News + Politics
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NYT reports 89-year-old lesbian struggling to recall her lead at 1969 Stonewall riots
”He wound up flat on his back on the ground. I don’t know what he hit me with. He hit me from behind, the coward.” Storme...
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NY gay Catholics march in Pride Parade; Bishop forbids display of Church’s banner [video]
”Perhaps some people come to St. Francis because they don’t feel judged… For me, the blank banner stands for, ‘We’ve been silenced.’ For me, that’s also...
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Fighting for Recognition
The U.S. Supreme Court today held that a public university can require that student groups allow ''all comers'' in order to receive the benefits of...
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Gay magazine crosses “12-step boundary” to out anti-gay pastor
Reverend Tom Brock is the Associate Pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis. He is known for his denunciations of homosexuality and GLBT rights...
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End Game
The conspiracy trial of three gay men implicated in the 2006 murder of attorney Robert Wone rested amid dramatic flourishes this week, with a verdict...
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Transgender student attacked and robbed in Houston
”I was scared, I really was scared. He had the blade up there and he kind of made little strokes like he was going to...
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Melissa Etheridge discusses the end of her gay marriage
”Now I think everybody understands why we’re not together — because we don’t see things the same. You know, those things are so hard to...
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Signing Statements
''Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.'' Justice Antonin Scalia, siding with gay-rights...
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Missing Man Found
Spotsylvania County Police announced on Thursday, June 24, that Edward Roland Minnoe, missing since June 13, is alive and ''safe in another state.'' According to...
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Why do gays still need “visibility” parades? Take a look at the Texas GOP platform
Portions of the recently published ”2010 State Republican Party Platform” of Texas. The sad fact is, even though this document was recently released, it really isn’t...
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MTV’s “Jersey Shore guidos” are poster boys for Village Voice’s “Queer Issue?”
”The paper’s not saying the cover boys are gay, just that that they’re hot.” An unnamed source speaking with New York Post’s “Page Six” about...
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Mike Huckabee says gay relationships have “ick factor;” credits gay marriage ”militants” for term
One afternoon in Jerusalem, while Huckabee was eating a chocolate croissant in the lounge of the Crowne Plaza Hotel, I asked him to explain his...
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Youth to the Fore
''I just hope that President Obama steps up to the plate on LGBT issues.'' Mentioning repeal of the ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' policy and the...
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Finding Faith
For a godless homosexual, I'm unusually interested in the religious faith of LGBT people who are believers. This comes, in large part, from my own...
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Perkins's Washington Warning
If you are on the Family Research Council's e-mail list, you may have seen this alarm from Tony Perkins in his June 16 ''Washington Update'':...
