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The city of Atlanta has agreed to pay a $1M settlement over last year’s outrageous police raid of the Eagle, a popular leather bar where employees and patrons were forced to lie on a filthy floor as cops reportedly shouted anti-gay slurs. The Georgia Voice reports: The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve a $1.025 million settlement …

Four-time Tony winner Harvey Fierstein will join the Broadway revival cast of La Cage Aux Folles on February 15th for a 12-week limited run. Fierstein won the Tony in 1983 for writing the show, but this will be his first time actually appearing in it. “I’ve loved watching this new production of LA CAGE and think director Terry Johnson and …

There’s also a live stream from NOM further down today’s postings, which may prove entertaining if things go our way. If you have access to a television, C-SPAN will be covering it live and online too. Things are set to begin at 1pm EST. Watch live ABC’s live analysis here (they’ve apparently decided not to allow embedding of their live …

Smartphone market shares stand at about a three-way tie, with third-place Android predicted by some to take first place in the next few months. Lots of wonky demographics at the link.

“Humans are made in the image of God – male and female. Satan, our enemy, hates God, and wants to deface God’s likeness wherever he can. We are all sinners, deeply impacted by our own sinfulness and enmity toward God, by the sins of others and by life in a fallen world. Gender confusion is one example of human brokenness. …

Right Wing Watch reports that not only is Porno Pete LaBarbera proud of his SPLC designation as a hater, he says that if a Christianist group didn’t make the list, they need to be more hateful. “We are one of the rare groups that is opposed single-mindedly against the homosexual activist movement,” said LaBarbera, who founded AFTAH in 1996. “The …

The Czech Republic is being criticized for its bizarre requirement that gay men seeking asylum from persecution in their home countries must first prove their gayness by submitting to a penile tumescence test while viewing straight porn. According to information provided by the Czech Ministry of the Interior, ‘phallometric testing’ for asylum seekers who claim to be gay may be …

At this writing, the legal teams from both sides and the original Perry V Schwarzenegger plaintiffs are fielding quite the media circus outside the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco. Adam Bink is live-blogging the proceedings over at the Courage Campaign’s site and you can follow the latest action on Twitter at the hashtag #Prop8.