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News (USA)
N.Y. high court declines to hear appeal challenging same-sex marriage law
ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by the conservative group New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, who were seeking to have New York’s same-sex marriage law overturned.
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News (USA)
Gates’ donate additional $500,000 to Washington marriage equality campaign
Microsoft Chairman and co-founder Bill Gates, and his wife Melinda, have donated an additional $500,000 to the campaign to uphold Washington’s state’s marriage equality law
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Commentary
Log Cabin Republicans kidding themselves about a Romney Supreme Court
I’m not surprised that the Log Cabin Republicans have gone against the best interests of LGBT Americans in endorsing Mitt Romney. Responding to their rationalization would normally not be worth the time, but one of their attempts at self-justification deserves a response…
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News (USA)
Log Cabin Republicans endorse Mitt Romney for president
The Log Cabin Republicans on Tuesday announced their endorsement of GOP nominee Mitt Romney for President, despite the candidate’s opposition to LGBT equality.
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Life
Bloomberg pledges additional $500,000 to support marriage equality campaigns
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Monday that he’ll spend another $500,000 of his personal fortune to support marriage equality campaigns in Maine, Minnesota and Washington state in an effort to help the campaigns raise an equal amount.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Broadcast journalist Don Lemon
Don Lemon is a prime time national news anchor. He received an Edward R. Murrow award, one of the most prestigious honors for broadcast journalists.
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News (USA)
Man says he was imprisoned by church for four months because he is gay
A North Carolina man has accused his former church of holding him against his will for four months while he was physically and emotionally abused because he is gay.
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News (USA)
Study: No difference in development of foster kids adopted by gay or straight parents
High-risk children adopted from foster care by gay parents fare equally in their cognitive and emotional development as those adopted by heterosexual parents, according to a new UCLA study published in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
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Life
Minister describes gays as ‘predators’ during Maryland marriage rally
BALTIMORE — A California pastor referred to gays as as “predators” during an event against same-sex marriage at a local black church on Sunday.
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News (USA)
Vermont couple who lost discrimination suit films anti-gay marriage ad in Maine
A Vermont couple who agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a lesbian couple from New York who claimed that their Inn refused to host their wedding reception because they were a same-sex couple, appear in a new ad advocating against same-sex marriage in neighboring Maine.
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Life
Bryan Fischer: CNN is ‘What the Gay Gestapo looks like in action’
To say that Bryan Fischer is furious about his failed appearance on CNN last week where anchor Carol Costello threw him off the program would be a bit of an understatement, as Thursday he went off on an epic rant against the “gay gestapo,” saying that Costello’s refusal to allow him to spew his bigotry unchallenged on national television is exactly what “the gay gestapo looks like in action.”
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News (World)
France delays plans to debate same-sex marriage
France has delayed plans to move forward with legislation to legalize same-sex marriage amid growing opposition led by religious organizations and the majority Roman Catholic Church.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Arthur Laurents, award-winning playwright
Arthur Laurents was a Tony Award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter. He wrote the scripts for “West Side Story,” “Gypsy” and “La Cage Aux Folles.”
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Christine Jorgensen, transgender pioneer
Christine Jorgensen was the first nationally known transgender American. She used her fame to speak out on behalf of transgender people.
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Life
A cautionary tale: He ‘met his murderer over the internet’
CARDIFF, Wales – A lonely 64-year-old widower called a “lost soul” after his wife died in 2008 turned to a gay website for companionship, a fateful decision that led to his brutal murder in January.
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News (USA)
Missouri pastor’s ‘anti-gay testimony’ is not what it seems (Video)
This recently released video of the Rev. Phil Snyder, pastor at the Brentwood Christian Church, in Springfield, Mo., is, at first, not much different from the recent anti-gay rants of pastors Sean Harris, Charles L. Worley, Curtis Knapp or Dennis Leatherman, who have each called for violence or death to gays.
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Commentary
Romney: Let states decide on hospital visitation rights for gay couples
It’s known that Mitt Romney stands against rights for LGBT people. He signed the National Organization for Marriage pledge to stand against marriage equality, appoint Supreme Court Justices who would also stand against equal rights for gays and lesbians and fight to write discrimination against us into the U.S. Constitution…
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Commentary
Love is just as biblical as hate
Never forget that the bible was used to justify the Crusades, the Inquisition, and burn heretics. It has been misused to persecute Jews, support Hitler, and fuel the Holocaust. In American history, the bible was used to promote the genocide of millions of native people, promote and justify racial slavery and more recently to fight integration, sustain Jim Crow, and deny millions their basic human rights.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Facebook. He is the publisher and editor in chief of The New Republic, a leading public policy magazine.
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News (USA)
Equality Illinois: ‘The bullies won in East Aurora’
Bernard Cherkasov, CEO of Equality Illinois, a statewide advocacy organization, commented Saturday on the decision by the East Aurora school board to rescind policy that supported transgender and gender nonconforming staff, faculty, and students.