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A Brazilian clown has been elected to the national Congress with twice as many votes as any other candidate. Tiririca, or Francisco Oliveira Silva to give him his real name, was elected as a federal deputy for Sao Paulo with more than 1.3 million votes. Tiririca, or “Grumpy”, had slogans such as: “It can’t get any worse.” Tiririca won 1,353,355 …

“I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him. I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience.” – North Carolina state Rep. Larry Brown (R), in a mass email about Equality NC awarding its annual leadership prize to NC House Speaker Joe Hackney. Pam Spaulding reports that Equality NC will be mailing a …

The folks at San Francisco’s Remember The Party, which is an annual reunion of the patrons and staff of the legendary Trocadero Transfer, have put together the below promo clip for Sunday’s event. (They even worked in some of my own footage from last year’s party.) DJ Jerry Bonham is planning to lean heavily on the Donna Summer catalog and …

Dominic Holden assesses the bill’s supporters: That’s 48 percent yes, 41 percent no, and 11 percent undecided—which is pretty good. The crosstabs are over here. Groups with over 50 percent support for Prop 19 are men, people under 50, white, moderate to liberal, dislike the Tea Party, make over $80,000, and live in the Bay Area. In other words, rich …

The BLEEP cracked me up.

GOP state Rep. Bill Brady has a slight polling lead over Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, who today predicted that civil unions could become legal in his state “by the end of the year.” Early this year, Equality Illinois described Bill Brady as having “supported or co-sponsored every piece of anti-gay legislation there has been in Springfield – from a constitutional …

From teabagger loon Ben Howe.

UPDATE: The families of the Stonewall attackers are rushing to their defense. In an interview with The Daily News, Orlando’s dad swore his 17-year-old boy was no bigot and wants to apologize “in person” to Carver. “We are a working class family,” Don Orlando said outside his Staten Island home Tuesday. “We don’t hate anyone here.” What Orlando did was …