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• Ellen DeGeneres offers own gay marriage brief: 'I hope the Supreme Court will do the right thing'

  Ellen DeGeneres has posted her own gay-marriage brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  From her website:

  Portia [de Rossi] and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in [...]

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• Joe Garcia, Alcee Hastings, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel sign gay marriage brief

  From the ACLU:

  Forty Democratic U.S. Senators and 172 Democratic House members, including Joe Garcia, Alcee Hastings, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Lois Frankel of South Florida, have signed a brief asking the Supreme Court to strike DOMA.

  Scroll below the names to read the brief.

  United States Senators [...]

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• 'One Day at a Time' mom Bonnie Franklin, 69, dies

  BY FRAZIER MOORE, AP TELEVISION WRITER

  NEW YORK -- Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress who won fame as a divorced mom on the long-running sitcom "One Day at a Time," [...]

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• Obama: No way to avoid gay marriage case; president says nation evolving on issue, as he did

  BY JULIE PACE AND MARK SHERMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says there was no way he could avoid urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage.

  Obama says the nation is going through [...]

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• Obama: Nation evolving, no way to avoid gay marriage case (updated with video)

  BY JULIE PACE AND MARK SHERMAN, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says there was no way he could avoid urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage.

  Obama says the nation is [...]

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• Ann Hampton Callaway pays tribute to Barbra Streisand, one of her favorite People

  BY STEVE ROTHAUS, srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

  Tuesday night, Barbra Streisand officially becomes a diva’s diva.

  That’s when jazz vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway, along with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, performs The Streisand Songbook at the Adrienne Arsht [...]

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• 131 GOP conservatives, including Clint Eastwood, Ros-Lehtinen and Ana Navarro sign gay marriage brief

  These are the 131 Republican conservatives who signed a pro-gay marriage Supreme Court brief in favor of striking California's Proposition 8. Included on the list: Clint Eastwood, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and political consultant Ana Navarro, both of Miami.

  (Scroll to the bottom of the list to read the brief)

  [...]
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• Pridelines Youth Services for LGBT young people to hold '10 in 10' fundraiser beginning March 11

  Pridelines Youth Services will soon launch its annual fundraising campaign, "10 in 10," in which the LGBT youth group will seek to raise $10,000 in 10 days.

  Here are the details from Pridelines:

  Pridelines Youth Services today announced [...]

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• Journalists remark on closeness between retiring Pope Benedict XVI and his handsome secretary

  Some journalists, including Andrew Sullivan, are suggesting that retiring Benedict XVI and his handsome personal secretary, Georg Ganswein, have an unusually close relationship.

  Sullivan writes of Ganswein:

  This man – [...]

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