(POP NEWS) WORLD DOMINATED; PROGRESS; BLACKLISTED; SPECIAL SAUCE; OVERDUE; MESSAGE; 15 TO1; HACK; CENSORED; MASTER; LAST HURRAH!

• WORLD DOMINATED: International Marriage Equality Map!

• PROGRESS: Support for Marriage Equality Hits New High at 58 Percent!

• BLACKLISTED: Alt-Folk Singer Michelle Shocked Tells SF Audience 'God Hates Fags', Inspires Mass Walk-Out!

• SPECIAL SAUCE: Chipotle Does Not Support Companies That Discriminate Against Gays Unless They Are the Boy Scouts!

(POP NEWS) POT and MARRIAGE; NO HOPE; GOOSE; RE=BILLED; REJECTED; DONE; TYPE;TRICK; EXPIRED; CLASS!

• POT and MARRIAGE: Colorado OKs Civil Unions!

• NO HOPE: No Pope Yet After Second Blast of Black Smoke!

• GOOSE: Chavez Poison Theory Being Investigated!

• RE-BILLED: Man Returns Book 69 Years Late, Blames WWII!

• REJECTED: Aftermath of Richard III Discovery: Hate Mail!

• WHO CARES? Boy Scouts Takes Poll, Asks About Bunking With Gays!

• DONE: Toronto's Fab 'Gay Scene Magazine' Closes Up Shop!

(POLITICS Weekly) Stand OUT; Direction; Shut Down; Entitled; Crossed; Bi-Part; Snob!

• STANDING OUT: 75 GOP Bigwigs Sign Brief Backing Gay Marriage!

• DIRECTION: Obama Approach 'Exactly' Right on Gay Marriage!

• SHUT DOWN: Sequester Time as Obama Signs Order!

• ENTITLED: 'It Kills Mitt' Not to Be Prez!

• CROSSED: Violence Against Women Act Breezes Through House!

• BI-PART: Is Christie the Second Coming of Jon Huntsman!

• SNOB: Boehner to Congress: Dress Up, Slobs!

(MY View) Is Gay Marriage Really a Conservative Cause?

by Nathaniel Frank

Ok I get it: Conservatives just love gay marriage. Ted Olson, the conservative super-lawyer who helped press George W. Bush into office, has co-led the legal challenge to California's gay marriage ban, now headed to the Supreme Court. Over 80 prominent conservatives have signed a legal brief that the media is billing as the "conservative case" for gay marriage. The effort was orchestrated by Ken Mehlman, former head of the Republican Party and top advisor to George W. Bush, who came out in 2010. The gay marriage cause was jump-started (but not actually started) by self-styled gay conservative, Andrew Sullivan, back in 1989 with an article making the conservative case for gay marriage. And 2012 GOP presidential candidate, John Huntsman, recently penned a piece in the American Conservative called "Marriage Equality is a Conservative Cause." Doesn't get any clearer than that.

(POP NEWS) Chink; Pizzazz; Down Low; Smart; Never In; Panache; Paranoia; Sex Tape; Over; Sexist; Color; Jackman!

• CHINK: Latest 'Diplomat' to North Korea: Dennis Rodman?

• PIZZAZZ: A$AP Rocky is  Gay Sometimes, But I Have a Lot of Bitches So Why Would I Care?'

• DOWN LOW: New Zealand Parliament Committee Advances Marriage Equality Bill!

• GROWING UP: Boston Fraternity Raises Money for Trans Frat Bro's Surgery!

• SMART: Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman Explains Why She Changed Her Mind on Same-Sex Marriage!

• NEVER IN: Anderson Cooper Talks Coming Out with Andy Cohen!

• PANACHE: Morrissey thinks If More Men Were Gay, There Would Be No Wars!

• PARANOIA: If Pistorius Is Telling Truth, He's Still a 'Dangerous Killer'!

(POLITICS Weekly) Union; Traditional; Adjusting; Heave Ho; Bordered; Bowing; Mentored!

