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Va. Lt. Gov. candidate resorts to lying to duck questions about anti-gay rhetoric
The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia has contorted himself in all sorts of ways to dodge questions about his extremist record, arguing that anyone who simply quotes his past statements is violating the Constitution or persecuting him or misrepresenting him.
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Lambda Legal files complaint after cab driver kicks out gay couple for kissing
CHICAGO — Lambda Legal on Monday filed a lawsuit on behalf a same-sex couple who were refused service and kicked out of a Chicago cab after they exchanged a kiss.
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Matt Barber calls Harvey Milk a rapist, ‘demonstrably, categorically an evil man’
Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber is upset that the U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring Harvey Milk, telling the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow that Milk was a rapist and “demonstrably, categorically an evil man.”
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Dean at Washington National Cathedral: Homophobia is a sin
WASHINGTON — The dean of Washington National Cathedral is calling homophobia a sin during a weekend of events devoted to gay youth at the church.
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Globalizing Homophobia: World Congress of Families, Russia’s ‘Christian saviors’
Anti-gay activists in the United States, finding it increasingly difficult to push their agenda at home, have turned to Russia both as a place receptive to their politics and as a “savior” of the world against increasing social liberalism. In doing so, they have provided international backing for an oppressive, anti-democratic regime that is increasingly using LGBT people as scapegoats for broader political dissatisfaction.
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Globalizing Homophobia: A new life for discredited research
When Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov introduced a bill that would allow the state to remove children from openly gay parents – classifying homosexuality along with drug abuse and child abuse as offenses that merit the loss of custody – gay rights activists noticed something interesting in the text of the bill…
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Globalizing Homophobia: ‘Today the whole world is looking at Russia’
On June 13, 2013, just days after the Russian Duma passed laws banning on gay “propaganda” and actions that “offend religious feelings,” a delegation of five French Catholic anti-gay activists – at least one with ties to the far-right Front National party – traveled to Moscow at the invitation of the Duma committee on family, women and children to discuss, among other issues, Russia’s plans to tighten its ban on adoption by same-sex couples abroad…
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How the American Right came to embrace Russia’s anti-gay crackdown
American conservative groups haven’t just praised Russia’s crackdown on gays. Working through several channels, American anti-gay activists quietly provided intellectual backing and international support that directly and indirectly fueled the resurgent anti-gay movement in Russia and in other former Soviet states like Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine.
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Barilla pasta chairman posts Facebook video apologizing for anti-gay remarks
Facing a worldwide boycott of his products, the chairman of Barilla pasta on Friday issued his second apology in as many days after saying he “would never do an advertisemenet with a homosexual family … if the gays don’t like it they can go an eat another brand.”
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Gambia president to United Nations: Homosexuality top global threat
UNITED NATIONS — The president of Gambia is using his address to the United Nations General Assembly to attack gays and lesbians, calling homosexuality one of the three “biggest threats to human existence.”