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More women’s colleges address transgender applicants
BOSTON — Women’s colleges are revisiting policies around enrolling transgender students as institutions of higher learning – single-sex, coed and those with religious affiliations – demonstrate varying degrees of acceptance for changing norms. Mills College in Oakland, California, recently became the first women’s college in the U.S. to declare it would accept …
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‘The Talk’ host Sara Gilbert, rocker Linda Perry expecting (Video)
“Roseanne” alum and “The Talk” host Sara Gilbert announced Tuesday that she and her wife, rock songwriter-producer Linda Perry, are expecting their first child together. Gilbert told her “Talk” co-hosts that she would not be facing her fear of a cinderblock being broken on her stomach during their “Face Your Fears” week.
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News (USA)
Healey wins big in Mass. Attorney General primary
Massachusetts Attorney General candidate Maura Healey won the hotly-contested Democratic primary, advancing to the November general election. If she wins in November, Healey would become the first openly LGBT attorney general candidate ever elected in the United States.
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GOP U.S. Senate candidate trumpets endorsement from gay marriage plaintiffs
SALEM, Ore. — Two of the plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit that led to Oregon allowing same-sex marriage are throwing their support behind Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby. Wehby’s campaign trumpeted the endorsement from Ben West and Paul Rummell on Tuesday. Her campaign released a television ad featuring West, who says…
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News (USA)
Fla. judge vacates same-sex marriage ruling on legal technicality
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County judge, who last month struck down Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage, vacated his own ruling Thursday on a legal technicality. The Miami Herald reports that Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen vacated his decision because a petitioner in the case “failed to comply with (state law)” and notify “the Office of the…
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Life
‘Duck Dynasty’ dad: STD’s are God’s wrath for immorality, homosexuality
“Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson is back, with a new message that sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, are God’s wrath for immoral conduct, such as homosexuality. Robertson made the remarks in an appearance on Washington Watch with with Tony Perkins, head of the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council. Robertson was…
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News (USA)
Plaintiffs refute Texas AG’s claim that same-sex marriage is bad for kids
AUSTIN, Texas — Lawyers for two same-sex couples challenging Texas’ same-sex marriage ban are refuting state claims the prohibition promotes raising children in “stable, lasting relationships,” arguing in an appeals brief Tuesday that it serves no legitimate state interest. The 88-page filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says the ban denies gay…
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Apple reveals long-anticipated ‘smartwatch’ and new, larger iPhones
CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long-anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that aims to put many of the functions of a smartphone onto a smaller screen that’s never more than an arm’s length from the wearer’s eyes. The Apple Watch, the company’s first completely new product in four years and its first wearable device, is also Apple’s…
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Puerto Rico partners on U.S. project to develop HIV vaccine
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s governor says the island’s largest public university is partnering with federal agencies to oversee a U.S.-funded project aimed at trying to develop a prophylactic vaccine for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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Commentary
Why is a state historical society honoring a discredited book about Matthew Shepard?
The Wyoming State Historical Society honored a book that asserts college student Matthew Shepard wasn’t murdered because he was gay, but was instead killed in a drug-related incident – even though the book relies on wild extrapolation and questionable or anonymous sources and has been denounced as “fictional” by lawyers and investigators involved in the case.
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Life
Lily Tomlin to be first out lesbian recipient of Kennedy Center Honors
Lily Tomlin will be one of five recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors, the national awards for influencing American culture through the arts. Tomlin, 75, said she was astounded to learn she will receive the honors. The Detroit native originally went to college to study medicine.
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News (USA)
Group erects ‘God Loves Gays’ billboard in ‘God Hates Fags’ hometown
TOPEKA, Kan. — Organizers behind the website “God Loves Gay People” and the Facebook page “The Facebook God,” have erected a billboard Topeka, Kan. — home to the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church — proclaiming that “God Loves Gays.” The billboard, located about 3 miles southeast of the Westboro Baptist Church compound, is the product of …
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Gay rights activists seek inclusion in NYC St. Patrick’s Parade
NEW YORK — Gay activists who have been pushing to join New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade since the 1990s called on organizers Tuesday to include them, not just a group for gay NBC employees. Members of a group called Irish Queers held a news conference to announce that they were applying for a spot in the 2015 event, the nation’s biggest and oldest …
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Indiana, Wisconsin appeal same-sex marriage rulings to U.S. Supreme Court
Attorneys general for Wisconsin and Indiana each tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that his state’s gay marriage case should be the one to decide the contentious issue for the country. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller and his Wisconsin counterpart, J.B. Van Hollen, separately asked the nation’s highest court to reverse a 7th Circuit …
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News (USA)
Judge to decide next step in N.D. same-sex marriage suit
FARGO, N.D. — A federal judge is set to decide the future of a lawsuit filed by seven couples challenging the constitutional prohibition on same-sex marriage in North Dakota. The suit opposes both North Dakota’s ban on gay marriage and its refusal to recognize marriages of same-sex couples who legally wed in other states.
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Federal appeals court hears arguments over impact of same-sex marriage
SAN FRANCISCO — A debate over whether children would be harmed or helped by legalizing same-sex marriage was the main focus when a federal appeals court in San Francisco waded again into the issue of the constitutionality of gay marriage. The three judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – two of whom have ruled in previous cases in favor of gay rights…
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News (USA)
Live streaming: Same-sex marriage cases argued before the Ninth Circuit
Live coverage of today’s oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit in same-sex marriage cases from Hawaii, Idaho and Nevada can be viewed here:
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News (World)
Gambia passes bill imposing life in prison for some homosexual acts
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast A Gambian lawmaker says the National Assembly has passed a bill imposing life imprisonment for some homosexual acts. Minority leader Samba Jallow said Monday the bill brings life sentences for “aggravated homosexuality.” A draft bill seen by The Associated Press contains language identical to a controversial anti-gay bill signed i…
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Commentary
Judge Posner’s gay marriage opinion is a witty, deeply moral masterpiece
Mark Joseph Stern at Slate, on U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner’s scathing rebuke of same-sex marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin: “In his opinion, Posner does not sound like a man aiming to have his words etched in the history books or praised by future generations. Rather, he sounds like a man who has listened to all the arguments against gay marriage…
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Marriage News Watch: Massive victory in 7th Circuit, problems with ruling in La.
A massive victory for equality in Wisconsin and Indiana, with one of the most strongly-worded decisions yet. A judge in Louisiana has ruled against marriage equality, but there are some problems with his ruling. There are major oral arguments this week in multiple states, and more cases move closer to consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.