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Superintendent approves GSA, overriding Principal who called kids ‘faggots’ when young
BAY SHORE, N.Y. — Valley Stream High School students will soon have their own Gay/Straight Alliance, despite the fact that their principal has rejected the effort, said bullying wasn’t a big deal, and admitted to calling people “faggots” herself — but didn’t mean anything by it.
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Federal judge rules against ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ over health care benefits
More and more challenges to the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) have been hitting the courts and getting shafted by federal judges: U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland ruled Wednesday that state employees can sue the federal government over their same-sex partners’ exclusion from long-term health care benefits.
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U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal by opponents of DC’s gay marriage law
The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear the appeal of a group of clergy in Washington, D.C., who want to put the city’s new marriage equality law on the ballot. The denial of review appears to be the end of the line now for opponents of equal marriage rights in the nation’s capital.
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HRC to share Harvey Milk’s Castro storefront with The Trevor Project
Following a national outcry over the HRC’s announcement that they were turning the space that once housed the camera store owned by Harvey Milk into a gift store, the Human Rights Campaign announced they are donating part of the space to the Trevor Project.
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Bullied gay teen in Minnesota commits suicide
We’ve lost another beautiful life to bullying. Lance Lundsten, 18, an openly gay student at Jefferson High School, took his life over the weekend. Friends say that Lance suffered extreme bullying and harassment for years.
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Life
Out, gay performers Chris Colfer, Jane Lynch win Golden Globe awards
Out gay actors Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch of FOX’s hit TV musical ‘Glee,’ won the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday for Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a TV series.
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News (USA)
The state of Marriage Equality in 2011
2011 will likely see a number of battles state by state across the country. Three states plus the District of Columbia are facing the prospect of losing marriage equality, an additional seven states could start the process of amending their state constitutions to ban marriage equality, five could gain marriage equality.
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Utah state senator seeks to repeal school anti-bullying laws
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah State Senator Chris Buttars is proposing a new resolution designed to repeal the recently passed anti-bullying and non-discrimination policies created by the Salt Lake School Board. Buttars calls the policies a “program to bring down America.”
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News (USA)
DOJ says ‘Defense of Marriage Act’ justified to prevent ‘inequities’
The U.S. Department of Justice filed its brief Thursday with a federal appeals court that will hear the government’s appeal of two district court decisions that found the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
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News (USA)
Momentum growing in Maryland legislature to legalize gay marriage
Maryland is poised to become the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage as majority leaders in both chambers of the state legislature plan to introduce gay marriage legislation this session.
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News (USA)
NOM spending $100K to run anti-gay marriage ads in Rhode Island
The National Organization for Marriage has targeted Rhode Island with a new $100,000 advertising campaign, aimed at derailing legislative efforts to legalize gay marriage.
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News (USA)
Police investigating homicide of transgender person in Minneapolis
Minneapolis police are investigating the homicide of a 45-year-old transgender person was found stabbed to death Tuesday in her apartment. The medical examiner has identified the victim as Christopher P. Bates, whom friends and neighbors knew as Chrissy.
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San Francisco’s Castro district home to nation’s first LGBT history museum
The nation’s first ever museum devoted to LGBT history, opened in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood today, showcasing archives that reflect nearly a century of gay culture and LGBT life.
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News (USA)
NC state rep: Stop funding HIV treatment for people who live ‘perverted lifestyles’
A North Carolina state representative has said that HIV treatment should not be funded by the taxpayer for people who live “perverted lifestyles.”
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News (USA)
Gay marriage foes not giving up on New Hampshire repeal, even if not on GOP’s agenda
CONCORD, N.H. — Gay marriage opponents said Thursday they are confident the New Hampshire state House will vote on legislation to repeal the law that sanctions gay marriage, even though Republican leaders have said it is not on their list of priorities this year.
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Commentary
The Bombast and the Body Count
My intent is not to say that most Republicans are bigots, nor are I implying that the names I’ve mentioned are directly responsible for causing deaths. However, they have soured the political climate in America by consistently catering to bigots, pandering to religious extremists, serving as apologists for militia kooks, and entertaining the wild fantasies of sick conspiracy theorists.
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Commentary
Why I find Sarah Palin’s response to Arizona shootings’ aftermath ‘reprehensible’
It is not often that I find it necessary to set aside my press credentials and lend an opinion to public discourse on any given subject that I report on. However, that said, I need to comment not as an American which I am not, nor as a Canadian which I am, but rather as a human being and responsible adult living in a divisive and polarized society here in the United States.
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News (USA)
‘Prophet’ Cindy Jacobs: Gay marriage, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal kills birds
Over the weekend, Cindy Jacobs, a self-proclaimed Prophet who founded the Texas-based Generals International ministry with her husband in 1985, said she suspects the reason behind the recent rash of bird deaths might be due to the fact that America is violating God’s prohibition on homosexuality with support for gay marriage and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
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Portuguese model kills companion to cure victim of ‘homosexual demons’
NEW YORK — A Portuguese male model has been charged with second-degree murder in the gruesome attack on prominent Portuguese journalist while the two men were visiting in New York City.
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Gunman in AZ shooting held without bail; Giffords’ condition critical; gay intern hailed
The suspect in the attempted assassination of a U. S. Congresswoman, which left her and 14 others gravely injured and six dead, appeared in federal court on Monday. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a member of the House LGBT Equality Caucus, remains in critical condition after suffering a single gunshot wound to the head.