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Activists give Maggie Gallagher bigotry award; promises a pie, à la Anita Bryant
At a Congressional hearing on “Defending Marriage” on Friday, LGBT activist group GetEQUAL caught up with Maggie Gallagher, the anti-gay marriage board chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, and presented her with the “First Annual Anita Bryant Award for Unbridled and Unparalleled Bigotry.”
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News (USA)
Democrats come out swinging during House hearing on ‘defending marriage’
Democrats came out swinging on Friday during a House subcommittee hearing on the Department of Justice announcement that it would curtail its defense of the federal ban on recognition of same-sex marriages.
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ENDA and gay immigration rights bills reintroduced in U.S. Congress
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was re-introduced in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, and on Thursday a bill to help bi-national LGBT couples was also re-intorduced. This brings the total 15 the number of pro-LGBT bills introduced to the House and Senate in the 112th Congress.
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Virginia Attorney General advises against allowing gay couple adoptions
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has advised the State Board of Social Services it does not have the authority to change regulations that would permit gay couples to adopt.
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Illinois Senate committee kills anti-gay adoption measure
The Illinois Senate has voted down a controversial measure that would have allowed religious and faith-based groups deny same-sex couples from adopting or fostering children.
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Delaware passes same-sex civil unions bill; Governor expected to sign into law
Delaware’s House of Representatives on Thursday evening passed a same-sex civil unions bill by a vote of 26-15. The bill was previously approved in the state Senate just one week ago.
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Lakers’ Kobe Bryant apologizes for gay slur, says he will appeal NBA fine
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant issued an apology on Wednesday after being fined $100,000 by the National Basketball Association for calling a referee a gay slur. But not everyone thinks Bryant’s apology is enough, and now the NBA star said he will appeal the fine.
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Complaint alleges LGBT immigrants abused while in U.S. custody
The Heartland Alliance National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) on Wednesday filed 13 complaints alleging human rights abuses against LGBT immigrants recently and currently held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers.
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Hawaii Senate approves transgender workplace protections bill
The Hawaii state Senate on Tuesday voted to extend employment protections to transgender people.
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ACLU warns Virginia school district to stop blocking pro-LGBT rights websites
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia on Monday sent a warning to Prince William County Schools in suburban Washington D.C., advising the school district to stop censoring websites that advocate LGBT rights.
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Former GOP Sen. Alan Simpson: ‘We’ve got homophobes in our party’
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” on Monday, former Senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), railed against social conservatives in the Republican party, admonishing male legislators for voting on abortion issues, and “homophobes” like Rick Santorum who say “cruel, cruel things” about gays and lesbians:
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News (USA)
Maryland Senate kills gender identity bill, sends measure back to committee
The Maryland state Senate on Monday voted to send the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Act back to the Judicial Proceedings Committee during the bill’s second reading, effectively killing the bill in this year’s legislative session.
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Poll: Support for marriage equality in New York reaches record high
A new poll indicates support for marriage equality in New York has reached 58 percent, the highest in the state’s history.
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City council candidate’s yard signs defaced with anti-gay slurs
A candidate for city council in Miami Shores, Fla., this weekend discovered several campaign yard signs had been defaced with anti-gay epithets.
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Commentary
Matt Baume’s ‘This Week in Prop 8’ — Boehner’s blank check to anti-gay lawyers
Why did John Boehner sign up for a protracted legal fight over anti-gay laws without first finding out what it was going to cost taxpayers? Hope is on the way for gay couples facing homelessness due to discriminatory Medicaid policies. Civil unions advance in Delaware but marriage is on the rocks in Rhode Island. And will we see Prop 8 back on the ballot in 2012?
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News (USA)
Cleveland lawmaker wants to extend healthcare to gay partners of city employees
A Cleveland city councilman has introduced legislation that would extend healthcare benefits to domestic partners of city employees.
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Gay marriage foe: Homosexuality a ‘public health risk’ akin to ‘secondhand smoke’
Iowa’s social conservative groups are working to overturn the state’s marriage equality law, and that includes former gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa Family Leader, who has called homosexuality “a public health risk.”
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United Kingdom to allow non-sexually active gay men to donate blood
British health officials said Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first time, provided they are not sexually active.
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Commentary
Review: ‘Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims’
Stephen Sprinkle’s book, “Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memories of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims,” and the Unfinished Lives Project as a whole, remind us that we must not only tell our young people that “It gets better,” but we must commit ourselves to the hard work of building a world that is better for all people.
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Navy halts discharge of suspected gay sailor targeted for ‘unprofessional conduct’
The U.S. Navy has halted discharge proceedings against a naval officer who was found asleep in his bed next to a male colleague, according to Servicemembers United, a gay and lesbian service members’ advocacy group.