Indiana Senate Democrats ♥ Servicemembers

The Indiana Senate Democrats launched a new video today touting everything they've done this year to support military service members and public safety officials.

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Oh, what a week(ly roundup)!

What a week for the Bilerico sites this has been! First we were named one of the Advocate's "Top Political Blogs" and then we celebrated our second birthday with news of an upcoming redesign.

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Queer music Friday - Tribe 8

There's been a lot of pop on the site lately, so I'm putting up a punk video from SF-based band Tribe 8.

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Freedom

Being the Fourth of July weekend, I thought it important to remind us of part of the Declaration of Independence.

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Click Here To Meet With Your US Legislators in August. Or Bye-Bye ENDA

Click here to sign up to meet with your US Senators and Representatives in August in your local district to press the case for HR 3017, The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Let them attend their own insider salons

I'm sure you've all at least hear about the story Politico broke yesterday about the Washington Post attempting to sell access to Obama officials, newsroom journalists, and editorial staff.

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The Relentless Damage of Pope Benedict XVI

It's not enough that he has set Catholicism back several decades (you should have known that was his objective when he chose the name of the last pope he could actually respect, Benedict XV, 1914-1922, who invented canon law).

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A Patriotic Foremother

Here's a quick historical tidbit in honor of the many patriotic songs played this weekend: Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," lived for 25 years with fellow Wellesley College professor Katherine Coman, in what is commonly called a "Boston marriage.

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2008 was most dangerously violent year for LGBT people in over a decade

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Kim Fountain, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the NYC Anti Violence Project.

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War! War! War!

Patrick Vandenburgh, writing for the Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard, wants a Christian revolutionary war:

It is time for a new Christian revolutionary war.

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