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The body of Michael Portantino, the publisher of San Diego’s recently defunct Gay & Lesbian Times, has been found outside a local gay hotel. The San Diego County coroner is calling it an apparent suicide. The decedent was a 52 year old single White male who resided in a home in San Diego. On 12/08/10, he apparently jumped from a …

Lieberman follows that up with this: “Senator Reid told me he will bring our free-standing #DADT repeal up for a vote before end of session.” So NOW what? Oy, I’ve been blogging since 6AM and I’d really like to be able to lie down for a few minutes. That ain’t gonna happen.

GetEQUAL I have to be honest — I just vomited a little in my mouth. The Senate just voted on whether to bring the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) up for conversation. Not for passage — just for conversation. It failed. We all laid everything we could on the line for this bill — a piece of legislation that would …

Sen. Susan Collins did vote YES. Sen. Scott Brown voted NO. I’ll have the full roll call shortly.

AmericaBlog reports that the cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Act is now scheduled for noon today. As we know, that could change. [Obviously, it did.] Right now the Senate is voting on the DREAM Act, which passed in the House yesterday. Watch live on C-SPAN. UPDATE: The Senate has voted to table the DREAM Act until next week by …

Polari, the inventive and colorful slang language once used by some British homosexuals, has been listed among thousands of languages headed for extinction. The slang, used as a code among some gay people when homosexuality was illegal, is on an online database created by University of Cambridge researchers. The free website has been developed by researchers at the World Oral …

Double rainbows, Jimmy McMillan, Antoine Dodson, Alexander McQueen, Haiti, BP, Pakistan, vuvuzelas, and more.

Via press release: “The folks who made the delivery on behalf of the 582k proponents of DADT repeal were Saif Khan, an Iraq War veteran; Colonel William Cline, a retired Army physician; and Brad Reichard, the spouse of a West Point graduate.”

As part of MTV’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square, the network will lower Jersey Shore cast member Snooki in a giant hamster ball. The ball will drop (violently, some would hope) from the seventh floor balcony of MTV’s studios.