Lisa Biron, a lawyer associated with the virulently anti-gay Alliance Defense Fund, is facing felony charges related to child pornography after being caught in New Hampshire. Details follow. 

In a cruising era ruled by the Grindr and Manhunts of the world, gay sex phone line (guess those still exist!) 1-800-Reality is probably praising Gaga today for a pro-bono advertising campaign courtesy of Jerry Sandusky's attorney. Details follow. 

Paula Ettelbrick, who committed her life to LGBT activism by heading some of the country's top gay organizations, has passed away due to cancer-related causes. Reactions from some of the group's she was associated with, after the jump.

Just another example of how one person can begin to change the actual or perceived social terrain of places outside major metropolitan areas. Details of Shane Vannatta's ascension to become Montana State Bar Association's first openly gay president after the jump.

When progressive law school students graduate, it’s probably not a great idea to have an anti-gay leader address them. Find out how many graduates participated in the protest and watch the video after the jump.

Curious as to how the Supreme Court justices might look at a future marriage equality case? Marking his 24th year on the big bench, Justice Antonin Scalia gave an interview to California Lawyer where he was asked about equal protections.

Some media outlets are jumping all over him and reading his response with a homophobic lens, but we want to know what do you, our brilliant Instincters, make of his answer?

In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly not to sexual orientation. So does that mean that we've gone off in error by applying the 14th Amendment to both?

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While we woke up with (or some of us night owls went to sleep with) good news that Judge Virginia A. Phillilps had denied the Department of Justice's request for a stay on her DADT ruling, as expected, Obama Admin. lawyers immediately appealed the turn of events to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

According to Poliglot, lawyers for the DOJ say:

We respectfully request that the Court enter an administrative stay by today October 20, 2010, pending this Court’s resolution of the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal, which would maintain the status quo that prevailed before the district court’s decision while the Court considers the government’s stay motion.

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