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Roman Catholic Church of Scotland declares ‘war on gay marriage’
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland and the most senior Catholic in the United Kingdom has declared “war on gay marriage” pledging to spend another £100,000 in its campaign against equal marriage rights for same-sex couples in Scotland.
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Barney Frank weds partner, becomes first U.S. Congressman to enter into same-sex marriage
BOSTON — Openly gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) on Saturday wed his partner of five years, James Ready, becoming the first sitting member of the U.S. Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage.
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Life
Google launches ‘Legalize Love’ campaign in support of gay marriage worldwide
LONDON — Internet giant Google announced Saturday the launch of a global campaign aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage around the world.
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News (USA)
Study: Gay dads may pose less risk for HIV
SAN FRANCISCO — A new study conducted by San Francisco State University human sexuality researchers focusing on the lifestyle changes that gay male parents experience suggests that as gay male couples become fathers their risk for contracting HIV is reduced.
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News (USA)
Dallas gay couple, denied marriage license, arrested after staging sit-in
DALLAS — A gay couple was arrested on Thursday when they launched a planned protest of Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage after being denied a marriage license.
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News (USA)
New York same-sex marriage law upheld in state appeals court
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A New York state appeals court on Friday ruled against a challenge to the state’s marriage equality law, and ruled that the statute was legally enacted.
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Commentary
Thoughts on Anderson Cooper and the ‘private lives’ of LGBT people
Anderson Cooper’s decision to come out sets a great example for LGBT youth and brings hope to those who still suffer with internalized homophobia, bullying, or ostracism. And high-profile, successful LGBTs like Anderson Cooper undermine one of the most malicious lies made by the anti-gay movement: that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people are broken, unhappy, and empty simply because of who they are and who they love.
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Life
R&B artist Frank Ocean comes out on Tumblr: ‘I feel like a free man’
Frank Ocean — the rising R&B artist behind the hit singles”Novacane” and “Swim Good,” revealed on his Tumblr blog Wednesday that he is gay.
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Majority of gay youth in Britain say they’re victims of homophobic bullying
LONDON — New research by the University of Cambridge for British gay rights charity Stonewall UK’s School Report 2012 found that 55 percent of lesbian, gay and bisexual pupils in Britain’s secondary schools experience homophobic bullying.
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News (USA)
Police release sketch of suspect in shooting of lesbian couple in Texas
PORTLAND, Texas — Investigators in Portland, Texas have released a sketch of a suspect in the shooting of a lesbian teen couple at a public park in suburban of Corpus Christi last month.
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News (USA)
Virginia fitness club revises ‘family’ policy after gay parent files lawsuit
ROANOKE, Va. — A Virginia fitness club has revised its membership policy after a Roanoke, Va., man filed suit against the club for revoking his family membership when it realized his family included his partner and son.
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News (USA)
Yes she did! Brad Pitt’s mother did write anti-gay ‘Letter to the Editor’
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Actor and human rights advocate Brad Pitt’s mother has penned an anti-gay editorial that appeared in The Springfield News-Leader on Tuesday.
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Commentary
John Roberts and the future of marriage for gay and lesbian couples
Chief Justice John Roberts’s surprise vote in the Affordable Care Act case is a signal that no one can definitively count out his vote — or that of any other justice — as the legal battle for marriage equality goes forward. The Court has not decided a major case involving government discrimination against LGBT people since Roberts took over as Chief Justice. The Roberts Court cases that have touched on LGBT issues offer few clues to how the Chief Justice might approach such a case…
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Commentary
The Cannibals’ Feast for Independence Day
In those thousand years the evolution of government, self-government of the people, by the people and for the people, may well have become something far different than originally envisioned in 1776, or in the intervening period up to our time. Whatever transpires in this millennium, July 4th will always remain a day of historical change for the human race that began with a declaration of Independence from tyranny…
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Commentary
An LGBT Declaration of Independence
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an oppressed minority to declare for themselves the full rights and responsibilities that the laws of reason, nature, and natures God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to demand as such…
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News (USA)
Justice Department asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear two DOMA challenges
In a surprise move, the Obama Administration on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear two challenges relating to the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman.
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News (USA)
Police say lesbian student faked threatening, anti-gay notes
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — A lesbian student at Central Connecticut State University, who claimed she was harassed by an anonymous person who left threatening, anti-gay notes under her door, has been charged with writing the notes herself.
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Commentary
Tragedy strikes Texas: My trip to a vigil for a lesbian couple
Violet Andrews Park is the type of serene refuge that people visit to get over the death of a loved one, not the type of place where people are brutally murdered. Surely, a violent encounter was the last thing on the minds of Olgin and Chapa when they went to the park on June 22 to waste time before a movie. What happened next is still a mystery. But we do know that the couple was led into a mud-soaked, grassy trail where both girls were shot in the head with a high caliber pistol.
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News (USA)
FDA approves first over-the-counter home use HIV test kit
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of HIV antibodies. HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
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News (USA)
General Mills gets outpouring of support for marriage equality stance
WASHINGTON – A petition in support of Minnesota-based Fortune 500 Company General Mills by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has received nearly five times more signatures than an anti-equality petition launched by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).