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Florida’s Beaches were segregated. I swear that had never occurred to me. I’m from Mississippi, ground zero for the civil rights movement and the integration battles. I think of lunch counters and the Little Rock Nine and George Wallace and James Meredith. But not beaches.

Behold Florida State Senator Eleanor Sobel! Isn’t she beautiful?! (She reminds me a little of Jill from Desperate Housewives of New York. Maybe it’s that she actually is a Jewish New Yorker. Regardless, I’m so glad to call her a Floridian today! Are any Floridians actually from Florida anyway? I’m a Mississippian by birth. Don’t choke! It’s OK. I escaped.)

I loved my heterosexual parents and if anybody tried to take away their parental rights, their right to adopt, their children's health insurance . . . they would have been damn mad, hateful, immature and every other emotion under the sun.

These are our families - our children.

I used to be one of the play nice, act mature, fit in good gays - but I'm sick of it.

The Human Rights Campaign released its 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate questionnaire. The results provide insight about the current candidates for President.

Where do they each stand on our issues?