(SPECIAL) Waking Up with Two Gay Marines!

 In his latest vid, Russ gives us "a day in the life" which turns out to be pretty ordinary, yet cutely compelling, Easter pizza and all.

(POP NEWS) Slapped; Defeated; Bribed; Tolerant; Bigot; Brave; Trans-Poop; Bag Lady; Perverted; Moving On; Rumors; Beloved; Blinded; Gay Idol!

SLAPPED: Dan Choi Found Guilty, Fined $100 for White House 'DADT' Protest!

• DEFEATED: Rush Limbaugh on Gay Marriage: 'We Lost’! 

• BRIBED: Chick-fil-A Owner Treats Gay Marriage Rally to Meal!  

• TOLERANT: New England Patriot Rob Gronkowski Says Gay Player Would Be 'Another Teammate and Another Friend'! 

• BIGOT: Seattle Seahawk Christopher Clemons Says Gay Player Coming Out Would be 'Selfish Act' That Would Divide Team! 

• BRAVE: Gay Footballer Robbie Rogers Talks About the Closet, Coming Out! 

• TRANS-POOP: Arizona House Panel Approves 'Bathroom Bill' Shielding Businesses That Discriminate Against Trans People! 

(POP NEWS) Winning; Milestone; Confused; Icon; Brutal; United; Seeds; History; Not In; Posh; Junk; Grindr; Compassion!

WINNING: The Story Behind TIME Magazine's Gay Marriage Cover!

• MILESTONE: DOMA Plaintiff's 'Spectacular' Day for Me!  

• CONFUSED: Court Sounds Skeptical About DOMA!  

• ICON: Red Symbol of Gay Support on Facebook Is Awesome !  

• BRUTAL: Russian Gay Activist Brutally Attacked in Front of Journalists After City Bans Pride Parade! 

• UNITED: Activists Arrested in White House 'DADT' Protest Reunited This Morning in Support of Lt. Dan Choi!

(POP NEWS) Moment of Truth; Debate; Poll; Choi; Singing Spree; Kosher; Retried; Gates' Condom; Jersey Boy!

1st of Landmark Gay Marriage Cases Hits SCOTUS Today!

 Don Lemon Blasts Anti-Gay Activist Over Gay!

Marriage, Calls His Assertions 'Absurd!'

Poll: 54 Percent of Ohioans Support Marriage Equality!

Lt. Dan Choi's Trial to Resume!

Norway Massacre Turned Into a ... Musical?

Jared Leto Fan Mail: Severed Human Ear!

Game of Thrones Actor Gets Ear Bitten Off!

Italy Orders Amanda Knox Be Retried!

Just in Time for Passover: Kosher Cigarettes!

(POP NEWS) Anne's Nip; Idiot; Not Out; Going Gay; Last Word; DADT; Queer Pope; Hate; Drama; Relax; Crazy; Cover Up; Documented!

• NIP/TUCK: Anne Hathaway Sorry About Nipple-Baring Oscar Dress!

• NOT an IDIOT: Billie Joe Armstrong Meltdown Was Turning Point!

• SONATRA: Famed Pianist Van Cliburn Dead at 78!

• NOT OUT: 'Shameless' Actor Cameron Monaghan: 'I'm Not Gay...!

• NEW PROP 8: 61 Percent of Californians Approve of Marriage Equality!

• GOING GAY: ABC television network to be honored at Human Rights Campaign gala on March 23 in Los Angeles! 

• LAST WORD: Man Uses NYT Obit to Air Hatred of ... NYT!

• DON'T ASK: NFL to Teams Can't Ask About Sexuality!

• DO TELL: Bradley Manning Wants to Tell Court Why He Did It!

• CLOSE QUARTERS: Pope's Living Arrangements Are a Little, Er, Queer?

(POP NEWS) Blame Game; Huge; Moving Inward; Offensive; Milestone; Decline; Accepted; Weed; Payout; Not a Fan; Sour Grapes; Size; Freaky!

