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Rhode Island’s legislature comes back into session on Thursday and one of the first items they will consider is a same-sex marriage bill. Rep. Arthur Handy, a Cranston Democrat, said the bill is already drafted, but that he needs Wednesday’s second legislative day to gather signatures from co-sponsors, who will include openly gay House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, D-Providence. A …

Details. The Advocate has more on the race.

A new marriage equality poll in Rhode Island: “Same-sex marriage enjoys significant support in Rhode Island, with 56% of voters in favor of legalizing it, 36% opposed to doing so and 14% unsure. Support is strongest among Democrats (72% in favor) and voters ages 18 to 39 (64% in favor), while opposition is highest among Republicans (59% opposed) and voters …

What a great Netroots and what a fantastic (and freakishly clean) little town! I’m definitely going to get back to Providence one day.

His handler took this photo of us just as I was expressing my admiration and thanks for the NAACP’s ardent support of the LGBT movement. It’s a pity my eyes are closed, but I think I was a little taken up in the moment.

Downtown Providence is full of great old buildings like this one, which really looks fantastic at night with all its neon lit.

Fun locals and drunk Netroots attendees!

Dead Breitbart sycophant and vile CNN contributor Dana Loesch is wandering around Netroots with crackpot teabagging blogger Jim Hoft, looking for Occupiers and other “fringe” attendees to ridicule on their sites. Loesch just tweeted the above photo in front of the Daily Kos logo. (Netroots began as a Daily Kos event.) Hoft, you may recall, is the lying freak who …

Left to right: Autumn Sandeen, Jos Truitt, Monica Roberts, Jennifer Levi. Moderator: Dr. Jillian Weiss. Lots of allies in the audience are getting an education.

Reminder: The JMG meet-up for Providence will be at 10PM tonight at The Stable. We’ll likely be in the back patio area where the locals tells us there’s a bit more room and where the music isn’t so loud. The Stable is easily walkable from the Netroots Nation host hotel (two blocks!) and some of us will be coming from …

Things are really just now getting kicked off at Netroots Nation, although the LGBT contingent was here a day early yesterday for our all day series of panels. Here’s just a few of the participating groups with booths in the main convention hall. You’ll see a healthy sprinkling of LGBT causes in there, with more photos to be added later …

Locals call this the Superman Building because it’s rumored to have been the model for the Daily Planet building. Wikipedia has more: “The Bank of America Building is the tallest building in the city of Providence and the state of Rhode Island, and the 28th tallest in New England. Standing at 428 feet (130 m) and comprising 26 floors, it …

The JMG meet-up for Providence will be at 10PM this Friday at The Stable. We’ll likely be in the back patio area where the locals tells us there’s a bit more room and where the music isn’t so loud. The Stable is easily walkable from the Netroots Nation host hotel and some of us will be coming from that evening’s …

I haven’t had time to do a walk-about in Providence yet, so all I’ve got for you today is a shot of the host hotel. Exciting.

Most of next week I’ll be in Providence for this year’s edition of Netroots Nation, the largest annual gathering of progressive bloggers, pundits, and “legacy” media. (Plus many of the most prominent Democratic politicians.) The LGBT contingent arrives early for an all-day conference on Wednesday, where web activism kingpin Mike Rogers has laid out a daunting schedule of panels and …

Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee today ordered all state agencies to officially recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other jurisdictions. The executive order is expected to have many real-world implications. Same-sex spouses of state employees and anyone covered by an insurance company regulated in Rhode Island will be entitled to health and life insurance benefits, gay rights advocates say. Both …

“God created two different genders for a reason – so that males and females could come together, complement one another, procreate, and continue the species. And be very clear about this – same-sex marriage isn’t about procuring civil rights for beleaguered homosexual persons. The recently adopted civil-unions legislation, as ill-advised as it was, it provided the legal protections activists have …