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Arson That Killed 8 Horses Investigated as Hate Crime Against Gay Owner

Apr 27, 2011 - 9:10 AM |AOL News

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Firefighters in rural Ohio are offering a $5,000 reward today for information about who was behind an Easter arson attack that killed eight horses, including a week-old colt, in a blaze being...

Judge's Gay Partner Raised in Proposition 8 Appeal

Apr 25, 2011 - 9:56 PM |AP

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Proponents of California's same-sex marriage ban filed a motion Monday asking that the historic ruling be overturned because the federal judge who struck down Proposition 8 was in a...

Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights

Apr 25, 2011 - 7:14 AM |AP

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll...

Will Donald Trump's Same-Sex Stance Alienate Gay Travelers?

Apr 22, 2011 - 2:45 PM |AOL News

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LAS VEGAS -- Donald Trump's bluster may be raising the would-be GOP presidential candidate's poll numbers and ginning up ratings for his reality-TV show, but his remarks about same-sex marriage are...

Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks

Apr 18, 2011 - 12:46 PM |AP

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- California conservatives were outraged in 1966 when the state Board of Education adopted a new junior high school history textbook. The book's inclusive treatment of the...

US Gay-Marriage Ban Under Assault, But Still Potent

Apr 10, 2011 - 10:41 AM |AP

NEW YORK -- These are frustrating, tantalizing days for many of the same-sex couples who seized the chance to marry in recent years. The law that prohibits federal recognition of their unions in...

New NAACP Seeing More Gay, Diverse Chapter Leaders

Mar 23, 2011 - 7:03 AM |AP

WORCESTER, Mass. -- The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic...

US to Demand Gay Rights Support at UN Body

Mar 21, 2011 - 8:39 PM |AP

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will introduce its first statement calling for the United Nations' top human rights body to combat discrimination against gays and lesbians around the world,...

Fred Phelps' Daughters May Misread Bible but They Know the Law

Mar 3, 2011 - 5:49 PM |AOL News

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After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the hate-spewing Westboro Baptist Church has a right to picket military funerals, Shirley Phelps-Roper promised to "double and triple our efforts" to stage...

Pastor Who Protested Gay Festival Accused of Obscenity

Mar 1, 2011 - 8:58 AM |AOL News

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A Christian fundamentalist pastor known for protesting a gay festival in New Orleans was arrested on an obscenity charge after two women said he was masturbating in his van while parked near a...

Piece by Piece, Obama Undoing President Bill Clinton's Actions

Feb 24, 2011 - 4:48 PM |AOL News

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ANALYSIS WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's stunning announcement that it now considers the Defense of Marriage Act indefensible because it discriminates against gay couples was more than a...

Top Marine Says DADT Repeal Won't Lead to Exodus in Force

Feb 18, 2011 - 11:58 AM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON -- The Marine Corps commandant who once said openly gay service members would be a dangerous "distraction" and was among the most outspoken opponents of repealing the military's "don't...