News + Politics
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Biden to speak at HRC’s spring convention
Vice President Joe Biden will address the Human Rights Campaign’s Spring Equality Convention
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Dustin Lance Black advocates for young actors to come out
“Young actors are coming out now, there is no going back into the closet. So managers and agents will have to grow up and get...
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California ballot measure demands “bullet in the head” for gays
— An excerpt from the Sodomite Suppression Act, a ballot measure filed February 24 in California by Matt McLaughlin of Huntington Beach, Calif. McLaughlin believes...
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California GOP formally recognizes Log Cabin Republicans
— Charles Moran, chairman of the Log Cabin California chapter, upon a vote by the California Republican Party to officially recognize the LGBT-rights group. The...
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Holder names out gay man to head Justice Department’s Civil Division
Attorney General Eric Holder taps Ben Mizer to be the next head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division
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Sen. Barbara Mikulski will not run for a sixth term
Longest-serving female U.S. Senator announces retirement
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Federal judge overturns Nebraska same-sex marriage ban
Nebraska’s ban on same-sex marriage struck down
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Burning with hate in Omaha
— Jess Meadows-Anderson, on Omaha man Cameron Mayfield, who stole the rainbow flag hanging from Meadows-Anderson’s porch and set it ablaze. Meadows-Anderson shares the home with her wife, Ariann Anderson,...
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“The Gay Best Friend Must Die,” decrees HuffPo writer
— Huffington Post contributor Tré Easton, in a Feb. 27 column entitled, The Gay Best Friend Must Die, examining the archetype of the gay best friend...
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First Supreme Court briefs filed in same-sex marriage cases
The first step in the legal process is complete.
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Transgender advocate to run against Hoyer
Kristin Beck, a well-known transgender advocate for open military service for LGBT people and a former member of the SEAL Team Six counterterrorism unit, earlier this...
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Jeb Bush affirms support for “traditional marriage” at CPAC
Jeb Bush is softening his tone on marriage equality, but not his views.
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GLAA names award recipients
The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. (GLAA) has announced it will honor three people nominated as Distinguished Service Award recipients for 2015....
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South Carolina college with two gay athletes issues statement on homosexuality
“We believe the Bible teaches that monogamous marriage between a man and a woman is God’s intended design for humanity.” — A statement issued and...
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Gay “cure” camp in South Africa guilty of murdering teen
Owners of a camp in South Africa, which claimed to offer a gay “cure” have been convicted of murder after a teen in their care...
