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News (USA)
Anti-gay hate groups protest SPLC for calling them anti-gay hate groups
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — About a dozen African American pastors joined anti-gay extremists on Tuesday in condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for using its “hate group” label to describe faith-based organizations that demonize the LGBT community, characterizing it as part of an orchestrated liberal plot.
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News (USA)
Indiana gay youth group first in nation to get specialty auto license plates
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indiana has become the first state in the nation to offer specialty automobile license plates promoting awareness of gay youth groups.
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Life
Anti-gay Bryan Fischer on anti-gay candidates, lesbians, sex, natural marriage, and more
Bryan Fischer, the openly bigoted Director of Issue Analysis for the anti-gay American Family Association, and host of Focal Point — who has previously called gays “nazis” and the “#1 perpetrators of hate crimes in America” — appeared Monday on The David Packman Show to discuss, among other topics, whether any Republican candidates are anti-gay enough for him.
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Life
Bernice King’s gay-inclusive speech at MLK rally surprises LGBT participants
ATLANTA — Bernice King took the stage today at Atlanta’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. rally and included gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people among the various groups she said need to come together to fulfill her father’s legacy.
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News (USA)
Huntsman bows out of presidential race, endorses Romney
GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr., announced on Monday he was bringing to an end his bid for the White House, marking an end to the candidacy of one of the most pro-gay contenders in the Republican field.
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Gay teen who committed New Year’s Day suicide a victim of anti-gay bullying
GRANITE BAY, Calif. — Another gay teen, the apparent victim of anti-gay bullying, has been lost to suicide. In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, Jeffrey Fehr, 18, hanged himself at his family’s home in Granite Bay, Calif.
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News (USA)
San Diego LGBT, AIDS activist Mike Tidmus dies at age 60
SAN DIEGO – Well-known AIDS and LGBT activist Mike Tidmus of San Diego died Sunday. He was 60. Tidmus’ death was reported on his Facebook page by his brother.
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News (World)
Kuwait: Report highlights police brutality against transgender individuals
Kuwaiti police have been torturing and sexually abusing transgender women continually since 2007, when a discriminatory law was passed which arbitrarily criminalizes “imitating the opposite sex,” Human Rights Watch said in a report released Sunday.
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Commentary
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Equality is our greatest height to achieve
Equality is a cause America has been pursuing for years.
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News (USA)
Anti-gay, evangelical leaders endorse Rick Santorum
The anti-gay Family Research Council and evangelical leaders have endorsed Republican candidate Rick Santorum for president amid observations that the social conservatives are unhappy with the idea of frontrunner Mitt Romney’s nomination.
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Commentary
Against all logic: What LGBT’s and allies do now
I have always believed that once you recognize a wrong you become an accessory to injustice if you continue to live in a way that accommodates that wrong … Yet, many of us — gay, transgender and allies — are choosing silence when our voices and actions could be a part of a movement forward.
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Commentary
Say, Can you see the American empire?
The promise, the vision, the dream of America cannot survive under the conservative and Republican efforts to make the future resemble what they think the past was, and neither can the rest of the human race. We are a global community now, even if we do have diverse cultural values, and we will all survive or suffer together.
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Life
‘Work It’ didn’t work — ABC cancels sitcom after only two episodes
“Work It” just didn’t work. ABC has cancelled the series “Work It” after only two episodes. The series debuted on January 3, 2012 to low ratings, and, according to Entertainment Weekly, dropped another 20 percent this week.
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Commentary
Two major benchmarks in LGBT history will change the playing field forever
If you sneezed last week, you might have missed them. Two major changes in the fight for LGBT equality took place — and they literally will change the playing field forever.
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News (World)
LGBT people are ‘diseased,’ says Iranian Human Rights official
The Secretary-General of the Iranian High Council for Human Rights has described homosexuality as a western “disease,” and said that same-sex marriage was “immoral.”
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Commentary
Anti-gay Pope Benedict XVI’s bigoted and bizarre speech
Why are we even listening to the pronouncements of a “moral leader” who presides over a church that has spent billions of dollars to settle child molestation cases? The last thing hardworking, taxpaying, law abiding LGBT families need is to be scolded by the enablers of the child sexual abuse scandals.
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Life
Study: Teens raised by lesbian couples do not differ from those raised by heterosexuals
AMSTERDAM — The quality of life of 17-year-olds reared in lesbian-parent families did not differ from that of a matched group of adolescents who grew up in heterosexual-parent families, according to a new study published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
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News (USA)
Colorado Governor: The time has come for same-sex civil unions
DENVER — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday told lawmakers the time has come to allow same-sex couples to form civil unions here. Hickenlooper, addressing a joint session of the Colorado General Assembly, said in his State of the State address Colorado believes in equal rights.
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News (USA)
NJ’s largest newspaper calls for constitutional amendment in favor of gay marriage
NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey Star-Ledger — the state’s largest newspaper — on Thursday called for an amendment to the New Jersey state constitution that would legalize same-sex marriage in the Garden State.
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News (World)
Report: Man arrested in Saudi Arabia for using Facebook to meet other men
As the British Prime Minister David Cameron visits Saudi Arabia on Friday, activists report plight of man arrested by the religious police who may face corporal punishment. Activists are concerned for the safety of a 30-year-old man arrested by the religious police in Saudi Arabia for using Facebook to date other men.