofascists are chasing all the families away. It certainly can’t be because San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities in the nation, can it? Families that remain in The City are …

“To me, Elizabeth Taylor’s importance as an actress was that she represented a kind of womanliness that is now completely impossible to find on the U.S. or U.K. screen. It was rooted in hormonal reality — the vitality of nature. She was single-handedly a living rebuke to postmodernism and post-structuralism, which maintain that gender is merely a social construct. Let …

Tea Party-backed GOP Rep. Kristen Hansen’s attempt to overturn all LGBT rights laws in Montana has been sent back to committee in the state Senate, probably never to be heard from again. The Senate Local Government Committee passed House Bill 516 last week. But the bill was returned to the committee Tuesday and chairman Sen. Jon Sonju says it is …

Prospective GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann showed up in Iowa yesterday to praise the anti-gay activists who unseated the “black-robed masters” in the state Supreme Court. Bachmann, speaking to a group of home school advocates, credited conservatives with sending a “shot across the bow” to judges throughout the country. “You said enough is enough and sent them …

A shrine to Elizabeth Taylor has sprung up in the West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey, where Taylor was known to drop in. This weekend the bar will donate proceeds from sales of their Blue Velvet martini to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. (Via – TMZ)