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Rachael Maddow:
That happened! That really happened.
We are not going to have a Supreme Court that will overturn Roe versus Wade.
There will be no more Antonin Scalias and Samuel Alitos added to this court.
We`re not going to repeal health reform.
Nobody is going to kill Medicare and make old people in this generation or any other generation fight it out on the open market to try to get themselves health insurance.
We are not going to do that.
We are not going to give a 20 percent tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and expect programs like food stamps and kid`s insurance to cover the cost of that tax cut.
We`re not going to make you clear it with your boss if you want to get birth control under the insurance plan that you`re on.
We are not going to redefine rape.
We are not going to amend the United States Constitution to stop gay people from getting married.
We are not going to double Guantanamo.
We are not eliminating the Department of Energy or the Department of Education or housing at the federal level.
We are not going to spend $2 trillion on the military that the military does not want.
We are not scaling back on student loans, because the country`s new plan is that you should borrow money from your parents.
We are not vetoing the DREAM Act.
We are not self-deporting.
We are not letting Detroit go bankrupt.
We are not starting a trade war with China on Inauguration Day in January.
We are not going to have, as a president, a man who once led a mob of friends to run down a scared, gay kid, to hold him down and forcibly cut his hair off with a pair of scissors while that kid cried and screamed for help and there was no apology, not ever.
We are not going to have a Secretary of State John Bolton.
We are not bringing Dick Cheney back.
We are not going to have a foreign policy shop stocked with architects of the Iraq war.
We are not going to do it.
We had the chance to do that if we wanted to do that, as a country.
And we said no, last night, loudly.

Endorsements, updated with (W)in/(L)oss results.

• President / Vice President:
   (W) Barack Obama / Joe Biden
• US Senator Ohio
   (W) Sherrod Brown
• State Representatives:
   (W) OH-28 Connie Pillich
   (L) OH-29 Hubert E. Brown
   (L) OH-30 Steven L. Newsome
   (W) OH-31 Denise Driehaus
• Court of Common Pleas: vote for only 2
   (W) Nadine Allen
   (L) Steve Black
   (W) Leslie Ghiz

• Hamilton County Offices:
   (W) Commissioner: Todd Portune
   (L) Prosecutor: Janaya Trotter
   (W) Clerk of Courts: Pam Thomas
   (W) Sheriff: Jim Neil
   (L) Treasurer: Jeff Cramerding
   (W) Coroner: Lakshmi Kode Sammarco
• Court of Appeals 1st District:
   (L) Martha Good
   (L) Bruce Whitman
• Issue 2: Redistricting
   (L) Vote Yes

Ed note: Why was it so difficult to get this information from Equality Cincinnati?

(UPDATE) Thanks to Equality Cincinnati PAC we will be better communicating this information before the next election!

LGBT History Month celebrates the achievements of 31 lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Icons. Each day in October, a new LGBT Icon is featured with a video.

Don’t miss the Midwest’s largest amusement park entertainment event benefiting a local GLBTQ community group – the Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Greater Cincinnati. You can buy your tickets online now for the Friday, September 7, 2012, event at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio.

For our out of town visitors, here's a map to Kings Island, area bars, and other points of interest.

Folks from more than 30 states have bought tickets to support the event that celebrates its 16th year thanks to the generosity of Kings Island. A portion of the ticket sales, depending on attendance, is donated to the local Center each year. The Center is a non-profit organization as recognized by the IRS501(c) 3.

More information can be found at the Center's website.

This year's Northside Pride Fest runs from 5-9pm on Saturday, August 18, in Hoffner Park (map). There will be a Fashion Show, 20 Drag Performers, a few bands, and a bunch of DJS. The party in Hoffner Park will have a party bus blasting music from DJ Julie J, and a Free Food BBQ!

More information can be found on the Northsiders GLBT Feztival Facebook Page.

Back when I made videos from the Cincinnati Pride photos that all of you submitted, I could always count in Rene Micheo to send some of the best. He was there again this year and I contacted him to get a link to this year's photos. He has posted over 2300 photos from this year's event. Find them HERE.

Thank you again Rene, the photos are great!

Because Pride has been so successful downtown, after just two years we have outgrown Fountain Square. Pride Festival 2012 will be held a few blocks south at Sawyer Point.

The Cincinnati Pride 2012 Parade and Festival will be held on Saturday, June 30, 2012. The parade will step off from E 7th St. & Culvert St. (map) at 11:00 AM and wind through downtown Cincinnati, past Fountain Square. It continues down to the riverfront and is immediately followed by the festival at Sawyer Point (map) until 9pm. Festival admission is free and there will be activities for all. This year’s festival will have 2 stages of entertainment, a kid’s area, an expanded vendor’s market and a food court.

The Northern Kentucky Pride Festival is 1-8pm Sunday, July 1, 2012, at 7th & Bakewell St., Covington, Kentucky (map).

A number of associated Pride events take place throughout the city in the week leading up to the Parade and Festival.

More information can be found at the Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Pride web site and the NKY Pride Page.

The parade and festival are sponsored and planned by the Greater Cincinnati Gay Chamber of Commerce.

Thank you to our 2011 sponsors: P&G Gable, Fifth Third, Kroger, PNC Bank, US Bank, Macy’s, Barefoot Wine, glbta alliance, Bud Light, Crown Coach, City Beat, Visiting Nurse Association, GLBT Center, The Word, Grindr Xtra, On Broadway. We couldn’t have done it without you!