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Following judge's ruling, paperwork issued for Argentina's first same-sex marriage.

Kardashian sisters don duct tape for NoH8 campaign.

Joe Jackson's last money grab before MJ's fillings?

Retired military chaplains come out in support of repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

ENDA mark-up postponed.

Philippines elections board (COMELEC) says gays "overly represented" in Congress: "Comelec second division chairman Nicodemus Ferrer was defending the poll body’s rejection of the application of gay-rights group Ang Ladlad for party-list representation. 'I have been telling them, you are not under-represented… actually you are over-represented in the Lower House and Upper House,' Ferrer told reporters in an interview. But Ferrer declined to name names."

While Levi does Playgirl, Neil Patrick Harris does Playboy.

Ken Keechl takes over as first openly gay mayor of Broward County, Florida.

Petition Obama to support federal court challenge to Prop 8.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Community Center of Central Florida in Orlando and nearby gay-owned business hit by anti-gay graffiti: "…a swastika and the words 'Gay Pawer,' 'Die Fags,' 'Go To Hell' and other homophobic slurs. Damage to the two buildings is estimated to be over $1,000.The Center is currently working to cover the messages on the building to deter additional damage."

Horrific undercover investigation of treatment of pigs on factory farms.

Anti-gay Jamaican singer Beenie Man's appearance at Australia's Big Day Out has been canceled: "A statement from the Big Day Out's producers today says that while the concert organisers believe the controversial musician has now renounced homophobia, the storm of protest this week after the announcement that he was in the line-up means his continued involvement would prove too divisive."

Anderson Cooper helms Elton John AIDS Foundation event in NYC.

Chris Pine suits up for GQ's 'Man of the Year'.

Oprah interior designer Nate Berkus to get his own syndicated daytime show.

Max Blumenthal on Palin's ghostwriter Lynn Vincent: "Vincent may have been an effective literary collaborator, but like Palin herself, she entered the project with considerable political baggage. Vincent’s commentaries for World are punctuated by inflammatory characterizations of gays, minorities and liberals that have already provided fodder for Palin’s critics. Among Vincent’s most strident statements were her description of homosexuality as a 'deviant' mental disorder and labeling of President Barack Obama as the 'face of the minority survivor' of abortion, which she dubbed the 'Black Genocide.'"

Tim Gunn on the one item of clothing he can't stand: "I cannot wrap my brain around the ubiquity of Crocs. Kelly Ripa [on "Live with Regis and Kelly"] said, 'I insist that you put them on because they're so comfortable.' And I put them on. I am looking down at my feet, and I feel like I have hooves! They're horrible. If we all succumbed to the comfort trap, to dress as if we never got out of bed — then we should never get out of bed."

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Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry joined Anderson Cooper last night to discuss the marriage defeat in Maine.

WOLFSON: Well, what
happened is it's very difficult for a minority to persuade a majority
to stop discriminating. And we came very close to persuading people in
Maine to uphold the freedom to marry but didn't reach everybody in
particularly the more rural corners of the state with the
conversations, with the personal stories, with the making it real that
we need to do in order to move hearts and minds. And we need to keep
doing that work.

PERKINS: Well, this is unique, Anderson.
This was the 31st state where voters have had the chance, they have
stood for traditional marriage. But what's different here is
you had a legislature that had special interest money come in, make
some moves in the legislature. The legislature then created same-sex
marriage. The first time we've had a legislature create it, followed by
a vote of the people that have repudiated what the legislature did. That's very significant, because this law had been passed. It was in a
completely defensive posture, they had to go out and work to overturn
what the legislature had done. That's significant. And also, it's
significant, because I can imagine as a former legislator what some of
the conversations were in Maine today. These legislators who
voted for this and in their districts, the voters went to the polls and
overturned it. There's now an infrastructure there and there could be
some political fallout to this.

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Towleroad's political director Corey Johnson joined The Stranger's Dan Savage on Anderson Cooper's show to discuss passage of the hate crimes bill and the current climate with regard to LGBT rights.

This was Corey's first appearance on AC360 as a representative of Towleroad. Congrats to Corey and thanks to Anderson for having him on.

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Says Cooper: "Lesson learned. I will never work out in front of a window, at the gym, again."

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Anderson Cooper talks to Richard Socarides, Pam Spaulding, and Cleve Jones about Obama's unfulfilled promises, the reasons for the National Equality March, and Barney Frank's statements about the March.

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Anderson Cooper took on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" last night, hosting discharged former Lt. Dan Choi and anti-gay crusader Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness. 

As you may remember, Donnelly is the right-wing bigot nutjob assigned to this case. She dutifully brings up the 1,000 signatures of anti-gay retired military officers she presented last March to argue her case.

Responds Choi: "You can go to senior citizens center all the time and collect all the
signatures you want, but they are so detached from reality. Those
soldiers that are on the ground right now, they know people that are
gay in their units…You can spend all the time that
you want getting these petitions. But there are gay and lesbian
soldiers that are serving right now. They don't have time to collect
petitions like you do. And they are serving so they can protect your
freedoms, so you can actually say the things that you're doing."

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