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How Pam Spaulding And Other Gay Inc Bloggers May Have Already Swayed Outcome Of Midterm Elections

We knew there was gonna be a touch of fallout from our post Minus Gay Inc. White Privilege Delusions: Is Obama Wrong To Appeal DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? We just didn’t realize how much. For starters, strangely Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend decided that it was some personal attack aimed specifically at [...]

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Gay Marriage Center Stage In Political Races Across Country

From AP: This election will be the first since the 1990s without a measure to ban gay marriage on any state ballot, yet the divisive issue is roiling races across the country during a time of tumult for the gay rights movement. In Minnesota, New Hampshire, California and New York, gubernatorial campaigns have become battlegrounds [...]

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Gay Taxpayer’s Receipt: Nope, Not Paying For Blacks On Welfare After All

We’re sure the likes of Dan Savage and David Mixner will be thrilled to hear that.  Actually we stole the “blacks on welfare”  (couldn’t resist) line from Black Voices, where we originally came across this info on taxes. As we all know the Repubs have been making a big deal on the belief that taxes [...]

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Liberty Council Freaks Out Over Repubs Backing Gay Marriage; Circulates Hate Pledge

From Right Wing Watch: Conservative group the Liberty Counsel is “totally APPALLED that certain conservative leaders are backing down in their defense of marriage while making major concessions to the views of the pro-homosexual community.” Obviously, “certain conservative leaders” means “Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, and others who waffle to take a strong public stand for the [...]

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MLK’s Niece Alveda King Blasted For Glenn Beck Rally Support; Black LGBT Groups Blow Chance To Coalesce

Dr. King’s niece, Alveda King, is scheduled to speak at Glenn Beck’s Washington DC rally this weekend as part of her crusade against pro-abortion rights in the African American community. Says AOL’s Dr. Boyce, “King, is not making many friends this week. Her decision to join forces with Fox News host Glenn Beck during his [...]

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Black Tea Party Members Say Racism? What Racism?

At a Washington DC press conference on Wednesday, several African American individuals identifying themselves as members of the conservative Tea Party movement gathered to defend the Tea Party against accusations of racism according to AOL’s Black Voices. Clearing the air for the rest of us—black and white, these folks dismissed the racist letter written by [...]

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The Tragedy Of The Black Gay Blogosphere Keeps Getting More Tragic

We had an interesting non-exchange this afternoon with black gay blogger Alvin McEwen of the blog Holy Bullies And Headless Monsters. Mr. McEwen has been keeping himself preoccupied lately on Huff Post these days with essays condemning the racism of the Tea Party. Oh, he’s all worked up about it. And not that we find [...]

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