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Andy and I had the chance to sit down and interview United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at the LGBT Community Center in New York City on Sunday afternoon.

Watch the interview, AFTER THE JUMP…

We spoke to the Senator about the legislative road to repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, critics who have questioned her convictions on LGBT issues, the marriage equality battle in New York State and also if she’d be supportive of amending the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation.

Said the Senator: “I would [be supportive of that]. I truly believe that this gay rights agenda is the civil rights march of our generation. I think marriage equality, I think repealing DOMA, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. All of that work we’re doing is part of equal rights in America and it is something that is so important to this generation. I think that kind of bill would be transformational…Whether we have the votes for that kind of bill today, I don’t know. But it’s something certainly worth
fighting for.”

ROME (AP) – A Danish movie about a gay love affair between two members of a neo-Nazi group won top honors Friday at the Rome Film Festival, while Helen Mirren won the best actress award.

Mirren won for her depiction of Leo Tolstoy’s wife in Michael Hoffman’s “The Last Station,” while Meryl Streep picked up a career achievement award.

The winning movie, “Brotherhood,” takes a hard look at the neo-Nazi group that the leading character, Lars, joins after leaving the army. The group carries out raids on homosexuals, but Lars and his mentor in the group, Jimmy, begin a love affair that they try to keep secret.

This video touched my heart, this man feels the violation of people and feels in his heart the need to protest! please go to www.EqualityMaine.org and support the cause!

this is just great! I hope it goes thru and no one stops him with political games!

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he expects to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law in the coming weeks.

Paterson said he expects the state Senate to give the measure final legislative approval in weeks ahead and then he will sign it, making New York the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. Paterson can’t force the Senate to take up the bill and admitted to reporters he can’t guarantee its approval, but he says he’s now confident it will pass, as advocates and sponsors of the bill in Albany have been quietly working to build support.

The video above is a a hokey descriptive guide to Act On Principles a new web site “inspired” by The Dallas principals, agree with these organizations down to the letter is irrelevant, ACP brings to the table a medium that should have been created a long time ago! ACP lets people participate in policy via the internet, the greatest power we have as a democracy is our voice ACP conveys that voice thru various forms of technology. My favorite part of the site is where they allow anyone to blog about the current woes of the day publishing it as a community blog, I just hope they don’t go and censor content, that would just defeat the purpose. We will see in the future if the ACP is just another special interest group or medium for our community to convey there suffering to the electorate. -JAKE