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Lady Bunny
Answers OUT Spoken’s questions
By Tim Gaskin

The New York drag performer gets plastered for PETA, dishes “Project Runway” and is promoting the “Gays Gone Wild” soundtrack.

Not only is she the founder, organizer, and hostess of Wigstock - an outrageous festival of drag and music presented to approximately 40,000 New Yorkers - Lady Bunny has been doing it every Labor Day for nearly 20 years.



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Community

Ellen DeGeneres Talks Marriage On Jay Leno
Tells viewers why Californians should vote no on 8

"This week, Ellen DeGeneres clearly articulated what thousands of same-sex couples and their friends and families know, marriage and domestic partnerships are not the same," said Molly McKay, Marriage Equality USA (MEUSA) Media Director.  

"Proposition 8 would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry and that is unfair.  But the power of personal stories, like Ellen's, will help ensure that Californians will defeat this harmful initiative in November."

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Lifestyle

Celebrities Come Out Against Prop. 8
While others strikingly absent


More celebrities are joining the No on Prop 8 campaign, the November ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry. British guitarist Pete Wentz is the latest big name following David Geffen, Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg, who have all come out against the proposition and have given money to the fight.

The Fall Out Boy star showed up at a No on Prop 8 fundraiser at Gallery 1988 in Hollywood on last week. Other civil rights supporters in the house included "Scrubs" star Sarah Chalke and members of Linkin Park.

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