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GLAAD launches online petition against Buju Banton Grammy noms.

Phoenix city councilman Tom Simplot and his partner David Smith, who were first to sign up for the city's domestic partner registry, have split.

Tom Ford photographs, discusses Single Man cast for V magazine.

Does Mariah Carey H.A.T.E.U???

A Gay Hockey Kid's Life (via outsports).

Preliminary witness list for federal challenge to Prop 8 revealed.

Teen seeks $4 million from Tel Aviv LGBT youth center for injuries sustained during attack: "Yonatan Buks, 15, suffered internal damage when he was shot in the
lower extremities of his body. He is undergoing rehabilitation and has
difficulty speaking, Ynetnews reported Tuesday."

Air Force acknowledges existence of stealth spy plane.

Williams College hit by homophobic graffiti incident.

Sonia Sotomayor uses term "undocumented immigrant" rather than "illegal immigrant" for first time ever in SCOTUS opinions.

Tom Brady making a bunch.

Jersey Shore's "The Situation" defends his Guido-ness.

Barney Frank endorses Sestak over Specter in Pennsylvania Senate race.

Whatever happened to Ennis Del Mar? The Autry National Center of the American West takes a look at LGBT representation in the American West at a panel discussion this weekend in L.A: "Moderated by Virginia Scharff, author and professor of history/director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico, the panel includes Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic Kenneth Turan; Peter M. Nardi, Ph.D., author and professor of sociology at Pitzer College; and William Handley, associate professor of English at the University of Southern California and editor of The Brokeback Book (forthcoming)."

Maine reporter fired for personal email against marriage equality.

Sacha Baron Cohen sued by Bethlehem grocer and peace activist over Bruno film: "Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's attempt to pretend that he interviewed a notorious terrorist leader in the film Bruno may cost him $110 million in damages – 80 percent of the movie's gross box office earnings.

That's the sum demanded by Ayman Abu Aita, a Palestinian grocer and peace activist from Bethlehem who says his life has been ruined byBaron Cohen's movie."

Hubble goes deep…very deep.

Kabul contractors' $189 million contract dumped by State Department following exposé of hazing practices.

Jessica Simpson smashes some pumpkins.

Episcopal Bishop Mary Glasspool speaks out about election: ''I've had hundreds, probably a thousand, e-mails from people all
over the world who don't know me but who are expressing through the
fact of my election a pride in the Episcopal Church. 'I've committed
my life as a life of service to the people of Jesus Christ, and what
hurts is the sense that anybody might have that my name or my
servanthood could be perceived as divisive.''

Canada lifts ban on gay bone marrow donors.

Nebraska Supreme Court rejects appeal by Westboro Baptist Church in flag desecration case: "Police arrested Phelps-Roper for wrapping a flag around her waist as a skirt and allowing her son to stand on another flag as she and other members of the church picketed the Bellevue, Neb., funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq.

Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, Phelps-Roper argued that she was exercising her constitutional right to 'symbolic expression' in disobeying a law passed in the 1970s against 'mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning or trampling' on a flag."

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So says Barney Frank, reports the Washington Blade:

"Frank said in an interview with the Blade that repealing the 1993 law
barring gays from serving openly in the military would happen as part
of the fiscal year 2011 defense authorization bill. 'The House will take up and the Senate will take up ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell’ repeal,' he said. 'That will again, like hate crimes, even more
so, will have to be done, I believe, in the context of the defense
authorization. You can’t do the standalone bill. It belongs in the
defense authorization.' Frank said lawmakers would seek to amend the defense measure to include
a provision repealing 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.' Such a move would mimic
the way Congress recently enacted the hate crimes measure."

Frank also criticized Dick Durbin, who recently suggested that Congress was too busy to take up DADT in 2010: "Frank said it was a 'terrible mistake' for Durbin to suggest that
overturning 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' wouldn’t happen next year. Frank is
among the supporters who have asserted Congress would take up repeal in
2010. 'I think that’s a terrible mistake for him to say that and I believe
that it will be a great injustice to wait any longer,' Frank said. 'I
don’t think he has that option.'"

In related news, the American Medical Association has voted to oppose "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and also said that bans on same-sex marriage "contribute to health disparities," the AP reports:

"The nation's largest doctors' group stopped short of saying it would
seek to overturn marriage bans, but its new stance angered conservative
activists and provides a fresh boost to lobbying efforts by gay-rights
advocates."

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As part of a larger interview for the site Reddit, Barney Frank answers a question about the National Equality March and whether marches can effect change. Frank believes the March becomes "a substitute for what we can really get done" by lobbying members of Congress.

Frank also talks about other gay issues that are in the pipeline and how miserable it is to run for office.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…

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Joy Behar asked Barney Frank last night about health care reform and  about his remarks regarding last weekend's National Equality March. Frank told Michelangelo Signorile before the March: "Barack Obama doesn't need any pressure on these things. Secondly, if you do want to pressure Congress, I don't know what standing on the Mall on a weekend when no member of Congress is in town is going to do. All that's going to pressure is the grass."

Says Frank to Behar: "I am afraid that some people will come to Washington and they will march and think they've done it. That's why I said what I did. Marching isn't a negative thing but to the extent that people think that having marched they've done something effective they wouldn't do something that is effective."

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…

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Barney Frank was a guest on Michelangelo Signorile's radio show yesterday and spoke about the hate crimes bill (which is still attached to a DoD appropriations bill despite a challenge this week) which should get a vote next week and be along to Obama's desk for signature, ENDA, the DOMA repeal, and the National Equality March.

Of the March, Frank said: "I literally don't understand how this will do anything. People are kidding themselves. I don't want people patting themselves
on the back for doing something that is useless. Barack Obama does not need pressure."

According to Signorile, "He says we should model
ourselves as lobbyists on 'the National Rifle Association.' He says
people should not come to Washington and should stay home and lobby
their members of Congress. 'Nobody in Congress even knows they're
there, he says, and he is not attending the March: He is going to
California to raise money for himself and other Democrats.'"

We won't be taking his advice, and we'll see some of you in D.C.

On that note, Emma Ruby-Sachs in the Huffington Post has written a speech for Obama to give at the HRC dinner, and Jose Antonio Vargas has a wish list in the Huff Post as well.

Listen to Signorile's interview with Barney Frank here.

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Last night on the House floor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) attacked the Matthew Shepard hate crimes bill, which is attached to a defense appropriations bill. Gohmert says the hate crimes bill is holding soldiers hostage, preventing hate preachers from stating their opinions, and attacking the moral fabric of America.

Reps. Barney Frank, Tammy Baldwin, and Jerrold Nadler rebutted Gohmert's sickening diatribe.

Watch them all, AFTER THE JUMP… 

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