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Texas Democratic candidate compares gay opponent’s HIV status to gambling & drug addiction
The queer community is firing back at the Democrat’s shameful remarks and they’re not mincing words.
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Mike Pence’s home state seeks to be the next to ban so-called “conversion therapy”
Only one state in the Midwest has the “therapy” outlawed currently. Indiana seeks to become the second.
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New York enacts legislation that requires single-person bathrooms to be gender neutral
School, restaurants, and state-operated facilities in the Empire State will have to make single-occupancy restrooms open to anyone, regardless of gender.
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Gay Michigan Rep. Jon Hoadley sets his sights on Congress
He says he loves helping his constituents. “That feeling is incredible.” Now he wants to help LGBTQ equality and health care access at the federal level.
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How a gay boy from the border grew up & learned how to build bridges over fences
Activist Jesse Garcia grew up in a bicultural world full of contradictions and opportunities.
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Gay rights advocates rally at Texas Democratic Convention
DALLAS — About two dozen gay pride advocates have waved flags and signs during the final day of the Texas Democratic Convention in Dallas. Members of the Stonewall Democrats on Saturday stormed the floor during a speech by state Sen. Royce West, whose district is hosting the gathering. Activists waved rainbow flags and homemade signs …
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Gay rights group opposes naming university center for Mormon leader
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah gay-rights organization has started a petition to protest the naming of a new Weber State University center after a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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LGBT activists: Proposed GOP platform ‘out-of-step’ with mainstream American values
WASHINGTON — Early reports Monday that the Republican National Party platform might contain language that would soften the GOP’s view on LGBT rights were dashed by late afternoon as documents showed that party leadership had asked virulently anti-gay president of the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, to assist in drafting language relating to same-sex marriage.
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Activist groups scorn GOP-led defeat of defense bill, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal
A visibly irritated Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev.), came to the floor of the U. S. Senate earlier this afternoon, and in a short speech announced that efforts to seek a compromise with Senate Republicans on the Defense Authorization Bill had failed, and that he was going to ask for a cloture vote.
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Senate GOP threatens to block all legislation — including DADT — until economic issues addressed
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced Wednesday that GOP Senators will block any legislation from coming to the Senate floor until two key economic issues are addressed: funding the government — the “continuing resolution” which must pass to prevent a government shutdown — and the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.
