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News (USA)
Lesbian attorney elected first gay president of Arizona Bar Association
Lesbian attorney Amelia Craig Cramer, chief deputy attorney for Pima County, which includes Tucson, became president of the 16,900-member State Bar of Arizona on Friday, June 22, making her the first openly gay head of the organization.
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News (World)
Gad Beck, last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 89
BERLIN — Gad Beck, a pioneering gay rights activist and educator in a severely anti-homosexual, repressive post-World War II German culture, has died, just six days before his 89th birthday. Beck was believed to be the last known gay Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.
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News (USA)
Teenage lesbian couple found shot in Texas park, one fatally wounded
PORTLAND, Texas — A teen-aged lesbian couple has been found shot in a public park in this small Texas resort community just northeast of Corpus Christi.
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News (USA)
MSP Archbishop John Nienstedt crusades against gay marriage
Minnesota’s “City Pages” takes a closer look at Minneapolis-St. Paul Archbishop John Nienstedt and his crusade against gay marriage — but increasingly, his flock of Minnesota Catholics isn’t following.
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News (USA)
Gay marriage foe switches sides, another DOMA suit, positive polling
One of the star witness who testified in favor of Prop 8 has switched sides, joining the majority of Americans who support the freedom to marry. Also this week, there’s yet another DOMA lawsuit, more encouraging surveys in battleground states, and new ads Minnesota.
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Anti-gay hazing, attempted rape of sailor leads to firing of top Navy officer
NORFOLK, Va. — A sailor targeted for harassment aboard the nuclear submarine USS Florida became the center of a homophobic hazing case that led to the firing of the vessel’s top enlisted officer.
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News (USA)
D.C. mayor signs anti-bullying bill
WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray signed a bill on Friday that will require city agencies that work directly with young people to implement an anti-bullying policy.
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News (USA)
Commemorating LGBT Pride 2012
June is LGBT Pride Month, and all month long, in cities around the world — from Washington to Seattle, from Honolulu to Aukland, to “Gay Days” at Disney — LGBTQ Nation readers are celebrating their pride!
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Life
Days of Our Lives’ Chandler Massey on Emmy win: ‘It Was Crazy!’
That Chandler Massey would win the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series seems likes a no-brainer to those of us who have closely followed his work this past year.
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News (World)
Protesters attack Greek pride event, hurling eggs, plastic bottles
ATHENS — Dozens of protesters on Saturday interrupted a Pride event in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, hurling eggs and plastic bottles of water at event participants.
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Commentary
Shooting horses in the human race handicap
There are so many groups throughout the world of people who just happily, or nearly so, manage to survive day to day. They might be religious, have no belief except in any crises of their existence, or no desire to believe beyond their own personal intimacy with the deity of their choice. Then there are those who want their religious choice to be everyone’s. Even more threatening and annoying are those who think they must be the deliverer of salvation to the rest of humanity…
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Commentary
Let’s throw the rice and move on…
At one time, Americans forbid miscegenation and criminalized interracial marriage. For some, it was said to be contrary to God’s laws; it was even likened to bestiality, called repugnant, depraved and declared anathema. We got over it, we grew up. We did what was right. It is one of the many great absurdities of our time that some American religious leaders presume to possess the right to dictate the parameters of marriage…
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News (World)
Salvation Army Australia official says LGBT people must die
Just hours after the LGBT advocacy group “Truth Wins Out” published an interview in which a senior Salvation Army official in Australia said the belief that gays must die is part of the Salvation Army’s “Christian doctrine,” the organization on Saturday issued an apology to the LGBT community.
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News (USA)
Largest Latino civil rights group approves same-sex marriage resolution
Board members of the country’s largest Latino civil rights organization earlier this month unanimously passed a resolution in support of marriage rights for same-sex couples.
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Life
Remembering Alan Turing, prolific computer scientist, ‘convicted homosexual’
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician and computer scientist who was highly influential in the creating what would become the modern computer, and is most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes during World War II.
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News (USA)
Reception hall manager bans lesbian couple, refuses to ‘celebrate that sin’
MOLINE, Ill. — A same-sex couple from Davenport, Iowa this week said they were told they could not rent a reception hall in neighboring Moline, Ill., because the couple is gay.
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Married gay couple seeking name change encouraged to lie on application
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A legally married gay couple is awaiting a judge’s ruling on their request to legally hyphenate their last names, and said they were encouraged by a court employee to list something other than marriage as the reason for changing their names.
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News (USA)
Denver sheriff’s department plans new policies for transgender inmates
The Denver Sheriff Department in January will roll out new policies regarding transgender inmates, The GLBT Community Center of Colorado announced Friday. The new 360-degree policies will include new practices from transport to booking and housing.
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Not everyone is pleased with General Motors’ support for Pride
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — LGBT employees and allies at the General Motors truck assembly plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., celebrated this year’s Pride with a rainbow flag raised at the factory on Sunday.
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Life
Mary Cheney, daughter of former VP, marries longtime partner in D.C.
WASHINGTON — Mary Cheney, daughter of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, married longtime partner Heather Poe in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the family confirmed.