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Experts: Proposition 8 Judge's Sexual Orientation Is Non-Issue

SAN FRANCISCO -- The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban insist they are not trying to disqualify the federal judge who struck down Proposition 8 because he is gay. Instead, they argue the judge's decade-long relationship with another man poses a potential conflict because they might want to get hitched...

Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights

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 back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of...

Montana Judge Rejects Gay Couple Rights Suit

HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to extend to gay couples the same legal protections as married couples, saying in his decision that he can't grant the benefits partly because of the state's voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Last...

Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks

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 civil rights movement and influential black Americans would indoctrinate students, undermine religious values and politicize the...

Gay College Runner Comes Out [VIDEO]

Runner Austin Hendrix is one of a growing number of gay and lesbian college athletes who are coming out and who may eventually influence more pro athletes to do the same.

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Highest Number Of Anti-Gay Murders Ever Reported In 2011: The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs

More murders motivated by anti-gay bias occurred last year than any year since the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs began collecting data in 1998, the national advocacy organization reported this week.

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The Definitive Guide To Everything Pride 2012

The soul stylings of out musician and HuffPost Chicago favorite JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound will take center stage Friday at the Do-Division Street Festival's Leavitt Stage.

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Rev. Mel White: Good News! Bad News!

On June 1, 2012, one Los Angeles Times headline reads, " Southern Baptist pastor Fred Luter is set to become the first black president of a denomination with a segregationist history ."

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Manifesto Against Religious Bullies

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Metro State Student Claims Heterosexual Discrimination By Prof.

Metropolitan State College of Denver is currently investigating the claims of a student that a political science professor discriminated against him for being heterosexual. 9News first reported that MSCD student, Rick Foo, filed a grievance against an instructor who Foo claims targeted, insulted and harassed him due to...

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06/02/12 Celebs stand up for marriage equality Source: Seven News Ltd Jennifer Hawkins, Megan Gale, Rachael Taylor and Magda Szubanski are just a few of the Aussie celebrities who have put their names behind the I Do campaign for marriage equality in Australia.
06/02/12 New Leader Of Sacramento's Gay And Lesbian Center Is... Source: CBS/CW - KOVR 13/KMAX 31 - Sacramento CA Sacramento's gay and lesbian community has a new leader.
06/02/12 Cory Booker: "Gay Rights Are Civil Rights" Source: Booker Rising "Opponents of same-sex marriage will not succeed in driving a 'wedge' between African-Americans and gay-lesbian community, Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker, one of America's most prominent young b[l]ack politicians, said in Seattle on Friday night. 'I know that deep in the core of the black community is a call for justice....I think the trend is more and more toward equality,' Booker said in an interview. Discriminatory laws have 'pushed a large section of the population to second class citizenship' just as occurred with blacks in years past, Booker said. He estimated that more than 1,000 laws in America are interpreted in different ways for gays and lesbians."
06/02/12 Redford first Alta premier to attend gay pride... Source: Moose Jaw Times Herald Organizers of this year's gay pride festival in Edmonton are calling the news that Alberta Premier Alison Redford will attend a "milestone."
06/02/12 IGNOU opens doors to hijra, transgender communities Source: Deccan Herald - India Education will not be a far fetched dream for transgender and hijra communities any more as IGNOU has opened admissions for distance education in all streams even for the "other" category.