News + Politics
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Salt Lake Prosecutor will not pursue case against kissing gay couple
”The two individuals believed — albeit mistakenly — that they had the right to be there. Fairness requires that either that property be not open...
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Chicago: Should municipal contracts be set aside for gays, too?
”We know we’ve been disadvantaged. But, there are programs for women already. And the perception is this would only enhance gay white males. That’s why...
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GLBT Budget Burden
The good news came in June. The bad news followed in July. Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) needs to find ways to close a projected budget...
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October's Advance
There’s a ticking time bomb on the Equality Across America Web site. At least, that's how some local activists, like Michael Crawford, might view the...
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G-rated Gay
Children and I don’t really mix well. When they’re near me, when I bear even the remotest responsibility for them, I’m terrified they’ll get hurt....
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Money vs. wishful thinking: Frowned-upon efforts to quickly overturn anti-gay Proposition 8 run into reality
”In conversations with a number of my fellow major No on 8 donors. I find that they share my sentiment: namely, that we will step...
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Lions Club’s ”Catfish Derby” catches flack for denying lesbians a ‘couple’s discount’
”I wasn’t making any statement against lesbians, I’ll tell you that right now. I have nothing against them at all. I was just trying to...
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New DC law extends parental rights to consenting lesbians in cases of artificial insemination
”The new law, which took effect on July 18, 2009, provides that when a woman bears a child conceived by artificial insemination, and her spouse...
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Who’s Bryce Faulkner? 23-year-old student sent to Ex-Gay Camp: His boyfriend, parents squabble publicly [video]
”He’s fine. All the stories you’ve been told are not true…. Bryce] got caught up with friends who were pulling him that way. He just...
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Mexican-American Judge Carlos Moreno still proud of Proposition 8
”Someday at some point my dissent will be the majority view in California. I think that’s where the law is headed. Equal protection is either...
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Walter Cronkite “zapped” into becoming friend of gays recalls PGN news publisher
”He was the kind of man who believed in human rights for everyone. I am amazed and humbled by his willingness to reach out to...
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House Speaker Pelosi appoints gay Representative Jared Polis to supervisory board of Air Force Academy
”We’re all reading the tea leaves here. I’m not saying ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is going away. We can’t say that. But this is a...
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E. Lynn Harris, famed gay, African-American author, dies at 54
Publicist Laura Gilmore said Harris died Thursday night after being stricken at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, and a cause of death had not...
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Big Gay Ice Cream Truck meets the welcoming streets of NYC [video]
”I started thinking, kind of happily about the suspect nature of a middle-aged, white, gay man driving an ice cream truck and the fact that...
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DC-area American Apparel stores vandalized, threatened for displaying pro-gay marriage t-shirt
”We took down the mannequin for 5 seconds to move it, and move it back to this window. But we will not take down this...
