Take an hour away from your favorite reality show tonight to watch President Obama State of the Union Address at 9pm ET. The broadcast will be aired via televison, radio, and Internet. You can watch the address right on your laptop right HERE.

The enhanced broadcast online provided by the White House will allow viewers to see charts, stats and data that helped inform President Obama’s policy decisions as he delivers his speech to the Nation.

What are you looking for President Obama in his State of the Union address?

While tech giants Apple and Microsoft may be night and day in the tech world, the two companies seem to at least agree on some things in the world, including support for Same Sex marriage. MacObserver reports that this past Thursday, Microsoft issued a statement on their official blog in support of two bills currently in the Washington state legislature that address civil marriage and domestic partners. According to the site Microsoft joins five other major corporations including Nike, Vulcan, RealNetworks, Group Health Corporation, and Concur in support of the state bills.

Check out what Microsoft had to say about the importance of gay marriage in the state of Washington, which is where Microsoft is headquartered.

 

“As other states recognize marriage equality, Washington’s employers are at a disadvantage if we cannot offer a similar, inclusive environment to our talented employees, our top recruits and their families. Employers in the technology sector face an unprecedented national and global competition for top talent. Despite progress made in recent years with domestic partnership rights, same-sex couples in Washington still hold a different status from their neighbors. Marriage equality in Washington would put employers here on an equal footing with employers in the six other states that already recognize the committed relationships of same-sex couples – Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. This in turn will help us continue to compete for talent.”

In ’08, Apple took a stance in their home state donating $100,000 to opposing the Prop 8 ballot initiative. Both Microsoft and Apple supported the “It Gets Better” campaign in 2011.

It’s a great thing to know that the tech companies recognize that diversity is a maJor key to success for a corporation!

Earlier this week, President Barrack Obama took to the TV airways to address concerns of his birth certificate and questions of whether he was an U.S. citizen thanks to Donald Trump who has been on a media rage the past month touting President Obama to “show his papers”.

Last night, President Obama got his time to make light of the situation and did not hesitate to go all the way in on Trump at the annual White House Correspondent dinner.

Check out what President Obama had to say about Donald Trump who was actually there to take the brutal roasting.

President Obama and First Lady Obama will be special guest on this Monday on The Oprah Show.

This past Monday, New York held a Gubernatorial debate between candidates Carl Paladino, Andrew Cuomo, and long shot candidate Jimmy McMillan.

Representing “The Rent Is Too Damn High” Party, Jimmy McMillan took the debate by storm. In his speech, Jimmy stated “I represent ‘The Rent Is Too Damn High Party’”. “People are working 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week and some a third job. Women can’t afford to take care of their children, feed their children breakfast, lunch and dinner. My main job is to provide a roof over your head, food on the table and money in your pocket. This is politics as usual, playing the silly game, and this is not gonna happen.”

McMillan said the deficit is “like a cancer. It will heal itself.” On the issue of gay marriage, he said that “the Rent Is 2 Damn High Party feels if you want to marry a shoe, I’ll marry you.”

I’ve always thought the rent in New York was too damn high myself and the apartments too damn small! Check out his commentary below.

Never shy of expressing herself and standing up for the LGBT community, Lady Gaga has took to the YouTube airwaves with a video message asking the U.S. Senate to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which bans gay and lesbian Americans from serving openly in the military.

Gaga made the video for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. Check out the video below and make sure you guys check out our featured article on DADT where we had a gay military service member write to us and give us his stance on what may happen if Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is officially eliminated.

One great thing I love about Lady Gaga is that she’s been with and for gays long before she had the fame.

As my mother use to tell me “IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!!!”, and that’s what U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled after reviewing a case of the the U.S. military rule of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Judge Phillips declared the 17-year-old compromising military rule as unconstitutional because it violated the 1st and 5th amendment rights of gays and lesbians. Phillips added that a prohibition on openly gay military service members has a “direct and deleterious effect” on armed services.

The judge will draft the injunction within the week and afterward, the federal government will have a week to appeal!

To all our ATLiens, If you’re free tonight, come out to Joe’s on Juniper for a LGBTQ and Allies Reception in honor of Senator Vincent Fort (District 39).  Though donations are accepted, this is a community reception and mixer which is free to attend. The Senator wants to make connection with all who are interested in promoting equality in Georgia. Please feel free to circulate this invitation to all your friends!

Last weekend in Milwaukee, WI, Pridefest took place with special guests Kathy Griffin, Patti LaBelle, and the hilarious Joan Rivers.

During Patti Labelle’s performance at Pridefest, Patti took a couple of minutes out of her set to talk to the people (as usual) and discussed people bashing  President Obama. She explained to the audience that things don’t change over night especially after eight years of “Bush’s, Bush’s, Bush’s, BULLSHIT…”. Check out the video below. Patti always keeps it real!

And in case you were wondering who’s the Charice girl she mentions at the end of the video, here’s a video clip of Charice perfoming as the opening act for Patti at Pridefest. Charice is a 17 year old Filipino girl who was found via YouTube from a fan uploading live performances of her online and the rest was history. Since then she’s appeared on Ellen Degenres, performed several times on Oprah, and has a debut self-titled album available online and in stores now. Check out her performance below.

First Lady Laura Bush is promoting her new book “Spoken from the Heart” and was special guest a few days ago on The Larry King Show. When asked about gay marriage she stated, “It will come”. She explained how she has always disagreed with her husband on gay marriage since the beginning but of course you know while in the office it was just an “agree to disagree” type thing.

As some of you know, Vice President Dick Cheney own daughter, Mary, is an out lesbian. Read this excerpt from Laura Bush’s new book and watch the video clip below.

”In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. We have, I reminded him, a number of close friends who are gay or whose children are gay. But at that moment I could never have imagined what path this issue would take and where it would lead.”

Last night the United States House of Representative passed a landmark health care overhaul for the United States. In what was one of Presidents Obama #1 agenda, the House of Representatives passed the bill late Sunday night. Of course all Republicans voted NAY but the Democrats pulled it together to approve the bill.

After a night of Gumbo, Spades, and Champagne with a few friends at my house, we all set at the TV and watched President Obama address the Nation with a smile on his face about the passage of the Health bill. You could tell that it was a momentous occasion for the White House and more importantly Americans after only a few months when some had claimed that the bill was dead.

Check out President Obama addressing the Nation on the monumental Bill passage last night. The AJC has published a great article on what the health care overhaul bill. Check it out here.