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News (USA)
Romney foreign policy spokesman resigns amid anti-gay attacks
WASHINGTON — Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman who was hired two weeks ago by Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign to run the candidate’s foreign policy messages, has resigned in the wake of relentless critiques, most of which was personal, by anti-gay right wing conservatives.
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Life
NC pastor: ‘crack limp wrists’ of girlish boys, reign in your ‘butch’ daughters
It’s okay to “beat the gay” out of children, says North Carolina Baptist preacher Sean Harris, who advised his congregation that should their children show any signs of “homosexual” behavior, then it is their responsibility to use violence as a corrective measure to prevent that child from being gay or lesbian.
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News (USA)
D.C. city council gives preliminary approval of anti-bullying bill
The D.C. City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve an anti-bullying bill on first reading, with Council members expected to approve the measure in a final vote at their next session later this month.
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Commentary
Gay and Christian? You’re not alone.
When I left home in the fall of 2008 and started school at Harvard, I was amazed at how much openness and support there was for LGBT students on campus, mainly because it was worlds apart from the conservative Christian church in Kansas that I’d come from. Back home, gay issues were never discussed, every family and every wedding was heterosexual, and the few people who eventually came out waited until they had moved far away. The message was largely unspoken, yet crystal clear: If you don’t fit into a heterosexual identity, you aren’t welcome…
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Life
Bryan Fischer: It’s ‘perfectly appropriate to discriminate’ against homosexuality
On his radio program yesterday, American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer quoted Martin Luther King, Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to argue in favor of discrimination against gays.
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News (USA)
No vote on Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill; measure dead this session
NASHVILLE — Tennessee’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill, will not be put to a final vote needed for passage in the Tennessee state House, according to the bill’s sponsor.
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News (USA)
Montana candidate for U.S. Congress airs marriage equality campaign ad
MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Congressional Candidate Dave Strohmaier, who is running as a progressive Democrat Montana’s single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, has released his first political commercial, a groundbreaking campaign ad that endorses marriage equality.
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News (USA)
Friends say murder of transgender woman in Oakland was a hate crime
OAKLAND, Calif. — A transgender woman was shot to death in downtown Oakland, Calif., over the weekend, and friend believe her killing was a hate crime.
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Life
London mayor Boris Johnson plans to unveil LGBT manifesto
LONDON — Boris Johnson, the incumbent Mayor of London, this week reaffirmed his support of marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, and said he will release an LGBT manifesto ahead of London’s elections later this week, reported Pink News UK.
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Commentary
Dan Savage and the truth about homosexuality and the Bible
People get bullied because of who they are: how they look and act, what they say and do. … The people who walked out during Dan’s talk were not separated from their peers by anyone. They were content to do that themselves. They were not frightened or cowed. They were offended. … And they were pleased to show their intolerance of Dan’s words by protesting against them in the manner they did. Theirs was not an act born of suffering.
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News (USA)
Jacksonville, Fla. to consider ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A coalition of business organizations and elected officials are backing legislation to ban anti-gay discrimination which is set to be introduced at next week’s Jacksonville, Fla., city council meeting.
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News (USA)
Cleveland radio host who suggested ‘corrective rape’ issues on-air apology
A Cleveland, Ohio, radio personality who, on his radio broadcast last week told a parent to essentially arrange for his daughter to be raped if he suspects she’s gay, has been been disciplined by the station and issued an on-air apology Monday.
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News (USA)
Toledo mayor to introduce benefits bill for Domestic Partners of city workers
TOLEDO, Ohio — City employees who are partnered but not married could receive health care and other benefits under a proposed measure that would extend benefits to the domestic partners of Toledo’s employees, provided they have certified their status with Toledo’s Domestic Partner Registry.
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News (USA)
Civil unions close in Colorado, only a few days until N.C. votes on marriage equality
Civil unions advance in Colorado, but old foes are joining forces in Maine. There’s just a few days left until North Carolina votes on an extreme constitutional amendment, and the race is getting closer and closer every day.
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News (World)
Iran executes ‘gangster’ for allegedly engaging in ‘unlawful’ same-sex activity
MARVDASHT, Iran — A young man described as a “gangster,” who is known only by the initials CHM, was hanged publicly in Marvdasht, Fars Province, Iran, for allegedly engaging in “sodomy” with another man.
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Commentary
Wise up, Dustin Lance Black!
The moment I saw Dustin Lance Black’s headline in the Hollywood Reporter all my admiration came a-tumbling. While one cannot disregard the work of the screenwriter turned activist and its impetus on marriage equality, his latest critique of President Obama, and worse yet its luminous abode engorges like an unwelcome cloud on a sunny day. As an activist in the community, I want to clearly disassociate myself from the ominous loom of Black’s threatening blur…
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Commentary
Is ‘gay’ a religion?
The parroting purveyors of pious propaganda cannot claim that they weren’t warned; that if they continued to oppress reality their religious view would be openly challenged until becoming obvious that theirs is an insanity based on completely uncorroborated myths. It can hardly be denied that human beings want, even need, something to believe in, but must that be delusional? Couldn’t it be as real as life itself; something that fills the void in the human spirit and yet we overlook it because it is so obvious that we continually miss its reality…the fact which makes us alive, makes life worth living, and creates life?
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News (USA)
Brief challenges laws discriminating against gay and lesbian veterans
WASHINGTON — A law firm that is part of the challenge against California’s Proposition 8 this week filed a “friend of the court” brief on behalf of a coalition of national veterans’ service organizations asking the court to strike down laws discriminating against gay and lesbian veterans.
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Life
Cleveland DJ to parent: ‘Get one of your friends to screw your daughter straight’
GLAAD is calling on Clear Channel Communications and Cleveland radio station WMMS to suspend radio personality Dominic Dieter for telling a father to essentially arrange for his daughter to be raped if he suspects she’s gay.
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Life
LaBarbera censors ‘Glee’ kiss, posts inflammatory article deriding gay ‘pigs’
Peter LaBarbara’s and the Religious Right’s long war against Glee has not gained traction outside of the frantic rants of conservative activists, so he has decided to take matters into his own hands and censor a picture of Glee characters Blaine and Kurt kissing: