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Kiss-In Held After Gay Couple Booted from Pub [VIDEO]

Willow Palin Tosses Homophobic Slurs Around on Facebook

(Nov. 17) -- Here's a quick quiz for the 5 million viewers who tuned in for the debut of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" Sunday on TLC. 1. When someone attacks Mama Bear, baby bears should: a) Turn the other cheek. b) Try a little diplomacy before responding with force. c) Hurl anti-gay epithets. If your answer was "c," you get...

Ugandan Tabloid Publishes 'Hit List' of Gay Men

(Oct. 19) -- A Ugandan tabloid newspaper is making headlines itself today for publishing what appears to be a hit list targeting gay men in a notoriously homophobic country, The Associated Press is reporting. An Oct. 9 article in Uganda's "Rolling Stone" (which has no relation to the American magazine by the same name)...

Judge Issues Injunction Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Instant Reactions

(Oct. 12) -- The day after National Coming Out Day, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. military must end enforcement of its controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, The Associated Press reports. According to the report, "Judge Virginia Phillips ordered the military 'immediately to suspend and discontinue any...

Ann Coulter Defends Carl Paladino's Anti-Gay Remarks

(Oct. 12) -- Did Carl Paladino's recent anti-gay remarks win him votes? Ann Coulter seems to think so. Coulter paid a visit to "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday evening to defend Paladino, the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate, no stranger to controversy himself, who has come under fire for staunchly...

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'Angry Queers' Damage Driscoll's Portland Church

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) A satellite church affiliated with controversial Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll was vandalized early Tuesday (April 24) and a group calling itself the "Angry Queers" has reportedly taken responsibility.

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Teens Demand Change In Powerful Video (WATCH)

"I want to know what it's like to live a land truly of the free, one that doesn't exclude me."

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05/29/12 County residents among thousands to protest anti-gay... Source: The Star - Shelby NC They lined the side of a highway on Sunday, carrying signs and hoping to share their message.
05/28/12 Thousands Protest NC Pastor Charles Worley, Who Said... Source: Towle Road More than 2,000 protesters came out from all over the country to protest Providence Road Baptist Church Pastor Charles Worley, whose Mother's Day sermon in which he suggested gays and lesbians should be fenced in and killed went viral last week, the Hickory Record reports.
05/27/12 Protestors and counter-protestors of anti-gay pastor... Source: ABC - WSOC 9 - Charlotte NC Catawba County sheriff's deputies were on hand Sunday for what has been called the largest protest in the county in decades.
05/24/12 It's official: Obama is American Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia There it was in black and white, down the bottom of a back page of the Washington Post yesterday.
05/24/12 Men drive stolen church van to jail Source: United Press International (UPI) Two men in a hurry to visit a California jail found themselves behind bars when they allegedly hijacked a church van to get to there quicker, police said.

Background on Homophobia

Homophobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

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