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Broad coalition launched to repeal federal ‘Defense of Marriage Act’

Broad coalition launched to repeal federal ‘Defense of Marriage Act’

Friday, February 3, 2012
WASHINGTON – A broad coalition of more than 50 civil rights, labor, progressive, faith, student, health, legal, women’s, and LGBT organizations on Thursday announced support of the Respect for Marriage [...]
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Colorado gay rights group donates to Republican lawmakers who voted for civil unions

Colorado gay rights group donates to Republican lawmakers who voted for civil unions

Saturday, February 4, 2012
One Colorado, the group leading the lobbying effort for civil unions here, has repeatedly pledged to support any lawmaker — Republican or Democrat — who supports relationship recognition legislation. This week, campaign finance reports show the group has made good on its promise.
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Virginia legislature allows adoption agencies to discriminate against gays

Virginia legislature allows adoption agencies to discriminate against gays

Saturday, February 4, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. -- Lawmakers from both houses of Virginia's legislature passed a measure Friday that codifies into law regulations adopted by the state's Board of Social Services this past December, which allows private adoption agencies to deny placements based on factors including gender, age, religion disability, sexual orientation and family status.
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Santorum: Gays don’t deserve ‘privilege’ of marriage because gay unions don’t ‘benefit society’

Santorum: Gays don’t deserve ‘privilege’ of marriage because gay unions don’t ‘benefit society’

Saturday, February 4, 2012
Rick Santorum told a gay man in Fulton, Missouri Friday afternoon that he didn’t deserve the “privilege” of marriage because his same-sex relationship does not “benefit” society in the same way that opposite-sex marriage does.
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Scotland likely to legalize same-sex marriage ‘by the end of 2013′

Scotland likely to legalize same-sex marriage ‘by the end of 2013′

Wednesday, February 1, 2012
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Scotland is likely to have full marriage equality by the end of 2013 at the latest, Tim Hopkins, Director of the Equality Network, told LGBTQ Nation at a reception in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday evening.
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Anti-gay pastor, NOM ally goes off the deep end again about ‘gay sex’

Anti-gay pastor, NOM ally goes off the deep end again about ‘gay sex’

Monday, January 30, 2012
Raleigh N.C. "diaper pastor" Patrick Wooden is not only refusing to take back his comments that gay men have so much anal sex that they require surgery and diapers, and that they use gerbils, baseball bats, and cell phones as sexual instruments, but he seems to be reveling in his notoriety at the expense of looking like a damn fool.
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Facing deportation to anti-gay Uganda, Joseph Bukombe is hopeful about the future

Facing deportation to anti-gay Uganda, Joseph Bukombe is hopeful about the future

Friday, February 3, 2012
“I’ve always had a dream of owning my own hotel back home in Uganda and I pray that, maybe as situations get better where gay people can live freely, [that could be a possibility]. I would love to open a restaurant back home and hope people back home would come,” said Joseph Bukombe.
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