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Monday, August 11
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Seattle filmmaker and former city council candidate injured in anti-gay assault: "Cogswell and his friend were taken to the hospital, where Cogswell received five stitches in his cheek, and doctors found that his right orbital bone—one of the...
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Thursday, July 31
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Gay Porn Blog (site NSFW) reports that actor Cole Ryder has died: "Although details are sketchy at this point, former Rascal Exclusive Cole Ryder died of a staph infection in his sleep. One of the first of a crop of... Read more...
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Wednesday, July 30
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Blue Cross of Western New York says they'll offer spousal health care benefits to validly married gay and lesbian couples: "The news comes less than three weeks after the NYCLU filed a lawsuit against the company on behalf of a... Read...
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Tuesday, July 29
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The Lambda Literary Awards celebrated its 20th anniversary in June, and screened a clip acknowledging the LGBT writers and literary figures who have passed in the two decades since its inception. Tony Valenzuela and Robert Ferrante produced and...
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Tuesday, July 22
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Estelle Getty, source of many a laugh over the years as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls died early this morning at the age of 84 at her home in the Hollywood Hills: "Getty, who suffered from advanced dementia, died... Read more...
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Wednesday, July 09
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Yesterday I posted a flashback to a 1991 action by ACT UP in which seven members of the activist group fitted Jesse Helms' Arlington, Virginia home with a condom to draw attention to the late senator's vocal opposition to AIDS... Read more...
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Tuesday, July 08
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Thomas Disch, a poet, critic, and author of science fiction, died at his apartment in New York on Friday, July 4th, of an apparent suicide. He was 68. NYT: "His friend Alice K. Turner said Mr. Disch shot himself. She... Read more...
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Wednesday, June 25
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The investigation surrounding Ciara Durkin, a lesbian serving in Afghanistan whose mysterious death (she was found with a single bullet in her head, lying near the church where she worshipped on the secure Bagram Airfield) spurred calls for investigation...
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Monday, June 23
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The comedian and actor George Carlin has died in Santa Monica, California of heart failure after being admitted to a hospital over the weekend. He was 71. A recent appearance on Countdown with Keith Olbermann where he discusses right wing... Read...
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Tuesday, June 17
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Gay panic: Trial to begin for Cesar Israel Villazano in Florida. He shot a man wearing a mini-skirt and high heels in the back of the head for making a sexual advance: "Villazano told police he was embarrassed because he... Read more...
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Monday, June 16
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TIM RUSSERT: TPM remembers the Meet the Press host and NBC Washington Bureau Chief. GOP SENATOR GORDON SMITH: Senator Gordon Smith of Oregon likens persecution of gays to persecution of Mormons for their views on marriage. FATHER'S DAY: Barack...
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Monday, June 16
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Tim Russert's son Luke talks to Matt Lauer... The Human Rights Campaign contributed $4,300 to Hillary Clinton's campaign and $0 to Barack Obama. Records show that the other contenders received the following amounts: Dodd — $3,000, Edward...
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Monday, June 02
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Fashion legend and brilliant master of couture Yves Saint Laurent died at his apartment in Paris on Sunday at the age of 71. Some excerpts from the NYT obit: * "Mr. Saint Laurent achieved instant fame in 1958 at the... Read more...
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Tuesday, May 27
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The great director Sydney Pollack died of cancer on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 73: "Mr. Pollack’s career defined an era in which big stars (Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Warren Beatty) and the filmmakers who knew how to wrangle... Read...
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Friday, May 16
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The actor John Phillip Law, who played the blind angel Pygar in Barbarella, has died at the age of 70 in Los Angeles. Watch the clip, AFTER THE JUMP... Read more...
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Thursday, May 15
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Illinois' first openly gay legislator, former state rep. Larry McKeon, died on Tuesday the Chicago Tribune reports: "McKeon, 63, a Chicago Democrat, did not seek re-election in 2006 because of health struggles that included cancer and an...
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Tuesday, May 06
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House owned by gay escort to socialites James Hunt Barkerburns in Palm Beach, Florida. Britney back as Neil Patrick Harris' trophy gal on How I Met Your Mother. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute gala was themed Superheroes...
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Thursday, May 01
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D.C. Madam commits suicide in Florida...Whitney Houston's daughter attempts... HRC's VP of Programs, David Smith, talked to Michelangelo Signorile about why the Human Rights Campaign is not endorsing anyone in the Oregon Senate race, why...
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