Category: Newsmakers

Choi

Choi discharged from National Guard under ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Thursday, July 22, 2010
Lt. Dan Choi, an Iraq war veteran who has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell," the military ban on openly gay service members, has been discharged from the Army National Guard.

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Ted Olson said he fully intends to take the Prop 8 trial to the US Supreme Court

Remembering Ted Olson’s Newsweek op-ed about gay marriage

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional." -- Ted Olson, a staunch conservative and one of the attorneys challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8.

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Choi and Pietrangelo at the White House protest on March 18 Photo: John Aravosis of AmericaBlog

Gay service members subpoena Obama in defense of DADT protest

Saturday, July 3, 2010
Two openly gay U.S. Army National Guard soldiers who were arrested for handcuffing themselves to a White House fence, have subpoenaed President Obama to defend them in court, citing they were following orders to lobby him for gay rights.

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Mike Huckabee on gay marriage: ‘Ick’

Mike Huckabee on gay marriage: ‘Ick’

Monday, June 21, 2010
In a New Yorker magazine profile, , assessing his chances in the 2012 Presidential race, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee expounded upon his opposition to gay marriage with this well considered prose: "We can get into the ick factor..."

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Haggard

Ted Haggard, cured of gay ‘compulsions,’ to launch new inclusive church

Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Ted Haggard, the disgraced pastor who resigned from his ministry in 2006 amid an embarrassing gay sex scandal, was back in his home town Wednesday to announce he was starting a new church in Colorado Springs.

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‘Rent boy’ describes anti-gay Christian leader’s sexual massages, another escort comes forward

‘Rent boy’ describes anti-gay Christian leader’s sexual massages, another escort comes forward

Friday, May 7, 2010
The 20-year old "rent boy" that accompanied notoriously anti-gay Christian leader George Rekers on a Eurpoean vaction, told media outlets this week the he was contracted to provide his client with "sexual massages" in the [...]

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"Lucien" from Rentboy.com, aka BOYNEXTDOOR (Rentboy.com image via unzipped.net)

Prominent anti-gay Christian leader takes European vacation with ‘rent boy’

Tuesday, May 4, 2010
[caption id="attachment_7792" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Rekers"][/caption] A Christian leader and prominent neuro-psychiatrist who co-founded the notoriously anti-gay Family Research Council with evangelist James Dobson, took a ten-day European vacation with a callboy he met through RentBoy.com, [...]

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Kagan

Potential Supreme Court nominee target of gay ‘whisper’ campaign

Friday, April 16, 2010
[caption id="attachment_7679" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Kagan"][/caption] Leading gay rights group are accusing Republicans of trying to rile up their conservative base by launching a whisper campaign against potential Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan -- suggesting the [...]

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John McCain: Guy with iPhone

John McCain: Guy with iPhone

Saturday, March 27, 2010
Is Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) wooing the gay vote? Look who showed up on the website "Guys with iPhones" on Friday, a website that caters to mostly gay (and naked) men with nothing more than [...]

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Choi, Pietrangelo arrested at White House protest of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Choi, Pietrangelo arrested at White House protest of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Lt. Dan Choi was arrested Thursday after handcuffing himself to a White House fence to protest the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Choi, a gay rights activist [...]

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Will Phillips: ‘Lack of equality for some is lack of equality for all’

Will Phillips: ‘Lack of equality for some is lack of equality for all’

Monday, March 15, 2010
Catch Will Phillips accepting the award for Outstanding TV Journalism Segment at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York on Saturday. Phillips appeared in the award winning segment "Why Will Won't Pledge Allegiance" [...]

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Hayworth

Hayworth says gay marriage will lead to bestiality

Monday, March 15, 2010
Former Arizona congressman and U.S. Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth is afraid allowing same-sex marriages could lead to bestiality. In a radio interview in Florida, Hayworth, who is challenging Senator John McCain in the Arizona [...]

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Massa

Eric Massa rebuffs the gay question; calls ‘groping’ male staffers a ‘tickle fight’

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Former U.S. congressman, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) Tuesday night refused to answer a blunt question by CNN's Larry King: "are you gay?" Massa is accused of groping male staffers and the House ethics committee is [...]

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Lt. Dan Choi  (Photo credit: Bilerico.com)

Openly gay soldier back in uniform following discharge order under DADT

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Lt. Dan Choi, who was discharged from the military for revealing he is gay under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, is back in uniform. Last year, an Army National Guard committee had recommended that Choi [...]

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‘Out’ magazine reveals annual list of gays and allies who ‘made our year’

‘Out’ magazine reveals annual list of gays and allies who ‘made our year’

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Adam Lambert, Wanda Sykes and Cyndi Lauper are among the Out 100 "Class of 2009" - a group of 100 gay men, lesbians, transgender people and allies who "made our year" - in the magazine’s [...]

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