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After last week’s first gay wedding in France, the Agency France-Presse posted the above map.

Clip description: Marriage loses in Illinois. Plus, more surveys show support for marriage continues to climb across the country. And lawmakers introduce not one, but four different bills to legalize marriage in Michigan. We’ll go over the differences and take a look at public opinion.

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Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Katie Couric, the cast of Kinky Boots and several other Broadway shows performed a lip-sync in tribute to the 30th anniversary of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Cyndi Lauper’s first Tony nomination.  Lauper is up for Best Original Score for Kinky Boots at this Sunday’s Tony Awards.

Gizmodo reports: Visitors to Orlando Universal can now quench their thirst and stuff their faces at Moe’s Tavern, Krusty Burger, Cletus’ Chicken Shack, the Frying Dutchman, Luigi’s Pizza, and even finish it all off with one of Lard Lad’s gigantic donuts. For fans of the series, it’s a dream come true, and the only place on earth you’ll be able …

A small group of Boy Scouts broke the rules yesterday when they marched in uniform with a Mormon organization in Salt Lake City’s pride parade. Peter Brownstein, a Scoutmaster in Salt Lake City who helped organize the Boy Scouts participation in the march, said a few adults and youth marched at the front of the parade in uniform, including a …

“You have powerful principalities; you have spiritual principalities that have a fair amount of control over large, centralized systems and these demonic systems find opportunity to control these large, centralized organizations. That’s one reason why it is so dangerous to centralized power; it is very dangerous, that’s one reason why our nation was inherently decentralized at the beginning. Friends, this …

NOM is continuing to celebrate the failure of the Illinois House to vote on marriage, this time with an image that shows confetti streaming down on a toppled Capitol Building.  It’s an anti-gay Day After Tomorrow! Unsurprisingly, the image comes attached to NOM’s latest money beg: Today NOM is announcing the formation of a “Win More States” fund. Contributions to …

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 109 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week?