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<title><![CDATA[Featured music video: heavy cross... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:10:39 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s featured music video is from The Gossip&#8217;s new album &#8216;Music For Men&#8217;; its also from the single: &#8216;Heavy Cross&#8217;.
The video: Heavy Cross

More of Beth Ditto &#038; The Gossip:
- The Official Gossip Site
- The Gossip on MySpace
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<title><![CDATA[Queer music friday - tribe 8... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:02:25 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of pop on the site lately, so I'm putting up a punk video from SF-based band Tribe 8. Here's "Femme Bitch Top," and a web ad musicians Lynn Breedlove and Leslie Mah put together to oppose Prop 8 is after the jump...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congressman believes seamans murder a hate crime... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rep. Bob Filner (D) of California was at Camp Pendleton just six hours after Seaman August Provost was murdered, but no mention was made to him of the crime. He finds that suspicious and accuses the military of habitually not...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Freedom... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Being the Fourth of July weekend, I thought it important to remind us of part of the Declaration of Independence.  After all, it is Independence Day...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking: sarah palin to resign as alaka governor... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:04:35 EDT</pubDate>
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One-time vice president hopeful, flag desecrator,  and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she&#039;ll resign from office sometime this month and won&#039;t see another term. The announcement comes on a Friday before a holiday weekend &#8212; the perfect time to break such news...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarah palin resigns... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:26 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin has announced not only that she will not seek re-election as Alaska's governor but that she is resigning. Lt. Governor Sean Parnell will be sworn in at the Governor's Picnic in Fairbanks on July 25...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Choklates "suns out/grown folks"... ( Rod Online / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In case you've had enough of the Lil Wayne/BET drama—or other sounds that unfortunately pass for music nowadays—move on to something for the "Grown Folks." "Sun's Out/Grown Folks" is the new track by Seattle-based Choklate (Twitter: @choklate) from her new...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Update: sarah palin resigning... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Click here to meet with your us legislators in august. Or bye-bye enda... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Click here to sign up to meet with your US Senators and Representatives in August in your local district to press the case for HR 3017, The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: third-degree burns... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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GRATUITOUS SKIN &#8212; If you can excuse the gaudy Christian Audigier clothing, Zach Burns&#039; self-portraits are incredibly sexy. Self-indulgent, yes, but incredibly sexy. (See page 7 if you need convincing...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[News: zac loses hair, kern gets stern, goldman $tack$ the deck... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:06:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Very important update: the Delhi High Court's ruling decriminalizing homosexuality actually does apply to all of India. Somewhat less important update: Zac Efron gets shorn. Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-duh) issues a morality proclamation that equates homosexuality and marriage equality...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Let them attend their own insider salons... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:01:59 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm sure you've all at least hear about the story Politico broke yesterday about the Washington Post attempting to sell access to Obama officials, newsroom journalists, and editorial staff...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The relentless damage of pope benedict xvi... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's not enough that he has set Catholicism back several decades (you should have known that was his objective when he chose the name of the last pope he could actually respect, Benedict XV, 1914-1922,  who invented canon law)...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ft. Worth cops suspend bar checks... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Continuing to backpedal from their involvement in the raid of the Rainbow Lounge, the Fort Worth police department says they are suspending "bar checks" in conjunction with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Helen thomas slams robert gibbs... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[White House press corps grand dame Helen Thomas takes no mess from press secretary Robert Gibbs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ted olson and judge say prop 8 challenge will go to supreme court... ( Rod Online / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Very encouraging developments to the federal challenge to Proposition 8 brought by high-profile attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies. The federal judge hearing the lawsuit seeking to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban says it will likely reach the U...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cops: nyc gay bashings could be linked... ( Towleroad / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:38:53 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The NYC Anti-Violence Project has issued a community alert now that the New York City Police Department's Hate Crimes Bureau thinks several recent anti-gay attacks on the Upper East Side might have come at the hands of the same assailants...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s new news and updates... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:30:58 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friday: New news we haven&#8217;t covered some of which is just breaking today, and updates on stories we&#8217;ve been following this week:
Bullies: In Ireland: Most gay pupils bullied in school says youth service...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A patriotic foremother... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:02:11 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a quick historical tidbit in honor of the many patriotic songs played this weekend: Katherine Lee Bates, author of "America the Beautiful," lived for 25 years with fellow Wellesley College professor Katherine Coman, in what is commonly called a "Boston marriage...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[News roundup of the ruling in india... ( Gay News Bits / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:32 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Since yesterday&#8217;s big news out of India on the gay sex ruling I&#8217;ve come across so many great blog posts and news stories on it that I decided I need to do a post dedicated to just this one topic...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beau breedlove now really, really wants to tell his side of the sam adams story... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:59:19 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ 
Former paramour to Portland&#039;s Mayor Sam Adams (before he was mayor), porn model Beau Breedlove continues his on-again-off-again relationship with media attention.
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<title><![CDATA[Update: indias decriminalization of homosexuality does apply nationwide... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Dont hope?... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo of the day... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Wapos kurtz: "can black women objectively cover michelle obama?"... ( Rod Online / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Washington Post columnist and media "reporter" Howard Kurtz continues to shock and awe with a lack of self-awareness in his latest column. Kurtz reports on the number of black female reporters following First Lady Michelle Obama and admits that "no...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sincerely,... ( The Lair of the Okapi / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I loved this letter to the DNC, posted on ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 was most dangerously violent year for lgbt people in over a decade  ... ( Bilerico / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:02:08 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Editors' Note:  Guest blogger Kim Fountain, PhD, is the Deputy Director of the NYC Anti Violence Project.  She is standing with Joseph Holladay, a recent hate crimes victim, in the picture below...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Soccer twink lures shoppers to purchase expensive undergarments... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:55:26 EDT</pubDate>
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THE SHOT &#8212; Soccer player David Beckham and his impish wife Victoria pair up for a new Emporio Armani underwear campaign, shortly after revealing his latest oversized bulge.
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<title><![CDATA[Ues gay bashing spree continues, avp issues community alert... ( Joe My God / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Forget leading a double life. Try wrestling with double meanings... ( Queerty / QueensSpeech )]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:49:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From Acapulco, Mexico, expat school teacher Brandon Brewer files from south of the border, where life is more than drunken frat rats and cheap margaritas, and not everything is gay.

One day I was putting up flyers around the school to advertise a scholarship program to the students...]]></description>
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