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LGBT History Month profile: Comedian, political humorist Kate Clinton
Kate Clinton is a political humorist with a gay and lesbian perspective. She is an actor, commentator and advocate for social causes.
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Life
James Clementi, off-Broadway cast of ‘Bare’ encourage gay teens to come out
Growing up in Ridgewood, N.J., James Clementi said he did not know of any gay people. And while he did suspect that his younger brother Tyler was also gay, he kept his own sexual orientation a secret from his family for another seven years — even during the months after his brother’s well publicized suicide two years ago.
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News (USA)
Florida Log Cabin Republicans exploit death of U.S. Ambassador in political ad
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A political advertisement in the current issue of the Florida Agenda, an LGBT weekly newspaper distributed throughout central and south Florida, and paid for by the Broward (County) Log Cabin Republican Club of Florida, attacked Democrats and President Barack Obama — using an image of the lifeless body of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens in the aftermath of last month’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
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News (USA)
Nordstrom announces its support for same-sex marriage
In an email to it 56,000 employees, Seattle-based retailer Nordstrom on Thursday announced its support for marriage equality, and the Washington state ballot initiative, Referendum 74, that would legalize same-sex marriage.
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‘The Cross in the Closet’ — A straight Christian lives ‘openly gay’ for a year
As the LGBT community marked “National Coming Out Day” this week, there is one story that stands out in its uniqueness. Timothy Kurek, a straight man who said he was brought up to believe that homosexuality was a sin, decided that he would explore that what it would be like to be a gay man for a year…
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News (USA)
U.S. senators from Maine neutral on marriage ballot initiative
The Republican U.S. senators from Maine are no taking no position on the Maine marriage ballot initiative just weeks before voters will decide whether to legalize same-sex marriage at the polls.
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Commentary
Coming Out: It will change your life
Life as a homosexual isn’t an easy life. From the time you know you’re gay until the moment you say out loud to the world around you: “I’m gay” could be 10 years, 15 years 30 years or in my case, 50 years. Some people never find the courage to say it out loud and live their lives hidden in shame and denial…
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Commentary
National Coming Out Day: Achieving progress through visibility
On our road to equality, perhaps we’ll meet a day when “coming out” becomes a thing of the past. There will be no perception of difference, no fear, no worry and no anxiety. No declarations, no announcements, no revelations need be made. Nothing is questioned or second-guessed…
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Coming Out: ‘I am happy with my life and to me, that’s all that matters’
I came out to my family as lesbian. My family are hardcore Baptists, Christians, and not only didn’t believe me — my mother, a Registered Nurse kept telling me, “It’s a phase, it’s a phase, you’ll grow out of it.” But they didn’t accept it, or me, for that matter.
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Coming Out in this country is something which has changed a great deal since I was a kid. For many young people today (though certainly not all), the process has become far less traumatic. The act of telling a friend or family member that you’re gay is now frequently met with a “so?” and a “cool, let’s go to a gay bar!”
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Today is ‘National Coming Out Day’
Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day — the internationally observed day to celebrate coming out and to raise awareness of the LGBT community and LGBT civil rights movement.
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LGBT History Month profile: Chris Colfer, actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter
Chris Colfer is an actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Kurt on “Glee.” He is one of the first openly gay teen actors to portray an out character on primetime television.
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News (USA)
Organizers of Halloween parade deny admittance to gay youth group
ANOKA, Minn. — An LGBT youth group founded in memory of Justin Aaberg, a 15-year-old Anoka High School student who killed himself after he was repeatedly bullied because he was gay, has been denied participation in the Anoka Halloween Parade, presumably because there are already too many participants.
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News (USA)
University administrator placed on leave for signing Md. marriage petition
Gallaudet University has placed a senior administrator on leave after she reportedly signed a petition against Maryland’s same-sex marriage law.
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Staver, Barber: Banning ‘ex-gay’ therapy is like encouraging alcoholism, pedophilia, kleptomania
Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver and Matt Barber said on the “Faith and Freedom” radio program Wednesday that banning therapists from seeking to turn gay kids straight is like requiring therapists to help people accept and embrace their alcoholism, pedophilia, or kleptomania.
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News (USA)
Archbishop tells woman to reject gay son or suffer eternal damnation
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — As the battle heats up in Minnesota over a proposed state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, there has been renewed outrage by statements expressed by Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt in a 2010 letter to one of his parishioners.
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News (USA)
Obama administration issues written deportation guidelines
New guidance from the Department of Homeland Security stipulating that gay and lesbian bi-national couples are families spells out three criteria for immigration officials who are determining whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion in potential deportation cases.
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News (USA)
Questions remain after Long Island teen commits suicide over alleged anti-gay bullying
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — The Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Network said it would fast-track its efforts to open an LGBT community center in Suffolk County after learning that an East Hampton, N.Y. teen who was reportedly the victim of anti-gay bullying took his own life last week.
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News (USA)
University student leader criticized over decision to veto pro-LGBT bills
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has voted to override two vetoes by the student senate’s president, one which expressed support for extending benefits to spouses of LGBT NU staff and faculty, and another bill that supported Lincoln’s LGBT-inclusive “fairness ordinance.”
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News (USA)
Catholic bishop: Same-sex marriage ‘endangers religious liberty’
YAKIMA, Wash. — Same-sex marriage “jeopardizes freedom rather than expands it,” and “endangers our religious liberty and the right of conscience,” according to Bishop Joseph Tyson, the Catholic bishop of Yakima, Wash.