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Linda Stay, a Utah mother of two gay kids, is calling on other parents with GLBT children to join her in fighting for equality for their sons and daughters. Stay advises on her website, "Share who your children are with your friends, your co-workers, your siblings, with everyone. When you hear derogatory comments about gay or lesbian people ... all you need to say is, ‘I have a gay son or a lesbian daughter.

Anne Rice announced that she's quitting Christianity as a matter of conscience. Wrote the author: "For those who care, and I understand if you don't, I quit being a Christian. I'm out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian.

After giving birth as a surrogate for her two gay friends, Utah's Rep. Christine Johnson is moving to South Carolina - to head South Carolina Equality. This month, she gave birth to the baby, a boy. Johnson reports the infant is healthy and at home with his dads, both close friends of hers. She plans to maintain an aunt-like relationship with the child, who is the biological son of Johnson and one of the two gay men.

The story of a lesbian couple struggling with local officials for domestic partnership is being made into a feature film. Cynthia Wade, the director of the award-winning short documentary "Freeheld", is making a full-length feature of the doc with "Juno" star, Ellen Page. Freeheld won the Oscar for best short documentary in 2008.

I downloaded the first four songs recorded and released by Court Yard Hounds as soon as Sony announced they were available. CYH is a side project formed by Dixie Chicks sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison.

All four songs sound great - and they offer the ease and beauty of Dixie Chicks at their best. But one song in particular - "Ain't No Son" - was too angry for me, and I removed it from my playlist. Now I know why the song struck a chord with me.

Nancy Pelosi has represented the City of San Francisco in the House of Representatives since 1987 - and she's become a major player in D.C. since the passage of health care reform.

Pelosi's been a friend to the gay community for decades. She voted NO on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. She voted NO on a Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. And she voted NO on banning gay adoptions in DC.

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Comedian and actress Roseanne has delivered a strong message in response to Marie Osmond's son committing suicide.

In a blog post titled Marie Osmond's Poor Gay Son Killed Himself she calls on Marie [whose son is rumored to have been gay] to renounce the Mormon Church's anti-gay stance instead of donate and promote her faith.