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The funeral for Jose Julio Sarria, also known as the Widow Norton, was held yesterday at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral.  Sarria, who was the first openly gay person to ever run for public office in the United States, left instructions for his service: Female titleholders from his Imperial Court — the gay organization and charity he started in 1965 — …

Late yesterday afternoon New Mexico’s state Supreme Court agreed to decide on marriage equality in a hearing to begin next month. Stepping into an intensifying debate over same-sex marriage in a state where such unions are neither expressly recognized nor prohibited by law, the high court set a hearing for Oct. 23 to consider a request from all 33 counties …

The same-sex marriage movement suffered a blow in Australia today when Tony Abbott was elected prime minister in a vote that news outlets are calling “decisive” and  “a landslide.” Abbott, a former boxer, Rhodes scholar and trainee priest, promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat. But it was frustration with Labor’s …

For about a month all of Teabagistan has been up in arms about an Air Force sergeant who claims that his lesbian commander relieved him of duty because he “didn’t agree with her position on gay marriage.” Today retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin, who now works for the Family Research Council, sent out an update via press release: Today, I …

Sarah and Todd Palin are posting to her Facebook page from a bear hunt in Alaska, where Sarah is sporting the latest from the Lady Combat Survival line at Wasilla Guns & Ammo.

Via the Sacramento Bee: The Southern Baptist Convention, which provides the largest share of active-duty military chaplains, has barred members from taking part in weddings, counseling sessions and couples retreats for same-sex couples. The North American Mission Board, an arm of the Nashville, Tenn.-based SBC, also prohibits chaplains from participating in any services that would appear to endorse or accept …

Emboldened by the ban on “homosexual propaganda,” Russian neo-Nazis are entrapping, brutalizing, and even murdering gay teens. But Russia’s official news agency claims that Vladimir Putin says that “homosexuality is not considered a shameful stain in Russia.” Pravda adds that Putin welcomes any LGBT leaders to come see him personally at the Kremlin to voice their concerns.