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LGBT advocacy groups urge Orbitz to drop Fox News over anti-gay rhetoric
Media Matters on Monday kicked off its “DropFox” campaign by urging Orbitz, an online travel site, to pull its ads from the anti-LGBT Fox News network.
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WI governor wants to strip domestic partner benefits from gay couples
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has asked a judge to allow his state to stop defending a new domestic partner registry that grants gay couples hospital visitation and other rights, because he said it violates the state constitution.
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Clinton issues statement supporting International Day Against Homophobia
Today, May 17, is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the seventh annual event to bring attention to LGBT issues in more than 50 countries.
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Former Villanova basketball star Will Sheridan: ‘I’m gay’
Former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan on Monday revealed publicly that he is gay.
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Don Lemon talks race, childhood abuse, and coming out as gay
In his first television interviews since coming out publicly on Sunday night, CNN anchor Don Lemon talks about race, being abused as a child, and his sexuality.
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McDonald’s attackers face hate crime charges in beating of transgender female
A grand jury has indicted two female suspects on hate crime charges in the attack on a transgender woman at a Baltimore area McDonald’s last month.
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NOM, New York state Senator lead anti-gay marriage rally
An estimated 2,000 participants rallied in the Bronx on Sunday to call for the preservation of traditional marriage.
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NY marriage equality campaign gets cash infusion from traditional GOP donors
The campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York has been getting a cash infusion from some unexpected sources — conservative donors who traditionally support Republicans candidates and causes.
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White House has ‘serious objections’ to delay of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
The White House on Saturday expressed ”serious objections” to an amendment approved by the House Armed Services Committee on May 11 that would require all four military service chiefs to certify that implementation of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal would not impact combat readiness.
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NY Archbishop: Same-sex marriage is social engineering, perilous to us all
Timothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, on Friday blogged that tampering with the definition of marriage — by legalizing same-sex marriage — is an “Orwellian social engineering” and perilous to us all.