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GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina softens stance on same-sex marriage
Fiorina told a blogger Monday that she didn’t support a Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but in 2010, however, Fiorina supported such an amendment.
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News (USA)
FDA releases plan to end lifetime ban on gay, bisexual blood donors
Under the proposal, the current blanket ban on donations from gay and bisexual men would be replaced with a policy barring donations from men who have had sex with men in the last year.
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News (World)
Vienna traffic signals go red and green, gay and straight
Some Vienna pedestrian traffic lights are suddenly not only red or green. They’re also gay or straight. And Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party is livid.
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News (USA)
Arkansas town votes on LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance
Eureka Springs voters are casting ballots Tuesday on whether to keep the expanded LGBT anti-discrimination protections adopted in February by the city council.
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News (USA)
Texas Republicans could take new stand on same-sex marriage
Nearly all Republicans in the Texas House are sponsoring a bill that would prohibit state and local officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.
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News (USA)
Oklahoma man sues state over rejected ‘LGBTALY’ license plate
The rejection prompted John Keefe to file an open records request asking for a list of all the personalized plates that were accepted and denied, but his request has been ignored by the state for two months.
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News (World)
Behind Brazil’s gay pride parades, a struggle with homophobic violence
“I was walking to the elevator when he came up behind me. ‘This’ll teach you to never look at a real man again. Now you’re going to die, faggot!’ he screamed, before stabbing me in the neck.”
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News (USA)
GlaxoSmithKline, UNC form company aimed at finding AIDS cure
The partnership also creates an HIV Cure center bringing together academic and pharmaceutical research scientists.
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News (USA)
A ‘reality check’ for the Regnerus study on gay parenting
Three years ago, against the strong consensus of social scientists and professional child-welfare groups, University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus concluded that children of gay parents fare worse than children raised by married opposite-sex parents.
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News (USA)
Texas Senate OKs bill allowing clergy to refuse same-sex marriages
The Texas state Senate has voted to allow clergy members to refuse performing marriages that violate their beliefs.
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News (USA)
Missouri man accused of ‘recklessly infecting’ two with HIV on trial
Prosecutors accuse Michael L. Johnson of “recklessly infecting” two male sex partners with HIV and knowingly exposing four others over nearly 10 months after being diagnosed as HIV positive in January 2013.
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News (USA)
Washington state blood bank sued for turning away transgender woman
A woman says the for-profit company discriminated against her because she’s transgender and told her they’d notify other blood centers that she was on a permanent deferral list.
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Life
New Jersey high school wrestling state champ comes out on college recruiting trip
It was on a recruiting trip to Limestone College in South Carolina that Alec Donovan finally answered “the question.”
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News (USA)
Marriage News Watch: May 11, 2015
Texas lawmakers vote this week on whether the state should officially defy the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, while Alabama and Minnesota are debating bills to undermine marriage equality.
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Life
One year after Michael Sam was drafted, has anything changed?
One year ago, Michael Sam was supposed to change the world. Actually, that’s not a fair statement. Sam did, in fact, change the world. Or at least send notice that our world was changing.
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News (USA)
Texas lawmakers to vote on two anti-LGBT bills this week
The most-watched proposal would bar state, county and local officials from issuing or enforcing a same-sex marriage license, and prevent recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states.
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Life
WNBA stars Brittney Griner, Glory Johnson wed
The wedding comes just two weeks after the couple made headlines after an argument led to a 911 call and arrests of both for assault and disorderly conduct.
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Life
Two moms, 10 kids: blending family in a same-sex marriage
In a changing world, the face of motherhood has also changed for two St. George, Utah, women.
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News (USA)
Arkansas town divided over LGBT anti-discrimination measure
That balance of identities will be tested Tuesday, when voters decide whether to repeal a recent local ordinance that extends discrimination protections to the LGBT community.
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Commentary
Satanists seize Christian Right’s redefined religious freedom bills and run
It will be no small irony if Satanists turn out to be heroes of religious freedom in our time.