Plus an out service-member chats with Rachel Maddow, San Francisco's Mayor raises the rainbow flag, and have things changed since Antonio Banderas played gay twenty years ago?
We asked AfterElton.com readers to help us liveblog the Oscars and you turned out in droves! Check out the comments, pics and polls celebrating a big night for Sean Penn and Milk!
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