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At least for now Hiram Monserrate is on permanent leave from Albany. The disgraced politician was  easily beaten in tonight’s 13th State Senate District special election. With 35 percent of the vote counted, he pulled in 34 percent while Senator elect Jose R. Peralta garnered 60. Republican challenger Robert Beltrani …

We’ve written about the two small kids who were kicked out of a Catholic school by the Archbishop of Denver because their parents are lesbians.

Now the parents are speaking out in their own words.

Here’s a statement from the parents released anonymously through Boulder Pride; it’s long, but worth reading.

 The following …

(New York) New HIV infections are increasing among gays, drug users and prostitutes who don’t seek help because of laws that criminalize them, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.

Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, said “it is unacceptable” that 85 countries still have laws criminalizing same-sex relations …

(Washington) The four-star Army general who is managing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says “the time has come” for the military to rethink its policy toward gays.

Gen. David Petraeus stopped short of saying whether he personally believed if the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” is outdated or …

If we learned anything from Prop 8 it was this: gays and lesbians need to tell our own stories. We need to explain to people why we personally would like to be married.

That’s what Marriage Equality Rhode Island and Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is doing with their new video, below, …

Stars on Ice is trying hard to counteract anonymous reports that they excluded Johnny Weir, an American figure skating champion, from their national tour because he is not “family friendly.” I’ve never seen Stars on Ice, but in an industry without a large non-competition market (Stars on Ice is the …

(New York) The ladies in red brought down the house.

Six Broadway divas, spanning several generations of musical theater, pretty much tore up Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall on Monday night as the New York Philharmonic and a bevy of Broadway stars celebrated the upcoming 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, composer …

As you most of you know Hiram Monserrate gets no love here. There’s that misdemeanor domestic assault conviction, his summer machinations to halt work in Albany, and those anti-gay fliers he refuses to denounce. Today the voters in the New York’s 13th senate district get a choice between Monserrate, Assemblyman …