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It’s a close race for the White House, a close race for Tammy Baldwin’s bid to the U.S. Senate, five unpredictable outcomes on marriage related votes, and an openly gay caucus in Congress that could total either three or six by the end of the evening.

The New York Times on Sunday officially endorses President Barack Obama for re-election.

The Obama administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to make the case of an 83-year-old New York lesbian who had to pay $363,000 in estate taxes its highest priority among the pending lawsuits challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.

QUEENS, N.Y. — A prominent figure in the local gay community died Thursday after being removed from life support. Lou Rispoli, 62, died from injuries sustained in a savage, early morning attack last week.

An Asheville-area Republican political operative has taken to Twitter to call Susan Wilson, an openly lesbian contender for a N.C. State House seat, “an old ugly dyke.”

After a year without a permanent executive director, the statewide LGBT lobbying group Equality California announced Wednesday that the board of directors has selected John O’Connor, who currently serves as the executive director of the LGBT Community Center of the Desert in Palm Springs, to fill the position.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights is debunking a new video by the National Organization for Marriage — entitled “Marriage 101” — calling it propaganda that includes claims that NOM knows are not true.

A Texas gay couple say that the national media attention they received after finding “leave or die fags,” painted on their Clarendon, Texas home only made matters worse, until readers of an LGBTQ blog pitched in to give the couple a new start.

COON RAPIDS, Minn. — The parent of a gay teen who committed suicide as a result of bullying is speaking out over the decision by the Anoka-Hennepin School District to appoint a leading gay rights opponent to its newly created anti-bullying task force.

WASHINGTON — The man accused of opening fire and shooting a security guard inside the offices of the Family Research Council in August, will face seven new charges when he appears in federal court on Friday, including committing an act of terrorism while armed.