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“As partners cultivate romance, and particularly as they move toward erotic involvement, there are things each should reveal, things they would not mention to a casual acquaintance — any history of S.T.D.’s, for example, or the existence of any current spouse. Even before a first kiss, this person should have told you those things that you would regard as germane …

After just a few more hours we won’t have to hear about soccer for another four years. Of course, there’s one aspect of the sport that isn’t entirely boring.

The popular Argentine soap opera Botineras is featuring a story line involving a clandestine love affair between two pro soccer stars, leading the public to speculate that it might be based on actual players. Rumor Rat has the story and a much steamier clip.

Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer and his fiance will marry in Connecticut in protest of New York’s unfair marriage law. After five decades of municipal fidelity, Mr. Stringer is refusing to do something rather momentous in the city of his birth: marry. He and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, have decided to wed in Connecticut this year in what they described …

Spain’s constitutional court declared on Friday that there is no legal basis to consider its Catalonia region an autonomous nation, sending over one million protesters into the streets of Barcelona yesterday. The verdict came after four years of debate in which conservative and liberal judges locked horns over whether the charter went beyond the limits of Spain’s system of granting …

In less than 48 hours, the nation’s teabaggers have contributed almost $1M to a legal fund created to fight the Obama administration’s lawsuit against Arizona’s racist law allowing the detention of anybody who looks like they might be undocumented.

Calling it “the Boston Massacre of marriage,” the Family Research Council has released a typically hysterics-filled response to the DOMA ruling. Four hundred twenty-seven. That’s how many members of Congress voted to pass the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. One. The number of activist judges it took to strike the law down. Yesterday, a U.S. District Court did its …

UPDATE: The poll is open again. Last week Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper alerted GLAAD that a wedding contest planned for the Today Show would not allow entries from same-sex couples as the winners could not be legally married in New York, where the show is produced. Yesterday the show bowed to pressure from GLAAD and announced that the contest …