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The Kansas City Chiefs have released star running back Larry Johnson over his usage of “faggot” when speaking to reporters and on his Twitter feed. A two-time Pro Bowler, Johnson was second on the team’s all-time rushing list with 6,090 yards. A group of fans had petitioned the team last week not to allow Johnson to gain the 75 yards …

A Wal-Mart in rural Indiana detained two gay attorneys and their two adopted special needs sons and then banned them from patronizing any store in the chain, even though video records proved that the couple had not shoplifted the packages of Bic lighters that employees claimed they had. One of the men had used the store’s self-checkout lane and security …

Embiggen the image at the left for a sobering look at HIV viral loads in San Francisco’s neighborhoods. Darker shaded areas provide stark proof of the failure to provide HAART therapy to city’s poor. Via New York Times: Like an elongated, bearded profile, a dark stain covers Potrero Hill and Bayview. It shows where the sickest AIDS patients live. Many …

Ho hum, another holiday season, another wingnut boycott of a retailer over the “Christmas Sale Vs. Holiday Sale” nonsense. This week, the American Family Association announced a two-month boycott of Gap stores and the company’s other store brands, Old Navy and Banana Republic. The boycott is based on the store’s refusal to use the term “Christmas” in its advertising campaigns …

Sources in the administration of Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates say that one of the first plans for his new government will be to approve marriage equality. Via Bay Windows: “The measure is part of the official program of the party and according to government sources, the move will be done as soon as [formation of] the government is complete,” …

Kathy Griffin appeared on Joy Behar’s HLN show last night to mention (among a lot of other things) that Levi Johnston’s upcoming Playgirl shoot will require “a very big fig leaf.”

JMG reader Bess in Rochester sends us this clip of her wife Anne Tischer pleading for GOP NY state Sen. George Maziarz to support tomorrow’s possible vote on marriage equality. After Tischer lays out her case calmly and logically, Mariarz is unmoved, does not address any of her points, and flatly announces his plan to vote against the bill. Applause …

Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) defends his lone GOP vote on the health care bill as critical to the residents of his district, many of whom remain impoverished years after Hurricane Katrina. Cao says he has no plans to switch parties and that his vote was not a “backroom deal” with Obama to maintain FEMA funds to his district, as right-wingers …

Beginning in February, Citibank will begin charging customers $7.50 each time their checking account balance dips below $1500. But they say that’s a reward, not a punishment. Penny-pinching Citibank will put the squeeze on small-fry customers, charging them up to $90 a year by demanding a fee every time their average monthly checking account balance sinks below $1,500. Starting in …