Video: Glambert’s official video, with unsolicited history

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

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

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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Dimming prospects for marriage equality in both NY and NJ

The prospects for passage for marriage equality bills in both New York and New Jersey seemed bright early this year.

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Item: Lambert cancelled by ABC show; Twitterverse outraged

   ::: A scheduled appearance by Adam Lambert on the ABC News morning show, Good Morning America (GMA) was cancelled this morning.

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Must read: US shouldn’t send PEPFAR funds to Uganda’s homophobic regime

A report released last week by a progressive think tank detailed the many ways that US evangelical churches and right-wing political activists have helped to amplify—and even create—a deep well of homophobia in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Even in death, same-sex couples face extra tax burden, study finds

Unless Congress acts before the end of the year to renew the law the federal estate tax will disappear for one year in 2010 before returning with a much higher tax rate in 2011.

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Shock value of Glambert’s AMA performance well-planned

‘The Kiss’ from Adam Lambert’s AMA performance via CNN

If there was any doubt that Adam Lambert’s provocative performance at last night’s American Music Awards show was well planned, then this report by Associated Press entertainment writer Derrik J.

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Item: Miami hospital nurses apologize to woman who couldn’t visit her dying partner

   ::: At a town-hall-style meeting Thursday, several nurses from Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a lesbian from Lacey, Wash.

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Video: Mrs. Betty Bowers, ‘America’s Best Christian’, on voting about civil rights

  Mrs. Betty Bowers calls herself “America's Best Christian”, and who are we to disagree.

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