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Clooney takes a stand for gay marriage; study says marriage equality makes you 13% healthier
George Clooney takes a stand for marriage equality with his latest role. A new study connects anti-gay marriage laws to cardiovascular disease. Republican voters increasingly favor marriage equality, but this week several presidential frontrunners had some particularly unpleasant things to say about LGBTs.
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Colorado advocacy group offers help in creating gay-straight alliances
The move to “make it better,” just got better. One Colorado, a statewide LGBT advocacy group, has launched a new program to facilitate the creation of gay-straight alliances in Colorado schools and secure safe school environments for all students.
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Minnesota Archbishop wants Catholics to recite prayer opposing gay marriage
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., is calling on Catholics in his diocese to recite a special prayer during mass to promote passage of an anti-gay marriage amendment to the Minnesota state constitution.
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Anti-gay Minnesota GOP Senate Majority Leader resigns amid scandal with senate staffer
Minnesota State Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (R) has resigned her leadership post amid allegations of an “inappropriate relationship” with a Senate staffer. Koch, who is is married with one child, has been one of the leading proponents of Minnesota’s 2012 ballot initiative aimed at amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
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Connecticut Governor names openly gay man as Chief of Staff
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT — Mark Ojakian, the openly gay Deputy Budget Director for the state of Connecticut, has been named to the position of Chief of Staff for Governor Dannel P. Malloy.
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Study: Gay men lead happier, healthier lives where gay marriage is legal
Gay men who live in U.S. states where same-sex marriage is legal make fewer doctor visits, have lower healthcare costs, and in general lead happier and healthier lives, according to a new study being published in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Colorado Republicans are coming out … for civil unions
Save the date: Jan. 5, 2012. That’s the day the debate on civil unions here will get a whole lot more interesting. A group of Colorado conservatives are having a coming out party. Coming out for civil unions, that is.
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New Virginia adoption rules permit anti-gay, gender, disability, other forms of discrimination
A Virginia agency has approved new adoption rules which authorize state-licensed adoption agencies to engage in a breathtakingly broad range of discrimination, including allowing state-licensed private agencies to deny the adoption of a child by same-sex couples.
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Gay clergy disinvited from Advent services at Castro Catholic church
SAN FRANCISCO — At least three gay and lesbian clergy members were disinvited from participating in Advent services at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in the Castro, the Bay Area Reporter has learned. The call for the gay clergy not to attend came from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, sources said. George Wesolek, spokesman for […]
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Utah school defends ‘outing’ student to parents, citing potential for bullying
LEHI, Utah — A Utah school district is on the defensive after outing a 14-year middle school student to his parents, claiming administrators were being “proactive” in preventing possible bullying.