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LGBT History Month profile: Mary Bonauto, civil rights attorney
For more than two decades, Mary Bonauto has served as the civil rights project director at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD).
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News (USA)
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia: Ruling on ‘homosexual sodomy’ is easy
WASHINGTON — Noted conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience at the Washington D.C.-based American Enterprise Institute that “it’s ‘easy’ to render a verdict” on same-sex marriage “when you apply the words in the Constitution as they were intended by its framers.”
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News (USA)
Austin police release video of alleged anti-gay assault during gay pride
AUSTIN, Texas — Police in Austin, Texas on Friday released surveillance video which shows a violent attack on two men in the city’s downtown that occurred during last month gay pride.
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Life
Megachurch pastor: Nobody is born gay, sexual orientation is a modern construct
Recently, Jim Garlow, pastor of the Skyline Church, an evangelical Christian megachurch located in La Mesa, Calif., sat down with theologian and author Wayne Grudem for an hour-long discussion on “Biblical Issues for This Election” that was based on a document (pdf) Grudem put together comparing the positions of the Democratic and Republican parties.
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News (USA)
‘Cured’ student, anti-gay groups sue California over ban on reparative therapy for minors
Therapists who purportedly counsel gay and lesbian patients into heterosexuality and two anti-gay organizations have filed lawsuits seeking an injunction against California’s recently approved ban on reparative therapy for minors.
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News (USA)
Prisoner awarded gender reassignment surgery, attorneys seek legal expenses
NORFOLK, Mass. — Convicted murderer Michelle Kosilek — who was granted taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgery ordered by a federal judge — is demanding $698 in reimbursement for legal expenses for arguing her case from behind bars, and her attorneys are seeking legal fees of in excess of $800,000, according to documents filed this week in U. S. District Court.
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News (USA)
Democracy for America to ask members to support state marriage campaigns
The Washington Blade has learned that Democracy for America will ask its supporters to donate to the four statewide same-sex marriage campaigns.
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News (USA)
Gay couple thinks hate crime is linked to local pastor’s anti-gay article
CLARENDON, Texas — A gay couple in this small, north Texas town said they think that a spray painted hate message found on their front porch is linked to an anti-gay newspaper advertisement written by a local minister.
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Professional boxer Orlando Cruz: ‘A proud Puerto Rican gay man’
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Orlando Cruz, a featherweight boxer and former Olympian, stunned the world of professional boxing Wednesday after announcing that he “is a proud gay man.”
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News (USA)
Boy Scout told he won’t receive his Eagle medal because he is gay
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. — A 17-year-old high school senior from this hillside area just east of Oakland, Calif., has been told by the Boy Scouts that he is not eligible to be awarded the rank of Eagle Scout because he is gay.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Katharine Lee Bates, songwriter and poet
Katharine Lee Bates was a songwriter, poet and educator. She is best known for writing “America the Beautiful.”
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Commentary
Surviving my own personal hell, living through ‘dyke to wife’ reparative therapy
It was the 1970s reparative therapy for gays – you ignored who you were and tried to be what society, your church and your family wanted you to be. I did my best. I went to church, I sang in the choir, I had a job. I cooked, cleaned, did laundry and tried to be happy. The thing is – I wasted over 20 years of my life, and the life of my husband, trying to be someone I wasn’t…
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News (USA)
Obama, Romney mix on economy, health care, style during Denver debate
If the point of the first presidential debate was to establish a fundamental difference between President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Gov. Mitt Romney, as moderator Jim Lehrer set out to do, it was achieved not in soaring rhetoric or memorable one-liners, but mostly by body language and attitude.
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News (World)
Serbia announces ban on upcoming gay pride parade
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s Interior Ministry announced Wednesday that it has ordered banned a gay pride march in Belgrade that was scheduled for this weekend, citing security concerns.
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News (USA)
Poll: Large majority of Illinois Catholics support same-sex unions
After releasing poll data showing a 10-point increase in support for same-sex marriage among Illinoisans, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University released new data Monday showing a majority of Illinois Catholics also approve of gay and lesbian unions.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Ann Bannon, popular lesbian-theme fiction author
Ann Bannon is an author best known for her lesbian-themed fiction series, “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles.” The popularity of the novels earned her the title “The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction.”
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News (USA)
Bisexual student sent home after refusing to change ‘I enjoy vagina’ t-shirt
QUEENS, N.Y. — A Queens high school sophomore who self identifies as bisexual, was sent home Tuesday, after school administrators deemed that the “I enjoy vagina” T-shirt she was wearing was a distraction.
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News (USA)
Poll: Majority of Latinos favor same-sex marriage
MIAMI — A new poll from NBC Latino/IBOPE Zogby released Wednesday finds that 60 percent of Latinos surveyed support same-sex marriage equality.
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News (USA)
Paul Ryan promises Focus on the Family that he will fight gay equality
During an interview with Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, Paul Ryan reassured the anti-gay group that a Romney-Ryan administration will fiercely oppose gay rights. Focus on the Family and its founder James Dobson have a long history of promoting anti-gay policies and ex-gay therapy, and earned a shout-out from Romney earlier this week while campaigning in Colorado, where it is headquartered.
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News (USA)
17-year-old Missouri teen pleads guilty to hate crime against lesbian
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A 17-year-old Missouri teen has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident.