Oscar 2010: Marc Shaiman to Be Telecast Music Director

Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will be the music director for the 2010 Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced.
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The Maine Effect: Marriage by Popular Vote

When Proposition 8 succeeded in California a year ago there was legitimate outrage throughout gay nation.
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Tea Party Leader Brags about Co-Opting Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park

When I read that the Tea Party Express was coming to Kelly Ingram Park on Monday, I was horrified.
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Foxx on LGBT support

The Charlotte Observer ran in-depth, front page profiles on mayoral candidates Anthony Foxx and John Lassiter on Sunday.
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Why the National Equality March Was the Right Thing to Do

Twenty-four hours ago, roughly 200,000 people marched the streets of Washington, DC to demand equal rights for LGBT citizens.
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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Gotta say, this is a shocker. President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” a stunning honor that came less than nine months after he made United States history by becoming the country’s first African-American president.
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USA: OBAMA TO NOMINATE OPENLY GAY AMBASSADOR

Boston Globe USA: OBAMA TO NOMINATE OPENLY GAY AMBASSADORAgenzia Giornalistica Italia(AGI) - Washington, October 8 - Barack Obama is about to nominate his first openly gay ambassador, The White House announced that the American president .
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Irene Monroe: The Conversation America Won't Have on Race

Frequent guest poster on the Blend, Irene Monroe, takes a little walk on the third rail of race with an interesting essay that takes a crack at the divide in perception of race-baiting against the administration.
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The Conversation America Won't Have on Race

If we resided in a post-racial society then William Faulkner's words uttered in the 20th century would not ring true in this century - "The past isn't dead and buried.
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The Obama Gambit

It's remarkable to read and watch the usual suspects splutter and harrumph at an American president who actually seeks to engage foreign powers as equals rather than as subordinates.
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Ellen DeGeneres: 'I'm Going to be a Great Judge'

Ellen DeGeneres is jumping the shark by signing on to replace Paula Abdul on American Idol.
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Bill Cosby agrees with Jimmy Carter regarding race and Obama

crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Not necessarily an lgbt issue per se but an important one as far as I am concerned.
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Mixner on civil rights: learning from history - and my sidebar on 'black culture'

Yesterday I linked to David Mixner's first of four pieces on the state of the LGBT activism, "The 'Oh Lord, Not Now' movement.
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Lawsuit could sink Valley Club

Shall we bring out the tiny violin? (Philly.com):

Racial-discrimination lawsuits against a private Montgomery County swimming club over its revoked contract with a Philadelphia day camp could cost enough to threaten the Valley Club's existence.
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For an American Transformation: Bayard Rustin, 1912-1987

It is hard to discuss Bayard Rustin without noting our current moment in history, when race and sexual orientation intersect in unprecedented, tumultuous ways.
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Seeing What Is In Front Of One's Nose

Peggy Noonan is in fine form today: To refuse to see all this as progress, or potential progress, is perverse to the point of wicked.
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Mayors of LA and SF blast Obama over DOMA hate brief

The article includes a newish statement from the White House about why they submitted the hate brief supporting DOMA White House spokesman Shin Inouye said the Justice Department, in submitting the brief, was following its normal practice of defending a law on the books in court.
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Obama And Israel

As the neocons lose it, some Israelis see the potential: The American president has the power to end the Israeli occupation within months.
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The Kowtow In Cairo

Weak as water, President Obama's "World Mea Culpa Tour" stopped in Cairo today. There, he drew a daft moral equivalence between the self-inflicted suffering of the Palestinians and their self-styled war of genocide against Israel, and the Holocaust that was brought on the Jewish people during World War II.
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From the President of DC Black Pride

From the President of DC Black PrideMetro WeeklyI am so glad to humbly serve as President of Black Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, Inc.
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