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She got some blowback (ahem) from her followers, but she made it clear that she was kidding.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will sign the marriage equality bill today and according to one report he will sign the bill on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, which Quinn is quietly having shipped from the state capital to his office in Chicago. Oh-em-Jeebus, the Tea Things will scream. I’ll post a live stream of the signing ceremony later today.

Courtesy of Oxford University Press, our second Swag Tuesday prize this week is The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience by Dr. Perry Halkitis, which is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. For young gay men who came of age in the United States in the 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was a formative experience in fear, hardship, and …

Courtesy of the Weinstein Company, today’s Swag Tuesday give away is a prize package for the film Philomena, which opens in New York City and Los Angeles on Friday and nationwide next week. The Weinstein Company presents: Philomena, in theaters this THANKSGIVING. Based on the incredible true story. The highly acclaimed new comedy from director Stephen Frears. Starring Dame Judi …

Freshman US House Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL), who bills himself as a “hip-hop conservative,” has been charged with cocaine possession. Radel, 37, was charged with misdemeanor possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday. Radel faces a maximum of 180 days in jail, as well as a possible fine up …

Via press release: The University of Central Florida (UCF) has ramped up its legal efforts to block the release of over 50,000 documents related to the flawed same-sex parenting study by Mark Regnerus that appeared last year in the publication Social Science Research, housed at UCF. A judge ruled the university had to release the documents, deemed public records under …

Told you this was coming. The title of the current ad is “Show Your Joe,” and Kmart includes sexual content during a Christmas hand bell choir performance. The commercial focuses on several men wearing Joe Boxer underwear thrusting in a sexualized way to the tune of Jingle Bells. They start gyrating and shaking themselves instead of the hand bells, intending …

Three Texas lesbians were freed yesterday after 15 years of imprisonment on child molestation charges that have now been debunked. Cheers erupted in a San Antonio court when a lawyer for the women told a packed gallery that a deal had been reached to allow the release of Kristie Mayhugh, Elizabeth Ramirez and Cassandra Rivera. A fourth woman convicted is …