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Prop 8 opponents must release campaign materials, judge rules
A federal judge on Monday ordered same-sex marriage advocacy groups to turn over campaign materials from the election fight over Proposition 8, a move that could prolong the legal challenge to California’s ban on gay unions […]
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‘Tea Party’ protesters hurl racial, anti-gay epithets at lawmakers
Tea Party health care protesters showed their true colors Saturday, hurling racial slurs at black lawmakers and anti-gay epithets at openly gay congressman Barney Frank. […]
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Fresno college: Instructor violated policy with anti-gay teachings
Fresno City College officials said they plan to take action against an instructor accused of presenting religious-based and anti-gay views as fact in a health class.
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Former NATO commander blames gay soldiers for Srebrenica massacre
A retired U.S. general has told senators that the Dutch policy of allowing gays to serve openly in its military was partly to blame for its failure to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In testimony […]
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Ellen, website present lesbian teen with scholarship following prom flap (Video)
Ellen DeGeneres presented a $30,000 scholarship on behalf of Tonic.com Friday to a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was canceled when she asked to attend with a girl. Constance McMillen, 18, appeared on The […]
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Choi, Pietrangelo arrested at White House protest of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Lt. Dan Choi was arrested Thursday after handcuffing himself to a White House fence to protest the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Choi, a gay rights activist […]
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Lambda Legal, NJ gay couples back in court over right to marry
Gay couples who sued New Jersey in 2002 for the right to marry are taking their case back to the State Supreme Court. Lambda Legal filed a motion Thursday on behalf of six couples and the surviving partner from a seventh, claiming the state continues to discriminate against them even though it offers civil unions […]
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NJ gay marriage advocates taking their case back to state supreme court
New Jersey gays rights advocates, with the help of New York-based Lambda Legal, are going back to the New Jersey Supreme Court in order to fight for the right to marry in the Garden State. Lambda Legal and Garden State Equality have scheduled a new conference for Thursday morning in Trenton to announce their action. […]
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Internet gay bashing not protected by free speech, court rules
Students at a private school in Los Angeles who posted internet death threats and anti-gay messages on a classmate’s webpage, can’t claim the constitutional protection of free speech, a California appeals court has ruled. The parents of the boy targeted by the threatening and derogatory posts on his website, withdrew him from Harvard-Westlake School in […]
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Pennsylvania lawmakers strike down latest attempt to ban gay marriage
For the third time in four years, Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday defeated an attempt to advance legislation to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Reports Philly.com: The Republican-majority Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-6 to table a bill introduced by Sen. John Eichelberger (R) to amend the constitution to define marriage as being between […]