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Eagle Scout camp counselor told ‘pack your bags’ after revealing he is gay
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — A 19-year-old Eagle Scout has been terminated from his summer employment as a summer camp counselor at a Missouri-based Boy Scouts summer camp after revealing that he is gay.
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U.S. Navy: Uniformed sailors can march in San Diego pride parade
SAN DIEGO — Sailors based in San Diego most definitely will be allowed to march in uniform with the military contingent at San Diego Pride on Saturday, a Navy spokesman told San Diego Gay & Lesbian News Wednesday afternoon.
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Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush to attend International AIDS Conference
WASHINGTON — The White House announced Tuesday that senior members of the Obama Administration will participate in the 19th annual International AIDS Conference this week, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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Anti-gay Chick-fil-A: ‘Gulity as charged’ in support of ‘traditional marriage’
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A — embroiled in a recent controversy surrounding the millions of dollars it donated to anti-gay organizations — has three words for gay rights advocates: “Guilty as charged.”
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Boy Scouts conclude: Anti-gay policy ‘is absolutely the best policy’
Calling it “absolutely the best policy,” the Boy Scouts of American on Tuesday said it plans to keep in place its controversial policy banning gay scouts and scout leaders, following a confidential two-year review.
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‘Stop SB 48’ coalition admits failure in bid to overturn California FAIR Education Act
SACRAMENTO – Anti-gay groups on Monday night said they have failed to gather enough signatures to force a November referendum to nix the FAIR Education Act (SB 48), California’s law that requires public schools to integrate age-appropriate and factual information about historical roles of LGBT people, people with disabilities and people of color into existing social science instruction.
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‘Hate group’ leader preaches against anti-discrimination law in Missouri
SPRINGFIELD, Mo — Scott Lively, a noted anti-LGBT extremist and the head of the Massachusetts-based Abiding Truth Ministries — a group listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group — told an audience of 70 people on Friday night that a culture war is currently being waged between those fighting for sexual anarchy and those fighting for family values.
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FDA approves first drug for reducing the risk of sexually acquired HIV
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Truvada, the first drug approved to reduce the risk of HIV infection in uninfected individuals who are at high risk of HIV infection, or who may engage in sexual activity with HIV-infected partners.
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Police release new sketch of suspect in shooting of lesbian couple
PORTLAND, Texas — Texas Rangers and the Portland police department have released a new sketch of the suspected shooter in the June 22 attack that claimed one young woman’s life and left her partner struggling to recover in a Texas neurological rehabilitation center.
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Roundup: Dueling briefs in leadup to Supreme Court fight, flawed study on gay parenting
The Defense of Marriage Act has some powerful enemies, with strongly-worded opposition coming this week from some familiar names. A flawed study on LGBT parenting is also under attack, with its author now under investigation. All that and some good news coming out of Maine.