Tuesday, July 20, 2010
A Mississippi school district has agreed to pay a recent high school graduate $35,000 in damages and adopt a policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, according to a statement released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Armed with chants and shouted prayers, more than 300 opponents and proponents of same-sex marriage faced off Sunday on the south lawn of the Rhode Island State House on Sunday.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
As we fight for equal rights, we should be careful not to become so engrossed in the issues that we forget where we came from, the place that shaped us into who we are and motivates us even now to defeat bigotry and hate.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Homophobic hate-monger Fred Phelps and his gang of Westboro Baptist Bigots has taken a break from picketing military funerals with its "God-hates-fags" message to picket the Lady Gaga concert in St. Louis on Saturday night.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Props to actress
Renee Zellweger, who showed her support for marriage equality this week by taking a break from her daily dose of caffeine at a Los Angeles-area Starbucks to sign a petition supporting same-sex marriage.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
The District of Columbia's highest court has rejected yet another challenge to D.C.'s same-sex marriage law, ruling Thursday that opponents cannot ask voters to overturn it. The D.C. Court of Appeals rejected an appeal brought by Maryland pastor, Bishop Harry Jackson.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Approximately 17,000 children are being raised by LGBT parents in binational families, and those children face the very real possibility of losing a parent if the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) passes without language including LGBT families.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, following a 15-hour debate that lasted into the early hours of Thursday morning.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
A California judge has denied a request by defense attorneys to delay the trial of a teen accused of first-degree murder and a hate crime in the 2008 shooting death of 15 year-old Lawrence King.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Prosecutors have dropped all charges against two openly gay service members who twice chained themselves to a White House fence to protest the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
This month, a jury there will begin hearing the case of Harold Scull and Clay Greene, an elderly couple who endured the worst nightmare imaginable at the hands of health care workers and county officials two years ago in the small town of Sebastopol.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Refusing to be ignored, GLAAD has teamed with the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), and is calling on ABC's "The View," to correct misleading statements about the spread of HIV among African Americans.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
The gay Georgia teen who who decided to take his boyfriend to high school prom earlier this year, and was subsequently kicked out of his parent's home, launched an outreach organization on Monday to help LGBTQ youth.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
The ruling in U.S. District Court in Boston on Thursday, in which Judge Joseph Tauro declared the "Defense of Marriage Act" as "unconstitutional," has left the Obama administration pondering its next move -- under the careful watch of gay rights advocates.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
If a sex scandal is going on in Washington, there is a 2 in 3 chance it will involve a Republican. And If it’s a gay scandal, it’s almost a sure bet that it involves a Republican.
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