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News Round-Up: June 6, 2015

GOP presidential nominee Mike Huckabee (L) and Josh Duggar

Some news stories you may have missed:

• GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee gave a full-throated endorsement of Josh Duggar and his Duggar family when the current child molestation scandal broke. The day after the parent’s Fox News interview, the endorsement on Huckbee’s website disappeared.

• The U. S. Air Force eases their policy regarding transgender service

• 70,000 Scruff members share their Pride plans around the world. Guess which city is most excited about celebrating Pride?

• Haters petition the Olympics to revoke Caitlyn Jenner’s Olympic medals. The Olympics denies the request in succinct fashion.

• Senate Republicans vote against gay and lesbian vets’ access to spousal benefits that all other married veterans have.

• Legendary impersonator Jim Bailey passed away this week at the age of 77. Watch the clip below from an appearance on The Carol Burnett Show – what an amazing talent.

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News Round-Up: May 13, 2015

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Some stories you may have missed:

• Missouri’s anti-gay Speaker of the state’s House of Representatives, John Diehl, has been busted sexting with an unnamed college freshman intern. Diehl is married with three children, and a staunch defender of “traditional marriage.”

• Did you hear the one about the Texas lawmaker who introduced legislation to legalize discrimination against his own openly gay HIV+ son?

• And speaking of Texas, 1 in 15 students have chlamydia at West Texas high school where the only sex-ed teaches “abstinence only.” Clearly that doesn’t work.

• More Texas shenanigans – A dancer at a gentleman’s club has filed a restraining order against anti-gay but very married Texas state senator Charles Perry

• New Jersey Chris Christie spent an average of $1,400 of taxpayer money per football game at Metlife Stadium on food and booze

• A Reddit user created a Grindr account – for pizza – to hilarious results. Turns out the saucy hottie is quite popular on the dating scene.

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News Round-Up: April 18, 2015

News items you may have missed:

• At this point we all know to act right when sitting in the audience of a Patti LuPone performance. Well, everyone except this woman.

• Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the first gay protest. Bow in respect, please.

• Hollywood legend Rock Hudson’s former boyfriend recently spoke on how the couple kept their gay life secret.

• Jonathan Groff, star of HBO’s LOOKING, admits there was a time he was so closeted he couldn’t be in public with his boyfriend. Not even when he was nominated for a Tony Award.

• Jeb Bush and NJ Gov. Christ Christie want to raise the retirement age for Social Security

• Conan shows you how Hillary Clinton is just like the rest of us

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News Round-Up: February 14, 2015

Nick Jonas to headline 2015 Mardi Gras in Australia

Some stories you may have missed:

• Australia gets hot and hunky Nick Jonas to headline this year’s Mardi Gras

• 60% of likely 2016 voters support marriage equality

• Vanessa Williams heads back to TV in Fox pilot Fantasy

• Whackadoodle Sen. Ted Cruz wants the federal government to stop recognizing legal marriages in some states

• Bookies put the odds of Ireland’s marriage equality referendum at 6/1

• Teen Wolf gets a new “lone wolf” and he’s the “muscle twink of muscle twinks”

Cody Christian joins the cast of Teen Wolf
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News Round-up: February 3, 2015

Some stories you may have missed:

• Nine weeks before his death, Nancy Reagan declined to help Rock Hudson get into a hospital that might have saved his life or alleviated his illness because AIDS.

• Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, may have to reduce water service to only two days a week due to extreme drought.

• Virginia state Senate approved a bill which would provide important anti-discrimination protections for local and state LGBT government employees.

• The story of James Robertson of Detroit, who has walked 21 miles to work every day for the last decade, became a national story and launched a GoFundMe campaign that has raised over $233,000 to help James.

• President Obama’s new budget proposes allowing same-sex married couples to receive spousal Social Security benefits no matter what state they live in, as long as they are legally married – just like any married couple.

• Just one more reason to love ballet…

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News Roundup – January 17, 2015

Dot Marie Jones as “Coach Beiste”

A few news stories you might have missed:

• GLEE’s Dot Marie Jones (“Coach Beiste”) revealed this week that her character will transition from woman to man in a transgender story arc in the series’ final season.

• Climate change deniers should take note: 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history.

• Fox has announced “Grease: Live” – a live TV adaptation of the hit musical – will star Julianne Hough (“Dancing with the Stars”) as “Sandy,” and Vanessa Hudgens (“High School Musical”) as “Rizzo.”

• A pastor in Denver has attempted to ensnare a pro-LGBT baker with charges of discrimination because she wouldn’t bake a cake in the shape of a Bible with the words “God hates fags.”

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News Round-up: November 22, 2014

“Sexiest Teacher Alive” Nicholas Ferroni

• People Magazine announces the “Sexiest Teacher Alive” – and he supports teaching LGBT history in schools. Check videos below:

• This ferret TOTALLY thinks he can make this jump

• Newly elected incoming Republican Speaker of the Nevada Assembly is under fire for almost 20 years of anti-gay, racist and sexist op-eds

• Insult to injury – Walmart doesn’t pay it’s employees enough, so the company asks fellow employees to donate food to co-workers

• And doesn’t this photoshoot by photographer Steven Busken of DALLAS star Jesse Metcalfe deserve one more look…?

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News Round-up: November 12, 2014

Zachary Quinto

Stories you might have missed:

• OUT100 cover guy Zachary Quinto calls the LGBT community “complacent” in the new millennia of AIDS

• Texas state Sen. Donna Campbell looks to pass a constitutional “license to discriminate” against the gays

• A federal judge has ruled Michigan cannot ban benefits for same-sex couples, even if they aren’t allowed to marry

• Sting’s new Broadway musical, The Last Ship, opened to mixed reviews from the critics, so now the music legend may join the cast of the show to save the sinking “ship”

• Bravo Network’s Andy Cohen doesn’t read the gay blogosphere because he KNOWS what names he gets called there

Andy Cohen

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News Round-up: October 25, 2014

Prince Harry mentors kids at rugby camp

Some stories you may have missed:

• Hunky Prince Harry looks hot even when mentoring kids at rugby.

• “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” cancelled cause Mama Boo Boo is allegedly dating a convicted child molester.

• Guess which new TV series is already the first to be cancelled this season?

• Costco’s over 127,000 employees will definitely have Thanksgiving Day off to spend with their families. This is how to run a successful company, kids.

• North Carolina legislators consider legalizing “license to discriminate” for marriage officiants who don’t want to perform same-sex marriages.

• New book – Streisand: In The Camera Eye – features a collection of 170 photos spanning over 50 years of Barbra Streisand’s career, most of which have never been published.