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News (USA)
Federal appeals panel agrees with lower court: DOMA unconstitutional
BOSTON — A federal appeals court in Boston on Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutionally denies federal benefits to married same-sex couples, a groundbreaking ruling that all but guarantees the issue will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Life
‘Ellen,’ ‘Rosie’ show producer dies while vacationing in France
LONDON — Jim Paratore, who launched the TMZ website and produced “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Rosie O’Donnell Show,” died Tuesday after suffering a massive heart-attack while vacationing in France, the BBC has reported. He was 58.
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News (USA)
Church on lockdown, pastor flees after toddler sings ‘Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven’
GREENSBURG, Ind. — An Indiana church is on lock down and its pastor has left for an undisclosed location after a video recording surfaced this week of a toddler singing an anti-gay song at the church altar, that included the lyrics, “Ain’t no homo going to make it to heaven.”
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Life
Zach Wahls delivers 275,000 signatures to Boy Scouts calling for end to anti-gay policies
Outspoken advocate, author and Eagle Scout, Zach Wahls, today delivered more than 275,000 signatures to the Boy Scouts of America, calling on the group to end its long history of anti-gay discrimination and reinstate Ohio mom Jennifer Tyrrell, who was forcibly removed as den leader of her son’s troop because she’s gay.
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News (USA)
ExxonMobil shareholders reject protections for LGBT employees
DALLAS, TX -– ExxonMobil shareholders on Wednesday voted against a resolution that would have prohibited workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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News (USA)
California state Senate approves bill to ban ‘ex-gay’ therapy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California State Senate today approved a bill designed to limit the ability of mental health providers in California to engage in dangerous sexual orientation change efforts (sometimes referred to as “ex-gay therapy,” “conversion therapy” or “reparative therapy”).
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Life
Two more pastors, two different states, advocate for the killing of gays
Two more “men of God” — Curtis Knapp of the New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kansas, and Dennis Leatherman, pastor at the Mountain Lake Baptist Church in Oakland, Md. — are on record as advocating for the death of gays and lesbians.
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News (USA)
Lambda Legal, ACLU announce lawsuits seeking marriage equality in Illinois
Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois on Wednesday filed two separate lawsuits representing 25 same-sex couples and their families seeking the freedom to marry in Illinois.
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‘Church vs. State’ showdown sparked by dispute over gay-straight alliances
TORONTO — A dispute over the use of the term “gay-straight alliance” in Ontario schools has prompted the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto on Monday to accuse Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s administration of making “religious freedom . . . a second-class right.”
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News (USA)
Anti-gay groups collect signatures to force vote on discrimination ordinance
LINCOLN, Neb. — Opponents of a new city ordinance that would prohibit prohibit discrimination against LGBT people in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations, said Tuesday they had collected enough signatures of registered voters to force the city council to either repeal the measure or place it on the November ballot for a city-wide referendum.
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News (USA)
Gay marriage foes say they have signatures to put issue on Maryland ballot
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Opponents of same-sex marriage in Maryland announced Tuesday they have collected more than twice the number of signatures needed to put the state’s new marriage equality law to a public vote on November’s ballot.
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News (USA)
Ravi to begin serving 30-day jail sentence, apologizes for his actions
Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student convicted earlier this year of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate who later committed suicide, will turn himself in Thursday to begin serving a 30-day prison term.
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Life
Matt Barber: ‘President Obama has called Jesus a Liar’
It has come as no surprise that the Religious Right has been up in arms over President Obama’s recent announcement in support of marriage equality, but what seems to have really upset them was his citation of the Bible’s “do unto others” teaching in explaining his views.
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News (USA)
Obama’s support of marriage equality proving to have a major impact
President Obama’s leadership on marriage equality is proving to have a major impact, form national organizations and local polling. Anti-equality forces set a record, but it’s probably not one they wanted. And DOMA is ruled unconstitutional in a fifth federal case.
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News (USA)
Lambda Legal, ACLU to announce lawsuit seeking marriage equality in Illinois
Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois will announce two separate lawsuits Wednesday morning seeking same-sex marriage rights for Illinois gay and lesbian couples.
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News (USA)
FRC president Tony Perkins ‘accepts’ invitation to dinner with LGBT family
WASHINGTON — Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council, has accepted — somewhat — an invitation to dinner in the home of a married, same-sex couple and their family.
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Life
‘In the Life’ documentary to celebrate LGBT Latino pride, culture
NEW YORK — Award-winning news magazine “In the Life” will celebrate Latin pride in June with “Orgullo Latino,” a look at the complexity of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Latinos in the United States.
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Life
Cynthia Nixon marries longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni
Actress Cynthia Nixon (“Sex and the City”) and longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni married Sunday in New York City. Nixon, 46, and Marinoni, an education activist, 45, have been together since 2004, and had been engaged for three years.
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News (USA)
Minnesota pastor could lose church over support for marriage equality
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota pastor is at risk of losing his church after most of his congregation abandoned him because he voiced his support for same-sex marriage.
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Commentary
Memorial Day includes gay and lesbian Americans, while the law does not
While all Americans have a right to serve openly in the military, without regard to sexual orientation, thanks to the repeal of the ‘Don’t ask don’t tell’ law, LGBT servicemembers still suffer rampant discrimination with regard to marriage equality, green card sponsorship of binational partners or spouses and a host of other missing benefits caused by lack of equality under the civil law of the U.S.A.