Anti-gay

Britain's Tory led government has announced that it will reduce financial aid to nations that persecute their LGBTQ citizens. [ Read more → ]

Bullying and anti-gay violence are by far the worst legacy arising from the falsehoods spread by the Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA), according to a new intelligence report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that examines two of the most powerful and influential organizations in the American anti-gay lobby. [ Read more → ]

Let “freedom to live, love and be happy” be more than just a slogan in the passing of our times. Let it not be our epitaph, but our non-violent resistance to freedom being denied to us all. [ Read more → ]

The Southern Poverty Law Center on Friday issued a ground breaking intelligence report that examines two of the most powerful and influential organizations in the American anti-gay lobby -- the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) and the American Family Association (AFA), headquartered in Tupelo, Miss. -- calling them the "chief purveyors of lies about LGBT people." [ Read more → ]

Speaking at the the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, the vehemently anti-gay Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the American Family Association, warned of the "threat" of "the homosexual agenda," said the nation must choose "between homosexuality and liberty, because we cannot have both," and said gays are a threat to public health. [ Read more → ]

Police in the northern Mumbai suburb of Oshiwara staged a raid on a "gay" party at a beach house in the popular Versova Beach area early Sunday arresting 133 persons, including transgender Bollywood film star Bobby Darling on charges of "indecent behavior." [ Read more → ]

The Oregon Republican party has voted to the remove language from the official party platform that some members saw as needlessly hostile toward gays. [ Read more → ]

RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina House of Representatives passed today, 75-42, a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions, domestic partnerships and other relationship recognition for same-sex couples. The House took up the amendment after its rushed passage through the... [ Read more → ]

Though he didn’t ask for the privilege, Marcus Brandon has been the de facto face of the anti-LGBT amendment debate for many at the legislature and across the state. Colleagues are looking to him for his guidance and LGBT citizens, both from within and outside his district, see him as “their” voice in Raleigh. [ Read more → ]

Leaders in the North Carolina Senate have apparently attempted to sneak in a hearing of a proposed anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment when they open their special fall session on Monday. [ Read more → ]

Michael Brown is a preacher with the Coalition of Conscience. He cavorts with Lou Engle, an extremist linked to the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda. Brown’s game is to try inciting followers to possible violence against LGBT people, while innocently maintaining that he loves homosexuals and simply wants them to meet his militant and perverted version of God. [ Read more → ]

Mission America’s Linda Harvey dedicated her weekend broadcast to criticizing the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, one of her favorite targets, and said "there is no proof" that LGBT people exist. [ Read more → ]

Recent statements of Rick Perry, Governor of Texas and presidential candidate, emphasize the anti-gay elements that have permeated this GOP primary season. Perry’s views are largely out-of-step with those of mainstream Americans – including people of faith. [ Read more → ]

Linda Harvey -- founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Mission America, whose real mission is to spread hate and falsehoods about the LGBT community — says gays and lesbians should be banned from teaching, and any other job that involves children, for that matter. [ Read more → ]

Not to be out-bigoted by Iowa homophobe Bob Vander Plaats and his anti-gay outfit "The Family Leader," the National Organization for Marriage has prepared its own "Marriage Pledge" for the 2012 GOP Presidential hopefuls to sign. [ Read more → ]

What strikes me as blatant audacity by Armstrong Williams is the fact that he would actually have the nerve to criticize homosexuality seeing that he was sued in 1997 for sexual harassment by his male trainer, Stephen Gregory. [ Read more → ]

Shawn Akers, the Public Policy Analyst for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, on Friday said that California’s new LGBT-inclusive history law represents bullying of the worst kind. [ Read more → ]

Anti-Gay, Anti-Muslim bigot, Christianist radio host and Michele Bachmann BFF is really upset that Rachel Maddow quoted him directly and played audio of an anti-gay, anti-muslim diatribe he went on. So he’s suing her for $50 million (but it’s not about the money). [ Read more → ]

A Vermont inn violated the state's anti-discrimination law when it refused to host a wedding reception for a lesbian couple from New York City, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. [ Read more → ]

In a short video clip released Tuesday by independent watch-dog group Think Progress, the homophobic president of the anti-gay, conservative christian group "The Family Leader" is seen erupting in laughter at after being told a joke about "fags." [ Read more → ]