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A woman in Poland has been fined over $5000 for calling her young gay neighbor names like “faggot” and “queer.” A judge in north-west Poland ruled the 44-year-old woman had infringed Ryszard Giersz’s dignity by repeatedly verbally abusing him in public. The woman, identified in court as Anna S, was also ordered to pay Mr Giersz damages of 15,000 zloty …

On Friday, Ted Olson and David Boies filed briefs demanding that LGBT rights groups and the city of San Francisco not be allowed to join their federal suit to overturn Prop 8. Chad Griffin, president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which launched the suit, sent a letter in July accusing the advocacy groups of undermining the case in …

Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut chain with over 500 locations in the U.S., is sponsoring a National Organization for Marriage anti-gay event in Rhode Island, at which the featured speaker will be the reptilian Maggie Gallagher herself. Wesli Dymoke at Providence Daily Dose is floored: Yes, Tim Hortons. The Dunkin Donuts of Canada. You know, Canada — where same-sex marriage …

Over the last seven days… Florida: Pastor Bernard LeCorn charged with grand theft, uttering a false instrument, forgery and exploitation of the elderly.Connecticut: Father Michael Fadden claims that Bishop William Lori threatened to send him to a nuns’ convent after Fadden helped expose another priest who had embezzled $1M.Tennessee: Lawyers for Pastor John McCarroll claim that his arrest for indecent …

More than 70,000 Israelis, including President Shimon Peres, attended last night’s solidarity rally for the victims of the shooting at a Tel Aviv LGBT youth center. “The shots which struck this proud community affected us all as human beings, as Jews and as Israelis. The man who targeted the two victims targeted all of us,” Peres said. Two people died …

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.” – …

On a quiet acre of Hillside Campground is the Memorial Garden, where campers have paid tribute to friends and lovers lost over the decades of camp’s existence. The displays range from elaborately carved stones to mere photographs in plastic sleeves. There’s a pair of bronzed combat boots, and two feet away, a pair of bronzed pumps. Raucous groups of friends …

Carrie Prejean continues her “I will not be silenced” tour. Sean Hannity egged on the tea-bagggers in background: “How many of you agreed with her answer?” The crowd roared in homophobic unison.

Aaron, Chris and I got a later start than normal this morning, so we’re just now setting up camp in the twilight. It’s “Illuminations” weekend at Hillside, the time when everybody decorates their sites with strings of lights and many, many, many tea candles. Gay. The entire camp is mobbed this weekend, with more tents per site than I’ve ever …

The Specials, Ghost Town, 1981. One of my favorites from my year-long obsession with 2-Tone Records. Although I don’t think I quite got it at the time from Orlando, the song is a statement on Margaret Thatcher’s policies during a period of rife unemployment in the UK. I just thought it was spooky and cool.

“We (gays) are a sweet group of people who just really want to love and dance. We want to work and decorate our homes and fix up our houses. For us to have to fight for our equal rights for that is really strange.” “I could have probably been under that label (sex addict) but I was more of a …

According to World Net Daily, Hawaii state Sen. Will Espero has filed a bill to force his state’s Department of Health to release Barack Obama’s “long-form” birth certificate. Espero told WND his bill is aimed at “giving citizens access to birth records” under a standard of government transparency which would permit journalists to request in writing the public disclosure of …

Americans For Prosperity is an astroturf organization, one that poses as being comprised of “grassroots” individuals, but is actually largely funded by corporations opposed to reforms that would hurt their profitability.

With so many of NYC’s unemployed spending their idle time in coffeehouses, hovering for hours over their laptops, shop owners are beginning to put their foot down. Amid the economic downturn, there are fewer places in New York to plug in computers. As idle workers fill coffee-shop tables — nursing a single cup, if that, and surfing the Web for …

Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) had already said that he would not run for re-election in 2010, clearing the way for Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist to run for his seat. But today Martinez told his staffers that he is resigning and will not return to Washington after the August recess. That clears the way for Crist to appoint himself to …

When Rick Scott was the CEO of Columbia/HCA, then the nation’s largest health care provider, his company had to pay $1.7B, the largest fine in American history, for systematically defrauding the government on Medicare billing. Now Scott is the founder of the Conservatives For Patient Rights, the astroturf group buying airtime to oppose Obama’s health care reform plan. CNN’s Rick …

Yesterday No On 1/Protect Maine Equality issued a campaign ethics challenge to the anti-gay groups working to repeal marriage equality. Stand For Marriage Maine responded immediately, saying they’d be delighted to sign the pledge, but with the following provisos. 1. Agree to at least one public debate with the media invited to cover it live. The voters deserve to hear …

“It [ENDA] takes away the idea that sex is created by God in two different categories — male and female — and it makes it entirely a radical, self-determined persona. The larger problem of this is it turns private sin into a public right. It puts Christian and Jewish employers on the defensive, saying that if you don’t give in …