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<title><![CDATA[Featured music vid: stupid callous homophobic hateful legislation... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:30 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s featured music video has Shelly Goldstein singing a comic parody about gay marriage equality.
Video: Stupid Callous Homophobic Hateful Legislation

More of Shelly Goldstein:
- Shelly Goldstein on MySpace
- Shelly Goldstein on Twitter
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<title><![CDATA[Queer music friday - placebo... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Molko of alternative rock band Placebo announced a long time ago that he was bisexual, but now he regrets it. More on that after the jump.

But here's "Happy You're Gone," from their newest album...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Oprahs tear-filled goodbye to viewers ... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:37:47 EST</pubDate>
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It&#039;s not even 2011 yet, when Oprah will go off the air, but the daytime queen is already tearing up at the thought of her exit.
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<title><![CDATA[Military times survey uses biased tactics... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:30:56 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Scholars Question Methodology of New Poll on Gay Troops &#8212; Concerns Raised About Relevance of Survey Questions.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., (PRNewswire-USNewswire) &#8212; Academic researchers are expressing concerns over a new survey about &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; that the Military Times has distributed to some of its subscribers...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gaymers honored by world of warcraft... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome back, ru! &hellip; hugo chavez supports the gays, but not their marriages... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:57 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web.


&#8594; Oh Ru, how we&#039;ve missed you! Season 2 of Drag Race arrives in January &#8212; with guest judges Kathy Griffin Cloris Leachman, and Debbie Reynolds &#8212; , but first it&#039;s time to brush up on the cast...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Irene vilars impossible motherhood: testimony of an abortion addict... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The title of Irene Vilar's new memoir, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict, is a bit misleading.  Although Vilar chronicles 15 abortions over 15 years, "addiction" as a diagnostic category is only hastily grafted onto her tale of existential angst...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Movies: broken embraces under a new moon... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:45:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Look out! He's about to twinkle! NATHANIEL ROGERS Nathaniel would live inside the movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. YOUR FEATURE PRESENTATIONS Given Towleroad’s generous coverage of all things Twilight (all...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is it wrong to report on a marine starring in hardcore gay porn?... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:43:12 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Levi Johnston isn&#039;t the only one making porn headlines on this website. So too is Marine Cpl. David A. Bradberry, whose appearance in a Marine-geared magazine helped expose his other day job: performing in gay videos for the website ActiveDuty...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Talk the talk, walk the walk... ( The Republic of T / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:35 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I just have one thing to say about this.
Forget WWJD. The new question is apparently What Would MLK Do? A coalition of politically and theologically conservative Christian leaders, including nine Roman Catholic bishops, who have just signed a declaration saying they will not comply with laws that could require them to recognize same-sex unions or [...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Protect the sanctity of dont ask, dont tell... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe the folks working to end DADT ought to draw attention to the folks who abuse DADT. This is from a lesbian in the military:



