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  1. PA State Senator Jane Orie Considers Challenging Pat Toomey in US Senate PrimaryRead the original story w/Photo

    6 min ago | 2 Political Junkies

    PoliticsPA reports that sources have told them that PA Senatea s majority whip Jane Orie has been meeting with Republican leaders and the NRSC in Washington about a possible run for the US Senate.

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    Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, John McCain

  2. Groups uncertain on 'Bruno' responseRead the original story

    2 hrs ago | Variety.com

    Universal launches its Sacha Baron Cohen pic "Bruno" today, and various activists and industry pundits are grappling with one key question: How do you respond to a satire whose intent is to offend across the board? In the weeks leading up to the pic's release, gay-rights orgs expressed concern.

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    Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Activism, Sacha Baron Cohen, Public Relations

  3. House Hopeful Raises $200KRead the original story w/Photo

    13 min ago | Advocate

    Two gay candidates running for House positions have both together raised $300,000 for their campaigns for the quarter ending June 30.

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    Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Ellen Tauscher, Democrat, Representative Mary Bono Mack, Life, Veteran Affairs, California

  4. Rockstar Makes Good With GaysRead the original story w/Photo

    13 min ago | Advocate

    After taking a drubbing from the gay community, Rockstar Energy Drink CEO Russell Weiner -- son of antigay shock jock Michael Savage -- announced on Thursday that his company is donating a total of $100,000 to a slew of gay rights groups.

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  5. Hearing Held on Partner Benefits BillRead the original story

    14 min ago | Advocate

    The House subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia held a hearing Wednesday on the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend health insurance, retirement, and disability benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees.

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    Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Tammy Baldwin, Democrat, Representative Gerald Connolly, Barack Obama

  6. Roundup: News From Around the WebRead the original story w/Photo

    14 min ago | Advocate

    AIDS activists shut down Capitol rotunda : Some 26 AIDS activists faced arrest after they chained themselves to each other at the national landmark in D.C. on Thursday morning to protest President Obama's failure to eliminate a ban on funding needle-exchange programs.

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    Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb

  7. Gay JusticeRead the original story w/Photo

    15 min ago | Advocate

    While Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination is a step forward for diversity, an openly gay Supreme Court member remains a long shot -- unless President Obama bucks the trend.

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    Related Topix: US News, Sonia Sotomayor, African-American

  8. Fag had it coming a " another a provocationa TM defenseRead the original story w/Photo

    15 min ago | TUMEKE!

    Fag had it coming - " another - provocation' defense Victim's family condemn 'archaic' law The family of a man who was bashed to death with a banjo have angrily condemned the provocation law that allows a partial defence of murder after his killer was found guilty of manslaughter last night.

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  9. Review: BrunoRead the original story

    16 min ago | The StarPhoenix

    Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie sends his Bruno character -- a gay fashion journalist from Austria -- on a world tour looking for fame.

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    Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen

  10. Putrid PerezRead the original story w/Photo

    16 min ago | Advocate

    COMMENTARY: The latest scandal involving Perez Hilton presents an opportunity to ask the million dollar question: How has this half-literate typist become one of the most prominent gay people in the country? By James Kirchick An Advocate.com exclusive posted July 8, 2009 The latest scandal involving flamboyant celebrity blogger Perez Hilton ...

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  11. Perez Hilton won't shut upRead the original story w/Photo

    17 min ago | Entertainment Weekly

    EW Home // News // Pop Culture Spotlight ...even though will.i.am, the former Miss California, and every publicist in Hollywood desperately wish he would.

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    Related Topix: Public Relations, Music, Entertainment

  12. How Gay Can You Go, America?Read the original story

    26 min ago | Reason Magazine

    Brno is hilarious. But it doesn't tell us much about homophobia. Peter Suderman July 9, 2009 Brno , the latest film from guerrilla provocateurs Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles, is an 88-minute exercise in outrage and offense.

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    Related Topix: Sacha Baron Cohen, US Politics, Ron Paul, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives

  13. Humpday: Guy Love Without the GimmicksRead the original story w/Photo

    27 min ago | TIME.com

    Humpday is that movie. The one about a pair of guy friends who decide they're going to make an "artistic" pornographic movie, starring themselves as two straight guys having sex.

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  14. a oeIs Britain becoming intolerant to Christians?aRead the original story

    30 min ago | Mediawatchwatch.org.uk

    The Big Questions a 'A the BBC's Sunday morning faith and ethics debate programme a ' will this week be asking the question "is Britain becoming intolerant to Christians?" A I'll be amongst the audience and so will have the chance to ask a few questions live on air a ' but am only going to put my hand up if I have a really good question, so if you ...

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  15. "Bruno:" You Don't Have to Wait for The End (...Read the original story w/Photo

    31 min ago | KNUS-AM Aurora

    Last night, my husband invited me to a pre-release screening of the new Sacha Baron Cohen flick, "Bruno." Our son has been anticipating this for weeks, because he just loved "Borat," where Baron Cohen plays a bigoted, backward "innocent" journalist from Khazakstan interviewing and grossing out people across America.

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    Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Sacha Baron Cohen

  16. Tory colleague rains on Ablonczy paradeRead the original story

    32 min ago | Stratford Beacon Herald

    Diane Ablonczy deserved to lose control of a key tourism stimulus package because of her deplorable action in giving 400,000 federal loonies to Toronto's Pride Parade.

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    Related Topix: Stratford, ON, Canada

  17. BrA1 4noRead the original story

    38 min ago | Globe and Mail

    Brno is likely to be the funniest thing you'll see on a screen this summer. Which is precisely its problem: it's a thing , not a movie if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.

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    Related Topix: Sacha Baron Cohen

  18. Comedian Wanda Sykes comes to Dallas on Sunday, July 12Read the original story w/Photo

    57 min ago | Mandrake society radio

    As the featured event on the latest edition of Human Rights Campaign's True Colors tour, comedian Wanda Sykes comes to Austin, TX on Saturday night and Dallas, TX on Sunday night.

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    Related Topix: Dallas, TX, Austin, TX

  19. CRA urges anti-gay hate voteRead the original story w/Photo

    58 min ago | Halfway to Concord

    The California Republican Assembly, the supposed "conscience of the Republican Party in California: is calling on Republicans to call specific California Senators to vote now on SB 572, a bill that would recognize May 22 Harvey Milk Day and "encourage" schools to "commemorate" the life and career of this homosexual San Francisco politician as part ...

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    Related Topix: California, Mettler, CA

  20. Inclusive desireRead the original story w/Photo

    1 hr ago | The Telegraph

    The subversive potential of homosexuality has been the theme of endless sermons from the pulpit and countless drawing-room tittle-tattle. But few expressions of mirth and righteous indignation can match the intriguing hypothesis proffered by The Times in an editorial on the occasion of the formal unmasking of Sir Anthony Blunt as a lapsed Soviet ...

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