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News (World)
Uganda promises anti-homosexuality bill will pass as ‘Christmas gift’ to nation
KAMPALA — Uganda’s speaker of parliament has promised that the controversial anti-homosexuality bill, dubbed the “Kill the Gays Bill,” will pass by the end of the year, calling it a “Christmas gift” to the nation.
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News (USA)
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis pledges to take the lead on ENDA
A Colorado congressman who’s set to become the most senior openly gay member of the U.S. House is pledging to take the lead on perhaps the most high-profile piece of pro-LGBT legislation: the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
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News (USA)
Gay man chosen to lead Washington state Senate
OLYMPIA, Wash. — State Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle) will become just the second openly LGBT person to lead a state senate chamber after his Democratic colleagues on Tuesday night chose him as majority leader of the Washington State Senate.
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Life
Accuser retracts claim he had underage sex with Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash
The man who accused “Sesame Street” puppeteer Kevin Clash of having a sexual encounter with him when he was 16, has retracted his statements.
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Life
Seattle Sounders’ Marc Burch gets fine, suspension for homophobic slur
Major League Soccer has suspended Seattle Sounders’ Marc Burch for three games after he used a homophobic slur against another player during a playoff match against the opposing Real Salt Lake team last week.
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News (USA)
Parents accuse teacher of ‘contributing’ to turning their daughter gay
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — A Florida high school teacher has filed a complaint against the Deerfield Beach, Fla., school district over its handling of an investigation after a parent alleged that she had a hand in turning a student into a lesbian.
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News (USA)
Supreme Court reschedules conference to review DOMA, Prop 8 cases
WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it has rescheduled the private conference to review the legal appeals relating to California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.
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News (USA)
NOM wants pro-gay companies to pay a ‘price’ in countries hostile to gay rights
Fresh from its stinging loss in five states in last week’s election, the National Organization for Marriage has pledged to continue efforts to create backlash against companies that support marriage equality, by ensuring they pay a “price” in Middle Eastern countries that are hostile to gay rights.
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News (USA)
Boy Scouts no longer eligible for grants under new policy by UPS charity
ATLANTA — The charity arm of United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), announced Monday a new policy that will “cease all future funding to the Boy Scouts until gay Scouts and leaders are welcome within the organization.”
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News (USA)
LGBT candidate Sinema declared winner in Arizona U.S. House race
PHOENIX — Democrat Kyrsten Sinema on Monday was declared the winner in the election to represent Arizona’s Ninth District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Life
Sesame Street’s ‘voice of Elmo’ accused of sexual relationship with minor
Kevin Clash — the openly gay actor who voices Sesame Street’s Muppet character Elmo — has taken a leave of absence to fight accusations that he had a sexual relationship with an underage male.
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News (USA)
Illinois school committee: ‘Our transgender policy could change the country’
AURORA, Ill. — An Ad Hoc committee of the East Aurora School District 131 convened for the first time Thursday to discuss its plans to create a new policy for protecting transgender students after a previous district policy was rescinded late last month.
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News (USA)
Special prosecutor appointed in investigation of hate group leader
ARLINGTON, Va. — A special prosecutor has been appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of misuse of public office and improper campaign fund raising by veteran Loudoun County, Va., Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling, Va.).
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Commentary
Harnessing momentum from a historic election
Without a doubt, election night was a landslide victory for equality. Watching the historic results roll in on issues and candidates that matter to the progress of civil rights for LGBT people was truly a snapshot of just how much, and how quickly, this country has changed on social issues. … Election night also saw the end of a long pattern of losses for state-level marriage equality at the ballot box…
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News (USA)
Philly attorney becomes Pennsylvania’s first openly gay state legislator
HARRISBURG, PA — Philadelphia policy attorney and civil rights advocate Brian Sims was elected Tuesday to represent Pennsylvania’s 182nd District, and becomes the state’s first openly gay state legislator.
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News (USA)
Democrats’ victory in Oregon House clears path for openly lesbian Speaker
SALEM, Ore. — After fiercely contested races around the state, Democrats are poised to take over Oregon’s House of Representatives with a 34-26 majority, clearing the path for the ascension of openly lesbian House Democratic Leader Tina Kotek to the Speaker’s chair.
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Commentary
So Proud: Thoughts after Midnight
In this environment, having a president who advocates gay rights, as Obama has done, provides a foundation of moral and political support that cannot be underestimated. We need the law to do the right thing and make civil rights for the LGBT community both unquestionable and unchallengeable but we also need a leader while in the trenches. It is inspiring. If President Obama hadn’t been reelected on Tuesday I shiver to think what the world would feel like today.
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Perkins: If Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage, it could lead to ‘revolution’
While discussing the string of election night victories for marriage equality on Thursday, Tony Perkins declared that if the Supreme Court legalizes it Christian conservatives will never accept it because, like abortion, they know that “it’s unnatural for two men to be married.”
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News (USA)
N.H. voters elect country’s first out transgender statewide candidate
A New Hampshire Democrat on Tuesday became the first openly transgender person elected to statewide office in the country.
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News (World)
Malawi official backtracks on possible suspension of anti-gay laws
LILILONGWE, Malawi — Malawian Justice Minister Ralph Kasambara on Thursday backtracked on statements regarding possible suspension of arrests of LGBT persons in this small landlocked country in southeastern Africa.