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With co-sponsors Sen. Mark Udall, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and GOP Sen. Susan Collins, independent Sen. Joe Lieberman has introduced the stand-alone DADT repeal bill he promised yesterday. The above-linked bill-tracking site indicates that Lieberman’s measure has been referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee, although Lieberman has promised that his bill will go directly to a floor vote without Committee …

JMG reader Joe Shaw, who comments here as “Another Joe,” has been elected to the Huntington Beach, California city council and is currently the only openly gay elected official in all of Orange County. From earlier this week, here’s his opening speech to the council. Congratulations, Councilman Shaw!

(Via – Queerty)

Billboard Magazine has issued its annual rankings of the biggest hits of the year. Here’s the 2010 pop Top Ten. 1. Tik-Tok – Kesha2. Need You Now – Lady Antebellum3. Hey Soul Sister – Train4. California Gurls – Katy Perry5. OMG – Usher6. Airplanes – B.O.B.7. Love The Way You Lie – Eminem/Rihanna8. Bad Romance – Lady Gaga9. Dynamite – …

Here’s the new Erasure single that I mentioned a couple of days ago. Get it now on iTunes. Proceeds from the track will be donated to The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the home of the Harvey Milk High School, in New York, and the True Colors Fund. The Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBTQ youth service organization, provides a safe …

Focus On The Family has filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the public have a say in the appointments of state Supreme Court justices. After a NOM-led campaign succeeded in deposing three justices in the 2010 retention vote, the Christianist hate group Focus is intent on thwarting the replacement of those pro-marriage justices with similarly equality-minded people. And in a …

“Joe Solmonese should do the honorable thing and step down. It is shameful to cash all those checks without the follow through on the job. The White House was never put under serious pressure; the late calls now in the e-blasts for the President to do something ring hollow after the toadying that has gone on for two years. “As …

Responding to a new Surgeon General report that even one cigarette could spur fatal heart attacks in some people, the American Family Association hate group says that it’s time that the government issues similar warnings about gay sex. Because that first cock you suck can be the one that kills you. What the surgeon general did not say but should …

Eater reports that IHOP has inked a deal to open 24 restaurants in the NYC area, including a flagship outlet in Times Square. Currently the only IHOP in NYC is in Harlem. Among the other glamorous restaurants in glittering fabulous Times Square: Applebee’s, Olive Garden, Sbarro, Chili’s, TGI Friday’s, and Red Lobster. And don’t forget Pop Tarts, the cafe.