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Here’s a shot of this weekend’s 2012 Haas Convening, where LGBT journalists gathered in Houston for training and updates on the movement’s latest issues. Attending were such well-known bloggers as Jeremy Hooper (Good As You), Bil Browning (Bilerico Project), David Badash (New Civil Rights Movement), Rod McCollum (Rod 2.0), Zack Ford (Think Progress), Noah Michelson (HuffPo Gay Voices) and Scott …

North Carolina’s marriage vote is May 8th and the good guys need dough to get their message out.

Thousands gathered in Cleveland yesterday for a mass protest wedding of over 250 gay couples. While some were dressed in more casual attire they all had the same intention: to send a message to the state of Ohio to recognize same-sex marriage. Sierra Chapman, 25 and Sandy Thomas, 48, both of Cleveland, recreated a private service held three years ago. …

New Hampshire residents: Do it right now.

Here’s the Lada Gaga-themed follow-up to last week’s Kylie-themed clip from Australia’s Community Brave Foundation. Facebook page.

“After more than 600,000 deaths from AIDS in this country and about 30 million around the globe, scientists still haven’t found a cure or vaccine. But there are highly effective treatments, and H.I.V.-infected people who get proper medical care — which isn’t, mind you, nearly enough of them — can expect long, full lives. And that’s largely because 25 years …

Brandon K. Thorpe writes at Towleroad: Rick Santorum was 15 minutes into his very gloomy speech in the Grace Gym at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, IL, when — suddenly! From the bleachers! “Mic check! Mr. Santorum! Mr. Santorum!” And the crowd’s heads turned, and a storm of booing filled the gymnasium’s air as two men stood and kissed, …

Tomorrow’s HRC fundraiser in Los Angeles will be jointly protested by GetEQUAL and Occupy Wall Street. Via press release: [We] will protest the HRC’s Los Angeles fundraising gala in response to their selection of Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, as the national corporate spokesperson for marriage equality and for honoring Sachs with the HRC Corporate Equality award. Additionally, the protest …

Equality Pennsylvania sends us this alert. A vote on House Bill (HB) 1434 is scheduled for TUESDAY, MARCH 13 in the House State Government Committee. Now is the time to let your voice be heard. HB 1434, proposed by Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, would not only amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to define marriage as a legal union between one man and …

In drag to mark Internatio​nal Women’s Day.(Tipped by JMG reader Joseph)

JMG reader Paul Thomasson writes to tip us to a project he’s embarked upon in which he is using the just-released list of names on an anti-gay petition to write and ask for a reconsidered attitude in Washington state’s upcoming ballot battle on marriage. Hit the link to read Paul’s full email and to see the more than 50 responses …

The Empire State Pride Agenda has let go its executive director, Ross Levi. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: Barely eight months after New York State’s gay rights movement won its biggest victory ever, with the enactment of marriage equality, the Empire State Pride Agenda, the state’s LGBT lobby, has fired its executive director, Ross Levi. The action came …

American Foundation for Equal Rights co-founder Chad Griffin has been hired to succeed Joe Solmonese as president of the Human Rights Campaign. Via press release: Chad H. Griffin was appointed today as the next president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, by the organization’s Board of Directors. Griffin, …

Protect All NC Families has launched a website and the below clip as they seek financial and volunteer support for their campaign to thwart the coming anti-marriage constitutional amendment.

That’s what longtime HIV/AIDS activist Peter Staley asks his readers on Poz.com I know I haven’t, and I’m betting most POZ/AIDSmeds readers haven’t either. Then why aren’t we fighting harder for research towards a cure? And why aren’t we pushing back harder against congress for recently blocking support for needle exchange programs, or taking Obama to task for his proposed …

An exhibit chronicling the history of HIV/AIDS activism in San Francisco will open on March 5th at the GLBT Museum. Via press release: “Life and Death in Black and White: AIDS Direct Action in San Francisco, 1985-1990,” focuses on the work of five queer photographers who documented the emergence of militant AIDS activism in San Francisco through the medium of …

The activist group All Out responds to yesterday’s banning of the “promotion” of homosexuality by St. Petersburg. According to news reports, emboldened anti-gay forces are working to install a nationwide version of the ban.(Tipped by JMG reader Vivian)