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Obama appoints first openly gay person to U.S. Military Academy board
President Barack Obama on Tuesday appointed the first openly gay person to the U.S. Military Academy’s Board of Visitors, the the board that advises the President on matters relating to West Point.
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NOM’s Brian Brown weeps over the passage of marriage equality in New York
From Rich Murray of the LGBT activist group Queer Rising comes this photo of National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown, reportedly weeping in the New York Senate galley following the passage of same-sex marriage on June 24.
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Trial gets underway of California teen charged with killing gay classmate
Opening arguments are scheduled to get underway Tuesday in the trial of Brandon McInerney, charged with the execution style killing of a gay classmate in 2008.
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India’s health minister calls homosexuality a ‘disease’ that is ‘spreading’
India’s health minister on Monday called homosexuality is a “disease” that is “spreading fast” throughout the country.
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David Pakman show: Pastor Damon Thompson’s anti-gay preaching, outing exposed
LGBTQ Nation contributor Ashton Elijah Pittman appeared on The David Pakman Show this weekend to recount his experiences in Damon Thompson’s anti-gay ministry “The Ramp.”
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Obama administration files brief calling DOMA ‘hostile’ toward gay couples
The Obama Administration on Friday filed a brief in federal court reiterating its position that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, calling it hostile toward gay and lesbian couples.
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New Zealand church protest over anti-gay discrimination beckons vandals
A church in Auckland, New Zealand, has come under attack from vandals after it put up a “gay-dar” billboard on Friday depicting a spectrum from gay to straight, with a cross acting as a gauge.
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Gay soldiers in Colorado attacked, beaten in possible hate crime
A group, including two gay soldiers from Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located near Colorado Springs, were attacked in a possible hate crime early Saturday morning.
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Boston Red Sox: ‘It’s OK to be your own unique being’
The Boston Red Sox on Friday joined the “It Gets Better Project” and “The Trevor Project” in producing a video to inspire hope for young people who may be struggling adversity and intolerance.
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30 years ago, New York Times first reports on disease that would become AIDS pandemic
On this day 30 years ago — July 3, 1981 — under the headline “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals,” The New York Times reported: