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Tim Hortons blames website censorship on vendor after boycott threatened
TORONTO — Tim Hortons, the Ontario-based coffee and doughnut house with more than 3,500 locations in Canada and the U.S., said Friday it has lifted a block of a popular Canadian LGBT news website from its in-store Wi-fi under pressure from gay rights advocates who vowed to launch a boycott of the chain.
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Anonymous hacks Nigeria’s government website over anti-gay bill
DUBLIN, Ireland — An Irish hacker, who claims that he is part of the Anonymous hackivist group, took down Nigeria’s official government website over its intent to pass a law that would jail LGBT people for up to 14 years.
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New York makes pitch for LGBT visitors with new tourism website
NEW YORK — New York state making a pitch for gay visitors with a new “I Love NY LGBT” tourism website.
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Linda Harvey: Gay news sites trick kids into becoming gay
Linda Harvey of Mission America is worried that “homosexual news blogs” and other websites “that are sympathetic to the social and political goals of the homosexual movement” may actually trick young people, who could simply be visiting such sites in order to research the debate on same-sex marriage, into becoming gay by putting them in close reach of “homosexual-themed pornography.”
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Report that gay Somalian teen stoned to death in doubt due to fraudulent photos
Reports by an LGBT activist group in Africa that a gay Somalian teenager was stoned to death last week as a punishment for the crime of homosexuality, and widely reported by LGBT bloggers on Wednesday, may prove to be false.
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eHarmony founder: Homosexuality is ‘a painful way for people to have to live’
Neil Clark Warren, the Christian co-founder of the dating site eHarmony, said he’s “tired” of the debate over marriage equality for gays and lesbians, and blamed same-sex marriage for damaging his company.
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Reddit ‘Gaymers’ fight cease-and-desist letter from trademark holder
Gay video game enthusiasts who belong to a “Gaymer” subsection of the website Reddit have urged the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to cancel registration of the term.
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‘Oops, sorry,’ says Facebook after deleting ‘offensive’ photo of gay couple
Is this photo offensive? Well, somebody at Facebook thought so — and determined that this wedding photo that appeared on the Facebook page “Gay Marriage USA” not only violated their “policies and community standards,” but was worthy of blocking the page admin from posting on Facebook for a week.
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Pentagon blocks LGBT websites for ‘operational security reasons’
More than 15 months since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military’s former ban on openly gay service members, the U.S. Department of Defense continues to block access to websites it categorizes as LGBT.
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Website helps Dutch Catholics protest church’s opposition to gay marriage
AMSTERDAM — A website operator in The Netherlands is helping thousands of Dutch Catholics research information on how that can leave the church in protest of its opposition to same-sex marriage.