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News (USA)
SFPD becomes first law enforcement agency to produce ‘It Gets Better’ video
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Police Department has become the first police department in the county to produce an “It Gets Better” video, part of the nationwide campaign to end suicides among LGBT youth, and to bring awareness to bullying of of gay kids.
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Commentary
You mean same-sex families have children? Alert the Marines!
The entitlement and audacity of some who oppose LGBTQ equality never ceases to amaze me. Of all of the false hysterical claims they make, the one about children has to take the cake. “If marriage equality is accepted, children will be forced to learn about gays.”
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News (USA)
Atlanta police arrest 1 of 3 suspects in videotaped attack on gay man
ATLANTA — Police have arrested one of three suspects in the videotaped beating of a 20-year-old gay man who was attacked outside a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood on Feb. 4.
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Commentary
Student jumps to his death; school officials say bullying wasn’t a factor? Bullshit!
LA CRESCENTA, Calif. — During a busy lunch break on Friday, where hundreds of students milled about at Crescenta Valley High School, sophomore Drew Ferraro, 15, took a running start and leaped off a three-story classroom building into the courtyard below, ending his life.
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Life
Lesbian guardsman calls on Boehner to drop DOMA defense
WASHINGTON — A lesbian guardsman suffering from cancer called on U.S. House Speaker John Boehner this week to stop defending the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act in court.
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News (USA)
Maryland House committees hear same-sex marriage arguments
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Two committees of the Maryland House of Delegates on Friday began hearing arguments on two separate measures regarding gay marriage — one to legalize same-sex marriage, and another that would create an constitutional amendment to ban, same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Des Moines church, pastor under fire for ‘Gay is not Okay’ sign
DES MOINES, Iowa — A suburban South Des Moines, Iowa church is under fire after its Pastor Mike DeMastus posted the message “Gay is not okay” on the church’s marquee sign.
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News (USA)
Virginia Senate passes adoption bill that would allow disapproval of gays
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate voted 22-18 on Thursday to approve a bill that would allow private adoption and foster care agencies to deny placement of children based on religious or moral beliefs, including disapproval of homosexuality.
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News (USA)
Atlanta police say they’ve identified 2 attackers in video beating of gay man
ATLANTA — Atlanta Police Chief George Turner on Thursday said police have identified suspects in a videotaped attack on a gay man leaving after he left a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood.
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News (USA)
Appeals court rules against Georgia counselor who wouldn’t work with lesbian client
ATLANTA — It might pale in comparison to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision against Proposition 8, but the Atlanta-based Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled on another gay rights case this week.
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News (USA)
Maryland school official calls ‘ex-gay’ flyer ‘reprehensible and deplorable’
ROCKVILLE, Md. — The superintendent of Montgomery County schools in Rockville, Md., has labeled as “reprehensible and deplorable” flyers that were sent home with high school students recently, claiming that homosexuality is a choice that can be changed.
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Life
Howard Stern pledges to defend Ellen from the ‘fucking bigots’
NEW YORK — Radio personality Howard Stern this week angrily denounced anti-gay pronouncements and efforts by the right-wing conservative christian group “One Million Moms” to force retail giant JC Penny to remove Ellen DeGeneres as the company’s new spokesperson, and said he would defend Ellen from the “fucking bigots.”
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News (USA)
Fargo gay couple defies North Dakota law, applies for marriage license
FARGO, N.D. — It’s a first in North Dakota. In a follow-up to a story we first brought you last night, a same-sex couple applied for a marriage license seeking the same benefits as a husband and wife.
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News (USA)
‘Truth Wins Out’ slams Newt Gingrich for hypocrisy on marriage equality
WASHINGTON – Truth Wins Out — a non-profit organization that fights anti- LGBT religious extremism — placed a provocative full-page ad in the Capitol Hill publication Roll Call on Thursday admonishing Newt Gingrich for his “stunning hypocrisy” on the issue of marriage equality.
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News (USA)
Lambda Legal sues Iowa for erasing lesbian mother’s name from baby’s death certificate
Lambda Legal on Wednesday filed suit against the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) on behalf of a married lesbian couple from Iowa who are seeking an accurate death certificate for their stillborn baby, Brayden.
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Life
Ellen responds to ‘One Million Moms:’ ‘My haters are my motivators’
Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday publicly responded to the anti-gay group “One Million Moms,” which recently called on retailer JC Penney to fire her as their spokesperson because she is gay.
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Life
Santorum compares 9th Circuit to Soviet Union, calls court ‘intolerant’ for striking down Prop 8
During a town hall in McKinney, Texas on Wednesday, Rick Santorum lashed out at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for striking down Proposition 8, arguing that the judges displaced “intolerance” towards conservatives and labeled proponents of “traditional” marriage as “bigots” when they found the measure unconstitutional.
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News (USA)
State of Tennessee cuts access to grants for HIV testing, prevention
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center was forced to suspend its HIV testing program Wednesday after a representative from Planned Parenthood informed the center that it does not have the funds necessary to provide the HIV testing for the foreseeable future.
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News (USA)
Marriage equality bill introduced in Illinois General Assembly
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) on Wednesday introduced the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act in the General Assembly, a bill that would allow same-sex marriage in Illinois.
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News (USA)
Washington state House approves same-sex marriage bill
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to approve a same-sex marriage bill, putting the state on the cusp of becoming the seventh in the nation to offer full marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.