• BLAME GAME: Russian Wrestling Coach Claims Masculinity-Hating Gays to Blame for Sport Getting Cut from Olympics!

• HUGE: Marriage Equality Legislation Filed in Texas!

• MOVING INWARD: Illinois Senate Passes Marriage Equality in 34-21 Vote!

• OFFENSIVE: AP Digs in Heels on Discriminatory 'Husband' and 'Wife' Guidance!

• MILESTONE:Gallup Breaks Down Percentage of LGBT People by State in Largest Study of its Kind!

• DECLINED: Gay Missouri Teen Told He Can't Bring Male Date to Prom!

• ACCEPTED: Same-Sex Couple Set for National Cemetery Burial!

(POP NEWS) Duty; New Normal; Delay; Pity; Memorial; Rhi; Phony; Political; Gayer; Who? Domestic; Taken; Yoda; Diva!

• DUTY: Gay West Point Cadet Escorts His Boyfriend to Winter Formal!

• NEW NORMAL: Pentagon to Extend Benefits to Same-Sex Spouses!

• DELAY: Boy Scouts Punt on Decision on Gays!

• PITY: 'Ace of Cakes' Star Offers to Bake Wedding Cake for Lesbian Bride Rejected by Oregon Bakery!

• MEMORIAL: Tyler Clementi Center Established at Rutgers University!

• RHI-BOYCOTT NEEDED: Frank Ocean Called 'Faggot' During Chris Brown Assault!

• PHONY: Chris Brown Faked His Community Service!

• POLITICAL: Facebook Co-Founder's Husband Sean Eldridge Files Papers to Run for Congress!

• GAYER: Gay Man Becomes President of Walt Disney World!

(OUTVIEW @ 4) Coverage that led to Change!

Adams at City Hall (2009)                Scott

Going Back to OUTview's first year in 2009, we focused on issues that we cared about and one by one change was happening. Our first Podcast on January 31, 2009 happened a month earlier than planned and MK had to jump through hurdles to get this special completed. This was the week that Portland was going through a firestorm with the Scandal of Mayor Sam Adams and his relationship with former intern, Beau Breedlove. It was revealed that Adams had lied during his Mayoral Campaign in 2007 about his relationship with Breedlove. Many (Including Oregon's Gay Publication, 'Just Out') was calling for Adams to resign. One Man, Elliot Young, Professor at Portland’s Lewis and Clark College, was one of the first to start the ‘Support Sam’ campaign. Young spent several days being interviewed by the local media and graciously accepted the invitation to chat with OUTview. Adams didn't resign, and after 2 failed Recalls, left City Hall feet first in December 2012.

(MY VIEW) Women in Combat: The Lessons of Progress!

by Nathaniel Frank

Seemingly out of nowhere, the Pentagon announced this week that it would lift its ban on women in combat. Just like that. No years-long Washington lobbying campaign, no protracted national culture-war debate, no threats by conservatives in Congress to do everything humanly possible to block progress -- in other words, nothing like the decades-long fight the nation saw over letting gays and lesbians serve openly in the military.

The differences between the two political battles are stark, yet the substance of the two debates has great overlap. In both cases, advocates of equality pointed out that merit and ability to do the job should be more important than the cultural beliefs of one segment of society, and they showed that there was no research indicating that equal treatment harmed the military. Opponents of both open gays and women in combat cited concerns about military effectiveness, suggesting -- but never proving -- that reform carried great risk to the military and thus to national security.

(POP NEWS) Hillary's Slam; Butch: Returned; United; Completed; Attack; Brave; Libel; Deadly; Over; AAugh!

• SLAM: Clinton Chokes Up, Gets Angry at Benghazi Hearing!

• BUTCH: Pentagon lifts ban on women in combat!

• RETURNED: Only European King Buried in US Returned to Europe!

• UNITED: Gay Marriage in Works in RI!

• COMPLETE: Chely Wright and Wife Lauren Expecting Identical Twins!

