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Joe Biden: ‘I am absolutely comfortable’ with same-sex marriage
WASHINGTON — U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday said he he doesn’t think that there should be any legal barriers to same sex marriage.
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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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President Obama remembers gay Holocaust victims
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday spoke at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to mark Yom HaShoah, or the Holocaust Remembrance Day, and during his speech the president referred directly to the homosexual victims of Nazi persecution.
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Obama releases timeline of ‘three years of progress’ for LGBT Americans
Facing criticism over his recent refusal to issue an executive order protecting LGBT people against workplace discrimination, President Barack Obama on Friday touted a list of 40 accomplishments over the past three years in the area of LGBT rights.
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Obama endorses SNDA, SSIA anti-bullying bills
President Obama has thrown the full weigh of administration behind a pair of bills that would help protect LGBT students against bullying: the Student Non-Discrimination and the Safe Schools Improvement Act.
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Pew Research Poll: Social issues rank lowest among voter priorities
WASHINGTON — As voters continue to focus on the economy and jobs as top issues, President Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, has narrowed from a 12 points last month to a slim 49 percent to 45 percent advantage.
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Perkins blames Secret Service prostitution scandal on repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins claims that since the President has been “enforcing open homosexuality in our military” then he should not have been “upset” about the prostitution scandal, maintaining that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’s repeal led to “a total breakdown” in “moral order.”
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Hispanic group urges Obama to ‘revisit’ ENDA stopgap
An organization billing itself as the largest Hispanic civil rights group in the United States is calling on President Obama to “revisit” his decision not to take administrative action to prohibit anti-LGBT discrimination among federal contractors.
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Denied: White House says ‘no’ to ENDA executive order
WASHINGTON — The White House has categorically denied requests from LGBT advocates to issue an executive order protecting LGBT people against workplace discrimination at this time, according to individuals who took part in a White House meeting on Wednesday. The denial was corroborated by a senior administrative official.
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Obama ‘does not support’ Minnesota’s anti-gay marriage amendment
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign on Monday issued a statement that said the President “does not support” a proposed amendment to the Minnesota state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.