Rosie O'Donnell, Tracy Kachtick-Anders Break Up: Comedienne, Girlfriend Split: Report

Sadly, it seems that "The Gay-dy Bunch" has split apart.

The NY Post's Page Six reports that former "The View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell and her girlfriend, Tracy Kachtick-Anders, have split up after about a year of dating. The pair met through Rosie's blog, Kachtick-Anders said at the time.

This would be the second split in three years for O'Donnell, who broke up with longtime partner Kelli Carpenter, with whom she has four children, in 2007 -- though the breakup wasn't made public til November, 2009.

Kachtick-Anders, an artist and LGBT adoptive rights advocate, has six kids, five of whom are in fact adopted. O'Donnell said that Kachtick-Anders moved her children in with O'Donnell, creating a household of ten kids that O'Donnell coined "The Gay-dy Bunch".

However, the NY Post's story says that the move never officially happened:

"Rosie and Tracy never officially lived under one roof. They have lived near one another for quite some time, and their families still socialize and they see each other frequently."

Their source said that the ex-couple's children are still very close.

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Poll: LGBT Community Kept Faith in Obama

By Advocate.com Editors

A poll shows that President Barack Obama held a higher job approval rating among the LGBT people than the public at large last fall even before “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal was passed and signed into law.

The Huffington Post reports that it obtained the Democratic poll, which had not been previously published, from a “high-ranking LGBT operative” interested in showing that LGBT Americans would no lose patience with President Obama in the years ahead, when the Republican-controlled House is likely to stall progress on major legislative items.

“In an October survey conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, 64 percent of self-described LGBT community members said they approved or strongly approved of the way Obama was handling his job,” reports HuffPo. “While only 30 percent of all likely voters said the country was headed in the right direction (62 percent said the opposite), 46 percent of LGBT respondents answered ‘right direction’ (49 percent said ‘wrong direction’).”

The survey polled 1,077 self-identified LGBT people, half by phone and half online. However, only 5% of respondents described their issues as the most important facing the country. Some 58% cited the economy as their priority.

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