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News (USA)
Omaha city council approves workplace non-discrimination ordinance
OMAHA, Neb. — The Omaha city council on Tuesday approved a controversial non-discrimination ordinance that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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News (USA)
Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill delayed again; Governor says it’s unnecessary
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill — a measure that would limit all sexually related instruction to “natural human reproduction science” in kindergarten through eighth grade — was again delayed on Tuesday by its sponsor.
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News (USA)
Pennsylvania House committee abruptly yanks anti-gay marriage bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The House State Government Committee on Tuesday abruptly delayed its vote on a measure that would establish an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution, redefining marriage as “the legal union of only one man and one woman.”
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News (USA)
Catholic Church suspends Maryland priest who denied communion to lesbian mourner
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — A Catholic priest who walked out on a funeral service last month because he was bothered by the attendance of deceased woman’s openly lesbian daughter, has been placed on administrative leave by the Washington archdiocese.
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News (USA)
Pennsylvania House committee to vote on anti-gay marriage amendment
HARRISBURG, Penn. — A Pennsylvania state House committee is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on a bill that would “define” marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
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News (USA)
Yearbook staff shake-up over photo of lesbian students holding hands
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Two high school yearbook staff members said they were fired, and two others quit in protest after their faculty adviser instructed them to remove the photo of a lesbian couple from the yearbook.
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News (USA)
Reid to force vote on gay judicial nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday filed cloture on 17 federal judicial nominees — including an openly gay appointee — that have been barred from obtaining confirmation votes on the Senate floor.
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News (USA)
Ohio Attorney General rejects petition to repeal state’s ban on gay marriage
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine on Friday rejected a petition for seeking a ballot measure to amend the Ohio constitution and repeal the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (World)
Islamic militia groups target dozens of gays, emo youth in Iraq killings
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Extreme Islamic militia groups operating in Baghdad, Basra, Al-Sadr City and in the Al-Habibea region of Iraq have killed as many as 56, and possibly as high as one hundred, young gay and lesbian Iraqis, according to officials in the Iraqi Interior Ministry and international LGBT activists.
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News (USA)
Boehner may intervene soon against gay troops’ DOMA lawsuit
WASHINGTON — A Republican-led House panel may intervene as soon as next week against litigation that aims to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act on the grounds that it unfairly prohibits gay troops from obtaining benefits for their same-sex spouses.
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Life
True LGBT Story: Ronnie Kroell, ‘I’m From Chicago, Ill.’
Ronnie Kroell, 29, a fashion model best known for appearing on the first season of the Bravo reality series Make Me a Supermodel, tells his coming out story, and how his 78-year-old grandmother came to the rescue when his mother was less than supportive after finding out he’s gay.
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News (USA)
Prosecution rests; Defense calls character witnesses in Rutgers webcam spying trial
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Defense attorneys for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s intimate encounter with another man, called seven character witnesses who testified Friday that they never heard Ravi say anything derogatory about gays or homosexuality in general.
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Commentary
The Moral Predators
I have found that nothing melts resistance to homosexuality faster than just showing that you are as human as anyone else. Strangely enough, effeminacy, sensitivity, “camp” or “affectedness,” as my grandmother called it, are not indicative of homosexual men…
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Commentary
NARTH becomes main source for anti-gay ‘junk science’
NARTH has emerged as the preeminent source of what many regard as “junk science” for the religious right — psychology that underpins the anti-gay movement’s fervent opposition to equal rights and stigmatizes LGBT people as mentally sick.
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Commentary
The Pope chooses war — I choose self-defense
With the rhetoric being used by the Pope to his bishops, I have every reason to believe that these are not words of someone struggling to understand the reality of LGBT persons, these are the orders of attack given by a supreme commander to his highest officials.
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Life
True LGBT story: Daniel Harder, ‘I’m from Bowie, Md.’
Daniel Harder grew up in a loving, supportive Cosby-like family, and although he know at an early age that he was gay, he spent his youth and teen years not comfortable or accepting of himself. This is his thru coming out story…
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Life
Pat Robertson implores woman not to attend sister’s same-sex wedding
Today on the 700 Club, a woman asked Pat Robertson whether it was appropriate for her to serve as a bridesmaid or even attend her lesbian sister’s wedding to another woman, and if that breaks up the union between them, well… “tough luck.”
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News (USA)
Poll: North Carolina voters oppose constitutional ban on gay marriage
ELON, N.C. — A new Elon University Poll released Friday shows that a majority of North Carolinians oppose Amendment One, a constitutional amendment on the May 8, 2012, North Carolina primary ballot that bans relationship recognitions and threatens protections for the state’s unmarried couples.
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News (USA)
South Bend city council to reconsider anti-discrimination ordinance
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A proposal to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation is back before the South Bend, Ind. city council.
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News (USA)
Chely Wright’s LIKEME organization to open LGBT center in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The LIKEME Organization, founded by out country music artist Chely Wright, will host a grand opening on Saturday for its Lighthouse LGBT community center in Kansas City, it what the group hopes will be the first of several LGBT community centers across the Midwest.