Bloomberg reports on the outage: "Power was restored in Brazil after an outage at a dam providing 20 percent of the country’s energy thrust about half of the nation’s 190 million people into darkness for at least two hours.The 14,000-megawatt...

"But Miss Prejean, you made the tape, you have photos of yourself, you didn't go along with the morals clause which is in the pageant's rules, and yet you say you're a victim — I don't totally buy it!" Watch,...

The Church of Latter Day Saints this evening issued a statement at hearings on an ordinance that would extend housing and employment protections to gays and lesbians in Salt Lake City. Watch a news report on the vote, AFTER THE...

Marriage equality didn't get a vote today, but it wasn't because supporters at the state house in Albany were quiet. As senators made their way to the chamber, they were confronted with advocates shouting "We deserve a vote." Watch the...

Lady Gaga sets her latest video for "Bad Romance" in the icy hot walls of a Bath Haus, AFTER THE JUMP...

Darren Manzella talks about his tours of Iraq, coming out, and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in this new video interview from CNN. Says Manzella: "After returning from my first deployment in Iraq, after seeing death and violence, losing friends and...

More specifically, the poem "Two Week Love" from the volume, Touch Me. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

A rally is planned for 5pm this evening outside Fort Worth City Hall as recommendations by a Diversity Task Force undertaken after the Rainbow Lounge Raid in July come up for a vote at City Council. The task force recommends...

Former Miss California Carrie Prejean had a chat with Sean Hannity about her sex tape. Says Prejean: "It was the biggest mistake of my life...It was bad judgment. It was embarrassing. It's humiliating to be talking about this now on...

Lady Gaga plays a Marc Jacobs-clad witch in a new set of Hansel and Gretel-themed shots from Annie Leibovitz in December's Vogue. Gaga appeared over the weekend on the German talk show Wetten Dass where she previewed scenes from her...

Openly gay NYC City Council speaker Christine Quinn was asked at a press conference this morning about the potential for a vote on marriage equality by the State Senate tomorrow. "It's an incredibly important piece of legislation...If the bill is...

Andre Agassi spoke with Katie Couric about the wig he wore to the French Open final and the panic that ensued when a conditioner he used caused the weave to disintegrate in the shower before the match. Watch, AFTER THE...

Senator George Maziarz tells Anne Tischer and Bess Watts of Gates, New York, a couple of 15 years who married in Canada four years ago, that he won't be voting for her right to get married in New York. This...

Demonstrators in Portland and Bangor, Maine protested the Catholic church's involvement in the passage of Question 1 on Sunday morning. Portland residents took their grievances to the street in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Catholic contributions to...

Maggie's back with another message about Maine, AFTER THE JUMP... Note: It's playwright Jeff Whitty (thanks, Kevin)

It was like Kruger National Park for a short while at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. on Sunday afternoon when a wild deer from Rock Creek Park leapt over the zoo enclosure into the lion exhibit. Watch, AFTER THE...

Elizabeth Benjamin reports in the NY Daily News on a conversation she had with New York state senator Pedro Espada Jr. and a plan he floated that could plausibly derail the marriage equality vote: "Espada suggested linking the marriage bill,...

Maggie Gallagher clucks to the Catholic News Agency over the bigot victory in Maine , AFTER THE JUMP...

New York Governor David Paterson has scheduled a special session of the state Senate for this Tuesday, November 10. Paterson has placed a marriage equality bill on the session's agenda. Yesterday, Corey Johnson and I sat down with Paterson for...

Although there were no transgender witnesses at yesterday's ENDA hearings, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) made sure transgender voices were heard. Retired U.S. Army Col. Diane Schroer and Earline Budd spoke at a press conference before the ENDA hearings yesterday. Officer...