Looking for a way out of the service isn't a new idea...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Maggie gallagher finally responds to the miss ladyfingers usa scandal... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[D.C. Agenda already labeled spam by twitter... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:38:54 EST</pubDate>
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Well this isn&#039;t going to be good for traffic. [Bit.ly, the URL shortening service used on Twitter]
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<title><![CDATA[Why wont china let director lou ye show his new movie? The bisexual storyline, perhaps... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:21:04 EST</pubDate>
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Three years ago, China banned director Lou Ye from making any more movies for five years, after he showed Summer Palace &#8212; about the government&#039;s crackdown on 1989&#039;s Tiananmen Square massacre &#8212; at the Cannes Film Festival...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tweet your parking space... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:11:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A Brooklyn resident has launched a text message and Twitter based system of finding parking spaces in Park Slope, which car-owning locals derisively call "No Park Slope...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Transgender day of remembrance: honoring those lost to terror... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:06:10 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[
The Leffews, fresh off its own bout of gay-on-gay attacks, are our go-to family on meaningful days. Like National Prayer Day, Mother&#039;s Day, and even Halloween. With today&#039;s National Transgender Day Of Remembrance, we tune in for a mini-history lesson on Rita Hester, the Boston trans-woman found stabbed to death in 1998...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview w/ngltf exec dir rea carey ... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
<link>http://queensspeech.com/conversations/bilerico/interview_w_ngltf_exec_dir_rea_carey_part_two_</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TThis is part two of an interview with Rea Carey, the Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Part one focused on the No On 1 campaign in Maine, the push to repeal Prop 8 in 2010 in California, and the marriage equality movement in general...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[News: oprah, popcorn, rupaul, jeanne-claude, coelacanth... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:58:58 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Prop 8 defenders still haven't handed over documents even after third order from judge? Oprah show finished in 2011. The abs and poetry of hot NJ Guidos. NJ Democrats search for spine on marriage equality as state senator says economy...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Today is 11th annual transgender day of remembrance... ( Rod Online / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:32 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today is the 11th Annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance, which hopes to raise awareness around the many who are killed in anti-transgender violence and hate crimes. Events marking TDOR are happening around the world today...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarah palins fans love a gal who supports putting homos back in the closet... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:37:22 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[
It wouldn&#039;t be fair to brand all Sarah Palin devotees as such, but we&#039;re willing to place substantial sums of money on the claim that many of them can recite where Rush Limbaugh and Palin&#039;s values coincide...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s headline post... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:53 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s News Headlines Post &#8212; Updates On Stories We&#8217;ve Been Following Plus New Stories&#8230;
Crime Files: UPI: Update from Puerto Rico &#8212; Police say Suspect in killing may claim &#8216;gay panic&#8217; 
Court Cases:
- More on the German Gay Spy Case: German spy&#8217;s wife exposes his gay affair &#8212; A German spy has gone on trial in [...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For her big return, janet jackson returns to her entire past... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:19:42 EST</pubDate>
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Did Janet Jackson blend all of her previous music videos &#8212; &#034;Rhythm Nation,&#034; &#034;Scream,&#034; And &#034;Love Will Never Do,&#034; just to name a few &#8212; to create the latest media marketing message for &#034;Make Me&#034;?
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<title><![CDATA[Pledge of allegiance denialist will phillips has one bad ass personal bodyguard... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:07:30 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[
Professional wrestler Mick Foley is known, to those in the know, as &#034;The Hardcore Legend.&#034; He will also take you out back, show you the inside of your own rectum, before wrapping Christmas gifts with your skin if you dare make fun of Will Phillips, Queerty&#039;s hero and American National Treasure...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[From the manhattan declaration... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarah palin-style: tom tancredo goes rogue... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin madness is sweeping through the teabagger jet set and the latest victim appears to be Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Recap: clifford stanley undersecretary dod hearings... ( Rod Online / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:46 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Clifford Stanley, the retired Marine general who has been nominated as the Department of Defense's Undersecretary of Personnel and Readiness...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Antonin scalia talks sodomy... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[At an Ohio State lecture on interpreting the Constitution: “My burden is not to show that originalism is perfect but to show that it beats the other available alternatives. Did any provision of the Constitution guarantee a right to abortion?...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Window medias south florida blade + 411 will survive! ... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:43:34 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[
Window Media&#039;s collapse led to the Washington Blade&#039;s staff creating the just-launched D.C. Agenda. But what about Window&#039;s Florida publications, 411 Magazine and the South Florida Blade? Those, too, will continue! Under new names, of course...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Easy choices... ( The Republic of T / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:25:22 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first time I heard it, I did a double-take, because I thought I heard it wrong. The second time I heard it, I rolled my eyes. The third time I heard Sarah Palin, in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, suggest that women who choose to terminate pregnancies are essentially &#8220;taking the easy way out...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["i deserve health care"... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Democratic National Committee has just posted this health care reform clip on President Obama's official YouTube channel. I like that it spins the GOP's own "think of the children!" meme right back at them...]]></description>
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