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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.)

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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 …

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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, …

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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% …

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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 …

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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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