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Noted Russian LGBT activist Nikolai Alekseev was taken away by authorities yesterday he attempted to board a flight to Geneva. According to Alekseev, Russia’s government is angry over a complaint he filed with the European Court Of Human Rights over Moscow’s five year old ban on gay pride events. Officials are also demanding that he call off a picket of …

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Sally Kern claims that “out of state gay millionaire” Tim Gill is secretly backing Brittany Novotny. Neither Gill nor his PAC have donated to Novotny.

Wade Richards, a former member of Christine O’Donnell’s “ex-gay” group who has since come to terms with his sexuality, tells all in a report published today by the Daily Beast. According to Richards, O’Donnell has a lesbian sister, whom he credits with helping him accept himself. The article lists some of O’Donnell’s track record in her long campaign to demonize …

This just in from GOPRoud at Quisling Headquarters: Today, GOProud, the only national organization representing gay conservatives and their allies, endorsed Republican Sean Bielat in his race to unseat Democrat Barney Frank in Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District. “If we really want to protect gay jobs we don’t need to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act [ENDA], we need to fire Barney …

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The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer debated a Tea Party organizer on NPR to warn that unless the teabaggers embrace the AFA’s positions on gay rights and abortion, they’ll lose the support of the nation’s Christianists. It’s rather astonishing that NPR would provide a platform to a crazy like Bryan Fischer, who has called for homosexuals to be sent to …

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Remix artist Rich Morel, also one-half of the Blowoff DJ team, notches his 15th Billboard dance chart topper this week with his reworking of Yoko Ono’s Wouldnit (I’m A Star). Morel has previously reached the dance summit with remixes for Pet Shop Boys, Seal, Cyndi Lauper, Depeche Mode, New Order, Vivian Green, and t.A.T.u. Morel is currently writing songs with …

Calling DADT “absolutely mindless,” Vice President Joe Biden tells Rachel Maddow that he is confident Democrats came overcome any GOP filibuster of the defense authorization bill to which the repeal of DADT is attached.