Last night Rachel Maddow recapped the still many races not yet decided. Some of these we should know by the end of today.
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What’s on your DVR this season? I’m loving AMC’s Walking Dead and BBC America’s Law & Order: UK. (Even though I have to keep the closed captioning on for the latter.)
Read More »Giuliani Reverses On DADT
Rudy Giuliani says that since we’re no longer “at the height of the Iraq War,” maybe it’s time for the GOP “to ease up on DADT” and approve its repeal.
Read More »OKLAHOMA: Trans Attorney Brittany Novotny Loses Race With Sally Kern
Arch homophobe Sally Kern easily won reelection to the Oklahoma state House yesterday, taking 66% of the vote over novice candidate and trans attorney Brittany Novotny. But Kern got there by pulling a dirty trick in the last week of the campaign, when she sent out a (hilariously misspelled) campaign mailer falsely claiming Notovny’s support for a spending issue. Novotny’s …
Read More »Exit Polls Suggest 12% Decline In Gay Support For House Democrats
Rosanne Cash Tweets John Boehner
Johnny Cash’s daughter is pissed about this stump speech quote from Speaker-Elect John Boehner: “Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.” Ugh. Anyway, Rosanne Cash is still performing and putting out records, …
Read More »HAWAII: Gay-Friendly Democrat Neil Abercrombie Wins Gubernatorial Race
Gay-friendly former Rep. Neil Abercrombie has won Hawaii’s gubernatorial race over GOP candidate Lt. Gov. James “Duke” Aiona, who infamously rallied with the red-shirted Christianists during the battle for civil unions. That fight was won in the state legislature, but outgoing (closet case) Gov. Linda Lingle sided with hate and vetoed the bill. While in Congress, Abercrombie earned a 100% …
Read More »POLAND: Activists Launch Billboard Campaign For Civil Partnerships
Polish LGBT activists have launched a billboard campaign called Love Doesn’t Exclude Us in Warsaw and Lodz to support their demand for a civil partnerships law. Campaign organizer Wojciech Szot writes us today: The aim of the campaign is to draw attention to the fact that Poland has no civil partnerships law, and Polish legislation provides no regulations for same-sex …
Read More »CALIFORNIA: Prop 8 Attorney Andy Pugno LOSES Race For State Assembly
Protect Marriage lead attorney Andy Pugno has lost his bid for the California Assembly, despite the heavy backing of NOM. Icing on the cake: winner Richard Pan is a strong supporter of LGBT rights. SUCK IT, NOM! (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)
Read More »Obama On DADT & Lame Duck Session
Good As You provides this clip of the president speaking today about his plan to work towards a Senate repeal of DADT during the lame duck session. The Human Rights Campaign responds via press release: “The President’s call for repeal today is a first step of many needed to fulfill his state of the union promise to end the law …
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