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This Evolution Won't Be Televised

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.26.2012

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The arc of history is long and bends toward progress, but it usually starts in a bad place. Former congressman Chris Bell knows this, because he went through his own reevaluation on gay marriage.

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Friday Talking Points -- Economic Messaging

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2012

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OK, we understand that this is garden-variety election pandering to the Tea Party base and all of that, but we feel duty-bound to offer up a little garden-variety ridicule to go with it.

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Will France Be The Next To Legalize Gay Marriage?

LE MONDE/Worldcrunch | Posted 05.19.2012

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Following Barack Obama's surprise public support for gay marriage, incoming French President François Hollande may be poised to push through legislat...

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Former Navy Chaplain: People Are Recruited To Homosexuality By 'Marketing'

Posted 05.18.2012

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Yet another right-wing pundit has come forward with puzzling declarations in an effort to denounce President Obama's support of same-sex marriagesuppo...

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It Is Now Symbolically Necessary To Reelect Obama

Justin Huang | Posted 05.18.2012

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A terrified gay teenager in middle America has just been told by the president that he or she has just as much a right to love and marry. And that teenager doesn't care about your intellectual meanderings of politicking. All that teenager knows is that it just got better.

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Obama's Gay Marriage Stance Has Big Impact On Black Opinion

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.17.2012

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When President Obama announced last week that he supported same-sex marriage, the conventional wisdom was that the president ran the risk of alienat...

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No, President Obama Is Not 'The First Gay President'

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.18.2012

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Even if you accept Toni Morrison's premise that Bill Clinton was "the first black president," which of course Andrew Sullivan is working off of in his essay in Newsweek, it just falls flat when applied to Obama and gays.

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Obama Pride: President's Gay Marriage Support Prompts Line Of LGBT-Friendly Merchandise

Posted 05.16.2012

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It might have divided Washington, but President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage last week has drawn ample praise from many high-profile lesbi...

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Anti-Gay Pundit: Obama May Be Gay, Child Molestation Is Ultimate Goal Of 'Homosexual Movement'

Posted 05.15.2012

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The Family Research Institute's Paul Cameron has joined the chorus of dissenting voices angered by President Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriage ...

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I Wanted To Go To George Clooney's House, Too

Jason Stuart | Posted 05.14.2012

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I didn't have an extra $40,000 to go to George Clooney's party to support Barack Obama for president. I wish I could have gone. I worked with George 20 years ago. You only see the back of my head nodding. To me, that was a metaphor for how it was to be an openly gay actor back then.

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Clay Aiken On Gay Marriage: 'We're Going To Be Ashamed We Were Against This' In 20 Years

Posted 05.14.2012

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"American Idol" alum Clay Aiken took to CBS's "Face the Nation" over the weekend to talk North Carolina's Amendment One as well as President Obama's e...

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Snooki & JWoww: We're 'Proud' Of President Obama

MTV | Posted 05.14.2012

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President Obama made history earlier this week when he became the first president to support same-sex marriage. Moments after the announcement, reacti...

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Friday Talking Points -- Most Impressive, Mr. President

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.11.2012

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We're throwing our usual format away today, because this was a momentous and historic week in American politics, and we thought it needed the entire column to address.

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Michelangelo Signorile, HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-At-Large, Talks Obama's Gay Marriage Stance On CNN

Posted 05.11.2012

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HuffPost Gay Voices Editor-at-Large Michelangelo Signorile sounded off on President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality in a CNN appearance this ...

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Weeklings: 'Presidents Are Gay'

Louis Virtel | Posted 05.11.2012

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Thank You, Mr. President

Sally Duros | Posted 05.11.2012

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Although they sound a note of caution in celebrating the president's position on behalf of civil rights, they are more hopeful than they have ever been.

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WATCH: Obama Comes Out

Posted 05.11.2012

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Barack Obama has something to tell you. It's not going to be easy, but he just can't hide it anymore. So sit down America, and let the president t...

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SPOTIFY THE NEWS: A Playlist For The Week

The Huffington Post | Michael Hogan | Posted 05.11.2012

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Introducing "Spotify the News," a new HuffPost feature designed to translate the week's big headlines into a weekend-worthy playlist featuring classic...

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President Obama Is Not Pandering To Me

Paul Katz | Posted 05.10.2012

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Obama's reasoning has everything to do with total transparency before the election. This statement makes clear who he is as a man and as a president. No more hedging; take it or leave it; and if he loses, he lost while telling the truth.

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Am I The Only Gay Who Eyes Obama's 'Evolution' On Gay Marriage With Suspicion?

Lady Bunny | Posted 05.10.2012

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I don't comprehend the jubilance that most felt when Obama threw us a bone yesterday. It's a soft bone that doesn't translate into any real policy, and I can't help but think that Obama is using a pro-gay-marriage stance as a smokescreen.

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What Took Him So Long?

Tom Allon | Posted 05.10.2012

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While every Democrat praises President Obama's "evolution" to favoring marriage equality, I can only ask: What took him so long? Why did he not realize sooner that marriage equality is the civil rights issue of our generation?

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Shut My Mouth: The President Has Evolved!

Domenick Scudera | Posted 05.10.2012

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It seems like just yesterday that I wrote a HuffPost blog complaining about our president and vice president and their "evolving" opinions on gay marriage. Actually, it was yesterday. What a difference a day makes.

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Obama's Bold Move On Gay Marriage Presents Opportunities And Pitfalls

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.10.2012

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The president and his advisers must have calculated that the benefits of appearing resolute and firm outweighed the costs of alienating conservative democrats in swing states. In a sense, Obama pulled a card from George W. Bush's playbook, saying to voters, I am the Decider.

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Obama, Marriage, and 'VOTE HERE'

Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson | Posted 05.10.2012

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President Obama knows that a growing number of Americans and people of faith understand this as a simple matter of fairness for all families. Obama has chosen to stand in the gap, even as conservatives manipulate religion to undermine the core value of equal standing before the law.

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Evolution On Gay Marriage: Not For Obama, But For The Country

Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.11.2012

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Years from now, when historians look back at the long arc of American history, they will see in the president's announcement a significant moment.

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