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The National Organization for Marriage has began a new project which it calls Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance. This project will spotlight folks who are the supposed victims of imaginary gay intolerance: [ Read more → ]

On September 23, 2010, Asher Brown returned home from school while his parents were at work. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in Houston. [ Read more → ]

Audience members at Thursday nights GOP presidential debate booed a gay soldier who asked if the Republican candidates would reinstate the now repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned openly gay service members. [ Read more → ]

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Thursday announced that that John Eastman, a Constitutional law scholar, will be replacing Maggie Gallagher as its Chairman of the Board. [ Read more → ]

Legislation was introduced on Thursday in both chambers of Congress that would amend existing federal law to protect LGBT people in the housing and credit markets. The legislation, which was introduced by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in the House and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in... [ Read more → ]

In a sharply critical letter to the President, Catholic Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan said that “recent actions" taken by the Administration "escalate the threat to marriage," and urged Obama to discriminate against gay and lesbian Americans by supporting the "Defense Of Marriage Act." [ Read more → ]

There was a time when faculty members in schools across America bracing for the annual after summer break of their students worried about seemingly inconsequential issues. Now it seems, according to a high school teacher in the western New York township of Williamsville, preventing adolescent death by suicide due to extreme bullying seems to be the prevalent challenge. [ Read more → ]

Following is the statement by President Barack Obama, marking the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the policy which prohibited gay and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military. Today, the discriminatory law known as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is finally and formally repealed.... [ Read more → ]

Utilizing the specialized computer video game Foldit that was developed by researchers from the University of Washington in 2008, online computer gamers have figured out how to decipher an enzyme critical to the early development of AIDS that had stumped scientists for nearly ten years. [ Read more → ]

The United States Armed Forces on Tuesday officially -- and for the first time in its history -- welcomes openly gay and lesbian service members into its ranks. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the ban on openly gay service members, has been repealed. [ Read more → ]

Presidential long shot Michele Bachmann on Friday again avoided commenting on anti-gay bullying, tried to joke her way out answering Jay Leno's question of reparative therapy, and spoke at a gathering of Republicans while protestors staged a flash mob, dancing to Madonna's "Like A Prayer." [ Read more → ]

After almost 70 years since receiving an "undesirable" discharge because he is gay, Melvin Dwork, a World War II Navy veteran has had his discharged finally changed to "honorable," reported the Associated Press. [ Read more → ]

Anti-Gay activist Pete LaBarbera, President of the one-man anti-gay operation "Americans For Truth About Homosexuality" (AFTAH), who earned himself a place on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups, is incensed that LGBTQ advocacy group AllOut.org is demanding PayPal sever its relationship with what it calls an anti-gay hate group. [ Read more → ]

Bullying of LGBT youth is making up a growing number of discrimination complaints received by the Obama administration, according to Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [ Read more → ]

The two ranking Republicans on U.S. House Armed Services Committee have asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to delay the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" scheduled for next Tuesday, Sept. 20, claiming that certain regulations regarding military benefits for same sex couples have not been revised. [ Read more → ]

A legal skirmish in the Prop 8 case sets the stage for a big victory down the line. Meanwhile, A-list celebs come together to tell the story of the Prop 8 trial. Marriage debate is slated for Monday morning in North Carolina, and Minnesota's newest anti-gay activist comes with some skeletons in his closet. [ Read more → ]

“It had such an impact because the loss was about death and relationships,” said Jennifer Pizer, senior counsel for Lambda Legal, in a 2006 interview at the time of the 5th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. “The grief and loss was the same between heterosexual and same-sex couples, and a perception of this seemed to come through to much of the public." [ Read more → ]

A federal appeals court in Boston on Wednesday denied a request by attorneys for the National Organization for Marriage to hold a rehearing on the court's decision last month against the NOM. [ Read more → ]

With the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" scheduled to take effect on Sept. 20, the U.S. military is expecting many of the service members discharged because of their sexual orientation to seek reenlistment. [ Read more → ]

A California lawmaker who participated in the GOP-led efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to derail the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," has introduced a draft bill that would require the Defense Department to "ensure that a member of the Armed Forces ... is not pressured to approve of another person’s sexual conduct..." [ Read more → ]