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Here’s The DADT Survey For Troops

Dig into this and tell us what you think. UPDATE: Servicemembers United vents. “While it remains safe for gay and lesbian troops to participate in this survey, it is simply impossible to imagine a survey with such derogatory and insulting wording, assumptions, and insinuations going out about any other minority group in the military,” said Alexander Nicholson, Executive Director of …

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Air Google

Google will buy travel software company ITA for $700M. While they claim to have no plan to establish themselves as resellers of airline tickets, the takeover is raising concerns of anti-trust violations. “What we’re going to do is build new flight search tools that focus on end-users,” Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said in a conference call with analysts …

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Civil Unions For Ireland

As expected, yesterday Ireland’s Seanad rubber-stamped the nation’s lower chamber and approved its civil unions bill 48-4. The Green Party Minister for State Ciarán Cuffe, who instigated the move to introduce the legislation in 2007, welcomed its approval last night. He said changes will need to be made in social welfare and tax laws to facilitate the change. He said …

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Anita Bryant Leaves Her Sewer

The original Queen of Hate, Anita Bryant, will be slithering out of whatever sewer she’s been hiding in all these years to appear at an anti-gay event in Oklahoma tomorrow. Gossip Boy reports: The controversial Queen of Gay Hate, Anita Bryant, will be returning to the stage on July 9, 2010 for a patriotic performance in Yukon, OK before an …

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Robosexual Marriage

With perfect timing, last night’s episode of Futurama tackled the issue of robosexual marriage, complete with a dig at NOM’s widely parodied Gathering Storm ad. And as these things go, the issue’s main opponent turned out to be a closet robosexual.

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NOM Rides The DOMA Waambulance

NOM is predictably stamping their cloven hooves about yesterday’s DOMA ruling. “Under the guidance of Elena Kagan’s brief that she filed when she was Solicitor General, Obama’s justice department deliberately sabotaged this case,” charged Brian Brown, President of NOM, referring to the Justice Department’s brief which described DOMA as discriminatory. Despite the explicit language in DOMA that the law was …

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DOMA Ruling Reactions

GLAD: “Today the Court simply affirmed that our country won’t tolerate second-class marriages,” said Mary Bonauto, GLAD’s Civil Rights Project Director, who argued the case. “I’m pleased that Judge Tauro recognized that married same-sex couples and surviving spouses have been seriously harmed by DOMA and that the plaintiffs deserve the same opportunities to care and provide for each other and …

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