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Life
Facebook adds new gender option for users: ‘Fill in the blank’
Facebook users who don’t fit any of the 58 gender identity options offered by the social media giant are now being given a rather big 59th option: fill in the blank.
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Life
Study: Stem cell breakthrough opens door to biological children of same-sex couples
An international team of scientists have shown that it is possible to create human sperm and eggs from stem cells derived from adult skin, regardless of the donor’s gender.
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News (USA)
West Virginia House panel advances bill to nullify local LGBT protections
A West Virginia House committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would nullify local nondiscrimination ordinances that critics said amounted to “legislative gay bashing.”
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News (World)
Mexico’s quiet marriage equality revolution
Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future.
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Alabama religious groups support Roy Moore’s stand against same-sex marriage
Supporters who rallied around Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore during his 2003 Ten Commandments fight returned to Alabama Wednesday to praise his stand against same-sex marriage.
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Commentary
Why do bakeries have to sell wedding cakes for same-sex ceremonies?
Why do some bakeries have to sell gay wedding cakes, but they don’t have to sell cakes with homophobic slurs? And what’s REALLY at stake here? Unfurrow your confused brow with this Fireside Chat from Matt Baume.
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News (USA)
Texas lawmakers, conservative leaders celebrate 10 years of marriage inequality
Several Texas lawmakers joined conservative leaders at the state capitol in Tuesday for a controversial slice of symbolic wedding cake in a 10th anniversary celebration of the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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Life
Cop who objected to riding in gay pride says he was unfairly branded a ‘bigot’
A former Salt Lake City police officer who was put on leave and later resigned after he objected to riding in the motorcycle brigade at the front of last year’s gay pride parade is speaking out against what he believes was a violation of his religious liberties.
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News (USA)
Rabbi who presided over same‑sex wedding leads Texas House in prayer
The rabbi who defied Texas’ same-sex marriage ban and wed a lesbian couple last week led the morning prayer in the Republican-dominated Texas House on Wednesday, catching staunch supporters of the prohibition off-guard.
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News (USA)
Lawsuit settled over alleged bullying of gay students in Mississippi school district
The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced a settlement of its federal lawsuit alleging that gay students were routinely bullied in a south Mississippi school district.