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		<title>OutLoud Chicago and The Qu Present: Queer Comedy at Zanies!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Queer Comedy at Zanies, presented by OutLoud Chicago features the best queer and straight comedians of the country who have appeared on Comedy Central, BET, TBS Just For Laughs and Last Comic Standing. February 27th will feature headliner Bill Cruz (OUTLAUGH, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Comedy Festival,) Host Bradley Thomas (Laugh Track at Sidetrack) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Komen restores funding and commitment to Planned Parenthood for now.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joeyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan G. Komen restores funding and their commitment to Planned Parenthood&#8230;for now. The current budget will be funded, but Komen has made no official decision on future funding. Komen.org servers are overwhelmed with traffic, but here is the statement they released early this morning. This is another indicator how much power is in the hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Jam of the Day &#8211; Madonna &#8211; Give Me All Your Luvin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tonyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madonna has unveiled the video for her brand new single &#8220;Give Me All Your Luvin&#8217;&#8221;! &#8220;Give Me All Your Luvin&#8217;&#8221; is now available exclusively on iTunes for purchase. iTunes is also offering an exclusive global pre-order of an 18 track Deluxe Edition of Madonna&#8217;s upcoming album MDNA, out March 26th, which includes one exclusive remix.]]></description>
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		<title>Adam Lambert: &#8220;(Being gay) it&#8217;s only hard because of the ignorant people&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think one of the things about doing this as a career is that I&#8217;m able to give people strength and encouragement that feel like outsiders, especially being openly gay, But one of the things I haven&#8217;t gotten to do is sing about how it sucks sometimes, how it hurts, and the pain and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Point of Departure at the Spertus Institute benefits The Joffrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Point of Departure at the Spertus Institute benefits The Joffrey &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Last Thursday the Auxiliary Board of The Joffrey Ballet hosted &#8220;Point of Departure&#8221; at the Spertus Institute. An array of dance inspired art covered the walls all on sale in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnetic Fields: &#8220;Andrew in Drag&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joeyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnetic Fields: &#8220;Andrew in Drag&#8221; &#160; Via Pitchfork NPR&#8217;s got the music video for the Magnetic Fields&#8216; new single, &#8220;Andrew in Drag&#8221; , featuring (somewhat NSFW) transformations into and out of drag. It was directed by Scott Valins. &#160; &#160; The new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, is out March 6 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW! M.I.A. &#8211; &#8220;Bad Girls&#8221; updated with official video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joeyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW! M.I.A. &#8211; &#8220;Bad Girls&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Planned Parenthood support grows as Susan G. Komen cuts funding.</title>
		<link>http://www.thequ.co/planned-parenthood-support-grows-as-susan-g-komen-cuts-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joeyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood support grows as Susan G. Komen cuts funding. Yesterday the internet was a buzz from the news that Susan G Komen for the Cure organization was cutting funding to Planned Parenthood. Thousand of people flocked to social media outlets to show their disapproval while 6000 people donated to PP totaling $400,000 in donations. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit Decides Not To Release Proposition 8 Trial Tapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tonyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision not to unseal the video record of the historic twelve-day public trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger (now Perry v. Brown). The Perry case is a federal constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, which stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington State Senate Passes Marriage Equality Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tonyqu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Washington state on the evening of Feb. 1, the marriage equality bill passed the state Senate on a 28-21 vote! Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) said, &#8220;This vote was courageous and was only possible with bipartisan support. That support shows Washington&#8217;s commitment to equality. Fair-minded and responsible leaders crafted a bill that protects religious freedoms [...]]]></description>
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