• ATTACK: Boston Law School LGBT Group Vandalized with Vulgar Graffiti!

• BRAVE: NJ High School Senior Comes Out as Gay to His Entire Class, Gets Standing Ovation!

• LIBEL: Armstrong Sued Over Lies in His 'Non-Fiction' Books!

• DEADLY: Smokers Lose 10 Years!

• OVER: Doom for LiLo's Film Career?

• AAUGH: Voice of Charlie Brown Upset by Ex's Boob Job!

(POP NEWS) Settled; Inspired; Stone Cold; Rehab; Advocate; Avenue-M; Bowie; Swift; Busy; Franco!

• SETTLED: Gay Troops to Get Full Discharge Pay, in Settlement of Case Against Defense Department!

• INSPIRED: Teen Awarded NPR's Top Storytelling Performance Prize for Powerful Tale About His Two Gay Moms!

• STONE COLD: James Holmes Sits Coldly in Sad Pretrial Hearing!

• NO REHAB: Winehouse Drank Herself to Death: 2nd Coroner!

• VISIBLE: 'The Advocate' Print Edition to Return to Newsstands After Two-Year Absence!

• AVENUE-M: It’s back to Broadway for Bette Midler!

• MOVE LIKE JAGGER: Bowie Turns 66, Releases 1st Song in 10 Years!

• NEW SONG ALREADY: Yet Another Breakup for Taylor Swift!

• LEZ-GO: Busy Phillips on lesbian rumors about her and Michelle Williams: “We don’t do it”!

• DETAILS: Dave Franco Reflects on F**king Himself!

(POP NEWS) Prime Tammy; Censored; Karma; Preference; Details; Victim; Color; Kiss; Milestone!

• PRIME: Tammy Baldwin Sworn In, is First Out Gay U.S. Senator!

• CENSORED: Pentagon STILL Blocks Websites Designated as 'LGBT'!

• KARMA: Fantasia Barrino's Anti-Gay Remarks Ruined Her Week!

• PREFERENCE: Adam Lambert elaborates on “Les Miserables” diss!

• DETAILS: Kelly Clarkson Addresses 'The Lesbian Thing'!

(POP NEWS) Hitting Westboro; Dimwit; Proposal; Dallas Leading; Meltdown; Cats; Hobbit; Marky Warp; Damon; Winehouse; Diva!

• ATTACK: Anonymous Hits Westboro for Threat to Protest Newtown!

• BRING IT ON: Feinstein Bringing Assault Weapon Ban to Senate!

• DIMWIT: Victoria Jackson Links Adam Lanza to Women Who Have Abortions!

• GESTURE: Marine Proposes to Partner at White House!

• LEADING: 'Dallas Morning News' Endorses Marriage Equality!

• MELTDOWN: 'Pathetic' Depardieu Quits France in Tax Rage!

(POP NEWS) Beiber's weekend; Swift Guy; Penn; Upstaging Angie; DADT; Mitchum; Gay X-Factor!

• TWEEN NIGHT: AMA's Big Winner: a Canadian!

• GROWING PAINS: Justin, Selena Have Worst Dinner Date Ever!

• NEW SONG: Taylor Swift's New Guy Is...!

• NEW BEARD: Sean Penn's New Gal: Florence Welch?

• UPSTAGED: Angelina Scores Invite to Jen's Wedding!

• WINNING: Now Free Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Gay And Lesbian Soldiers Thrive!

• PROGRESS: Cuba Elects First Trans Woman Lawmaker, Adela Hernandez!

• HARD TIMES: 'Embarrassed' NY Prosecutor Mark Suben Admits Porn Past!

• DEMONS: Olympic Diver Matthew Mitcham Battled Crystal Meth Addiction in 2011!

• GAY VOTE: UK 'X Factor' Boybander Jaymi Hensley Comes Out as Gay!

