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Commentary
Storming the ‘Ex-Gay’ Shores
In 1998, 15 religious right organizations launched a huge advertising campaign to promote “pray away the gay” programs. Anti-gay activist Robert Knight called the “Truth in Love” campaign the “Normandy Landing in the larger cultural wars.” Things didn’t quite work out as Knight had hoped…
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News (USA)
Couples in Illinois gay marriage lawsuit urge state legislators to pass marriage equality bill
Several gay and lesbian couples who are plaintiffs in a legal challenge to a state law prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages met with state legislators in Springfield Wednesday and urged them to vote for a bill that would legalize gay marriage in Illinois.
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Clinton: LGBT-inclusion ‘the smart thing’ for U.S. foreign policy
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered on Wednesday what might be her last public address before an LGBT audience as chief diplomat for the United States when she told group of LGBT Foreign Service officers their service is integral to the country.
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Openly transgender lawmaker may not resign, despite felony conviction
Stacie Laughton, one of the nation’s first openly transgender state officials, said Wednesday she was reconsidering her previously announced resignation, and may not relinquish her seat in the New Hampshire House, despite pressure over a previously undisclosed conviction for credit card fraud.
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Advocacy groups denounce ‘Dr. Oz’ for debating merits of reparative therapy
Three of the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organizations on Wednesday denounced the syndicated “Dr. Oz” television show for airing an episode debating the merits of so-called reparative therapy, and for positioning a representative of the discredited National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) as an “expert.”
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Life
Author makes the leap from gay erotica to ‘legitimacy’
Following success as a writer of erotica and as columnist for Examiner.com, author Xavier Axelson has surprised readers with his debut novel,”Velvet,” a work of historical fiction which tells the tale of a royal tailor.
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News (USA)
U.S. Congresswoman calls for end to LGBT ‘conversion quackery’
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) on Wednesday introduced the Stop Harming Our Kids (SHOK) resolution, co-sponsored by Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) and David Cicilline (D-R.I.), aimed a protecting LGBT youth from psychological abuse caused by “gay to-straight” conversion therapy.
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News (USA)
Second Circuit case on DOMA may be high court’s strongest contender for deciding law’s fate
While marriage equality supporters have been giving thanks for the recent ballot box victories and the Second Circuit’s Windsor v. U.S. decision, the most recent Defense of Marriage strike-down by a federal court in mid-October, the law-focused among us are also looking ahead to the next big question: What will the U.S. Supreme Court do on Nov. 30, when it is scheduled to decide on the marriage-related cert petitions pending before it?
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News (USA)
LGBT non-discrimination ordinance passes in St. Louis County
CLAYTON, Mo. – The St. Louis County Council chamber was filled to capacity on Tuesday as council members voted and passed an ordinance that would include sexual orientation and gender identity in St. Louis County’s non-discrimination protections in unincorporated St. Louis County.
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Life
Hate group leader expresses support for Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill
WASHINGTON — Tony Perkins, president of the Washington-based Family Research Council, expressed support this week for parliamentarians in Uganda who are considering a measure that will impose harsher sanctions on LGBT people, as well as sentencing guidelines that could mean capital punishment for engaging in homosexual acts.
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News (USA)
Victim of Thanksgiving Day attack says beating was not a hate crime
MOBILE, Ala. — An Alabama woman who was allegedly beaten by her girlfriend’s brother on Thanksgiving Day, says the attack was not a hate crime, and is now recovering at the home of her attacker’s parents where the assault occurred just days ago.
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News (USA)
Obama nominates openly lesbian Hispanic judge to federal bench
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro, who currently serves on the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, for a federal judgeship with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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News (USA)
Calif. Congresswoman to introduce resolution targeting reparative therapy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) has announced that she will introduce a House resolution on Wednesday, Nov. 28, asking the U.S. House of Representatives to encourage states to take steps to prevent minors from being harmed by controversial and discredited gay-to-straight conversion therapy.
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News (World)
U.S. officials dispute media reports on Uganda anti-gay bill
U.S. officials offered a different account about the status of a draconian anti-gay bill in Uganda on Tuesday, saying the legislation had yet to move out of committee and disputing earlier media reports and State Department comments by saying the panel is incapable of removing the infamous death penalty provision from the legislation.
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News (USA)
Carnival Cruises under fire from gay passengers for banning ‘drag’ attire on ‘drag cruise’
Carnival Cruses on Tuesday issued an apology after it came under fire from gay passengers who were told they were forbidden from dressing in drag on an upcoming “drag cruise,” or face being kicked off the ship.
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News (USA)
SPLC files groundbreaking lawsuit accusing conversion therapy organization of fraud
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing a New Jersey organization of consumer fraud for offering conversion therapy services – a discredited practice that claims to convert people from gay to straight.
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News (World)
U.S. envoy meets Ugandan leaders over anti-gay bill
The top U.S. diplomat in Africa met over the weekend with leaders in Uganda to express concerns about an anti-gay bill pending before the country’s parliament that could be headed for a vote as soon as this week, according to the State Department.
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Life
Third accuser claims he was underage when he had sex with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash
NEW YORK — A third man has come forward alleging he had engaged in sexual activity when he was only 16-years-old, with former “Sesame Street” puppeteer Kevin Clash.
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News (USA)
Human Rights Commission sides with gay group in discrimination complaint
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky Human Rights Commission has sided with organizers of the Lexington Pride Festival in its discrimination complaint against T-shirt printer Hands On Originals, after the owner refused to print t-shirts for the city’s annual pride event, and said it was because his is “a Christian organization.”
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Life
Televangelist John Hagee: Gays are defiling America’s purity
Televangelist John Hagee, the right-wing pastor who has claimed that the U.S. will face God’s judgment for electing “a leader who is for men marrying men” said “America does not have purity when men marry men and women marry women.”