David Mixner, the long-time gay activist and Democratic fundraiser, is calling for the LGBT community to shut off funds to any Democrat who’s not on the list of supporters for the Respect for Marriage Act. The RMA would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, passed under former President Bill Clinton, which bans federal recognition of same-gender unions.

Mixner points out that key figures of the Democratic party leadership aren’t on board with the bill — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer , openly gay Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and DCCC Chairperson Chris Van Holle, to name a few — and he’s calling on the community to pressure these key figures, plus your local congresscritters, into supporting the bill as the first step in ending “gay apartheid.”

Mixner was also one of two key activists behind the National Equality March and its parent group, Equality Across America, which is launching an organizing campaign to build a grassroots LGBT lobbying organization.

Elsewhere…

Mississippi – The Superintendent of the Mississippi school district that’s been fighting to keep a lesbian senior from wearing a tuxedo in her yearbook photo has sided against the student. (The Clarion-Ledger)

Atlanta – Morehouse College, one of the most famous Historically Black Colleges and Universities, is implementing a dress code specifically targeted at five members of the the 2,700-strong student body who are “living a gay lifestyle” and cross-dressing. The college says ‘it’s not discrimination! we asked the campus gays – they turned on each other, and the majority gave the OK!’ (CNN)

Colorado – Remember “balloon boy”? Apparently he and his siblings are a bunch of music-video-making homophobes. I wonder what their parents are like… (JMG)

NYC – 49-year-old Jack Price, the victim of a brutal gay bashing two weeks ago, emerges from his coma, while 20 of his attackers’ friends show up to counter-protest an anti-bashing rally this weekend, but the locals aren’t having any of it. (NY Daily News, JMG)

Indiana – Notre Dame receives surprisingly little criticism for funding 5 students to attend the National Equality March. (PHB)

Maine – Maine Attorney General: “The state’s definition of marriage has no bearing on the curricula for public schools.”

Teh Interwebs – “Gays” prefer working in states with same-gender marriage, study says. (Out and Equal Survey/Harris Interactive)

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