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“There’s not a single thing about you that’s not normal, good and decent.” And this: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Don’t give your consent.”

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says that because the military is primarily made up of blacks, Latinos, and people from rural areas, President Obama will be forced to reinstate the draft if DADT gets repealed. Because everybody knows blacks, Latinos, and folks from rural areas are totally anti-gay and they’ll all quit rather than serve alongside homos. The military …

This month’s celebrity-filled edition of Cyndi Lauper’s We Give A Damn project includes Susan Sarandon, Alan Cumming, Pete Wentz, Rebecca Romijn, and Eden Riegel speaking out on LGBT youth homelessness.

Punk legend Patti Smith has won the National Book Award for Just Kids, her “sweetly evocative” memoir of her life with the late legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Accepting the award to applause and cheers, Ms. Smith — clearly the favorite of the night — choked up as she recalled her days as a clerk in the Scribner’s bookstore in …

The Wonk Room reports that the co-chair of the DADT survey today told Sen. Carl Levin that the survey will not be released in advance of its scheduled December 1st debut, despite all the leaks. Mr. Chairman, I think it will take until the first of December. The key factor remaining for us in the review group is to receive …

From today’s Ask Reddit, which queries the Reddit community on legal issues. Question: A relative of a close friend helped a school bully drink piss, and now the family is suing. Is he liable? Background: Relative of a close friend (we’ll call him Todd) carried Mountain Dew in his backpack to school every day. For a few weeks, this bully …

Sally Field joins the cast and crew of Brothers & Sisters for their It Gets Better message.

Senator-elect Mark Kirk (R-IL) will be seated on November 29th, putting him in the unique position of being able to vote on the repeal of DADT twice. Earlier this year as a House member, he infuriated LGBT supporters and reversed his previously pro-gay record by voting against the repeal, a move most said was a transparent attempt to pander votes …

Well, that’s what Buzzfeed thinks it looks like.

Former JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater fancies himself a rapper. Here’s a snippet of his single, I’m Steven Slater, Bitches. Make it stop, please.