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‘The Cross in the Closet’ — A straight Christian lives ‘openly gay’ for a year
As the LGBT community marked “National Coming Out Day” this week, there is one story that stands out in its uniqueness. Timothy Kurek, a straight man who said he was brought up to believe that homosexuality was a sin, decided that he would explore that what it would be like to be a gay man for a year…
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News (USA)
U.S. senators from Maine neutral on marriage ballot initiative
The Republican U.S. senators from Maine are no taking no position on the Maine marriage ballot initiative just weeks before voters will decide whether to legalize same-sex marriage at the polls.
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Commentary
Coming Out: It will change your life
Life as a homosexual isn’t an easy life. From the time you know you’re gay until the moment you say out loud to the world around you: “I’m gay” could be 10 years, 15 years 30 years or in my case, 50 years. Some people never find the courage to say it out loud and live their lives hidden in shame and denial…
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National Coming Out Day: Achieving progress through visibility
On our road to equality, perhaps we’ll meet a day when “coming out” becomes a thing of the past. There will be no perception of difference, no fear, no worry and no anxiety. No declarations, no announcements, no revelations need be made. Nothing is questioned or second-guessed…
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Coming Out: ‘I am happy with my life and to me, that’s all that matters’
I came out to my family as lesbian. My family are hardcore Baptists, Christians, and not only didn’t believe me — my mother, a Registered Nurse kept telling me, “It’s a phase, it’s a phase, you’ll grow out of it.” But they didn’t accept it, or me, for that matter.
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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!
Coming Out in this country is something which has changed a great deal since I was a kid. For many young people today (though certainly not all), the process has become far less traumatic. The act of telling a friend or family member that you’re gay is now frequently met with a “so?” and a “cool, let’s go to a gay bar!”
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Today is ‘National Coming Out Day’
Today, October 11, is National Coming Out Day — the internationally observed day to celebrate coming out and to raise awareness of the LGBT community and LGBT civil rights movement.
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LGBT History Month profile: Chris Colfer, actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter
Chris Colfer is an actor, singer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing Kurt on “Glee.” He is one of the first openly gay teen actors to portray an out character on primetime television.
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News (USA)
Organizers of Halloween parade deny admittance to gay youth group
ANOKA, Minn. — An LGBT youth group founded in memory of Justin Aaberg, a 15-year-old Anoka High School student who killed himself after he was repeatedly bullied because he was gay, has been denied participation in the Anoka Halloween Parade, presumably because there are already too many participants.
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News (USA)
University administrator placed on leave for signing Md. marriage petition
Gallaudet University has placed a senior administrator on leave after she reportedly signed a petition against Maryland’s same-sex marriage law.
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Staver, Barber: Banning ‘ex-gay’ therapy is like encouraging alcoholism, pedophilia, kleptomania
Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver and Matt Barber said on the “Faith and Freedom” radio program Wednesday that banning therapists from seeking to turn gay kids straight is like requiring therapists to help people accept and embrace their alcoholism, pedophilia, or kleptomania.
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News (USA)
Archbishop tells woman to reject gay son or suffer eternal damnation
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — As the battle heats up in Minnesota over a proposed state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, there has been renewed outrage by statements expressed by Twin Cities Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt in a 2010 letter to one of his parishioners.
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News (USA)
Obama administration issues written deportation guidelines
New guidance from the Department of Homeland Security stipulating that gay and lesbian bi-national couples are families spells out three criteria for immigration officials who are determining whether to exercise prosecutorial discretion in potential deportation cases.
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News (USA)
Questions remain after Long Island teen commits suicide over alleged anti-gay bullying
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — The Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Network said it would fast-track its efforts to open an LGBT community center in Suffolk County after learning that an East Hampton, N.Y. teen who was reportedly the victim of anti-gay bullying took his own life last week.
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News (USA)
University student leader criticized over decision to veto pro-LGBT bills
LINCOLN, Neb. — The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has voted to override two vetoes by the student senate’s president, one which expressed support for extending benefits to spouses of LGBT NU staff and faculty, and another bill that supported Lincoln’s LGBT-inclusive “fairness ordinance.”
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News (USA)
Catholic bishop: Same-sex marriage ‘endangers religious liberty’
YAKIMA, Wash. — Same-sex marriage “jeopardizes freedom rather than expands it,” and “endangers our religious liberty and the right of conscience,” according to Bishop Joseph Tyson, the Catholic bishop of Yakima, Wash.
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Commentary
NOM promotes article comparing gay parents to rapists, sexual predators
Pay attention, gay folks. There is seems to be a quiet war going on against our rights to be surrogate parents. Via the NOM blog, I found this highly offensive piece, The New Sexual Predators. In it, the author, Alana S. Newman compares gay couples and older woman to human traffickers out to steal the […]
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News (USA)
Bay Buchanan tells gay audience Mitt Romney will win presidency
Republican strategist Bay Buchanan urged an audience of gay conservatives on Monday to remain optimistic that Mitt Romney will win the presidential race.
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Critically acclaimed author, Truman Capote
Truman Capote is a critically acclaimed author of contemporary American literature. He is best known for the novels “In Cold Blood” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
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British politician warns that same-sex marriage will turn UK into Nazi society
BIRMINGHAM, UK — The former archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, warned an audience at an anti-gay marriage rally in Birmingham on Monday that “Britain risks becoming a totalitarian state as a result of gay marriage, and could go the way of Nazi Germany.”