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News (USA)
Boehner appeals DOMA cases to U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) attorneys on Friday formally appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court an appeals court decision determining the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, according to a Democratic aide.
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Life
AFA’s Bryan Fischer: Gay marriage leads to sex with animals
On Wednesday’s program, American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer dedicated a segment to discussing a 2009 newspaper article about bestiality advocates in order to bolster his case against marriage equality, saying that “once you allow sex between two people of the same-sex, there is no place to stop” and it will inevitably lead to the legalization of polygamy, pedophilia, and bestiality.
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News (World)
Uganda judge: Government should ‘infiltrate’ gay groups to prevent recruiting of children
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan judge this week said that the country’s security and interior ministries should “infiltrate” gay rights groups to ascertain if children are being “recruited into homosexuality.”
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News (USA)
Stabbing outside D.C. theater listed as anti-gay hate crime
District of Columbia police on Tuesday night charged a woman and two men with assault with a dangerous weapon for allegedly stabbing a 16-year-old man during an argument outside the Howard Theater at 6th and T Streets, N.W. Police listed the incident as an anti-gay hate crime.
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Commentary
Is high school the new Stonewall?
In the fight for equality, high school has become the new Stonewall. Perhaps the easiest question to answer is, “Why?” Why has the First Amendment debate moved from college campuses and into high schools? It’s a simple lesson in math. When you multiply an increase in out teens by the visibility of gay heroes then divide by more rules, you get First Amendment questions that make you wonder if you’re smarter than a 12th grader…
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Commentary
Oreo ‘pride’ — It’s not the cookie they hate…
This whole boycotting Oreo cookies isn’t really about the cookie – You know that, right? This is all about hate and ignorance and for the most part it’s all tied up with the “God Hates Gays” bow … Don’t blame Nabisco or my beloved Oreo for your hate-filled ignorance.
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News (USA)
LGBT advocacy groups applaud Supreme Court ruling upholding Affordable Care Act
In a dramatic move with significant political and economic implications, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday (June 28) voted to uphold President Obama’s landmark health care reform law.
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News (USA)
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit by anti-gay former Georgia grad student
ATLANTA — A federal judge has ruled that a Georgia university did not violate the First Amendment rights of a graduate student when it ordered her to attend “diversity sensitivity training” because her anti-gay beliefs were “incompatible with the standards of her desired profession.”
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Life
Remembering Stonewall: Why LGBT pride can now be celebrated openly
NEW YORK — In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, uniformed and plain-clothed New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular Greenwich Village gay bar on Christopher Street.
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Commentary
Why I’m going to a Texas vigil to mourn a lesbian couple
I’m going to Texas on Friday to mourn the loss of a beautiful young girl at a vigil in the park where she and her girlfriend were shot. But I’m also hoping this tragedy wakes people up to the nightmares on the horizon that are sure to come if our foes don’t halt their rancid and reactionary rhetoric.
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News (USA)
White House to unveil report on international LGBT efforts
The Obama administration is preparing to unveil a report summarizing the progress U.S. agencies have made in combating LGBT human rights abuses overseas, according to the White House.
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Life
Actor Chuck Norris suggests White House pushing for pro-gay Boy Scouts
DALLAS — In a sharply worded commentary — penned for the conservative “gun shooting sports news” site, Ammoland.com — actor Chuck Norris suggested that President Barack Obama is working to create “a pro-gay Boy Scouts of America.”
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News (USA)
Colorado civil union supporters launch efforts to unseat anti-gay lawmakers
In an effort to elect a pro-equality legislature, supporters of the Colorado Civil Union Act have taken the first steps to replicate a successful strategy executed during the 2010 New York state Senate elections that paved the way to marriage equality legislation becoming law in the Empire State.
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News (USA)
Colorado civil union supporter defeated in state Senate primary
DENVER — A Colorado Republican state senator who supported the Colorado Civil Union Act has lost her primary battle. State Rep. Randy Baumgardner (R-Cowdrey, Co.), beat state Sen. Jean White of Hayden by a 20-point spread.
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News (USA)
Openly gay candidate wins New York congressional primary
Openly gay attorney Sean Patrick Maloney has advanced to the November general election in New York’s 18th Congressional District after winning his Democratic primary tonight.
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News (USA)
Maryland same-sex marriage opponents report $88,000 in debt
Opponents of Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on Monday reported that their campaign to spur a referendum on the issue is more than $88,000 in debt.
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News (USA)
Oreo ‘pride cookie’ post on Facebook sparks emotional responses
NORTHFIELD, Ill. — KRAFT Foods’ LGBT-friendly post on Facebook for its immensely popular Oreo cookies has sparked emotional responses on the cookie’s fan page.
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News (USA)
Pentagon holds first ever pride event honoring gay, lesbian service members
ARLINGTON, Va. — In a Pentagon auditorium Tuesday that normally seats 350 persons, a standing room only crowd celebrated as the U.S. Department of Defense marked “LGBT Pride Month” for the first time in its history.
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News (World)
Murder suspect arrested in brutal slaying of LGBT volunteer in South Africa
A suspect has been arrested in the brutal murder of Thapelo Makuthle in Kuruman, near Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.
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Life
Linda Harvey: Honoring LGBT Pride at the Pentagon is a ‘Sad time for the United States’
Today, the Pentagon will hold its first ever event honoring LGBT pride month and Linda Harvey is predictably outraged, calling it ” yet another low level of ungodliness” reached by the Obama administration and a “sad, sad time for the United States”: