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Recent headlines and links from lgbtQnews.com Twitter stream:

RT @QueerjohnPA @xtra_canada: Queer film experts baffled by detention of gay films at Canada's border  [Link:NYTimes TV Watch] RT @nlgja: Adam Lambert - Community Standard or Double Standard? RT @greghernandez: Video: Neil Patrick Harris recommends the Muppets version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” RT @gayknowndonor: Meet the U.

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Deep thanks to all readers. Especially ‘followers’

Qnews  less than a day ago

Let me take a moment on this day dedicated (in the US) to giving thanks, to thank those who read this news-blog.

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Video: 'What do you want from me?' and other Glambertana from Early Show

Qnews  less than a day ago

So, after all the pixels of virtual ink (and some of the real oil-based stuff, too) that’s been spilled since Adam Lambert’s American Music Awards performance, this seems the best response: Lambert singing “What Do You Want From Me” on the Early Show:

[[See embedded video at lgbtQnews]]

[After the break: The Early Show interview]

More.

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Item: Thousands march in San Juan to honor Jorge Steven Lopez

Qnews  less than a day ago

     ::: Thousands of people, many holding candles, marched Wednesday evening in San Juan, Puerto Rico in a vigil celebrating the life of a gay teenager whose brutal murder has shocked people in Puerto Rico and throughout the US, Associated Press reports.

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Must listen: Explaining LGBT count on 2010 census – NPR

Qnews  less than a day ago

Demographer Gary Gates explains to NPR’s Jennifer Ludden the changes that will be made for the 2010 census which will, for the first time, count same-sex couples who identify themselves as spouses.

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Patrons sue police and city for Sept. raid at Atlanta gay bar

Qnews  2 days ago

via mc4bbs.livejournal.com/

A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Tuesday against the City of Atlanta, the city’s police department, and up to 45 officers involved in a Sept.

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Item: Charleston, SC adds LGBT-inclusive human rights laws

Qnews  2 days ago

    ::: The Charleston, SC city council on Tuesday passed a pair of inclusive non-discrimination ordinances that protect city resident in housing and public accommodations, Q-Notes, an LGBTQ news blog for the Carolinas reports.

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Video: Glambert’s official video, with unsolicited history

Qnews  3 days ago

We doubt that this will satisfy Elizabeth Hasselbeck from ABC’s The View, but Adam Lambert released this official video for his album’s title track, “For Your Entertainment”.

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Must read: Gay son finds love and embrace from his macho hockey families

Qnews  3 days ago

In a family snapshot, Brendan Burke poses with the Stanley Cup in 2007, shortly after his father’s team at the time, Anaheim Ducks, won it all

Brendan Burke is a student manager for the Miami of Ohio hockey team, one of the top programs in the country, and the son of Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager Brian Burke.

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Video: A mother’s heart-rending advice at funeral of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado

Qnews  3 days ago

Even in the midst of her terrible grief, at the funeral for her slain 19-year-old son, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, the boy’s mother, Myraim Mercado, offered words of wisdom and even hope to fellow mourners.

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