Our Genders, Our Rights

NEW YORK, NY - - -  The Issues Magazine launched "Our Genders, Our Rights," its Summer 2009 edition.

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House subcommittee approves benefits for same-sex partners

A House subcommittee today advanced a bill to provide health and retirement benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.

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Obama names Medal of Freedom recipients, including Harvey Milk ...

President Obama, attempting to spotlight those who have acted as "agents of change," today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures widely known in politics, the arts and sciences, sports and social movements.

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Human Rights Campaign Calls on the LGBT Community and Allies to Participate in National, Grassroots Push to Lobby Congress Face-to-Face

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today launched a national, grassroots campaign called "No Excuses" to demand action from Congress on key issues of equality.

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Gay professor Simon Karlinsky dies

Simon Karlinsky, an openly gay distinguished professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on the history of homosexuality in Russia, died July 5 due to congestive heart failure.

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States with more Catholics more favor gay rights

Want to predict which state might move next to legalize same-sex marriage? You might count Catholics.

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Kid Rock: Twitter is gay

Quote of the day, from Kid Rock, to Rolling Stone, via Page Six, about Twitter:

"It's gay.

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Militias target some Iraqis for being gay

BAGHDAD — The young man turns to the camera and pleads with his tormentors.

"I'm not a terrorist," he tells the Iraqi police who surround him.

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'Hate crime' at Danish gay games

A Dane has been charged with committing a hate crime for allegedly throwing fireworks at athletes during a gay sporting event in Copenhagen.

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IDs of gay partnership foes could be released next week

Order: Gay partnership foe names don't have to be released

The names of people who signed petitions seeking to overturn Washington's "everything but marriage" same-sex domestic partner law won't be released publicly following a federal judge's temporary restraining order.

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