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Scottish government announces plan to legalize same-sex marriage, despite opposition
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The Scottish government on Wednesday announced plans to advance legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage, despite opposition by two-thirds of citizens responding to an official government consultation which produced a record 77,508 responses.
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News (USA)
Police: No evidence of hate crime, no evidence of hoax either in brutal attack on lesbian
LINCOLN, Neb. — Investigators looking into an attack against an openly lesbian woman this past weekend are not ruling out the possibility that the alleged hate crime may have been a hoax.
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News (USA)
‘Hate group’ Illinois Family Institute moves to intervene in marriage lawsuit
The Illinois Family Institute, a Carol Stream-based anti-gay organization, has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit challenging the state’s current marriage law, which prohibits the recognition of same-sex couples. The move by the organization makes it the second anti-gay group to get involved in the suit against marriage equality.
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Commentary
Can my ‘gay community’ please stop whining about Sally Ride?
We sometimes expect our famous gay and lesbian brothers and sisters to carry our banner to every corner of the world, shouting how we deserve and demand equal rights, when the reality is that they are simply trying to live a gay life in a straight world just as you and I are. I don’t believe we have the right to ask or demand that of anyone.
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Life
British school sends transgender girl home to change into boys uniform
BOSTON, Lincolnshire, U.K. — A 16-year-old British transgender girl was told that she couldn’t take her GCSE exam (equivalent to high school finals) and was sent home by teachers to change into the boys’ school uniform.
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News (USA)
Thirteen HIV/AIDS protesters arrested in front of White House
WASHINGTON — U.S. Parks Police on Tuesday arrested 13 protesters who gathered in front of the White House.
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News (USA)
Equality Illinois kicks off statewide campaign targeting anti-gay Chick-fil-A
CHICAGO — LGBT advocacy group Equality Illinois on Tuesday kicked off a multi-faceted “Flick-the-Hate” campaign aimed at Illinois communities where Chick-fil-A has franchises, a response to the fast-food chain’s millions of dollars in donatons to anti-LGBT organizations, and anti-gay comments from its president.
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News (USA)
New political ad targets U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint’s anti-gay comments
CHARLESTON, S.C — A new political ad is emphasizing U.S. Senator Jim DeMint’s previously stated belief that LGBT people shouldn’t be allowed to teach in schools has angered DeMint supporters because, they claim, it falsely portrays the Senator as anti-Semitic.
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News (USA)
Massachusetts AG joins calls for U.S. Supreme Court to review DOMA
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley on Tuesday joined the chorus of individuals calling on the Supreme Court to review the Defense of Marriage Act by filing a legal brief asking justices to take up the lawsuit that she filed against the anti-gay law.
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News (World)
Report: U.S. Christian Right lobbies to implement anti-gay laws in Africa
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Conservative U.S. Christian “family values” and religious organizations are setting up fronts in Africa to fight for anti-gay and anti-abortion legislation to promote their fundamentalist convictions, according to a report released Tuesday by the progressive think tank “Political Research Associates.”
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Life
‘BRIDEGROOM’ documentary breaks Kickstarter fundraising record
BRIDEGROOM, the documentary about tragedy befalling a gay couple and the inequalities that result from a lack of marriage protections, has become the highest funded film in the history of Kickstarter.com.
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News (USA)
D.C. yoga instructor suffers broken jaw in possible hate crime attack
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia police on Monday acknowledged that a hate crime investigation is under way after a gay couple’s Saturday night out ended in a brutal beating.
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Life
Study finds elevated HIV infection rates among young black gay, bisexual men
HIV infection rates among gay and bisexual black men are significantly higher than the rates among their white counterparts, according to a study released by HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
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News (USA)
AIDS 2012: Clinton announces ‘blueprint’ for ‘AIDS-free generation’
In a speech before attendees in D.C. at the 19th International AIDS Conference, Clinton said she directed U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby to develop the plan and said it would be unveiled before Dec. 1 on World AIDS Day.
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Life
Major League Soccer to end partnership with anti-gay Boy Scouts
NEW YORK — Its partnership is not even a year old, but Major League Soccer has announced that it will end its affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America when its when the current agreement expires at the end of the season.
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News (USA)
San Francisco program for uninsured residents to remove transgender exclusions
Nearly two years after a complaint was filed charging that “Healthy San Francisco,” the city’s health insurance program for uninsured residents, is discriminatory because it excludes services for transgender people, city officials are in the process of rectifying the situation and including such services in the program.
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News (USA)
Sally Ride, first U.S. woman in space, dies of cancer; comes ‘out’ in obituary
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday at the age of 61, following a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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News (USA)
Colorado bakery refuses to bake cakes for ‘illegal’ gay weddings
LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A Denver-area bakery has refused to bake a wedding reception cake because the clients are gay, and according to another customer bakery does “not participate in making cakes for ‘illegal’ things.”
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News (USA)
Indy gay bar owner claims alleged drive-by shooting a ‘hate crime’
INDIANAPOLIS, Inc. — The owner of a gay bar in Indianapolis said he is certain that a blown out window at his establishment is more than a random act of violence, he thinks it may be a hate crime.
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News (USA)
AIDS 2012: Sebelius unveils public-private collaborations to fight disease
Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced four new public-private initiatives on Sunday night aimed at removing barriers that cause some living with HIV/AIDS within the United States to fall out of care.