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Utah lawmaker won’t seek re-election, citing hypocrisy in state legislature
Rep. Christine Johnson, one of Utah’s two openly gay lawmakers, will step down from her seat in the State House at year’s end, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. “I’m not leaving because I’m giving up on the fight in Utah,” the two-term Salt Lake City Democrat said Thursday after announcing she won’t seek re-election. […]
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Marc Delphine: Oregon’s first openly gay candidate to seek federal office
Marc Delphine, an Oregon financial planner, has filed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate Monday, seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. According to JustOut.com: Delphine is the first openly gay candidate to run for federal office in Oregon’s history. Delphine will formally announce the campaign launch in the State Capitol tomorrow morning, during which he’ll […]
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John Perez, California Assembly’s first openly gay Speaker, sworn in
In a historic day for the LGBT community, California’s first openly gay Assembly speaker was sworn in to office in Sacramento early Monday afternoon. Democrat John A. Pérez, a first-term legislator representing parts of downtown L.A. and East Los Angeles, will face as one of his first tasks the challenge of preserving social programs for […]
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Gay NYC voters give Ford the cold shoulder, demand answers on anti-gay marriage votes
Harold Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate challenger to New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand, got a cool reception Wednesday from gay rights advocates who are skeptical of his new found support for gay marriage. Speaking at the Stonewall Democratic Club of New York, Ford was interrupted numerous times by protesters who waved […]
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NY political action committee targets anti-gay marriage senate senators
Angered by the defeat last year of a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry, a group of well-financed gay rights advocates has started a political action committee to take aim at state senators who have opposed same-sex marriage. According to The New York Times, the political action committee, Fight Back New York, […]
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Speaker booed off stage after condemning CPAC for inviting gay republican group
Here’s another homophobic loudmouth looking for his fifteen minutes of fame on Fox News: During a lightning round of two-minute speeches by young activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. today, Ryan Sorba, of the Young Conservatives of California attempted to incite an anti-gay riot by bashing CPAC organizers for inviting a […]
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Anti-gay groups speak out on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ call homosexuality a ‘deathstyle’
Several leaders of anti-gay groups held a press conference Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC., to voice support for maintaining the failed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military. The press conference coincided with the release of a report, “To Keep Our Honor Clean: Why We Must […]
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Rhode Island House elects first openly gay, minority Speaker
State Representative Gordon Fox this week became the first openly gay lawmaker elected Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. The Democrat from Providence was overwhelmingly elected with 51 votes in the House, with the other 19 votes going to two other candidates. Democrats nominated him during an earlier closed-door caucus. Fox, 48, announced […]
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NJ gay rights group halts political party donations, citing gay marriage defeat
New Jersey’s largest gay rights group is suspending donations to political parties after feeling spurned by Democratic lawmakers who did not pass a gay marriage bill. In a statement released Monday, Garden State Equality said it will now contribute only to individual candidates and pro-LGBT non-party organizations: Sending a bold signal that no political party […]
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U.S. lawmakers condemn Uganda’s proposed ‘kill the gays’ bill
U.S. lawmakers this week introduced resolutions in both the House and Senate, condemning an anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda’s parliament, calling it an attack on human rights and an obstacle to battling HIV/AIDS. The Ugandan bill, dubbed the “Kill the Gays” bill, would execute people for being gay if they have HIV/AIDS or were convicted of […]