A coalition of high-profile republicans—some of whom are coming out for marriage equality for the first time—have filed a brief telling the Supreme Court to strike down Proposition 8. 

Ken Mehlman, still working to remove the tarnish from his name and legacy after orchestrating a wave of anti-gay amendments across the United States, has launched a new conservative group pushing for marriage equality.

Ken Mehlman, the openly gay former Republican National Committee Chairman who organized a dozen anti-gay ballot measures to drive up George Bush's votes, is really sorry y'all. Read Mehlman's very first apology for hurting the lives of countless American LGBT through vilification, vitriol and oppression earlier this century, after the jump. 

Out Magazine thinks so. After all, it was revealed today that Ken Mehlman has been named to its "Out 100" list. Yep, the same Ken Mehlman who not so long ago engineered a collection of anti-gay initiatives during his tenure as head of the Republican National Committee. (More, after the jump.)

The former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman who came out of the closet last year has recently been reaching out to undecided GOP Senators of New York on marriage equality. Catch his angle after the jump.

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This story has sparked a storm of comments either in support or against Ken Mehlman. Last night Keith Olbermann invited Dan Savage on the show for a similar conversation, and it seems that Dan, too, isn't ready to welcome Mehlman with open arms because of the whole allowing gays to get murdered in Iraq and homophobia anti-equality measures in 11 states on this guy's watch.

Attorney and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman has come out of the closet. In an interview with The Atlantic, Mehlman said he arrived at the realization that he is gay recently. 

"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," Mehlman said. "Everybody has their ...