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GOProud is talking to Ken Mehlman about bringing him on. Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, said the organization recently talked with Mehlman, but declined to elaborate on the nature of their discussions. When asked if GOProud had offered Mehlman a position on its board, LaSalvia declined to comment. He also declined to say whether GOProud has offered Mehlman a …

The Courage Campaign reports that sixties folk music star Peter Yarrow is NOT happy that NOM has been playing Peter, Paul & Mary’s cover of This Land Is Your Land at NOM’s hate rallies. Yarrow has sent Brian Brown a cease and desist letter. I bet NOM doesn’t even know that Woody Guthrie wrote This Land as an counterpoint to …

Ken Mehlman is running around telling the world that he only JUST realized that he is gay, despite the fact that his homosexuality has been common knowledge around Washington DC since the days of the virulently anti-gay 2004 George W. Bush campaign. The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder: “People were suspicious of Mehlman’s sexuality for years. Who knew? The people who ‘knew’ …

A man who was performing ritual proxy baptisms of the dead for the Mormon Church is now suing the LDS for repetitive motion injuries. Apparently you need a living human stand-in when Magic Underpantsing a dead person against the wishes of their descendants. The civil suit filed Wednesday in Salt Lake City’s 3rd District Court claims Daniel Dastrup suffered severe …

Made famous in Ghostbusters, Stay Puft marshmallows now actually exist and are available for $19.99 in a “keepsake marshmallow-feel box.” Wait. Caffeinated marshmallows? Too bad there’s no more J-J-Jolt Cola to wash them down.

Conservative Party MP Crispin Blunt has announced that he is leaving his wife and coming out. The Reigate MP appealed for privacy and said he was “coming to terms with his homosexuality”. In a statement, his office said: “Crispin Blunt wishes to make it known that he has separated from his wife Victoria. “He decided to come to terms with …

Over at Scientific American, Jesse Bering discusses a partner’s infidelity and opines that sexual jealousy among gay couples is genetically hardwired, whether or not we intellectually dismiss monogamy as unnatural. Bering concludes: [B]ecause fatal sexually transmitted infections for which gay men are unusually vulnerable, such as HIV, were not present in the ancestral past and could not have produced any …

Scroll down the below just-released CBS poll for questions about DADT and same-sex marriage. Other topics on the poll: immigration, Obama, Palin, and the economy.CBSNewsPoll Obama 082610