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N.Y. gay rights leader, victim of brutal attack, dies after being removed from life support
QUEENS, N.Y. — A prominent figure in the local gay community died Thursday after being removed from life support. Lou Rispoli, 62, died from injuries sustained in a savage, early morning attack last week.
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Lesbian candidate called ‘ugly dyke’ in North Carolina House race
An Asheville-area Republican political operative has taken to Twitter to call Susan Wilson, an openly lesbian contender for a N.C. State House seat, “an old ugly dyke.”
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Life
HRC: Paul Ryan is ‘just as anti-LGBT as the top of the ticket’
Over the past two days, the Human Rights Campaign has compared President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s stances on issues of equality – covering bullying and hate crimes so far – but, reminds us that vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan is just as anti-LGBT as the top of the ticket.
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Equality California announces new director
After a year without a permanent executive director, the statewide LGBT lobbying group Equality California announced Wednesday that the board of directors has selected John O’Connor, who currently serves as the executive director of the LGBT Community Center of the Desert in Palm Springs, to fill the position.
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AFER debunks NOM’s new marriage propaganda video
The American Foundation for Equal Rights is debunking a new video by the National Organization for Marriage — entitled “Marriage 101” — calling it propaganda that includes claims that NOM knows are not true.
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Vandalized, threatened gay couple find kindness, fresh start from LGBT community
A Texas gay couple say that the national media attention they received after finding “leave or die fags,” painted on their Clarendon, Texas home only made matters worse, until readers of an LGBTQ blog pitched in to give the couple a new start.
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Parent raises concerns over appointment of gay rights opponent to anti-bullying task force
COON RAPIDS, Minn. — The parent of a gay teen who committed suicide as a result of bullying is speaking out over the decision by the Anoka-Hennepin School District to appoint a leading gay rights opponent to its newly created anti-bullying task force.
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News (USA)
Family Research Council shooter charged with committing act of terrorism
WASHINGTON — The man accused of opening fire and shooting a security guard inside the offices of the Family Research Council in August, will face seven new charges when he appears in federal court on Friday, including committing an act of terrorism while armed.
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N.Y. gay rights activist, community leader near death after savage beating
Lou Rispoli, a well-respected and beloved community leader in the Queens, N.Y., gay neighborhood of Sunnyside, has been removed from life support and remains in hospice care, the result of an early morning attack last week. He is not expected to survive.
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Transgender Army veteran tapped to lead LGBT military advocacy group
A transgender Army veteran has been named to head the newly combined organization advocating for the interests of LGBT service members.
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Obama calls for support of state marriage equality ballot initiatives
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday reaffirmed his support for marriage equality, and called on Americans to support the freedom to marry when they vote on ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington.
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Commentary
Log Cabin Republicans: How the LGBT GOP group has abandoned gay rights
The Log Cabin Republicans now have squandered their last ounce of potential credibility. After 35 years in their dysfunctional relationship with the Republican Party, these gay conservatives have gotten nowhere, and are unable to admit it. And the party, after 35 years of accepting their endorsements, endowments, and votes, still degrades, derides, derogates, and vilifies all LGBT people and their families, both in its platform and in its legislation.
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Report: Romney rejected birth certificates for gay parents; ordered invasive legal reviews
BOSTON — In 2003, while Governor of Massachusetts, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who publicly said he opposed child-rearing by gay and lesbian couples, insisted that his top legal staff individually review the circumstances of every birth to same-sex parents.
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Jury acquits men of hate crime charges; convicts on kidnapping, conspiracy
LONDON, KY — After five hours of deliberations, a jury in Kentucky late Wednesday acquitted two men of hate crime charges, while finding them guilty of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the attack on a gay man.
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News (USA)
Chris Kluwe battles government agents in new marriage equality ad
Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and outspoken marriage equality advocate, argues against a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Minnesota in a satirical new radio ad for the group for Minnesotans for Equality.
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Maryland pastor declares LGBT people and supporters are ‘worthy of death’
A recent town hall meeting sponsored by the Maryland Family Alliance, a coalition working to defeat Maryland’s marriage equality law, has inflamed the gay marriage debate on news that a local pastor declared that LGBT people and their supporters are “worthy of death.”
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Jury in Kentucky begins deliberations in federal hate crime case
Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of two men charged in a federal hate crimes case Wednesday, the first in the nation under a section of the federal hate crimes law that makes it illegal to attack someone based on the victim’s real or perceived sexual orientation.
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Life
Ellen DeGeneres awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres was presented with the 15th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Monday night, in a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Nadler pushes DOMA repeal, despite recent court rulings
A New York Democrat leading the charge against the Defense of Marriage Act in Congress is stressing the need for legislative action against the anti-gay law despite a string of victories in the courts.
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Life
Liberty Counsel opposes, but doesn’t understand, ‘Mix It Up Day’
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber and Steve Crampton weighed in to warn about the dangers of “Mix It Up” day … despite obviously having absolutely no idea what it is actually about, as Crampton bizarrely asserted that it was a day “where boys can wear girls clothes [or] pretend to be homosexual.”