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“All children should always feel safe and secure in our schools. While at school to learn, some students are forced to endure harassment, violence, bullying, and intimidation because of their sexual orientation. This is completely unacceptable. Our laws ensure that all students have access to public education in a safe environment free from discrimination, and these laws must guarantee these …

Can you imagine anything remotely like this taking place during a Republican administration?

Even though the Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg famously called for the expulsion of all gay people from the United States, this hate group spokesdouche still gets invited onto national television. Today he sparred with Freedom To Marry’s Evan Wolfson over the GOP’s plan to defend DOMA. Hilariously, Sprigg claims that the main opposition to same-sex marriage isn’t based on …

Forbes Magazine has issued this year’s list of the world’s richest people. The number of billionaires grew by 199 in 2010. Mexico’s Carlos Slim expanded his lead as the world’s richest man, adding $20.5 billion to his net worth in the past year, for a total fortune of $74 billion. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, now co-chairman of the Bill & …

Tea Party-backed GOP lawmakers in Arizona have introduced bills that would create alliances with other states in order to defy the federal government. Ironically (or maybe not so, since we’re talking about teabaggers), the federal government would have to approve the alliances. The push to form interstate compacts, which have the power to supersede existing federal law if approved by …

Meh. Where’s my beloved Eurovision cheese? I’d normally discount this entry from having a chance, but then I remember Finland’s bizarre Lordi, who won in 2006.

Truth Wins Out, the organization that fights the “ex-gay” movement, has launched a petition calling on Apple to remove Exodus International’s new iPhone app. This new iPhone app is the latest move in Exodus’ dangerous new strategy of targeting youth. In light of the recent wave of LGBT youth suicides, this tactic is particularly galling as it creates, legitimizes, and …

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim ever elected to Congress, got quite choked up during today’s ridiculous “Islamic radicalization” hearings hosted by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who himself has a history of backing terrorist groups. I’ve been watching the hearings live on CNN and only Hollywood could come up with a more McCarthyesque scenario.

Yesterday Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed the bill abolishing the death penalty in his state and commuting the sentences of prisoners on death row. Today Amnesty International updated their above map, which is interactive on their site. Among the 35 states still making executions, Texas has almost five times more prisoners on death row than the number two state, Virginia.

New York marriage equality activists say they have renewed hope after yesterday’s private meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: “I’ve been to lots of meetings where presidents or governors call people in to say that they’re with them, and this one was really extraordinary,” said Richard Socarides, the executive director of Equality Matters, a …