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Unlike Dustin Lance Black and George Takei, Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson actually lives in New York City.

“Let me put it this way, some people have balls, some people don’t, alright? Some of them truly believe that they need direction from on high and they’re not willing to do a constitutional analysis. Some of them are philosophically opposed so they wouldn’t do it unless they were brought to the shed and whacked.” – Dona Ana County Clerk …

Business Insider: “Using Census data, we’ve figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.” The list of counties is at the link.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, seen above officiating at Minnesota’s first same-sex wedding, is in Chicago today to launch “Marry Me In Minneapolis,” a campaign that invites Illinoisans to visit his city for their gay marriages. Rybak’s message is that Chicagoans no longer have to make a long and expensive trip to the coasts to get married, just the six-hour drive …

The British LGBT rights group Stonewall has short-listed Scott Lively and Pat Robertson for their 2013 Bigot Of The Year award.  Gay Star News recaps the three other nominees: British vicar George Gebauer stunned parents Aimi and Victoria Leggett when he refused to baptize their baby because they both wanted to be named as the child’s mothers. Not only that, …

Perkins is doubtlessly thrilled. Hit the headlines for the stories.

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Back in April, I reported that Chelsea’s Pier 57, which last year hosted an indoor version of NYC Pride’s famed Pier Dance, had been leased to retail developers who promise a massive $200M makeover.  This week the project’s management announced that the new complex will be called SuperPier. From the press release: SuperPier, when complete in the spring of 2015, …

I’ve been streaming this track all summer and finally there’s a video. A dance remix EP has also just gone live on iTunes.

A member of Russia’s Duma has introduced a bill that would allow the state to to remove children from the homes of their gay parents. Pink News reports: Lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov has proposed a bill that will would deny gay parents custody over their own children. If passed it would make “non traditional sexual orientation” a basis for the deprivation …