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They discuss his ties to anti-gays in Uganda and the "kill gays" legislation.

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Good golly! Everything about this story is wonderfully heartening. Especially the kid's answer to the anchor's question, "What's a gaywad?" Kudos to the dad, too.

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From my TMV post reacting to a piece in the NYTimes answering the question Why the Gay Rights Movement Has No National Leader. It doesn't need one:

The single most important way the lgbt rights movement differs from the black and feminist movements is that lgbt people can choose to stay invisible.

Once society wanted its lgbt citizens to stay invisible. Once the culture enforced invisibility on lgbt people. But so long as lgbt people were invisible, they could only be a hidden menace.

The choice to come out and declare one's sexual orientation as a cultural identity was a prerequisite to progress. That lgbt people have made so much progress is a tribute to each and every individual who made that declaration to their family, friends and professional community.

Today the culture no longer wants its lesbian and gay citizens to be invisible. LGBT characters on television and in the movies, in politics and community life, along with those who are our friends, neighbors and colleagues, are clear evidence of this.

The culture, in this instance, is ahead of the courts. It is the foes of that cultural acceptance who have deftly used the courts and the law to hold old norms -- norms that are no longer culturally relevant -- in place.

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Given my enthusiasm for his election, I should comment on his downfall. Sad:

The cast of the scandal in Portland, Ore., has a certain ring to it: Sam Adams. Bob Ball. Beau Breedlove and his dog Lolita ... "Everyone has porn names!" says Mark Wiener with a laugh. "Until yesterday, it had never occurred to me that the worst offending name was mine." Wiener (pronounced Wee-ner) is one of Oregon's most influential political consultants and a former -- and now disheartened -- campaign adviser to the protagonist in this political soap opera. That would be Sam Adams, the new mayor of Portland and the first openly gay man to lead a major American city. Then there's Bob Ball, an openly gay local real estate developer who once had mayoral ambitions himself. In 2007, Ball hinted that Adams' mentoring relationship with a former legislative intern, Beau Breedlove (now 21), was, in fact, a sexual one that had begun when the young man was just 17.

Portland, OR, gets a new mayor

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On the the American Family Association's boycott of McDonald's over its decision "not to remain neutral in the cultural war over homosexuality" Stewart says, "This is the first time you realized McDonald's was gay? Do you have a TV? Have you ever seen their ads?!"

I'll have much to say on this in a future post...