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Commentary
This is why Chick-fil-A sucks…
While contributing to organizations that align with your beliefs is indeed the right of any person or corporation, it is also the right of citizens to research the work of the organizations you contribute to and make their shopping choices accordingly. Let’s take a look at how you are supporting anit-gay bigotry around the globe when you buy some waffle fries (or anything else at Chick-fil-A)…
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News (USA)
All branches of military granted permission to march in uniform at San Diego Pride Parade
SAN DIEGO — Any service member of the Marine Corps, Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force can march proudly in uniform in the military contingent at San Diego Pride on Saturday.
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Commentary
The Boy Scouts of America – How does one forgive Stupid?
The Boy Scouts of America are a privately owned organization. It’s obvious who owns them – and it’s obvious that their Bibles all preach discrimination and homophobia. What a wonderful example of fine-Christian-Living this is, and how sad for the gay kids who already face hostility and violence every day in their own country.
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News (World)
Russian embassy warns children in UK program may be placed with ‘families of homosexuals’
LONDON — The Russian embassy in London has issued a warning to parents who send their children to summer schools in the United Kingdom, saying alleging that their children may be placed in “inappropriate housing conditions,” including with “families of homosexuals.”
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News (USA)
Cancer-stricken soldier fights for her life, family’s equality
Freedom to Marry and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) on Wednesday released a new online video featuring Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) Charlie Morgan and her wife, Karen, spotlighting the inequalities forced upon gay and lesbian service members by the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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Life
‘It Gets Better’ producers turn lenses to LGBT politics
Dan Savage and the producing team behind the “It Gets Better” documentary specials for MTV and Logo have announced a new project that will examine openly LGBT political candidates and how they prepare to run for office.
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News (USA)
Advocacy groups seek to raise $3.5 million for Baldwin’s U.S. Senate bid
A trio of advocacy groups has launched an independent expenditure campaign with a goal of raising $3.5 million to help Rep. Tammy Baldwin in her bid to become the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate.
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News (USA)
Eagle Scout camp counselor told ‘pack your bags’ after revealing he is gay
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — A 19-year-old Eagle Scout has been terminated from his summer employment as a summer camp counselor at a Missouri-based Boy Scouts summer camp after revealing that he is gay.
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News (USA)
U.S. Navy: Uniformed sailors can march in San Diego pride parade
SAN DIEGO — Sailors based in San Diego most definitely will be allowed to march in uniform with the military contingent at San Diego Pride on Saturday, a Navy spokesman told San Diego Gay & Lesbian News Wednesday afternoon.
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Commentary
Boy Scouts’ policy captive to anti-gay religious groups
I’m not sure why anyone is surprised that the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed the group’s bigoted ban on out gay members and leaders. After all, this is a group that is guided by the Southern Baptist Convention, The Roman Catholic Church, and the Mormon Church. Until the influence of these conservative religious groups wane, a new policy is doubtful, if not wishful thinking.
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News (USA)
Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush to attend International AIDS Conference
WASHINGTON — The White House announced Tuesday that senior members of the Obama Administration will participate in the 19th annual International AIDS Conference this week, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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Life
Study: Children with gay parents denied equal protections
Discriminatory parenting laws in more than 30 states means it is likely that children being raised in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families will be legal strangers to at least one of their parents, according to a new report released Tuesday.
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News (USA)
Anti-gay Chick-fil-A: ‘Gulity as charged’ in support of ‘traditional marriage’
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A — embroiled in a recent controversy surrounding the millions of dollars it donated to anti-gay organizations — has three words for gay rights advocates: “Guilty as charged.”
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Life
Fischer: Gay biological parents should be denied custody, only allowed supervised visits
Bryan Fischer, discussing the study produced by professor Mark Regnerus purporting to show that children of same-sex parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents and the news that the University of Texas would be conducting an investigation into his study, sees the latter as proof that “the homosexual lobby is vicious, they are venomous, [and] they are filled with hatred.”
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News (USA)
Boy Scouts conclude: Anti-gay policy ‘is absolutely the best policy’
Calling it “absolutely the best policy,” the Boy Scouts of American on Tuesday said it plans to keep in place its controversial policy banning gay scouts and scout leaders, following a confidential two-year review.
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Life
70’s sitcom star Jimmie Walker: I oppose marriage equality ‘on moral grounds’
Jimmie “J.J.” Walker, best known as a former stand-up comedian who made famous the catchphrase “dyn-o-mite!” on the 1970’s era sitcom “Good Times,” said he is against marriage equality “on moral grounds.”
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News (USA)
‘Stop SB 48’ coalition admits failure in bid to overturn California FAIR Education Act
SACRAMENTO – Anti-gay groups on Monday night said they have failed to gather enough signatures to force a November referendum to nix the FAIR Education Act (SB 48), California’s law that requires public schools to integrate age-appropriate and factual information about historical roles of LGBT people, people with disabilities and people of color into existing social science instruction.
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News (USA)
‘Hate group’ leader preaches against anti-discrimination law in Missouri
SPRINGFIELD, Mo — Scott Lively, a noted anti-LGBT extremist and the head of the Massachusetts-based Abiding Truth Ministries — a group listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group — told an audience of 70 people on Friday night that a culture war is currently being waged between those fighting for sexual anarchy and those fighting for family values.
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News (USA)
FDA approves first drug for reducing the risk of sexually acquired HIV
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Truvada, the first drug approved to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals who are at high risk of HIV infection, or who may engage in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners.
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News (USA)
Police release new sketch of suspect in shooting of lesbian couple
PORTLAND, Texas — Texas Rangers and the Portland police department have released a new sketch of the suspected shooter in the June 22 attack that claimed one young woman’s life and left her partner struggling to recover in a Texas neurological rehabilitation center.