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SANDAG seeks biking input

SAN DIEGO -- Approximately 40 representatives from major community planning and transportation groups were asked to dream big at a brainstorming workshop held Dec. 5. Organized by San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), the meeting was the first of its kind to solicit public input on updating the citywide regional bike corridor plans, including Uptown.

TODAY: All merchandise half-off at Revivals

SAN DIEGO -- Revivals is holding its annual "After Christmas Sale" - today, Dec. 26 - with all donated merchandise available for 50% off its original price.

With several stores in the Palm Springs area and one in Hillcrest, proceeds from the sale of merchandise at Revivals benefits the Desert AIDS Project, which provides medical care and comprehensive support services to people living with HIV/AIDS in the desert community.

The Hillcrest location opened in early 2011, and has provided support for community organizations in both San Diego and the desert area.

COMMENTARY: Why I’m thankful for our strict gun regulations, even if they might not work

Like most everyone else in the country, I listened, read and watched with horror on Dec. 14 as the details of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. unfolded. I was running errands with my 3-year-old twins, who don’t really know what guns are for or what dying is. We stopped at a pizza joint for lunch, which, unfortunately, had televisions aimed at us from every angle.

GLAAD's What To Watch On Wednesday

(This post was originally published by SDGLN content partner GLAAD.)

Tonight catch all new episodes of "Top Chef" and "Happily Divorced."

10 pm: Top Chef on Bravo (1 hr) NEW

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Uruguay Senate postpones vote on marriage equality

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – A news bulletin out of Uruguay says that the nation’s Senate has unexpectedly postponed a vote on same-sex marriage that was planned for today.

La Cámara de Senadores de Uruguay decidió hoy, en medio de una fuerte polémica política, postergar hasta abril próximo la votación de la ley de matrimonio igualitario que equipara los derechos y

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Out Magazine's "Person Of The Year" Nate Silver talks about being gay

Nate Silver says his friends would describe him as "sexually gay but ethnically straight" in a new interview with Out magazine, who named the American statistician "Person of the Year" in its new issue.

Anti-transgender pageant contestant ordered to pay $5 million for defamation

A former Miss Pennsylvania USA, who gave up her state crown shortly after the Miss Universe organization announced its decision to allow transgender participants, has been ordered pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

Sheena Monnin, who quit the pageant in June, told national media that the pageant was "rigged," and that she saw the list of the Top 5 on the morning of the pageant, "before the show ever started."

Catholic Bishop compares same-sex marriage to Nazi ideology, communism

A senior Roman Catholic Bishop in the United Kingdom used his Christmas sermon to compare the legalization of same-sex marriage to the way the Nazis and Communists tried to undermine religion.

Pope's Christmas message: Gay marriage "threatens" humanity

In his annual Christmas address to Vatican officials -- one of his most high profile speeches of the year -- the Pope said that a person’s gender identity is God-given and unchangeable, and as a result, he sees same-sex marriage as a “manipulation of nature.”

“There is no denying the crisis that threatens it (the family) to its foundations — especially in the Western world,” the Pope said. “When such commitment is repudiated, the key figures of human existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child — essential elements of the experience of being human are lost.”

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