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News (USA)
AIDS 2012: ‘Keep the Promise’ march draws more than 2,000
More than 2,000 HIV/AIDS activists from around the world took part in the “Make the Promise” march through downtown Washington on Sunday.
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News (USA)
More than 500 gather for vigil for lesbian brutalized in home invasion
LINCOLN, Neb. — Over 500 people gathered on the steps of the Nebraska State Capitol Sunday night to hold a vigil for a lesbian woman brutalized early Sunday morning in what local LGBT activists are calling a hate crime.
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Life
Where did 3-year-old Tripp (Palin) Johnston learn the word faggot?
Kids say the darndest things. Bristol Palin — who at age 18 became an unwed mother, and now advocates for teen pregnancy prevention and is a paid speaker on the subject of teen abstinence — admits she’s “doing a terrible job disciplining Tripp,” he 3-year-old son.
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Commentary
Should I Come Out on Facebook?
Coming Out on Facebook depends on why and how you do it, but overall it can be a worthwhile means of coming out. It gives you a sense of control, an ability to present the information in a premeditated way, and a large audience to speak to. So I say, if done appropriately, why not?
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News (USA)
Muppets creators end partnership with Chick-fil-A over anti-gay sentiments
The Jim Henson Company, the entertainment organization that traces its origins to the founding of The Muppets in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson, has ended its affiliation with Chick-fil-A over the restaurant chain’s anti-gay sentiments.
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Commentary
Hearing ‘Happy Pride’ is like hearing ‘Happy Birthday’
“I love that everyone says Happy Pride, it’s like they’re saying Happy Birthday to us.” I’d never thought of it in those terms, however, for a gay and lesbian your life really does start the day you “come out,” and what is more festive and celebratory than a big gay parade? So Happy Pride now seems even more appropriate!
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News (USA)
First time in history, U.S. service members march in full uniform at gay pride
SAN DIEGO — To the cheers of a crowd estimated at over 200,000 spectators — many shouting “Thank you for your service” — for the first time in history on Saturday, members of the United States Armed Forces marched in full uniform in a gay pride parade.
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Life
AFA: Liberal churches, gays, media responsible for Colorado shooting
Fred Jackson, the American Family Association’s news director, while discussing the Colorado movie theater shooting on Friday said that liberal Christian churches and liberal media helped contribute to violent incidents by supposedly de-emphasizing the fear of God and the Bible.
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Commentary
Mike Huckabee spreads confusion about homosexuality and pedophilia
The reason why the Boy Scouts made such a ridiculous decision regarding keeping gays out is because people like former Governor and now radio talk show host Mike Huckabee. Listen how he and a caller who was molested as a child makes it seem that gays want to be in the Boy Scouts to “go after” children.
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News (USA)
OPM to extend health coverage to gay federal employees’ children
Gay federal employees will be able to cover the children of their same-sex partners under the federal health insurance plan once a proposed rule published Friday by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is enacted.
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Life
Tribunal: Christian inn owners discriminated against gay couple
VANCOUVER, B.C. — A British Columbia Human Rights tribunal has ordered the owners of a now-closed Bed and Breakfast to pay $4,500 in damages and expenses to a same-sex couple for refusing them accommodations because they are gay.
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News (USA)
Idaho bar drops Miller, Coors, Pepsi over support of LGBT commerce
WAHA, Idaho — A popular bar in Northern Idaho is no longer selling products from MillerCoors brewing or PepsiCo., because those corporations support the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
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Life
One Million Mom’s last obsession: NBC’s ‘The New Normal’ is ‘not normal’
They’re back. The latest target of the self-proclaimed “One Million Moms” — whose supporters actually number around 48,000 — is NBC’s new fall series, “The New Normal,” a comedy based on two gay dads and their surrogate mother.
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News (USA)
Mayor: ‘Chick-fil-A or whatever the hell the name is,’ doesn’t belong in Boston
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino on Thursday vowed to block fast-food chain Chick-fil-A from opening a restaurant near the city’s “Freedom Trail,” a response to comments by the chain’s president that gay marriage is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation.”
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News (USA)
GOP expected to appoint gay man to Colorado Senate race
DENVER — A Colorado Republican vacancy committee is scheduled Saturday to interview — and is expected to appoint — a Denver gay man in order to fill an empty position on the November ballot.
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News (USA)
Pressure builds on Democrats to include marriage equality in party platform
WASHINGTON — The Obama campaign released a statement Thursday reiterating the president’s support for marriage equality, but falling just short of endorsing a call for its inclusion in the official party platform.
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News (USA)
House OK’s amendment to Defense bill to prohibit gay unions on military bases
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would prohibit military chaplains from performing same-sex ceremonies and would prevent military installations from being used for such ceremonies.
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News (USA)
LGBT service members’ advocacy groups call on Boy Scouts to abandon anti-gay policy
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, an association of actively serving LGBT members of the armed forces, on Thursday joined the chorus of advocacy groups calling on the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to abandon its policy against gay scouts and gay and lesbian scout leaders.
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News (USA)
Judge: Colorado State Patrol harbors a homophobic culture
DENVER — A Colorado state Personnel Board judge this week said the Colorado State Patrol harbors a homophobic culture, and ordered the law enforcement agency to include sexual orientation among the topics covered in its diversity-training programs.
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Life
Florida Family Association: Lady Gaga is tricking kids into being gay
The one-man outrage outlet better known as the Florida Family Association is up in arms over a new partnership between Office Depot and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, including a $1 million donation.