TMZ is reporting that disco legend Donna Summer has danced her last dance, having lost a battle with cancer. She was 63.

We just happened to be listening to "Last Dance," Summer's 1978 hit, when we read the news on Twitter.

We already knew it was going to be quite a Pride celebration this June for New York's gay community, given the one year anniversary of the Marriage Equality Act and President Obama's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage. With the passing of one of Pride's most revered divas, it's going to be all the more bittersweet as people sing, "I need you, by me, beside me, to guide me/To hold, to scold me, 'cause when I'm bad, I'm so bad."

Thanks for that last chance for romance tonight, Donna. Dance in peace, in that big, disco hall in the sky.

But in a press release issued today titled "Campaigning Against Marriage Is a Losing Strategy," the group admits (not in glowing terms exactly, but admits all the same) that President Obama was right not just in terms of principle, but in terms of smart politics. While pundits waste their time handwringing over black fallout which will never happen, the Log Cabin Republicans get about the business about the politics of the real word.

Sendak was the author of Bumble-Ardy, In The Night Kitchen, and, of course, Where The Wild Things Are.

We just went back and listened to Sendak's interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air in September of 2011. It's almost 20 minutes long, but we highly recommend you take the time to listen to it yourself. It's an example of a master interviewer letting a master story teller reveal the important life lessons of love, loss, laughter and death.

Gross speaks to Sendak by phone from his home, when he is too weak to go to a studio. She speaks to him about his life as a gay man who never raised children, the death of his partner of 50 years, and the death of recent friends, including his publisher. Facing his own mortality himself, Sendak tells Gross, through tears:

Video via ThinkProgress.

When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden as his running mate almost four years ago, he did so knowing Biden was notoriously volatile when it came to predicting what would spill out of his mouth. Well, while the president was probably lacing up for some golf this Sunday morning, Biden came out for same-sex marriage equality on Meet The Press.

Oops!

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Tiffany Cocco, a young homeless lesbian, was featured in the Voice's powerless list

Also, according to a press release from the Ali Forney Center, it will wreak havoc on the number of beds available for homeless youth.

We included Tiffany Cocco, a homeless lesbian who has stayed at AFC, in our list of the 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers. As we noted back in January, "Cocco (and nearly 4,000 homeless youth, who are disproportionately LGBT) has to fight for one of less than 300 shelter beds for homeless kids. Of those on the street, about 20 percent become HIV-positive. The budget to help combat homelessness has gone down under Mayor Bloomberg's tenure, while rates of homelessness (and his personal wealth) have consistently risen."

The beds currently funded this fiscal year don't begin to address the problem. Now, according to AFC, the mayor plans to cut an additional "$7 million to the city's Runaway and Homeless Youth Services, " which will "eliminate 160 youth shelter beds."

Apart from GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, there is no doubt that all the major organizations which make up Gay Inc will be solidly behind President Obama in his reelection campaign over the next six months. (Mitt Romney may have once pandered to gay voters in Massachusetts, but those efforts are now as dead as the Buffet Rule since Romney swung so hard to the right in his primary and pandered even harder to the National Organization for Marriage.)

For supporting him with gusto in 2008, the gays have gotten a couple big wins with President Obama, most noticeably passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Obama's gotten a bit of a pass on not coming out for marriage, as he (and Michelle) continue to play wink-wink, nudge-nudge around an issue that is largely out of the president's direct control.

But Gay Inc is starting to get very loud about an issue that is very much within the president's control, at least when it comes to federal contractors: protecting LGBT workers from being fired.

We asked Chris Geidner of Metro Weekly about it, who has the scoop.

It's been an intriguing week for same-sex marriage. While an anti-equality rollback was defeated in the Republican controlled New Hampshire legislature, the White House tried to split their SSM hairs closer than ever on the topic.

We chatted today with our friend Chris Geidner of Metro Weekly about this, who wrote this week that "all pretense of clarity is gone" in the administration's stance on same-sex marriage in his article, "Obama's Adventures in Wonderland."

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Members of SAGE and the City Council cut a ribbon at the unveiling of the city's first LGBT senior center.

But he didn't realize there were many other seniors in the city like himself that are openly gay and lesbian, too -- until he found a network of LGBT seniors through an organization called Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, or SAGE.

"I've been out of the closet for many years, but at SAGE, I found out I'm not by myself," he told Runnin' Scared today at a launch event for the city's first LGBT senior center, which is also apparently the first of its kind in the nation.

At an event attended by hundreds of LGBT seniors and their supporters, SAGE, partnering with the city's Department for the Aging, cut the ribbon (they literally cut a ribbon, guys!), for the SAGE Innovative Senior Center, a new space for LGBT elders, located in a facility on 7th Avenue, by 28th Street.

We admit it. We're very interested in the goings on with same-sex marriage across the nation, but we're not attorneys here at The Village Voice. Fortunately for us, our friend Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly is (or used to be, before he gave it all up for the far better paying field of journalism). We chatted with Geidner in the above video to find out just what the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional really means. What will NOM do? When could same-sex lovin' Californians possibly get married? And what's the path ahead?