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News (USA)
Why voting on rights is a lousy idea…
Maine, Washington, and Maryland are all closer than ever to marriage equality, but the Governor of New Jersey thinks that civil rights should be put to a popular vote — whether it’s marriage today, or school desegregation in the 1950s. This week’s Marriage News Watch report is here…
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News (World)
UN Secretary General urges African nations to respect gay rights
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, in an unusually outspoken declaration Sunday, told African leaders assembled at the African Union summit that they must respect gay rights, an issue that is controversial in many African states.
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Commentary
Cynthia Nixon did not choose to be gay
Cynthia Nixon recently told the New York Times that she chose to be gay. Her statement was clumsy, irresponsible, inaccurate, and lent itself to exploitation by anti-gay activists.
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News (USA)
Tennessee lawmaker booted from local restaurant over anti-gay remarks
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee State Sen. Stacey Campfield — the Knoxville lawmaker who is behind the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill making its way in the Tennessee state legislature — was ejected from Knoxville bistro on Sunday because of his anti-gay views.
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News (World)
Russian airline forces gay flight attendant to marry woman or lose job
MOSCOW — LGBT activists in Russia are planning a campaign to boycott the Russian airline Aeroflot following a report that a gay flight attendant was forced by the airline to enter into a heterosexual marriage or face losing his job.
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News (USA)
Housing Secretary: HUD will finalize protections for LGBT people
BALTIMORE — Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan officially announced on Saturday his department will make final “next week” a proposed rule to protect LGBT people against discrimination in federal housing programs.
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News (USA)
New bill in Congress aims to prohibit gay weddings on military bases
WASHINGTON — A Republican lawmaker has introduced new legislation aimed at prohibiting gay and lesbian service members from marrying on U.S. military bases, and would require new regulations related to chaplains and other military personnel.
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Commentary
First Mistress?
Will someone in the Republican Party please tell me how this scheming, cheating couple that made a mockery of family values is remotely conservative? They had a secretive, sleazy affair that they hid for years until they could no longer conceal it.
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Commentary
Often overlooked, Sisters are at the forefront of equality
Nuns have been on the cutting edge of social issues (it can be argued) for over a thousand years. What you may not know is this: they are also some of the fiercest advocates of social justice for LGBT persons.
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Commentary
Christie sees future, Santorum wears George Wallace drag
You can’t scare the public with the gay issue anymore since they no longer are afraid to have us as neighbors. In fact, most Americans want us as their neighbors and pollsters have discovered that 47 percent of strong conservative Republicans would vote for an LGBT person running for office.
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News (USA)
Washington state Senate committee advances marriage equality bill
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state took another step closer to becoming the seventh state to offer full marriage equality as a Senate panel on Thursday advanced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.
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Life
TN lawmaker claims it’s ‘virtually impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex’
A Tennessee state lawmaker on Thursday claimed that HIV originated in the gay community by an airline pilot who had sex with monkey, and that it was “virtually impossible” to contract the disease through heterosexual sex.
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News (USA)
White House to host LGBT conferences across the country
The White House announced on Friday it plans to host a series of LGBT conferences throughout the country in early 2012 so the public can “hear directly” from the administration on efforts “to ensure health, well-being, security, justice, and equality for LGBT Americans.”
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Commentary
Should Gays Leave The South?
To many of whom live in more progressive states like New York and California, it is incomprehensible that LGBT people would willingly subject themselves to the overt discrimination that exists in the states of the South…
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Life
Cynthia Nixon’s comments prove we still don’t know how to talk about sexual identity
The LGBT blogosphere has been wrestling with comments made by actress Cynthia Nixon to The New York Times that she chose to be a lesbian: “And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me.”
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Life
Wisconsin LGBT youth produce stylish new ‘It Gets Better’ music video
Enjoy this stylish new “It Gets Better” video from Madison, Wisc. resident Colton Boettcher and friends — one of the best “It Gets Better” videos to come along in a while.
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Life
Washington anti-gay pastor: Same-sex marriage will lead men to marry horses
During a televised debate in Washington state on Wednesday, Antioch Bible Church pastor Ken Hutcherson claimed that legalizing same-sex marriage in the state would lead to polygamy, bestiality, and pedophilia.
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News (USA)
Maine voters likely to reconsider marriage equality this year
AUGUSTA, Maine — Marriage equality is headed back to the ballot for a second time in Maine, as gay rights advocates on Thursday submitted petitions signed by 105,000 voters, far more than the 57,277 needed to force a referendum in November.
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Life
Wooden warns that gay men shove cell phones, baseball bats and animals up their anuses
Today, Patrick Wooden stood by his previous claims, going as far as to say that gay men regularly shove objects such as cellphones, baseball bats and animals up their anuses and that he personally knows a gay person who “literally died in diapers” because he “literally lost control of himself.”
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News (USA)
NOM promises to ‘reward’ anti-equality legislators after accusing gay activists of buying votes
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is doing exactly what it accused gay activists of doing: buying votes. In New Hampshire, the organization has pledged $250,000 to “reward” politicians who “stand up for restoring traditional marriage.”