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Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) says that the male sexual harassment investigation that forced his resignation announcement was a revenge plot by fellow Democrats for his opposition to health care reform. “Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill,” Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. “And …

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has launched DOMA Storybook, a series of real stories about gay families who are being hurt by the Defense of Marriage Act. An excerpt from today’s story: “We’re a very ordinary family,” says Rebecca, who runs the public education program at a genetics center at Partners HealthCare. “Boring, actually. And we like that.” …

A study just published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review concludes that racism is not only more prevalent in Christian communities than in the general population, its incidence rises in correlation to a religious group’s dogmatism. The Center For Inquiry breaks it down: The February issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review has published a meta-analysis of 55 independent …

Even though Karl Rove’s stepdad was totally gay, he doesn’t like people saying it. From a review of his new memoir: The attack dog rears his head, however, when Rove deals with questions about his stepfather’s sexual orientation. He blasts journalists for raising the issue at all — in his eyes it’s purely a liberal gambit to criticize him for …

Dance diva and former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland headlined at the big dance party at Sydney Mardi Gras yesterday. Unless it was tomorrow. #datelineconfusion.

Elinor Burkett, the woman that Kanye’d one of last night’s Oscar winners, was actually the co-winner of his award. But they’ve been feuding and he literally sprinted to the stage to get there first. People are already saying you “pulled a Kanye.” What happened? BURKETT: What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of …

Like many states, Florida offers huge tax incentives to movie studios in order to lure big budget productions to film locally. The Florida GOP and state Rep. Stephen Precourt don’t have a problem with that, they just want to make sure that no productions with gay characters get the tax break. Movies and TV shows with gay characters could be …

Roseanne Barr says she takes back what she said about Marie Osmond’s son. ”Michael’s friends and family say he was not gay. If that is true, then I owe a huge apology to the Osmond family and to Marie Osmond for the words I wrote here. I read several published sources before I said anything, but–I did not know him, …

Millions of microchips have been installed in British home waste receptacles in a program to charge customers based on how much garbage they create. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have been surreptitiously installed in what is seen as a first step toward charging those who toss too much. Proponents …

Here’s a frothy little lift for your Monday morning from San Francisco-based gay artist Myles Cooper.