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Hawaii football coach suspended, fined over gay slur
University of Hawai’i head football coach Greg McMackin was suspended without pay for 30 days and will take a voluntary 7 percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary after he used a gay slur during a Western Athletic Conference press conference yesterday in Salt Lake City, school officials announced. McMackin, who will lose approximately […]
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Video: Gay couple’s confrontation with LDS guards
Newly released film footage shows four LDS Church security guards separating and handcuffing a gay couple after the two men kissed on the Main Street Plaza. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained the film through an open-records request with Salt Lake City. The church provided the film to the city as part of a prosecutor’s review […]
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Kid Rock: Twitter is “gay”
“It’s gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I’m going to tell them, ‘Twitter this [bleep], mother[bleep]er.’
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IGLCC reports BT Group, IBM, Dow Chemical among most gay-friendly corporations
The International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (IGLCC) unveiled the results of the first edition of the International Business Equality Index today, announcing BT Group, followed by IBM and The Dow Chemical Company, as the most gay-friendly corporations world-wide. The Index is a measurement of the performance of multinational corporations in relation to Diversity […]
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NY Senator takes action against ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Monday cemented her stand on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, announcing a hearing to repeal what she called “an unfair, outdated measure that violates the civil rights of some of our bravest,” and prompting the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold a hearing this fall. Gillibrand’s […]
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GLAAD Rates HBO Most Gay-Friendly
HBO tops the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, a study that evaluates the quantity, quality and diversity of images of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people on television. Among the five broadcast and 10 of the highest-rated cable networks, once again none earned the top “excellent” ranking, with five, […]
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Kathy Griffin joins NOH8 Campaign
The NOH8 Campaign is a photo project and silent protest launched by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley.
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Humpday – Strange Bedfellows (Video)
In the shadow of Bruno comes “Humpday,” an interesting little film that has garnered critical acclaim at Sundance and Cannes.
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Author E. Lynn Harris dead at 54
E. Lynn Harris, the author who introduced millions of readers to the “invisible life” of black gay men, died Thursday while on a business trip in Los Angeles. Harris, 54, was a literary pioneer who wrote a series of novels that exposed readers to characters rarely depicted in literature: black, affluent gay men who were […]
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Iowa wedding announcement stirs controversy for Indiana newspaper
The local newspaper in Elkhart, Indiana landed in the center of the same-sex marriage debate this week when it published an Iowa couple’s marriage announcement. Michael Berkey and James Chapin, both of Hanlontown, IA were featured in the newpaper’s July 12 engagement section because Berkey is a graduate of the local high school and his […]
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‘A Hug and Kiss’ lands gay couple in handcuffs at Mormon plaza
A gay couple say they were detained by LDS security guards on a plaza owned by the Mormon church and later cited by police, claiming it stemmed from a kiss on the cheek. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said that the men became argumentative and refused to leave after being asked to […]
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White House directs Census to include same-sex unions in 2010 count
The White House said Thursday it was seeking ways to include same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships in 2010 Census data. The administration has directed the Census Bureau to determine changes needed in tabulation software to allow for same-sex marriage data to be released early in 2011 with other detailed demographic information from the decennial count. […]
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KC Newspapers Reject Same-Sex Wedding Announcement
An Independence, MO same-sex couple went to Iowa to get married, but two newspapers refused to publish the wedding announcement. After 10 years together, Mike and Chuck Hewitt finally got to exchange wedding vows. Iowa is currently the only state in the Midwest to allow same-sex marriages. But when they attempted to announce their nuptuals […]
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NO H8 Campaign releases public service announcement
The NO H8 Campaign, a silent photographic protest in response to the passage of California’s Proposition 8 in November 2008, amending the State constitution to ban same-sex marriage, has released it’s first official public service announcement. The campaign, launched by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley (pictured), began with portraits of everyday Californians […]
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Princeton Prof launches anti-Gay Marriage ‘American Priciples Project’
Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and conservative Catholic legal scholar and activist, has launched a new political organization, the American Principles Project. The group’s website says it will hold Republicans accountable to conservative positions, including opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage among its top priorities. The APP cites the definition of marriage […]