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Ill. chapter of AFL-CIO votes to support same-sex marriage
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The executive board of the Illinois chapter of the AFL-CIO is supporting gay marriage. The board voted Thursday in Chicago to urge the Illinois House to adopt the “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act.” The adopted resolution states the AFL-CIO joins faith communities, civil rights organizations, President Barack Obama and its own […]
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Chairman of Barilla pasta: ‘Gays can go eat another brand’
Gay rights advocates are calling for a boycott of Barilla, the world’s leading pasta maker, after it’s chairman said he would never feature a gay couple in his advertisements.
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Gay student disciplined after reporting roommate threatened him with a knife
WARRENSBURG, Mo. — A student at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Mo., said he was given a letter of discipline after reporting he was the victim of anti-gay harassment.
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The Gay Men Project: Capturing glimpses into ordinary, extraordinary lives
The Gay Men Project is an online undertaking by photographer Kevin Truong to capture self-identified gay men in their environment to give viewers a sense of who they are and the life they lead. Subtle and unshowy, the photographs provide glimpses into gay men’s ordinary and extraordinary lives.
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Judge refuses to delay lawsuit over Illinois’ same-sex marriage ban
CHICAGO — A judge in Cook County, Ill., on Wednesday denied a request to delay action on a lawsuit seeking to overturn Illinois’ ban on same-sex marriage.
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Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George: Same-sex marriage ‘violates natural law’
With Illinois state lawmakers poised to consider a marriage equality bill in the lame duck session that begins Wednesday, Catholic bishops and other advocates of “traditional” are taking a new approach: same-sex marriage simply violates natural law.
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Donors supporting marriage equality in 2012 dwarfed those who opposed It
The number of contributors who gave in support of marriage for gay and lesbian couples was thirteen times greater – about 133,000 compared to an estimated 10,500 – than those giving financial resources to oppose marriage equality, according to an analysis by the Human Rights Campaign of donors to the four states with marriage equality on the ballot this year.
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Today is ‘National Coming Out Day’
Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day — the internationally observed day to celebrate coming out and to raise awareness of the LGBT community and LGBT civil rights movement.
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17-year-old Missouri teen pleads guilty to hate crime against lesbian
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A 17-year-old Missouri teen has pleaded guilty to a hate crime charge in the July 24 beating of a local lesbian resident.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Equality is our greatest height to achieve
Equality is a cause America has been pursuing for years.