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LGBTQNation will be among the throng of reporters at Hillary Clinton’s Election Night headquarters, bringing you live updates all night.

The Disney-owned network’s decision to drop the antigay antagonist and idealogue didn’t deter its Comcast cable news rival.

Former Congressman Barney Frank threw shade while maintaining he would be fair to Sanders at the Democratic National Convention.

NEW YORK — MSNBC and Alec Baldwin say they are ending the actor’s talk show, which was suspended for two weeks after the actor used an anti-gay slur against a photographer in a New York City street.

SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Baldwin jokingly professed his love for a man in front of a large crowd Wednesday as he tried to ease the backlash triggered by an Internet clip that captured him berating a photographer with what sounded like a gay slur.

NEW YORK — Alec Baldwin’s new weekly MSNBC talk show was suspended for two episodes after the actor was videotaped using an anti-gay epithet against a photographer during a New York street encounter.

There are some people whose views are so intractable that they will never – as the President put it – “evolve” on this issue. But those folks really are few and far between. To tell the full story on marriage equality, the media needs to talk to folks who have changed their minds on the issue and explore the changes that are happening in our culture that has led to a majority of Americans now supporting marriage equality. It also needs to expose the true roots of the views of people like FRC President Tony Perkins, so that Americans know who he is when he shows up in these debate segments…

MSNBC commentator Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday blasted North Carolina preacher Sean Harris, calling him a “hate-driven pastor” for advocating violence as a corrective measure to prevent that child from being gay or lesbian, and a “liar” for denying much of what he said in an unapologetic retraction.

Amid a growing outcry from progressive Christian leaders to take Family Research Council President Tony Perkins off the air, MSNBC has rejected an ad exposing his and FRC’s extensive record of hate speech against gay and lesbian Americans.

From the Nick Pinto at the Village Voice comes this video of Bradlee Dean’s press conference on Wednesday, where he announced a $50 million lawsuit against the “left wing media” — MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Minnesota Independent and Independent reporter Andy Birkey — on what Dean claims is defamation against him personally and his ministry.