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Not unexpectedly, there’s plenty to make your blood boil in today’s hearings on the newly announced Respect for Marriage Act which seeks to overturn DOMA. Fortunately there’s plenty of eloquent testimony in support of the new act to balance out all the hatery. Clips of the hearings will be posted below as they become available. Read Full Story

I imagine many of you were surprised to find an email update from Inside, Looking Out yesterday. I was too. Yeah, it’s been nearly a year since my last post, eleven months to be exact. Apathy, work, and a failure to gain traction in a competitive blogosphere contributed to the long drought. And I didn’t think my heart was in it any more. After a few years of actively blogging I realized I didn’t have the mettle to go up against the likes of Joe.My.God and Towleroad and others, who were... Read Full Story

Armisted Maupin’s novel Tales of the City finally made its way to the stage earlier this summer in Tales of the City A New Musical , birthed most appropriately in the city where its memorable characters call home, San Francisco. For the unacquainted, Tales of the City is a classic fish-out-of-water “tale” about a young midwesterner named Mary Ann Singleton who after visiting San Francisco suddenly decides to make the city her home. Growing up in Cleveland though couldn’t prepare her for... Read Full Story

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker declared Proposition 8 unconstitutional in a landmark decision today. From New York Magazine : In a decision just handed down to lawyers for both sides, Walker ruled in that Proposition 8 is “unconstitutional under both the due process and equal protection clauses.” The court, therefore, “orders entry of judgment permanently enjoining its enforcement.” We’re staying tuned for more updates and details on the 136-page decision, but these two sentences from the... Read Full Story

If there was any justice in the world  naysayers like   Rush Limbaugh , the  Governor of Mississippi and  CEO of BP would be forced to assist in the clean up, wading knee deep in the carcasses that have washed up on shore, the stench of rotting flesh remaining with them the rest of their lives. More photographs of the environmental carnage at the Big Picture . Read Full Story

What is happening in the gulf is truly heartbreaking and this video makes it painfully clear. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8JHSAVYT0 Dolphins and other animals are beginning to wash up on shore , and more photos of the disaster are available at The Big Picture . Read Full Story

Kelsey Grammer is lending his celebrity to the launch of RightNetwork, a new cable channel dedicated to putting all of us lefties in our place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMl-CztpnA Where’s Lilith when we need her? Read Full Story

Or so suggested Mike Sutton of the Sutton family on a recent airing of the Family Feud. Watch: Mike, with all those daughters, there’s a good chance one of them doesn’t like your country very well either. Read Full Story

Eleven-year-old Will Phillips, who last year refused to stand up in class for the Pledge of Allegiance until there was “liberty and justice for all,” received a GLAAD Media Award for his activism on behalf of the gay community. In his acceptance speech he called for President Obama to use the bully pulpit of his office to affect change. Amazing stuff. Watch: Read Full Story

In an obvious nod to U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the National Organization for Marriage has released a new ad attacking her Republican opponent Tom Campbell and incumbent Democrat Barabara Boxer. The ad attacks Campbell and Boxer for being too liberal and for being against Prop 8. Watch: Fiorina voted in favor of Proposition 8 in 2008. When she  announced her bid for Boxer’s seat last November, Fiorina reiterated her stance against gay marriage saying she “believes in the... Read Full Story