• UNION: Why the Right Should Back Gay Marriage!

• TRADITIONAL: GOP Building 'Coalition of the Old' on Gay Issues!

• ADJUSTING: GOP Governors Are Coming Around on ObamaCare!

• HEAVE HO: Obama  Can't Afford 'Reckless' Sequester!

• BORDERED: Arizona Heckler to McCain,  'Where's the Dang Fence?'

• FINISHED: Nebraska GOP Senator to Retire!

• BOWING: Gen. John Allen to Retire, Skip NATO Post!

• OUCH: Rahm's Approval Rating: 19%!

• MENTORED: Obama Offered Big Thanks for 47% Tape to Carter?

(POP NEWS) Crashed; Repent; Order; Embarrassed; Issues; Not Yet; Torture; Show The Money; Punk'd; Wicked; Fantasy; Lez Hero!

• 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!

(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) Bite Me; Smart Move; Numb; Day Off; USA; Wasted; Whore Alert; Bad Hair!

• BITE ME: Brendon Ayanbadejo wants professional sports to be ready for openly gay teammates!

• SMART MOVE: Two Phelps Children Defect from Westboro Baptist Church!

• NUMB: Vonn will Be Back in Time for Olympics!

• DAY OFF: No Saturday Mail?

• USA AIR: American, US Air Close In on Merger!

• WASTED: Big Boozing Puts Marriage on the Rocks!

• WHORE ALERT:  No Breasts, Butts, or Privates at the Grammys!

• BAD HAIR: Quest to Squash Beyonce Photos a Hilarious Failure!

(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.

(POP NEWS) Manti's Man; Trans-form; Dominant and Free; HIV; Mad to Death; Proof; Re-Booted; Show-off; Suck up!

• STALKER: Manti Te'o Hoaxer Wanted 'Relationship' with Him?

• TRANS-FORM: German Soldiers Growing Breasts—on One Side!

• DOMINANCE: Russian Duma Passes Ban on Gay 'Propaganda' in 390-1 Vote on First Reading!

• FREE: British Government Publishes Landmark Bill to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, with First Vote in Early February!

• NOT-TARGETED: HIV's Origins Stretch Back Millions of Years!

• WIDE-SPREAD: 2nd Hospital Warns 1.9K of Possible HIV Exposure!

• MAD TO DEATH: Woman in Aptly Named Crazy Love Movie Is Dead!

• PROOF: Beyoncé Wasn't Lip-Syncing?

• RE-BOOTED: JJ Abrams to Direct Next Star Wars Movie!

• SHOW OFF: Matt Damon Gets Revenge on Jimmy Kimmel!

• SUCK UP: Zuckerberg's New Friend is ...Chris Christie?

(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) Hillary's Clot; New Blood; Bump; Frontier; Diva; Attention Whores; Gaga's Way; Champion's Party!

• EXCUSED: Hillary Clinton Hospitalized After Doctors Discover Blood Clot!

• NEW BLOOD: Log Cabin Republicans Name Gregory T. Angelo Interim Director!

• BUMP: Possible Heir to Recluse's Fortune Is Found Dead!

• FINAL FRONTIER: Mark Hundahl, Co-Owner Of Gay Magazine 'Frontiers,' Has Died! 

 

• DIVA ALERT: 'World Is Gone Mad,' Says Fantasia Barrino About Gay Nups, Weed!

• ATTENTION WHORE(s): Kim Blindsided by Kanye!

• THIS WAY Gaga's Gift to Fans is Free Therapy at Concerts!

• CLOUDBURST: Crowd Goes Wild Over Maine's First Gay Married Couple! 

• TIME TO PARTY: Good Morning America’s weather anchor Sam Champion to marry husband again TONIGHT! 

(Marriage News Watch): CLASSIC: Government Could Ban Church Weddings!

Matt is taking the week off, please enjoy this classic MNW from 12/26/11. One year ago! 

