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• NEW SPIRIT: Queen Elizabeth II to Sign Historic Pledge Against Discrimination Seen As Signal of Gay Rights Support AND Skips Another Service!

• EVER AFTER: Sweden's Fairytale Princess Lilian Dead at 97!

• DELAY: Why Bill Clinton Signed DOMA!

• HACK: Puerto Rican ATM Spits Out 'We Hate Fags' Receipt!

• TOO CLOSE: Gay Man Gets Called a 'Faggot' Outside His Home, Pursues the Perpetrator, Then Gets Assaulted!

• REHAB: A reformed Brett Ratner to be honored by GLAAD!

• FREE-DOM: Pistorius Fights Bail Restrictions!

• EFFECT: How Nora Ephron Died!

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• CRASHED: Lead Cop Dropped From Pistorius Case!

• REPENT: 'Gay Lobby' Within Vatican Influenced Pope's Resignation!

• ORDER: President Obama Considering Filing Brief in Prop 8 Case!

• EMBARRASSED: Laura Bush Requests Removal from Marriage Equality Ad!

• ISSUES: GLAAD President Wants to Know 'What the Hell is Going On' at AP with Guidance on Gay Married Couples?

• NOT YET: Puerto Rico Supreme Court Upholds Gay Adoption Ban!

• TORTURE: Bullying Can Take Toll Beyond Childhood!

POSED: Ricky Martin's Advocate COVER!

Ricky Martin is on the cover of the latest issue of The Advocate and gives a wonderful interview to the magazine’s Jeremy Kinser.

Here are some excerpts:
On fame: “You have to be careful. It’s not easy to deal with fame. I’m very lucky to be surrounded by amazing people who are raw and honest, who will say I’m wrong, and who will also congratulate me.”

On his memoir: “When I released the book, the people I met doing the in-store signings were like, ‘Please allow me to give you a hug. You have no idea what you’ve done for me.’ I had no idea it was going to be like that,” he says. “When I started writing this book I just wanted to let go of a lot of things I was holding within.”

On his role in Broadway’s Evita: “I get to feel many things. I can go from anger to love to uncertainty within 30 minutes of the show. That’s amazing because that’s what my life has been about for the last three years—feeling. Not sabotaging any kind of emotions. Letting everything just come through me and verbalize it. It’s a very spiritual exercise that I’ll do every night.”

On his twin sons: “Every decision I make and everything I do is based on their needs. I don’t want to sound cliché, but they teach me new things every day.”

On boyfriend Carlos Gonzalez Abella: “I think he’s so sexy. He’s very smart. That is such a turn-on,” Martin laughs. “He leaves the house every day in a suit and tie and that is so sexy. It’s two different worlds—his and mine. I know as much about his world as he knows about my world, which makes it really cool.”

Click HERE to read the entire article.

CAUGHT: Puerto Rican Republican and Grindr Aficionado Resigns!

Roberto Arango, who seems to have posted photos of his chest and posterior to Grindr, just resigned from the Puerto Rican senate. You'll recall that he vice-chaired Bush's 2004 campaign in Puerto Rico. Along with the pictures, details have surfaced about his alleged anti-gay past. A tipster at Joe.My.God wrote:

In 2009 he voted in favor of Resolution 99 which would have amended Puerto Rico’s constitution to ban the recognition of same-sex marriages (it didn’t pass). He has been opposed to civil union bills and in 2004 he used a rubber duck and made it quack to make fun of an opponent (in Puerto Rico, the word for duck, “pato".