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Sen. Santorum, put your money where your mouth is: Debate Zach Wahls!
For several months now, we’ve been watching the deranged clown car that is the slate of Republican Presidential candidates. We’ve watched as we assumed Mitt Romney would sweep every debate and caucus out there. And we watched as everyone who wasn’t Mitt Romney has risen to the top and then fallen off again. We watched […]
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Arrested for a New Year’s Kiss
Tonight, after you finish the countdown, commemorate the moment with a tribute to what happened December 31, 1966. At the stroke of midnight, same-sex couples at the Black Cat, a small gay bar in Silver Lake, locked lips and welcomed 1967. At that moment, at least eight plainclothes officers emerged from the crowd and began viciously beating and arresting the kissing couples…
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He Died Waiting to Get Married
A heartbreaking story out of California tonight. Last March, we posted this article about Derence Kernek and Ed Watson, who recorded a video for California’s 9th Circuit Court, requesting that they allow Judge Walker’s decision to overturn Prop 8 to stand. This request was because Watson had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and they wanted […]
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Even Neil Patrick Harris can’t say ‘tranny’ — a teachable moment
It’s time for some education around Transgender issues and what is now seen as transphobic or discriminatory language.
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The Salvation Army: Ringing anti-gay bells this holiday season
We must be cognizant of where are pennies are going when we drop them in the Salvation Army’s shiny red kettle. In addition to anti-gay fights which the Salvation Army has participated in, they have also fought in court in defense of their virulently anti-gay hiring and employment practices.
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‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet shatter every closet door’
On this day, 33 years ago, former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White took a gun to City Hall and shot openly-gay Supervisor Harvey Milk five times — the final two shots had White pressing his gun directly at Milk’s skull, according to the medical examiner.
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LGBT parents continue their struggle for acceptance, equality
It seems one of the final frontiers in the struggle for equality for LGBT families is teaching the rest of the world that we are incredible parents, and that our families not only deserve equality, but we are suffering without it.
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Tennessee principal assaults student for wearing pro-gay t-shirt
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — A few weeks ago, we brought you the story of Sequoya High School in Madisonville, Tenn., where senior Nathan Carroll was attempting to start a Gay Straight Alliance. After starting a petition in the school for the GSA, Nathan was threatened with suspension should he continue to pursue that course of action. […]
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Tennessee HS student threatened with suspension for attempting to start GSA
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Nathan Carroll, a Tennessee high school senior, has been bullied most of his life for being gay. The openly-gay teen attends Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tenn., and recently decided a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) is needed at his school. Nathan started a petition at his school to get support to start […]
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Husband, child of hate crime victim shut out by Mississippi laws
A Mississippi man will not be allowed to take part in a wrongful death lawsuit of his longtime partner, because the state does not recognize their same-sex relationship.