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During his victory speech, former MTA head Joe Lhota crowed and crowed as if he didn’t just take only ten percent of the votes won by Bill De Blasio, who competed in a hotly contested ten-person field. During his speech Lhota reaffirmed his support for stop-and-frisk, declaring, “I won’t handcuff our police officers.” But he will handcuff thousands of innocent …

I was leaning towards Spitzer until his campaign came up with that NAMBLA bullshit against Stringer.

Johnson ran to represent Christine Quinn’s former district, which covers much of Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea. Johnson came out as HIV+ in a May interview with the New York Times.  His opponent was openly lesbian lawyer Yetta Kurland. Johnson will face Republican Richard Stewart in the general election and should cruise to any easy win.

Openly lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn finished with 15% of the vote. She has conceded.

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Posted today to NOM’s blog: Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak is launching an ad campaign encouraging Wisconsin same-sex couples to come to his town to ‘marry’. The campaign, which will start running in Milwaukee and Madison area publications, is already being called a shameless attempt at self-promotion, with the mayor simply using marriage to raise his own profile. Keep in mind, …

Via press release: Free weddings services for same-sex couples are now being offered by humanist celebrants for active duty military personnel. This national endeavor is in support of the Jan. 2014 implementation of full spousal rights for same-sex couples in the military. Scores of humanist celebrants certified by the American Humanist Association’s Humanist Society are waiving their ceremony fee as …