You know, sometimes it's great to be wrong. Last week I was feeling gloomy after the first set of New Hampshire towns voted overwhelmingly for the non-binding petition ("warrant article") that asked their state legislators to put an anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment on the statewide ballot. Although most towns voting on March 9th did pass the bigoted article, I incorrectly extrapolated that result to the entire state. How happy I am today to read that, as we factor in the results from towns that had town meeting yesterday, March 13th, 77% of New Hampshire towns and cities have rejected the call to put discrimination into their constitution!
Final numbers have yet to be posted, but here are the stats to-date:
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 Lady Gaga made her second appearance on UK talk show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross over the weekend. Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
 The National Organization for Marriage has been robo-calling D.C. residents this week and polling them on same-sex marriage. With, as DailyKos reports, a trick question: Ordinarily, I hang up on all telemarketing calls, but today I got a robocall survey...
 Not something you see every day: "A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared to be staring into the jaws of death when visitors saw it nose to nose with an open-mouthed hippopotamus. But the hippo had no intention of having the...
I would like to (a) amplify the update that Lurleen noted this past week from Dean Barker, the editor of our Granite State blog Blue Hampshire - that one shouldn't be distraught over some towns voting to support a referendum on the marriage equality law that went into effect two months ago - as well as highlight one town's response yesterday that should .... well, bring a smile to PHB readers.
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Town Meeting Day is a sight-to-behold here in New England; democracy in the true sense of the word. Voters actually approve/reject articles concerning the purchase of items such as tractors or fire alarm upgrades, all the way to school budgets.
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 The GLAAD Media Awards were handed out last night at the Marriott Marquis ballroom in New York's Times Square. The Excellence in Media Award was presented to Joy Behar. Cynthia Nixon received the Vito Russo Award. Brothers and Sisters (ABC)...
 Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli stands by remarks he made last week which caused outrage and protest across the state of Virginia, the Washington Post reports: "In some of his first public comments on the issue since his letter last...
 Last week after the Eric Massa scandal broke, Massa told Glenn Beck that he did "grope" a male staffer: "Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on...
 While 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is an unjust policy in and of itself, it's particularly unjust when someone playing by the military's rules is outed by a third party and discharged because of it. In Sergeant Jene Newsome's case, the...
In a week ago Saturday's (March 6, 2010's) San Antonio Express, I read that the police officer that was charged with raping a trans woman recently has now been accused of raping another:
Two days after a San Antonio police officer was arrested and accused of rape, another person has complained he was the victim of a sexual assault by the on-duty officer, Police Chief William McManus said.
McManus said the man alleged Officer Craig Nash, 39, assaulted him sometime in the summer of 2008.
Police spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez was unable to provide further details of the allegation Friday.
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It's just time to do some fun, mindless chatting about commercials. Most are forgettable, and a lot of them are memorable. The ones I remember most are usually paired with interesting music or visuals that are compelling, and of course, are funny.
Many times, favorite commercials tend to be ones we remember from childhood, or nowadays, are targeted. I think what's pretty interesting is how marketing has changed over the years -- it's obviously more sophisticated in some ways, more annoying in other ways -- obvious manipulation, screaming pitchmen/women, and the godawful commercials for local businesses.
Anyway, here's a couple that I'm fond of.
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The documentary debuted tonight at 8PM ET and repeats at 11 PM. How many of you watched and what did you think of it?
Autumn will have a review up later. More information on the documentary:
 The former Largo, FL, city manager appeared to have the perfect life: a loving wife and son, an influential job. Stanton described it as "paradise." That dream world - "Steven's World" - all changed when Stanton's plans to become a woman were revealed. Stanton tells a dramatic story of public and private struggle during this transition. Interviews with Stanton's wife, teen-age son and co-workers, along with childhood diaries, personal journals, and family films, take viewers into the world of Steven as he transitions to Susan.
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The United Sates is currently involved in two wars. Is the president out to destroy our military? Can any thinking American wish to see an "open" cross-dressing homosexual Army general trying to gain the trust of his troops (or for that matter, the nation)? Have we as a nation fallen so far that we need to apologize to Sodom?
~David A. Noebel, in the WorldNetDaily article Ready for cross-dressing Army generals?
Okay, I frequently see the conflating of gay and transgender, but WingNutDaily's David A. Noebel has ramped up wingnuttery by a factor of elevendy-billion. Seriously, the guy has got some serious fear-mongering going relating to repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
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 In an e-mail to supporters, Dr. Shilpen Patel, Co-chair of the Board of Directors for Equal Rights Washington announced that Josh Friedes will be the new Executive Director of Equal Rights Washington.
Full disclosure, Josh is a friend of mine. We worked closely together on the Washington Families Standing Together to Approve Referendum 71 campaign that brought the historic expansion of LGBT rights to Washington families last November.
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 We're really heading into weird territory now. In what is supposed to be a defense of Pope Benedict from accusations of covering up pedophile priest cases, the Vatican spokesbots are handling this with complete ineptitude.
The Vatican spokesman, speaking to Vatican Radio and Associated Press Television News, defended Benedict.
"It's rather clear that in the last days, there have been those who have tried, with a certain aggressive persistence, in Regensburg and Munich, to look for elements to personally involve the Holy Father in the matter of abuses," the Rev. Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio.
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 Bad pope: "The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal last night as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The cleric went on to reoffend and was...
 Cue the Twilight Zone music. Eerie, otherworldly lights have been appearing over the shores of Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio for more than a week and nobody can seem to explain them. Watch local news and MSNBC's David Shuster reporting,...
 Iowa Family Policy Center's Chuck Hurley, the state's most ambitious anti-gay wingnut, who organized rallies to pressure the state Supreme Court over its ruling on marriage equality, says giving gays marriage rights is facilitating disease, citing a report this week...
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters To say that Family Research Council head Tony Perkins isn't happy about the fact that gays and lesbians can marry in Washington, D.C. should be considered a huge understatement.
He makes this incredibly ridiculous statement about the marriages:
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Jennifer Vanasco, editor in chief at 365gay.com, kindly dropped the Blend a line to say that video from the bull session with Ted Olson and David Boies at the NYT's offices has been released. I completely agree with what she said here (and wish I could have been there to see it):
Even if you've read stories about the evening, Boies and Olson speak with such passion and persuasion that the video is worth watching. Being in the same room with them was like being in the presence of history.
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