Newsmakers

Does she, or doesn't she? Cindy McCain, wife of U.S. Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) spoke out against the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy in an anti-bullying campaign this week, only to seemingly perform an about face just one day later. [ Read more → ]

James Manning, a New York City-based Pentecostal minister has recently released a video in which he states that use of the homophobic epithet, "Fag" is biblically acceptable and needs to be employed frequently when referring to any LGBT person [ Read more → ]

Tom Parker, a Republican state supreme court justice in Alabama who has spent nearly $1.5 million dollars on his campaign for reelection, has compared U. S. District Court Judge Virgina Phillips to the Islamic extremist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. [ Read more → ]

Betty White, whose status as a gay icon dates to the mid-80’s popularity of the NBC sitcom "The Golden Girls," sat down with Parade magazine to talk her love of animals, her fans, and her belief that everyone should have the right to say “I do.” [ Read more → ]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif.) adds her voice to the chorus of Americans across the country as part of the "It Gets Better Project" to tell LGBT youth, "You are not alone, it gets better." [ Read more → ]

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week joined the thousands of Americans that have come together as part of the It Gets Better Project to share stories of hope and encouragement for LGBT youth who are struggling with bullying and intolerance... [ Read more → ]

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, is under siege by both conservatives and Democrats for saying that he did not want his children "brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality" was an acceptable option. [ Read more → ]

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), an emerging Tea Party hero, told a crowd of supporters in South Carolina Friday that he will continue to recruit like-minded Conservatives across the nation to run for Congress and pastors to join the fight to “take our country back.” [ Read more → ]

Rapper 50 CENT is defending his controversial Twitter post from earlier this week, insisting the comment -- which implied gay men should commit suicide -- was misinterpreted. The ill-timed post has infuriated members of the LGBTQ community [...] [ Read more → ]

The federal judge who attracted national attention for his decision last month striking down California's Proposition 8 and lambasting supporters of traditional marriage, has announced that he will retire from the bench in February. As Chief Judge for the Northern District of California, Vaughn R.... [ Read more → ]

Ken Mehlman, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and the campaign manager who helped win a second term for President George W. Bush on his anti-gay marriage platform has announced that he is homosexual. [ Read more → ]

Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq war veteran who has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," the military ban on openly gay service members, has been discharged from the Army National Guard. [ Read more → ]

"The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional." -- Ted Olson, a staunch conservative and one of the attorneys challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8. [ Read more → ]

Props to actress Renee Zellweger, who showed her support for marriage equality this week by taking a break from her daily dose of caffeine at a Los Angeles-area Starbucks to sign a petition supporting same-sex marriage. [ Read more → ]

Prosecutors have dropped all charges against two openly gay service members who twice chained themselves to a White House fence to protest the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. [ Read more → ]

Two openly gay U.S. Army National Guard soldiers who were arrested for handcuffing themselves to a White House fence, have subpoenaed President Obama to defend them in court, citing they were following orders to lobby him for gay rights. [ Read more → ]

Actress Julianne Moore is calling on U.S. legislators to legalize same sex marriage, insisting people of all sexual orientations should have the same rights... "everyone should have the same rights. It's a right, no one should be denied that." [ Read more → ]

In a New Yorker magazine profile, , assessing his chances in the 2012 Presidential race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee expounded upon his opposition to gay marriage with this well considered prose: "We can get into the ick factor..." [ Read more → ]

Rapper Eminem, famed for his homophobic lyrics, appears to have had a change of heart and has declared his support of gay marriage -- cynically anyway -- saying "everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable." In an interview with The New York Times... [ Read more → ]

A Christian news site is making headlines by claiming Ellen DeGeneres is responsible for the ratings erosion of Fox's American Idol. [caption id="attachment_8098" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="DeGeneres"][/caption] According to Gary McCullough, the director of Christian Newswire, Idol‘s decline can be directly linked to DeGeneres, whom he... [ Read more → ]