News + Politics
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Obama administration takes action against Uganda for anti-LGBT law
The Obama administration confirmed Monday a series of cuts in aid to Uganda in response to the recent enactment of an anti-LGBT law by the...
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Biden labels LGBT discrimination ‘barbaric,’ but mum on executive order
Vice President Joe Biden urged Congress to outlaw LGBT workplace discrimination in a speech Saturday while making no mention of actions the Obama administration could...
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Ethiopia to make same-sex acts a non-pardonable crime
Ethiopian lawmakers are planning to pass a bill into law which would make same-sex acts between consenting adults a non-pardonable offense, LGBTQNation reports. Ethiopia’s Pardon and...
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Vice President Biden: It’s outrageous we’re even debating ENDA
“If you think about it, it’s outrageous we’re even debating this subject. I really mean it. I mean it’s almost beyond belief that today, in 2014,...
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Watch: Jayne Rowse and April DeBoer celebrate end of Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban
As news today came that U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman had found Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional, it brought with it...
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Federal court strikes down Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban
A federal judge struck down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman found a state constitutional amendment approved by...
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Student denied readmission to Baptist college after coming out
“I was told I couldn’t come back unless I petitioned to the president or I wrote a statement that I would adhere to the moral...
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Gay GOP House candidate urges party to embrace marriage equality
A gay Republican running for Congress warned that his party must evolve on LGBT-rights or face extinction. Richard Tisei, who is again seeking to unseat...
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POEFV Rallies On
A group of about 50 people, led by the pro-LGBT group People of Faith for Equality in Virginia (POFEV), gathered behind the Loudoun County Circuit...
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Westboro Baptist’s Fred Phelps dead
“When Americans were faced with the choice of accepting their LGBT neighbors or endorsing Phelps’s unfiltered hate, they chose the former. He showed anti-gay bigotry...
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RIP, Fred Phelps
While many people will be celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, whose name is synonymous with irrational hate and vitriol, I think that today the...
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Washington as the Globe’s Gay Capital
Earlier this month, I shared a post on my Facebook wall regarding Dmitry Kiselyov. The post was critical of the anti-Western, anti-LGBT Kiselyov, taking what...
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Federal judge places Kentucky recognition of same-sex marriages on hold
Recognition by Kentucky of legal same-sex marriages was put on hold Wednesday pending the appeal of federal court ruling. U.S. District Court Judge John Heyburn...
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UPDATE: 220 lawmakers urge Obama to sign LGBT executive order
Update: In the final version of the letter sent to President Obama, 168 members from the House of Representatives and 52 senators signed their names,...
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DNC blasts Republican Party’s failure to evolve on LGBT-rights
A year after the Republican Party sought to cure its electoral woes with a series of policy recommendations, the Democratic National Committee said in a...
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