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  • Ellen DeGeneres awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

    Comedian Ellen DeGeneres was presented with the 15th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Monday night, in a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

  • Booted gay Boy Scout receives $20K scholarship during appearance on ‘Ellen’

    LOS ANGELES — A Moraga, Calif., teen who was kicked out of the Boy Scouts and denied his Eagle award because he is gay, was awarded a $20,000 scholarship from the online photo album company Shutterfly during an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres show on Thursday.

  • National Coming Out Day: Achieving progress through visibility

    On our road to equality, perhaps we’ll meet a day when “coming out” becomes a thing of the past. There will be no perception of difference, no fear, no worry and no anxiety. No declarations, no announcements, no revelations need be made. Nothing is questioned or second-guessed…

  • ‘Ellen,’ ‘Rosie’ show producer dies while vacationing in France

    LONDON — Jim Paratore, who launched the TMZ website and produced “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” died Tuesday after suffering a massive heart-attack while vacationing in France, the BBC has reported. He was 58.

  • ‘One Million Moms’ gives up campaign against Ellen DeGeneres, JC Penney

    Anti-gay group “One Million Moms” announced Thursday it has abandoned its campaign against retailer JC Penney over its recent hiring of popular daytime television talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres as its spokesperson.

  • JC Penney debuts Ellen DeGeneres commercials during Oscar telecast

    During last night’s Academy Awards broadcast, retail giant J.C. Penney debuted five new commercials featuring hugely popular daytime television talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres. You may recall that just weeks ago, Jc Penney came under fire from the anti-gay group “One Million Moms” over its recent hiring DeGeneres as its spokesperson.

  • Howard Stern pledges to defend Ellen from the ‘fucking bigots’

    NEW YORK — Radio personality Howard Stern this week angrily denounced anti-gay pronouncements and efforts by the right-wing conservative christian group “One Million Moms” to force retail giant JC Penny to remove Ellen DeGeneres as the company’s new spokesperson, and said he would defend Ellen from the “fucking bigots.”

  • Ellen responds to ‘One Million Moms:’ ‘My haters are my motivators’

    Ellen responds to ‘One Million Moms:’ ‘My haters are my motivators’

    Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday publicly responded to the anti-gay group “One Million Moms,” which recently called on retailer JC Penney to fire her as their spokesperson because she is gay.

  • Fischer: JC Penney responsible for rise in suicide, breast cancer due to partnership with Ellen

    Bryan Fischer, who last week explained how Bill Clinton was responsible for the rise in oral cancer, is back with another attack on JC Penney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres, this time claiming it will lead to more depression, suicide, and breast cancer among women who become lesbians due to the store’s choice of spokesperson:

  • Fischer: JC Penney promoting deviant behavior by hiring Ellen DeGeneres

    Once upon a time, Bryan Fischer believed that trying to get someone fired from their job was a hate crime. But that is apparently only the case if the person getting fired is a Christian and the people urging the firing are gay because Fischer and the American Family Association are now trying to get JC Penney to fire Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson solely because she is gay.