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Three groups of people had never before been mentioned explicitly in a State of the Union address.

Two recent court cases illustrate how women still don't have independence when it comes to our bodies.

On her MSNBC show Rachel Maddow feigns outrage along with Fox’s Todd Starnes’ real outrage over the official White House Christmas card, which fails to depict Baby Jesus anywhere in the photo, but rather shows the Obama’s dog Bo sleeping in front of a Holly and Ivy adorned fireplace.

A statement of support for marriage equality will be subject to approval by the Democratic Platform Committee meeting this weekend. The Democrats' Drafting Committee released the proposed language to Buzzfeed Thursday. The draft language, expresses the party's support for marriage equality, while also supporting the "freedom of churches and religious entities to decide how to administer marriage as a religious sacrament without government interference."

After a campaign memorable for its gaffes, brain freezes, and antigay rhetoric to best the most conservative of his rivals, Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday that he was dropping out of the 2012 presidential race and endorsing Newt Gingrich, two days prior to the South Carolina primary.

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that a majority of Americans support marriage rights for gay couples. According to the poll, 53% of respondents said that it should be legal for gay couples to marry. The majority support marks a double-digit shift from five years ago in the same poll, when 36% supported marriage equality.

Long-sought protections for LGBT Americans from discrimination in employment took a first step forward today as it was passed through a Senate committee on a bipartisan vote.

My native Uruguay is a little bitty country, the size of Rhode Island, but sometimes it reaches out with the arms of a giant to embrace equality and justice. Yesterday Uruguay became the 12th country to legalize marriage for same-sex couples, and for my Uruguayan immigrant family and myself it was an incredibly exciting and affirming moment.

It's Election Day and what better time to relive some of pop culture's and politic's greatest lesbian-ish moments of 2008, including Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Sarah Palin and Tina Fey? But first... a Grey's Anatomy / Brooke Smith fired / Shonda Rhimes rant!

Next stop - House of Reps.

I don't want to harp about Hillary Clinton, but really, the treatment she is getting from all corners for her work as Secretary of State in general and her interest in global human rights for women is unpleasant at best and totally misogynistic (as I've written before) at worst.

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The GOP's anti-abortion platform hasn't changed—it is identical to that of its 2008 platform, allowing abortions only in cases of rape and incest. The GOP's anti-gay platform also hasn't changed—it is identical to that of its 2008 platform, allowing marriage only between a man and a woman.