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Logo 365Gay: “President Obama has promised to repeal the 16-year-old policy banning openly gay servicemembers in the military, and a new CBS News poll shows most Americans favor it. A sailor kicked out because she’s gay says she’s ready to serve the moment the ban is overturned. Ross Palombo reports.”

- LATimes: “‘The Trials of Ted Haggard’ is a strange, disturbing, imperfect but in the end heartbreaking little film that may wind up being the most powerful indictment of homophobia since ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ It’s not so much a documentary as it is a series of encounters with a man struggling to hold on to two mutually destructive identities: an evangelical who is not exclusively heterosexual.”

- Philadelphia Daily: “The evangelist, whose easily caricatured grin carries him from riches to residential motel, seems genuinely frustrated at times, particularly when reporters get hold of his idea to move into a halfway house to counsel offenders, a project for which he’s been soliciting financial support from friends.”

- Washington Post: “It’s evangelism. Haggard is looking for a job, but what he’s really doing is casting himself as a Job. Pelosi clearly knows this; she’s even hinted at it in her title. The quid pro quo that underlies this film is obvious: He’s giving her access. She’s giving him a pulpit again. And Haggard is a good evangelist. He knows he doesn’t need to preach sin and redemption, it’s more powerful if he lives it. Down and out, depraved and despised, having possessed everything and having lost everything, he still does not renounce God.”

Watch Larry King’s interview with Ted Haggard after the break!

A judge has denied the request to make secret the financial supporters of Proposition 8, California’s ban on gay marriage.

Map of Prop 8 Donors

SFGate: “If there ever needs to be sunshine on a particular issue, it’s a ballot measure,’ U.S. District Judge Morrison England said after a one-hour hearing in his Sacramento courtroom.”

ABC AP Reports: “The state had said in court papers that granting exemption to the plaintiffs could lead to a situation in which no campaign committee involved in a ballot measure could be required to disclose its donors because of the potential for harassment. That would deny voters the right to know who was behind those campaigns, the state said. The state also noted that most of the activity the plaintiffs called harassment was actually protected free speech, such as threats of boycotts.”

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Ryan Pacifico, a 28-year-old Wall Street trader, says he was mocked repeatedly and ultimately fired after his boss, Robert Catalanello, learned he was a vegetarian.

In the suit, Robert Catalanello is quoated: “You don’t even eat steak, dude. At what point in time did you realize you were gay?”

Pacifico told the New York Daily News that “a trading floor is certainly a manly man’s world. I just never expected someone to think it’s gay to be a vegetarian or to constantly poke fun at me.”

365Gay Reports: “The court papers say that Pacifico is not gay and married, but that the law protecting workers from homophobia in the workplace extend to heterosexuals.”

[Image via NYDailyNews]

We chose Matthew Mitcham as one of the most significatant gay events of 2008. He’s pictured here in the upcoming March issue of The Advocate: “What’s a guy to do when he’s got the gold, the fame, and the man-but no big-time endorsements?”

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Ted Haggard appeared on an interview with Oprah to discuss his sexuality and upcoming HBO documentary special.

“I knew that my sexuality was confusing. I knew it was complex. But I also knew, because of the position I was in, that when I had tried to talk about this to one degree or another, there was a major reaction” said Ted Haggard.

Later in the interview Oprah asked the big question: “Do you think you’re gay?”

Haggard replied: “No, I don’t think I’m gay. I did wonder about that. After this crisis, when I went to therapy I said ‘I need to know. Am I gay? Am I straight? Am I bi? What am I?’ My first therapist said ‘You are a heterosexual with homosexual attachments.’ So we processed through that. I wasn’t sure what that meant.”

Oprah: “Nor am I.”

Do you feel sorry for Ted Haggard?

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