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Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) announced today that they are more than ready to take on Speaker John Boehner’s special House counsel on DOMA. Via press release: “It is now perfectly clear that U.S. House leaders plan to intervene in the pending cases,” said Mary L. Bonauto, co-lead attorney in GLAD’s two cases Gill et al. v. Office …

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Even though in 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all anti-sodomy laws in its landmark Lawrence vs. Texas ruling, two state legislators in Kansas are fighting to keep their now unconstitutional laws on the books. The Kansas Equality Coalition reports: State Representatives Jan Pauls (D, Hutchinson), and Lance Kinzer (R, Olathe) said yesterday that being gay or lesbian should …

Video taken outside the White House.

In observance of this week’s National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the New York City Department of Health has issued the above infographic, which is part of their NYC Knows campaign to get every city resident tested for HIV. (Tipped by JMG reader John)

Here’s a teaser from tonight’s show.

Speaking before Iowa’s anti-gay group Family Leader, Rep. Ron Paul said that “states have have a right” to establish same-sex marriage. That prompted a Paul aide to rush forward to remind the libertarian whackadoodle that he actually supported the ouster of Iowa’s Supreme Court justices. Last week he also condemned Obama’s decision on DOMA.

Equality Maryland tweets that the marriage debate before the full House of Delegates is scheduled to begin at 10am tomorrow. They also note that those red-caped whackjobs from the Society for the Defense of Tradition are currently playing their bagpipes outside the state house.

The Illinois Family Institute, an SPLC-certified hate group and the former home of Peter LaBarbera, has issued an alert that “radical homosexual activists” are planning to destroy all of Illinois’ religious institutions now that civil unions have become law. Because Christian adoption agencies will now supposedly be forced to serve gay couples or go out of business. IFI spokesloon Laurie …