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People Magazine has the story: Baxter, 66, and her longtime partner, contractor Nancy Locke, were married in an intimate ceremony on Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles. Close friends and family – including Baxter’s five children –, looked on as the couple exchanged handwritten vows. Music played a central theme in the celebration. A friend sang and played guitar during the …

Click over to Towleroad for Andy’s recap of the top coming out stories of 2013.  On the list: Tom Daley, Jason Collins, Jodie Foster, Chelsea Manning, Robbie Roberts, Wentworth Miller, Rep. Michael Micaud, and many more.

Today at 3:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT news items, including Matt Barber’s call for Eric Holder to have me arrested. Mike’s channel is SiriusXM Progress 127 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What’s on your mind?

“Macaela was not an ordinary 19 year old — she came out of the womb with her eyes changing into demonic colors! She had a demon that went way back 60 generations! The cocky demon Leviathan inside of her thought he was safe until now, when Macaela was freed!”

TIME Magazine today released the top ten finalists for Person Of The Year. On the list is Edith Windsor.  Here are the finalists in alphabetical order.  Bashar Assad, President of Syria Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder Ted Cruz, Texas Senator Miley Cyrus, Singer Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church Barack Obama, President of the United States Hassan Rouhani, President of …

Today Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he has abolished the official state news agency RIA Novosti. You may recall that I’ve excerpted RIA Novosti on several recent occasions and have noted the agency’s even-handed reporting of LGBT stories.  BBC News reports: In a surprise decree published on the Kremlin’s website on Monday, Mr Putin announced it would be replaced …

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz writes for the New York Times: Using surveys, social networks, pornographic searches and dating sites, I recently studied evidence on the number of gay men. The data used in this analysis is available in highly aggregated form only and can be downloaded from publicly accessible sites. While none of these data sources are ideal, they combine to tell …

Yesterday Rio De Janeiro became the 14th Brazilian state to legalize same-sex marriage. Over 130 couples married in a mass wedding at the state’s Superior Court of Justice. In mid-May, Brazilian courts determined that public offices that oversee marriages cannot reject gay couples, even though Brazil’s national congress has passed no law on the matter. Some public offices had already …

Clip recap: “As of this weekend, marriage equality has suddenly come to Australia — but there’s a catch. In fact, there are a lot of catches. Courts in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, and Utah could all be the first to rule on marriage in a post-DOMA world. And an equality lawsuit in Louisiana got knocked down, but not out.”