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A nurse practitioner accused of harassing a lesbian Marine veteran will no longer be working at the Dallas VA Medical Center.

The action follows a Change.org petition drive in which 20,000 people called for the nurse’s dismissal.

The “Glee” audience will celebrate Valentine’s Day with the “Heart” episode and get to actually see Rachel Berry’s two dads.

TVLine is reporting this week that the gay dads – Hiram and LeRoy Berry – so often discussed but not seen on the small screen will be portrayed by Jeff Goldblum and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Only once have viewers seen an image of the dads – in a photograph for the pilot.

“Absolutely Fabulous” is returning, with the debut of an all-new special on Logo at 9:30 p.m. Central Time on Monday, Feb. 6. The special is the first of three commemorating the series’ 20th anniversary.   

In the last AbFab special, Patsy and Edina had (hardly) succeeded in reinventing their “Identity” for the 21st century. In the newest special, titled “Job,” Edina takes on a celebrity client who wants to sing. When Edina discovers how awful her client’s voice is, she recruits help from her other clients, Emma Bunton from the “Spice Girls” and Lulu.

A New Jersey legislator has apologized for a post on a social media site that referred to the Philadelphia Eagles as “gaybirds” and the Dallas Cowboys as “cowgirls.”

New Jersey Assemblyman Charles Mainor, D-Jersey City, told the Jersey Journal that he wrote only part of a message posted on his Facebook wall during the Jan. 15 game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers.

Newt Gingrich asked his second wife for an “open marriage” or a divorce at the same time he was promoting family and religious values, his former wife, Marianne, told The Washington Post today.

According to the story, Marianne Gingrich said her ex first asked for a divorce over the phone. “Is there anybody else?” she asked. “He was quiet. Within two seconds, when he didn’t immediately answer, I knew.”

The Catholic bishops of Washington are urging members of the Church to contact state lawmakers and lobby against legislation that would legalize marriage for same-sex couples.

Marriage equality bills have been introduced in the Washington House and Senate and endorsed by Gov. Chris Gregoire.

More than 15,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling on Chicago Public Schools administrators to revise the system’s anti-bullying policy.

The petitioners are responding to a video posted online that shows seven youth assaulting another young person.

A Pittsburgh man on probation for smashing $14,000 worth of windows during the Group of 20 economic summit two years ago was sentenced on Jan. 17 for disorderly conduct and obstructing roads during a gay rights protest in August.

Judge Edward Borkowski sentenced 22-year-old David Japenga to restarting his five years' probation from the earlier sentence, according to AP.

Broadway Impact and the American Foundation for Equal Rights announced an all-star cast for the West Coast premiere of “8,” Dustin Lance Black’s play based on the federal trial of California’s anti-gay Proposition 8.

AFER board member Rob Reiner is directing the Los Angeles premiere – an AFER benefit – set for March 3. Reiner’s cast includes himself, George Clooney, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Jamie Lee Curtis, Martin Sheen, Matt Bomer, Campbell Brown, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Christine Lahti, Rory O’Malley, Yeardley Smith and George Takei.

South Carolina motorists have long been able to display their vanity on license plates. Soon they can display their support for LGBT equality.

The South Carolina Equality specialty plate will be sold as early as Jan. 30, according to a release from the statewide LGBT civil rights group.

Nominees for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s 23rd annual media awards include Lady Gaga, CNN, “J. Edgar” and others.

GLAAD’s awards recognize media for outstanding images of the LGBT community.

A specialty license plate that raises money for an LGBT youth group is available from the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Sales of the plate, which costs an additional $40, benefit the Indiana Youth Group, which serves about 1,300 young people in the state each year.