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News (USA)
Federal trial begins in Kentucky hate crime beating of gay man
LONDON, Ky. — The federal trial of two men charged in an anti-gay hate crime in Harlan County, Ky., got underway in U.S. District Court Wednesday, the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act for charges relating to the victim’s sexual orientation.
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School considers rescinding transgender rights policy amid hate group, parental outrage
AURORA, Ill. — An Illinois school board is considering rescinding a transgender rights policy it adopted Monday after after receiving emails and letters from outraged residents and anti-gay organizations across the state.
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Commentary
Let’s keep discrimination out of Minnesota’s constitution
I want them to remember us not as the last generation to attack our fellow citizens’ individual and religious freedoms, but rather as the first one to defend the right to marry — for everyone. And, as a Minnesotan, I want future generations to remember my state not as the latest to pass an anti-marriage amendment to its constitution, but rather as the first to defeat such a hurtful measure…
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News (USA)
LGBT issues again absent from presidential debate
The town hall presidential debate on Tuesday night included references to social issues, such as women’s rights, immigration and gun violence but as in the previous debate, there was no explicit mention of LGBT issues.
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Life
Victoria Jackson: Gay marriage ‘would make God mad’
Victoria Jackson, a self-proclaimed devout Christian and Tea Party activist who frequently advocates against LGBT rights, said that legalizing marriage equality for gays and lesbians “would make God mad.”
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News (USA)
Boehner maxes out $1.5 million cost cap for DOMA defense
The House Republican-led panel that has taken up defense of the Defense of Marriage Act in court has maxed out the $1.5 million cost cap set to hire private attorneys to advocate for the anti-gay law, according to a report from Democratic lawmakers.
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Commentary
Ann Coulter thinks family rejection of LGBT youth is a joke
Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter decided last night to make a joke about family rejection of LGBT youth. … There was a time in our culture’s history when, if thousands of LGBT kids were to come out on the same day, the next week genuinely would be exactly what Ann describes, all across the country…
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Life
Fischer on CNN: Likens anti-bullying program to poisoned halloween candy
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN today and told host Carol Costello that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” program, which the AFA is protesting, is “toxic” to the “moral health” of students, much like “poisoned Halloween candy” injected with cyanide.
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News (USA)
Gay celebrities speak out on Obama’s LGBT accomplishments
In a new campaign video for President Barack Obama, celebrities Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Zachary Quinto, Chaz Bono, Wanda Sykes, George Takei, and Billie Jean King speak out about Obama’s LGBT accomplishments.
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News (USA)
Facebook privacy glitch outs LGBT users
The outing of University of Texas-Austin students to their parents as a consequence of a little-known Facebook privacy glitch has reignited longstanding concerns over the social network’s treatment of its LGBT users’ private information.
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News (USA)
Chris Kluwe’s campaign for marriage equality: ‘This is an issue about freedom’
Minnesota Vikings’ punter Chris Kluwe, an outspoken advocate for marriage equality, appears in a new video for Minnesotans United for All Families, the official campaign working to defeat Minnesota’s proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Anti-bullying program labeled ‘a radical gay indoctrination program’
The annual “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” — a decade-old program that encourages school children to overcome cultural, societal, or other differences by sitting with those they don’t normally hang out with during lunch — has been attacked by the American Family Association (AFA), as a “radical gay indoctrination program.”
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News (USA)
Appeals court denies lesbian spouse parental adoption rights
MOBILE, Ala. — The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has denied a lesbian the right to adopt her partner’s 6-year-old son, because the the state does not permit or recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions.
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News (USA)
Report: Boy Scouts’ ‘perversion files’ tracked suspected homosexuals
For years, the Boy Scouts of America has secretly kept detailed records of suspected homosexual scoutmasters and volunteers alongside suspected child molesters, in what the organization referred to as the “perversion files.”
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News (USA)
Three indicted on hate crime charges for June D.C. stabbing
A D.C. Superior Court Grand Jury has indicted two men and a woman on hate crime charges in connection with the June stabbing of a 16-year-old male outside D.C.’s Howard Theatre whom the defendants believed to be gay.
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Commentary
To censor or not: ‘Defending the indefensible’
Last week, the publication of which I serve as executive editor (the Florida Agenda) printed a paid political advertisement that had been provided by the Broward County, Florida chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans. The half page black and white ad depicted the late U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, as his body was carried out of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which he had died moments earlier…
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Life
LGBT History Month profile: Celebrated actor, director, producer Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster is a celebrated actor, director and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
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News (USA)
Philly lawmaker introduces bill to ban reparative therapy for minors
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) has introduced a bill that would ban mental health providers from offering “gay-to-straight” reparative therapy for minors.
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Gay couple attacked, beaten on Asheville street after called gay slurs
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A gay couple from Charlotte, N.C. said they were attacked and beaten on the street during a recent visit to Asheville, and claim they were attacked because they’re gay.
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News (USA)
Arlen Specter dies at 82
Arlen Specter, an independent-minded moderate who spent 30 years in the U.S. Senate but was spurned by Pennsylvania voters after switching in 2009 from Republican to Democrat, died on Sunday of cancer at the age of 82.