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Rise Against’s new video — Make It Stop — pays homage to teen suicide victims
In this new video — “Make It Stop (September’s Children)” — the band Rise Against pays homage to LGBT suicide victims in this just released second single from their album, Endgame.
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News (USA)
NY Senate Republicans still undecided on allowing vote on marriage equality bill
With the legislative clock ticking down to its final hours, Republicans in control of the State Senate still have not decided whether to allow a vote on same-sex marriage, The New York Times is reporting.
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Commentary
The Fall of the ‘Ex-Gay’ Myth
The “ex-gay” industry is gradually losing its appeal, and It’s time for the discredited “ex-gay” myth to simply go away and be rightfully viewed as an experiment that was tried and failed.
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Life
Linda Harvey calls ‘It Gets Better Project’ evil, Dan Savage ‘vicious and vulgar’
Linda Harvey, founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Mission America — whose sole purpose is to denounce homosexuals — has called the “It Gets Better Project” “wrong,” “evil” and “dark,” and it’s creator Dan Savage “a radical and vicious, vicious, vulgar, profane, anti-Christian.”
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News (USA)
Wisconsin judge rules domestic partner registry is constitutional
A judge in Wisconsin on Monday ruled that domestic partnerships are not substantially similar to marriages, and that such partnerships do not violate the state’s 2006 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Top enlisted Marine on the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ — ‘Get over it’
The Command Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sgt. Maj. Micheal Barrett, the top non-commissioned officer, addressing Marines regarding the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:”
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News (USA)
NJ lawmaker: Voting against marriage equality ‘biggest mistake of my career’
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D) on Monday apologized in a speech on the Senate floor for casting a vote against marriage equality in January 2010.
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CBS employees share adversity, coming out stories in ‘It Gets Better’ video
CBS on Monday released their official “It Gets Better” video, featuring CBS employees sharing their personal and poignant stories of adversity and coming out.
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News (USA)
Police arrest transient for hanging noose on door to Equality California offices
Police have arrested a local transient on suspicion of a hate crime for hanging a noose in the doorway of the offices of LGBT advocacy group Equality California last year.
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Life
Chicago Cubs ‘celebrates you for exactly who you are, gay or straight’
The Chicago Cubs on Monday released their “It Gets Better” video, becoming the second professional sports team to participate in the campaign aimed at providing encouragement for LGBT youth struggling with adversity and intolerance.
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News (USA)
New York marriage equality coalition plans rally at state capitol in Albany
A New York state Senate vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage has been pushed back at least another day as the debate continues over religious exemptions, while hundreds of demonstrators on Monday rallied for and against the measure at the state capitol in Albany.
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David Tyree would trade his Super Bowl win to ensure gays could not marry
Last week, former New York Giants receiver David Tyree said that allowing same-sex couples to wed could led to “anarchy.” Now, Tyree is ratcheting up the rhetoric even further.
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News (USA)
All eyes on NY state Senate as lawmakers consider marriage equality vote
The clock is ticking on New York’s legislative session — scheduled to end today — and gay rights advocates are hoping Senate lawmakers will consider a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the Empire state.
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News (USA)
Appeals court upholds ruling that ‘gay panic’ was not sufficient defense
A Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision rejecting use of the so-called “gay panic defense” in a case where the defendant attacked and severely beat another man for what he testified was unwanted sexual advances.
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Commentary
Bad week for the anti-gay industry, NY vote comes down to the wire
We’re down to the last possible second for marriage in New York, there was a major victory in California, new challenges to the Defense of Marriage act, bad news in France, and good news in Lichtenstein.
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News (World)
Hong Kong hires conversion therapy expert as social welfare trainer
Hong Kong has hired prominent local psychiatrist Hong Kwai-wah, who specializes in “treating unwanted homosexuality,” as a trainer for its social welfare staff.
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Commentary
New York Times: Michael Glatze, an ex‑gay exposé
After spending a decade fighting for equality and fighting on behalf of gay youth, Michael Glatze came out in an article on World Net Daily as a “straight” man, born again in the name of Jesus.
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News (USA)
Church holds sidewalk prayer service to protest cancellation of gay pride mass
Parishioners of a Boston church on Sunday gathered on the sidewalk for a prayer service in protest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston’s decision to cancel a gay pride Mass themed “All are Welcome.”
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News (World)
Liechtenstein voters approve civil partnerships for gay couples
Voters in Liechtenstein have overwhelmingly backed a new law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to formally register their partnership.
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Life
Cee Lo Green’s homophobic tweet: ‘I shouldn’t have to apologize’
Cee Lo Green, who on Friday took to Twitter and called a reviewer “gay” for writing a negative review of his June 16 performance in Minneapolis, said he said shouldn’t “have to apologize for speaking my mind or defending my performance.”