A new law in Ireland means that New Yorkers now have more rights on the Emerald Isle than they do in their own country. A hospital in Tennessee violates federal guidelines in denying visitation to a lesbian couple. There's a new ad for marriage equality in New Hampshire that epitomizes Yankee thrift. And 20,000 Australian doctors agree: marriage equality is good for your head.

(POP NEWS) Champion; Press Power; Pre-Stonewall; Armstrong; Pitied Demi; Brit Stunt; Potty Bieber; Art!

• OUT and LEGAL: Sam Champion And Rubem Robierb Marry In New York!

• PRESSED: Belgian Newspaper Publishers Prove Power Of Print!

• PRE-STONEWALL: Oldest Gay Bar in NYC, Julius, Found Eligible to Become National Landmark!

• PAY UP: UK Times Sues Lance Armstrong for $1.6M!

• PITY: Kutcher Files for Divorce From Demi Moore AND The Real Hangup in Demi-Ashton Divorce Is...!

• STUNT: Trouble in Paradise for Britney, Jason?

• POTTY-HEAD: Bieber Smokes Pot Constantly!

• MESSAGE: Gay Radio Hosts Turn Hate Into Art!

(MY VIEW) My Brother Newt Evolves on Marriage: Finally, Something on Which We Can Agree!

by Candace Gingrich-Jones

For pretty much my whole adult life there have been very few political issues on which my brother and I agree. But in an interview that The Huffington Post did with my brother, there were actually multiple items that had me nodding my head when usually it would be shaking in exasperation. He stated that the Republicans could no longer ignore the shift in public opinion on marriage equality. Agreed! The percentage of Americans who support marriage equality is the highest it has ever been; in fact, support for marriage equality has increased by 21 percent in just the last eight years, and Gallup's recent poll showed 53 percent of Americans supporting marriage equality.

This support is a direct result of the second thing in the interview that I agree with: "It is in every family. It is in every community." HRC's Coming Out Project has stated for years that people who know someone LGBT are changed by it. Today, more people know same-sex couples, and that has helped them understand the need to legally recognize our relationships. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that of those opposing marriage equality, 60 percent said they didn't know (or didn't know they know!) a gay or lesbian person.

(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) Rice; Progress; Cat Fight; Bieber; Hazzard; Obama on Pot; STD; Found; Pride; Bitch; Wet!

• GRACED: Susan Rice Pulls Name From Secretary Of State Consideration!

• PROGRESSIVE: More From Third Way's Report On Marriage Equality In Washington!

• CAT-FIGHT: Fists Fly, Men Wrestle in Ukraine Parliament!

• DEADLINE: Only One Week Left To Raise Money For Queer NYC Bookstore!

 

• TWISTED: Justin Bieber Targeted in Twisted Murder Plot!

• PIONEER: Carole King First Woman to Get US Song Honor!

• PUNK'D: Radio Pranksters Get Death Threats, Bodyguards!

(MY VIEW) If Gays Are Boycotting Straights' Weddings, It Must Be the Mayan Apocalypse!

by Michelangelo Signorile

In almost 10 years of hosting a national radio program, few topics have engendered such passion as this one: Gays who've decided to boycott straights' weddings because they don't have the legal right to get married themselves. Gay men and lesbians appear to be badly split on the idea, and they're very outspoken on both sides, even strident. And the straight friends of gays are downright apoplectic, I tell you, horrified at the idea that their fun and fabulous gays, the delight of any social event, would not attend their day of joy. The straights want to know: Why is it that gays not being able to get married should ruin their own special affairs?

If you didn't know better, you'd think the end of the world were coming next week!

(OUTscene NW) Greatest Moments That Gave Me The Chills During Seattle's First Day Of Marriage Equality!

by Matt Stopera

Relive one of the most emotionally exhausting days of my life, when 138 couples got married in downtown Seattle on the first day gay marriage was officially legal. Wow. CLICK HERE for Full article.

The first time I got chills was when I got to City Hall and saw these women showing off their homemade "23" bouquets for 23 years together.

Then when these guys shared this moment while they were waiting in line to get married.