For equality advocates, there is a somewhat promising, slightly nerve-racking week coming up here in New York. That being the case, our pals at Towleroad decided to sit down with the man at the helm of the principled push for fairness, Gov. David Paterson, to get his thoughts on our chances in Albany, the lessons from Maine, and a whole host of various and sundry issues dealing with the Empire State's long overdue chance to become a civil rights leader. Take it away, Corey Johnson: EXCL... Read Full Story

From The New York Times Editorial Board: Last Tuesday’s Election Day results showed how far the nation has traveled in the struggle for gay equality — and the distance still to go. The returns also added fresh urgency to promising efforts in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia to legalize marriage for same-sex couples ... Fights for justice rarely follow a linear path. Maine voters have approved anti-gay measures in the past only to reverse themselves in a subsequent election.... Read Full Story

It's fitting that Maggie would record this video for the Catholic News Agency, considering the National Organization For Marriage is essentially a Catholic front group. It's also fitting that she'd gloat over her ability to dupe a majority margin of 30,000+ Maine voters to support her side's unbelievably offensive and fallacious strategy about schoolchildren, because she has chosen a cruel lifestyle that equates one's ability to pass off vile lies to "success": "This gay marriage thing."... Read Full Story

TMZ is reporting that in light of recent events, rumors, revelations, and conjecture, "opposite marriage" advocate Carrie Prejean has either been dropped or chose to remove herself from tonight's New Jersey Family Policy Council benefit: Prejean -- Family Doesn't Always Come First [TMZ] Coming live via tape wasn't an option, for obvious reasons. Read Full Story

As you watch this window into the nutty, remember that the man in charge of it, Randall Terry, loathes the gay rights movement too: Go Inside The Tea Party Rally With Randall Terry [Right Wing Watch] As advocates for both free association and a world free from far-right right extremism, we want to beg Randall to keep up these kinds of eye-opening theatrics. As folks who understand the real world implications of this kind of anti-progressive mob mentality, we want to beg the opposite. R... Read Full Story

Maggie has a plan: "Can the powerful gay-marriage movement be stopped? I don't know. I promise you one thing though: I am going to find out." Despair [NRO] Eh, it's a living. So is this: Read Full Story

NOM blew its wad in Maine. So Brian Brown's breaking out the theatrical money pleas, turning to self-aggrandization and attacks on the "bloated bureuacracy" of HRC to help fill their costly coffers: Yea, you wanna play the "bloated bureaucracy" game? Well then, let's talk about Focus on the Family, who has a budget or $138 million in 2009, yet only gave $115,266 to this fight. Now, personally we think that even one penny towards the anti-gay side is a hostile, unnecessary, un-Christian... Read Full Story

This from a reader in Powder Springs, GA: *Comment source: Carrie tends to her Garden [G-A-Y] So wait, opposition: Tell us again about how gays are "militant" and how the rise in right-wing extremism is just a myth. We've been too busy monitoring the reality of 2009 America to hear your spin. Read Full Story

Dave's sh*t? Rosie ain't having it: Ask Ro [Rosie.com] Meanwhile, we're suggesting that we all change the name of "existence" to: "We never really leave the school playground, do we?" Read Full Story

We did so much right in Maine, that it's hard to fault specifics about the campaign. But after committing so much time to this particular fight, I do come away with a few personal takeaways. Consider: The schools issue: It was our opposition's winning argument in both CA and ME. We can't wait for them to base yet another deceptive campaign around school books: We have to take it on year-round. We need to be forthright about the fact that LGBT people will, can, and should be addressed, ... Read Full Story