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"Smash" producers get top award by gay media group http://www.reuters.com/articl...

"Smash" producers get top award by gay media group http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/26/entertainment-us-usa-glaad-idUSBRE82O03R20120326


Smash producers get top award by US gay media group
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The producers of the new TV musical drama series Smash were honored by gay and lesbian watchdog group GLAAD at a gala on Saturday that highlighted gay marriage and bullying.Neil Meron

We celebrate again being in the top 20 list on this Amazon.com book bestseller l...

We celebrate again being in the top 20 list on this

Amazon Best Sellers: best Gay & Lesbian Biographies
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Discover the best Gay & Lesbian Biographies in Best Sellers. Find the top 100 most popular items in Amazon Books Best Sellers.

Lena Horne sings "Push de Button" from the 1957 Broadway show Jamaica. Alan Shay...

Lena Horne sings "Push de Button" from the 1957 Broadway show Jamaica. Alan Shayne was a part of this all-star cast as the radio announcer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM8uJepJV7I


LENA HORNE - Push The Button
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Lena sang this awesome song in the 1957 Broadway show called Jamaica. LENA ROCKS! I wish there was video but there doesn't seem to be any of this song. Ricar...

Be heard: make sure you know where you can make a difference.

Be heard: make sure you know where you can make a difference.

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Marriage News Watch
Obama advisers debating gay marriage - Excerpt from Washington Post: This does not mean that ... http://ow.ly/1il5ZP

What amazing heroes we have in Rob and Michele Reiner, David Geffen and Steve Bi...

What amazing heroes we have in Rob and Michele Reiner, David Geffen and Steve Bing for building the foundation of the most effective fight for equal rights the gay community has received. They have managed to combine money matters with brilliant legal maneuvering. The generous names that have signed onto their campaign are inspiring and surprisingly varied, yes gay and straight! Also, bravo to journalists Adam Nagourney and Brookes Barnes for getting this story on the front page of the New York Times on March 24. Hopefully more power and money will climb aboard this battle train. As Norman Lear puts it, "the right way to go."

Our country was not founded with money - our country was founded with ideals. To...

Our country was not founded with money - our country was founded with ideals. Today is different. Money is the key to unlatching good causes or bad. We thank the people who are using their wealth to secure equality for all of us.


Reiner, Geffen, Singer, Mehlman have common cause in gay marriage push
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Nagourney and Barnes look at the bipartisan and eclectic group of donors that make up efforts to make gay marriage legal across the nation, led by director Rob Reiner, mogul David Geffen, and supported by hedge fund executive and Mitt Romney supporter Paul Singer, among others: "Our feeling is not t...

More on Facebook co-founder/ The New Republic editor-in-chief Chris Hughes's don...

More on Facebook co-founder/

Facebook's Chris Hughes Gives $250,000 To 'Win More States' On Gay Marriage
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Gay marriage group Freedom to Marry on Thursday announced a campaign to fund fights in five 2012 marriage battleground states

From today's The New York Times--an astonishing collection of donors who are col...

From today's

Gay Marriage Effort Is Attracting a Novel Group of Donors
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A fund-raising network seeking to legalize same-sex marriage includes a group of donors not quite like others who have supported gay-related issues.

Take note, lawmakers. And that is all of us.

Take note, lawmakers. And that is all of us.


New Hampshire House Rejects Gay Marriage Repeal Bill
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New Hampshire lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have made their state legislature the first one to repeal a gay marriage law.

Congratulations to all the nominees. And to the Lambda Literary Awards itself,...

Congratulations to all the nominees. And to the Lambda Literary Awards itself, for 24 years of recognizing books with LGBT content.


24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced
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Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced today by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. Books from major mainstream publishers and from academic presses, from both long-established and new LGBT publishers, as well as from emerging publish-on-demand technologies, make u...