(MY VIEW) A Salute to LGBT Veterans!

by Brian Stone

Our country may be divided on many things, but when it comes to our troops, we've made up our mind: national service should be rewarded with national praise. The LGBT community is fortunate to have great war heroes and veterans amongst our ranks.

Ever since 371 BC, when 300 gay hoplites from the Sacred Band of Thebes flanked and broke the Spartans in the Battle of Leuctes, the LGBT community has been proving our might in battle. The greatest conqueror of all time, Alexander the Great, was bisexual. And while ancient history provides us with plenty of examples in military greatness, our modern era is filled with LGBT heroes as well.

Great American LGBT veterans include Marines like Eric Alva, the first man seriously injured in Iraq. Alva continued to fight as a veteran, working for the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Thanks to veterans like him, I can count myself among a generation of veterans who served before, during and after repeal.

(TIME-Warp) Patrick Murphy Celebrates One Year Anniversary Of DADT's Repeal!

Former Congressman Patrick Murphy, the moderate Democrat instrumental in Don't Ask, Don't Tell's repeal, reflected on the one year anniversary of the discriminatory law's demise this week at The Daily Beast.

"On September 20th, we mark the first anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," Murphy writes. "We recognize the thousands of troops who were unfairly targeted by the policy and thank them for their service to our nation. We take a moment to celebrate the fact that our military has made historic progress in the march toward full equality for all men and women."

(OUTview TV) FROM 2009 PODCAST: MK's Exclusive with Eric Alva and Nathaniel Frank on DADT Repeal!!

This Past week was the 1 year anniversary of the official ending of Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell, so this week I wanted to focus on one of OUTview's crowning achievements with an EXCLUSIVE discussion on DADT from way back in 2009. This was my 3rd Podcast for Q-Radio but it truly launched the OURview Series.

(Politics WEEKLY) Gay Navy Moment; Super Tuesday; NY Press Vs. Santorum; Dennis Kucinich; Warren in Trouble; Inslee Serious; Parker may resign; DC Divorce; Game Change!

• Gay Navy Homecoming! 

• Super Tuesday Results: Who Won What!

• Santorum: New York Press Out to Get Me!

• Dennis Kucinich Loses Ohio Seat!

• Scott Brown Beating Warren! 

• GOP Blasts Elizabeth Warren for Hollywood Pals!

• Rep. Jay Inslee to Resign, Run for Governor in Washington!

  Houston Pastor Calls on Mayor Annise Parker to Step Down for Support of Same-Sex Marriage!

• Filmmaker Alexander Payne, Nebraska Football Coach Ron Brown Testify at Omaha Hearing on LGBT Anti-Bias Bill!

• Gay Couples Married in D.C. Can Now Get Divorced More Easily!

• DNCC Chair Antonio Villaraigosa Says Democratic Party Platform Should Include Marriage Equality!

• McCain Blasts Game Change!

(POP NEWS): Elton's Hunks; Basic Oscars; Young Busted; Bear Death; Manning's Prize; Post-DADT!

HOT: Elton John Oscar party turns into hunkfest!

FAMILIAR: Oscars Were Basically the Same Old Sequel!

WASTED: Actress Sean Young Busted at Oscars Party!

 

 

 

RESPECT: Jan Berenstain Dead at 88!

DESERVED: Wikileaks Soldier Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!

CHANGES: Facebook photo of US Marine and boyfriend touches hearts in post DADT world!

 

(Marriage News Watch): Meet Stephen Hill, Soldier Who Asked Santorum About DADT, & his Husband Josh!

by Matt Baume

Stephen Hill made history when he asked the Republican Presidential candidates if they would circumvent the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell -- and then drew boos from the audience. In that moment, Stephen's 20-year military career took a backseat to a national conversation about Republican animosity towards LGBT service members. So, who really IS Stephen? What's his husband Josh like, and how did they decide together to submit that question? Why did they make the risky choice to get married before the repeal of DADT, and what's the significance of their awesome matching tattoos? All these questions and more shall be answered as we meet the delightful couple behind the question that changed the race for President.