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News (USA)
FRC shooting suspect found mentally competent, pleads not guilty
Floyd Lee Corkins II, 28, a former part-time volunteer for D.C.’s LGBT community center, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday to three charges related to last week’s shooting at the downtown D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council, one of the nation’s leading anti-gay groups.
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News (USA)
Out congresswoman among speakers slated for DNC
CHARLOTTE — Out lesbian Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin is among several additional speakers expected at the Democratic National Convention announced this week by event organizers.
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News (USA)
All charges dropped in Equality 9 case involving Prop 8 protest
SAN DIEGO – All charges against the “Equality 9” have been dropped and the case against them has been dismissed, said Zakiya Khabir, a member of the San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (SAME).
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News (USA)
Supreme Court urged to reject Prop 8 appeal, allow marriage equality to resume in California
The plaintiffs challenging California’s Proposition 8 on Friday filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the landmark federal appeals court ruling in Perry v. Brown (now Hollingsworth v. Perry) that found Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
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Anti-gay Maryland lawmaker who crashed boat admits he was operating while impaired
BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland Republican lawmaker Donald Dwyer, a vehement opponent of same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, has admitted to being under the influence of alcohol when he crashed his boat into another boat carrying four adults and five children.
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News (USA)
Holder calls on LGBT attorneys to advance cause of equality
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called on LGBT lawyers Thursday night to draw on their “considerable passion and expertise” to build on the progress the Obama administration has already made on advancing LGBT rights.
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News (USA)
‘Christian’ groups demand Fox News drop ‘homosexual agitator’ Wayne Besen
REEDVILLE, Va. — A number of self-described “Christian, family values” groups banded together Thursday demanding that Fox News discontinue guest appearances by “homosexual agitator” Wayne Besen on the O’Reilly Factor talk show, saying Besen is “demonizing conservative organizations and individuals.”
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News (USA)
Lesbian couple settles lawsuit with inn that refused to host ‘gay reception’
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont inn has agreed to pay $30,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of a lesbian couple from New York who claimed that the inn refused to host their wedding reception because they were a same-sex couple.
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News (USA)
Democrats on track to break records with LGBT convention delegates
The upcoming Democratic National Convention is set to have a record number of openly LGBT delegates, although goals for some states aren’t being met, according to new data from the National Stonewall Democrats.
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News (USA)
Presidential election poll: LGBT issues see historic political shift
According to a new poll conducted by Harris Interactive for Logo TV, all political candidates could greatly benefit by supporting equal rights for LGBT Americans.
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Life
Matt Barber: Polygamy and incest are ‘inevitable’ if gay marriage is legalized
On Wednesday’s “Faith and Freedom” program, Matt Barber declared that gay activists don’t actually want marriage equality but rather are interested in “deconstructing the Judeo-Christian notion of marriage as marriage has always been.”
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News (USA)
The 2012 GOP platform is ‘A foot on the neck of American citizens’
WASHINGTON — A high ranking official from within the Democratic party on Wednesday labeled the nearly finished 50-page platform document of the Republican National Committee as a “foot on the necks of American citizens.”
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News (USA)
FRC gunman indicted by federal grand jury
WASHINGTON — A Virginia man who entered the the lobby of the conservative anti-gay group, the Family Research Council, on August 15 and shot a security guard, was indicted Wednesday on federal charges related to the incident.
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News (USA)
Minnesota state lawmaker drops re-election bid amid reports of gay sex hook-up with teen
DULUTH, Minn, — The Minnesota Democrat who had a sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy at an Interstate rest-stop said he is dropping his bid for re-election, just hours after he said he would stay in the race.
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News (USA)
Virginia body shop restores bullied gay student’s vandalized car for free
ROANOKE, Va. — A local body shop has come to the rescue of an openly gay college student who has had a tough time this year as vandals have defaced his car four times.
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Commentary
2012 election is crucial to LGBT Americans, women and minorities
For many LGBT voters, the re-election of Barack Obama will mean that the slow progress toward full equality will continue and the direction of the country will continue to trend toward progressive goals. However, the prospect of the election of a Republican president sends chills up many spines, especially to those voters — LGBT, women, minorities, progressives, liberals and moderates — who have read about at the proposed Republican platform and are aware that the next president will likely shape the U.S. Supreme Court for decades to come.
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Commentary
‘Violence is violence and the culture that creates it is responsible’
Violence is violence and the culture that creates it is responsible. There is a difference between denouncing violence and inciting violence – this seems obvious but this past week has shown us that the line between these two is slim.
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News (USA)
Springfield, Mo., city council considers LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — An ordinance that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s non-discrimination ordinance generated three hours of vigorous public testimony in a public hearing August 13.
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Life
Top Romney surrogate compares LGBT people to drug users, polygamists
TAMPA, Fla. — Kansas Secretary of State and Mitt Romney surrogate Kris Kobach compared LGBT people to drug users and polygamists while debating the GOP platform’s marriage equality language in Tampa on Tuesday.
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Residents suspect LGBT-tolerant church targeted by arsonist
SOUTH BLOOMINGVILLE, Ohio — All that remains of South Bloomingville’s last historic landmark are smoldering embers and the bell that once could be heard throughout the community. Residents woke early Friday morning saddened to find that the South Bloomingville Christian Church was burned nearly to the ground.