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The Rhode Island legislature has overridden Gov. Don Carcieri’s veto of a bill providing domestic partners of state employees access to state pension and retirement benefits. The legislation includes all employees with pensions managed through the Employee Retirement System of RI – teachers, judges, and other state and municipal employees. To qualify, partners must have lived together for one year …

I usually only get approached by hookers when I’m in the vicinity of fancy midtown hotels, where well-dressed young women will smile as if you’re an old friend and say brightly, “Hey, you havin’ a good night?” Maybe they think I look like an expense account-toting bidnizman, but I usually say flatly, “I live here” and they go on their …

At last night’s Democratic candidates debate in Philadelphia, Dennis Kucinich vehemently called for the impeachment of President Bush to a surprisingly silent response from the audience, although this clip cuts off a bit too soon for you to tell. I just don’t get their reaction, but I do get Dennis Kucinich. I just wish more people did.

“McClurkin describes sexual orientation as something that God wants to save me and other gay people from. If one were being generous, one would say this isn’t meant as an attack; but it is certainly experienced as an attack. McClurkin, in short, should never have been allowed to speak at this event, because his words are inherently divisive, his record …

Ralph Nader is suing the Democratic Party, claiming party officials conspired to keep him from taking votes away from John Kerry and worked to keep him off the ballot in the 2004 election. Nader’s lawsuit, filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, also named as co-defendants Kerry’s campaign, the Service Employees International Union and several so-called 527 organizations such as …

Now an apartment building, the Hotel Belleclaire on Broadway and 77th Street was built in 1903. Designed by Emery Roth, my beloved Farmboyz advise me that the Belleclaire is an example of his work before he “got all Italianated”. They continue: “The building is known for its bay windows which look out on Broadway and continued the exuberant effort of …

Ho-lee CRAP! The scandal unfolding around Washington state Rep. Richard Curtis (R-DUH) is out-Haggarding and out-Craiging anything we’ve ever seen from fucked up, self-hating, anti-gay, right-wing Republicans. And that, my tender kittens, is rilly, rilly saying something. Today’s Self-Loathing Menu (Prix Fixe: One Political Career) We start with a late-season twink porn prostitute appetizer (NSFW), followed by a main course …

DC: The Human Rights Campaign will host a photo exhibit called “Pride / Prejudice: Voices of GLBT Youth,” on Wednesday, November 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The November 7th event will include a reception with photographer Rachelle Lee Smith. The photo exhibit will remain to the public on Thursday, November 9th from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. The exhibit …

I hesitated to do yet another post about yet another public sex sting … BEDFORD – A sting aimed at men who cruise a rest area off Interstate 684 for gay sex resulted in charges against 20 men in the past month, including a Catholic priest and a registered sex offender. The sting, which also netted a local Rotary Club …

Notice at the 0:55 mark how Obama refers to the McClurkin controversy as happening “a while back.” Uh, yeah. Waaaay back on Sunday. Spin, spin, spin. Also from the same forum, but not in the clip: Appearing at the Cedar Rapids Public Library, Abbi Swanson whose son is gay, asked what he would do to give him the same rights …