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Progress: West Point cadet escorts boyfriend to winter formal
From our friends at Knights Out comes these photos of a West Point cadet escorting his boyfriend to a winter formal.
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News (USA)
Fla. school district considers eliminating clubs to avoid allowing gay-straight alliance
TAVARES, Fla. — The Lake County School Board is considering eliminating all non-academic clubs from middle and high school campuses instead of allowing a student to form a gay-straight alliance.
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Obama misses opportunity to nominate first openly LGBT cabinet member
President Obama has missed an opportunity to nominate for the first time an openly LGBT Cabinet member by reportedly passing over Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry for the role of interior secretary.
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Commentary
Bad news for the Right: There already are gays in the Boy Scouts
In addition to being deeply offensive, BSA’s policy has always struck me as profoundly stupid. Maybe it’s just my own experience, but who did they think was joining the Scouts? In my troop, at least, it wasn’t just the “normal” kids. It was those of us who were a little… off. A little too awkward. A little too hyper. A little too helpful. A little too queer. In short, it was the kind of kid who grows up to be interesting, committed, successful and, none too rarely, gay….
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LGBT advocacy groups denounce Boy Scouts’ delay on anti-gay policy
LGBT advocacy groups responded Wednesday to an announcement by the Boy Scouts of America that it would delay until May a decision on whether to end its longstanding policy that prohibits gay scouts and gay and lesbian scout leaders.
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Corkins pleads guilty in Family Research Council shooting
WASHINGTON — A Virginia man pleaded guilty Wednesday to wounding a security guard at the headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group, a shooting that made headlines in part because the man was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches.
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Boy Scouts executive board delays decision on admitting gays
IRVING, Texas — The Boy Scouts of America put off a decision Wednesday on whether to lift its ban on gay members and leaders, saying the question will be taken up at the organization’s national meeting in May.
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Tyler Clementi anti-harassment act re-introduced in Congress
During a dedication ceremony Monday of the Tyler Clementi Center at Rutgers University in New Jersey, U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, (D-N.J.) announced that he U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) have reintroduced legislation in Congress that would require colleges to implement anti-harassment policies.
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Gay Vietnamese protest exclusion from annual New Year’s ‘Tet’ parade
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A group of gay Vietnamese Americans and their supporters in Southern California’s Orange County are asking to be allowed to participate in this weekend’s Tet parade in celebration of the Vietnamese New Year.
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Rhode Island Bar Association endorses marriage equality bill
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The leaders of the Rhode Island Bar Association have endorsed a proposal to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
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Ex-gay, ‘Christian Post’ blogger Matt Moore can’t resist Grindr
Matt Moore, a blogger at the Christian Post who has written extensively about his experiences with homosexuality and his ultimate decision to leave that “lifestyle,” has been spotted on the gay hook-up site Grindr.
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Disney names first openly gay man as president of Walt Disney World
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Walt Disney Company has named George Kalogridis as president of Walt Disney World, becoming the theme park’s first openly gay president.
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News (USA)
Illinois Senate committee approves marriage equality bill
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A strict party-line vote Tuesday sent proposed gay-marriage legislation to the Democrat-controlled Illinois Senate floor for the second time in a month.
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News (USA)
Panetta poised to extend benefits to same-sex military families
WASHINGTON – U.S. officials said Tuesday that outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is poised to extend some benefits to the same-sex partners of military members.
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News (USA)
Ethics panel criticizes Md. lawmaker for ‘official’ rant against Ravens’ linebacker
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — An ethics panel has criticized a Maryland lawmaker for using his official letterhead to urge Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti to restrain linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo from publicly supporting same-sex marriage.
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British lawmkers vote in favor of marriage equality bill
LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage championed by Prime Minister David Cameron, despite stronger-than-expected opposition from within his Conservative Party.
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Commentary
The worth of your child in Alabama Public Schools: $2,655
The Lauderdale County Board of Education in Florence, Ala. has decreed that Queer students, racial minority students, overweight students, or any students that do not meet the standards of normalcy of the local community are worth precisely “2 weeks suspension without pay.” For the average teacher in Alabama this comes to roughly $2,655.
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‘Ace of Cakes’ star offers free wedding cake to rejected Oregon gay couple
Baltimore pastry chef Duff Goldman, star of Food Network’s “Ace of Cakes,” has offered to bake and deliver — free of charge — a wedding cake to the lesbian couple in Oregon who was denied service by a local bakery because they are gay.
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News (USA)
Virginia Senate approves bill to allow discrimination by university clubs
RICHMOND, Va. — A bill that would allow publicly funded college groups to discriminate in their policies and membership has been approved in the Virginia state Senate.
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Much ado about ‘cake’ in political battle for civil unions in Colorado
Colorado’s Religious Right is in the midst of a cakewalk. The prize? To find a political message that sticks with the state’s most sought-after, sometimes real, sometimes mythical unaffiliated “swing” voter with a Western-libertarian streak.