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Jeanne Manford, pioneering LGBT ally, founder of PFLAG, dies at 92
Jeanne Manford, mother of gay rights activist Morty Manford, pioneering straight ally in the gay rights movement, and the founder of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), died at her home in Daly City, Calif., Tuesday. She was 92. Manford had been in declining health, said her daughter, Suzanne Swan. Manford was […]
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News (USA)
Local council challenges Boy Scouts’ national ban on gay members
A California teen who spent years in the Boy Scouts completing the requirements to become an Eagle Scout, only to be denied the rank because he’s gay, has received new support by the local council’s review board to receive Scouting’s highest honor, the rank of Eagle Scout.
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Commentary
Chuck Hagel: A disappointing choice from Obama
Rather than use his mandate from winning re-election to reward his key constituencies, President Barack Obama has poked a stick in the eye of the LGBT community by turning to former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary — a man who had an abysmal voting record in Congress and drew criticism for using anti-gay slurs back in 1998.
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News (USA)
Teen ‘white supremacist’ arrested in plot to bomb school in hate crime attack
PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Derek Shrout, a 17-year-old self-proclaimed white-supremacist, was released on a $75,000 bond Monday evening after being arrested Friday for planning to kill six students and a teacher in a bomb plot. Five of the intended victims were African-American, while one was gay.
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News (USA)
University reinstates diversity officer who signed anti-marriage equality petition
WASHINGTON — Gallaudet University has reinstated its chief diversity officer after a three-month paid suspension for signing a petition opposing Maryland’s same-sex marriage law.
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News (USA)
Former discharged gay, lesbian service members to receive full separation pay
WASHINGTON – Former service members who are part of a class action lawsuit challenging a Defense Department policy that cuts in half the separation pay of those who have been honorably discharged for “homosexuality” will receive their full pay after a settlement announced today.
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News (USA)
Baldwin cautious on Hagel nomination, questions if apology was ‘sincere’
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate, said Monday she would not to commit to supporting former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Defense Secretary until she is more confident that his apology for anti-gay remarks he made in 1998 is “sincere.”
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Bryan Fischer: Businesses threatened by ‘flaming homosexual’ job applicants
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer on Friday blew up over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), warning in a blog post that “ENDA would represent the return of Jim Crow laws.”
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News (USA)
White House defends President’s choice for Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday nominated former Nebraska GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, stirring widespread criticism from both sides of the political establishment in Washington.
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News (USA)
Federal judge considers dismissal of suit against anti-gay pastor Scott Lively
A crowd of U.S. LGBT activists, holding signs outside the Hampden Federal Courthouse in Massachusetts, braved the early morning cold to support Uganda’s LGBTI community in the first case of its type on U.S. soil, where opening arguments commenced today in a motion for dismissal by anti-gay pastor Scott Lively.
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News (USA)
U.S. Supreme Court schedules arguments in Prop 8, DOMA cases
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear arguments during the last week of March in two cases affecting same-sex marriage.
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Commentary
10 things I wish the Pope could have observed on my family’s trip to Disneyland
The Pope has stated that gay families pose a “crisis” in which “the key figures of human existence likewise vanish: father, mother, child – essential elements of the experience of being human are lost”. Meanwhile, I was taking my gay family on a trip to Disneyland. On the day we went, so did 40,000 other people. I thought about what the Pope could see if he had been there with us. We were as any other family in the park — we were photographed together, kissed and hugged each other when moved to do so, held hands, and laughed a lot…
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News (USA)
Community rallies for passage of Illinois marriage bill, warns opposition
Nearly 200 people rallied at the Thompson Center in Chicago on Saturday to demand action on pending legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois.
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Life
Church of England lifts ban on gay bishops, as long as they remain celibate
The Church of England announced Friday it has lifted a ban on gay male clergy who live with their partners from becoming bishops, on the condition that they remain sexually abstinent.
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Klingenschmitt: Gingrich under influence of ‘demonic voice’ for gay marriage statement
Religious Right anti-gay activist “Chaplain” Gordon Klingenschmitt, perhaps best known for claiming to have freed a lesbian soldier from homosexuality after performing an exorcism on her, has started producing a daily television program that consists of him filming himself talking about the news of the day.
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Commentary
Eric Cantor and the Violence Against Women Act — What is wrong with these Republicans?
Since the introduction of The Violence of Women Act in 1994, the bill has passed in a bipartisan manner – until now. Eric Cantor didn’t like it – so he killed the bill. He killed the bill because he and other House Republicans didn’t like the portions of the bill that had been expanded by the Senate to cover immigrants, members of the LGBT community, and the Native American community living within tribal jurisdiction.
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Soccer’s Matt Jarvis: Time for a gay footballer to be comfortable enough to come out
U.K. soccer star Matt Jarvis appears on the February cover of Attitude, Britain’s leading gay magazine, and says it is time that a gay footballer felt comfortable enough to come out.
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News (USA)
Pentagon blocks LGBT websites for ‘operational security reasons’
More than 15 months since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s former ban on openly gay service members, the U.S. Department of Defense continues to block access to websites it categorizes as LGBT.
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News (USA)
Brown appeals injunction blocking enforcement of conversion therapy ban
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Jerry Brown this week appealed a U.S. District Court injunction that has blocked the enforcement of a new state law that prohibits providing controversial “gay-to-straight” conversion therapy to LGBT youth.
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News (USA)
Barney Frank asks for U.S. Senate appointment
One day out of retirement as a member of the U.S. House, Barney Frank said Friday that he has asked Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to appoint him as the interim senator to replace John Kerry, who is expected to be confirmed Secretary of State later this month.