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– Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly had no problem mocking a transgender inmate’s appearance, let alone joking about her risk of sexual assault in a male presence.
– Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop Nicholas Knisely supports marriage equality.
– Maryland Del. Don Dwyer (R) blames his drunk boating accident on the passage of marriage equality legislation.
– The Virginia legislature will soon have another opportunity to certify the first openly gay person, District Judce Tracy Thorne-Begland, to the commonwealth’s judiciary.
– Salem College, an all-women university, is wrestling with whether to allow a student who has transitioned to a man to continue at the school.
– The Lear Corporation will begin offering domestic partner benefits to employees on March 1.
– Mitchell and Tim Gold are raising money and collecting artifacts to open a national LGBT history museum.
– Accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award last night at the Golden Globes, Jodie Foster acknowledged her sexuality publicly for the first time in a provocative speech decrying the media’s invasion of celebrities’ privacy. Watch it: