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U.S. Senate confirms John Kerry as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, filling a key job in President Obama’s second-term national security team.
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Obama includes same-sex, binational couples in immigration reform plan
Declaring “now is the time” to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled his plan for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship, including allowing U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor a visa for a same-sex partner.
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French government presents same-sex marriage, adoption bill to Parliament
PARIS — The French government has presented its plan to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption to Parliament for debate.
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Maryland lawmakers introduce transgender rights bill
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill that would ban anti-transgender discrimination in the workplace, housing and public accommodations.
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Denver Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried and his two moms for Colorado civil unions
Here’s Denver Nuggets star Kenneth Faried, appearing in a video speaking out for civil unions in Colorado. Faried grow up in a household with two loving parents — his moms.
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Same-sex couples missing from Senate immigration plan
A blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform made public on Monday by a bipartisan group of senators contains no provision for bi-national same-sex couples, despite the push among LGBT advocates to include such language in immigration reform.
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Illinois Senate President: ‘Timing is right’ to pass same-sex marriage
CHICAGO — Illinois Senate President John Cullerton said Monday that the timing is right to legalize same-sex marriage, providing a glimpse of what’s ahead in the spring legislative session.
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LGBT-friendly bills introduced in Neb.; state University to offer same-sex employee benefits
LINCOLN, Neb. — As the 2013 legislative session in Nebraska commenced last week with two LGBT-friendly bills introduced for debate, the University of Nebraska announced it plans to offer health care benefits for the university’s partnered same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
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Religious Right activists warn of pedophilia if Boy Scouts open doors to gay members
After news reports came out today that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) may drop its national policy banning openly gay members in favor of “passing any decisions on gay membership to the local level,” outrage among Religious Right activists has just begun.
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Commentary
Despite Dan Cathy’s new gay friendship, nothing has changed at Chick-fil-A
Campus Pride executive director Shane Windmeyer revealed Monday that he and Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy are now friends, and explains that his organization has suspended its campaign against the anti-gay chicken company — which has franchises on many university campuses. But Windmeyer fails to actually explain any concrete changes taking place at the company — Chick-fil-A is not ending the bulk of its anti-gay giving, Chick-fil-A is not implementing any LGBT-inclusive policies like nondiscrimination protections, and Dan Cathy is not apologizing for his vitriolic comments.
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Black lawmaker to gays: ‘Stop carpet-bagging on our civil rights movement’
A Wyoming lawmaker on Monday testified that she is tired of hearing gays and lesbians equate their struggle for civil rights to the efforts of mixed-race couples to secure the legal right to marry in the late 1960s.
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Appeals court rules state of Virginia violated transgender inmate’s rights
RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday ruled in favor of a transgender inmate, saying the state of Virginia violated her constitutional rights by not evaluating her for gender reassignment surgery.
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Wyoming defeats same-sex marriage bill, advances domestic partnership bill
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A bill that would allow same-sex couples in Wyoming to create domestic partnerships carrying most of the legal rights of heterosexual marriage has cleared a committee vote and is headed to consideration in the full House.
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Boy Scouts considering dramatic retreat from controversial anti-gay policy
NEW YORK — The Boys Scouts of America is considering a dramatic retreat from its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.
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Some in Wyoming see lawmakers, public thaw on gay rights issues
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — For years, Democratic lawmakers in Wyoming have floated bills aimed at preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians but have found little support. Now, they seem to have gained some — among Republican lawmakers.
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Commentary
What happens when a son tells his gay dad, ‘You are not my Mom’
I always figured there were certain hateful statements my sons would make, especially ones that say I am inadequate. Such statements would come out in the future during some teen age angst scrapple where I was laying down the law and they were going for my vulnerable jugular. My sister told me once, “If your kids don’t shout out that they hate you at least a few times, then you aren’t doing it right.” Up until now, no such shout out has occurred…
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Commentary
Separate but equal is never equal – Ever.
I don’t want to rain on anyone’s LGBT Inaugural moment, however… Even though the President mentioned Stonewall along with Selma and Seneca Falls in the same sentence, he doesn’t really see gay marriage as a civil rights issue that needs to be helped along by the federal government. For the truth of the matter is, no matter what President Obama may say, and no matter where he is when he says it – he still believes that marriage equality belongs in the hands of the States.
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Marriage equality supporters march in streets of Paris
PARIS — More than 100,000 people marched in Paris Sunday in support of a government-sponsored bill that would legalize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples.
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Ontario elects Canada’s first openly gay premier
TORONTO — Canada’s most populous province is getting its first female premier and the country’s first openly gay premier after the provincial Liberals chose a new leader.
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Poland lawmakers reject efforts to grant legal rights to same-sex couples
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s lawmakers have rejected three separate draft laws that were intended to give legal rights to unmarried and same-sex couples.