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Florida Competitive Workforce Bill Filed To Add Anti-Discrimination Protections Statewide

Bilerico  9 hours ago

I applaud the filing of the Competitive Workforce bill in the Florida House of Representative. House bill 391, filed by Rep.
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LGBT Equality Holiday Gifts: Free Shipping

Outtake Online  9 hours ago

This weekend, Nov. 21 & 22, we're offering free internationalshipping for all internet purchases over $25 at theOUTTAKE™ EQUALITY STORE Check OUT the fabulousclothing available in sexy black & pure white.
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OPINION:New Website 'ChurchOuting.org' Seeks to Intimidate Gay Priests

Opposing Views  less than a day ago

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights - Protecting Catholicism Catholic League president Bill Donohue addresses a serious issue involving gay activists in the .
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D.C. Board Refuses Same-Sex Marriage Voter Initiative.

The Gaytheist Agenda  2 days ago

This is what every state needs to do, and should have done, when faced with those hateful, bigoted, ballot initiatives seeking to eradicate civil rights for LGBT individuals.
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Wedded to stupidity: anti gay marriage rhetoricians

Bilerico  2 days ago

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David Mixner to Be Honored at Point Honors Benefit

Gay News Bits  2 days ago

Point Legend Award to be Presented to Activist David Mixner at Annual NY Point Honors Gala David Mixner (via flickr/stevendamron [cc]) LOS ANGELES, Calif.
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Wedded to stupidity: anti-gay marriage rhetoricians

Topix Gay News  3 days ago

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Holy cow shit WTF

Sick N Tired  3 days ago

It must be bad when you need to had women's equity to LGBT equity to get people to come to it... Nov.
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A Tale of 2 Jurisdictions: California Voters Can Decide Marriage Law, But D.C. Cannot

Queerty  3 days ago

While the District of Columbia just decided that allowing the people to vote, via ballot initiative, on same-sex marriage would violate the city's Human Rights Act — because popular vote should not decide civil rights — the State of California finds itself fielding five just-approved ballot measures to reverse Proposition 8, the ballot measure that [.
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Precious Director to March on Selma

Advocate  3 days ago

Out director Lee Daniels is in talks to follow his film Precious with the civil rights drama Selma.
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No Public Vote on Civil Rights in Washington DC

Truth Wins Out  4 days ago

Looks like the Catholic diocese of Washington DC will be denied at least one opportunity to foster discrimination.
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DC Board of Elections declares no popular vote on gay marriage rights

365 Gay News  4 days ago

From a press release:   (Washington, DC)  Civil rights triumphed over another failed attack from advocates of discrimination when today, the D.
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OPINION:DC Gay Marriage Bill Does Not Protect Religious Liberties

Opposing Views  4 days ago

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights - Protecting Catholicism Catholic League president Bill Donohue takes issue with those who are critical of the Archdiocese of .
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8: The Mormon Proposition

Men of Color  5 days ago

If anyone is still wondering what the gay members of Gen Y are capable of and whether or not they take for granted the civil rights they currently do have (as the 45-and-over crowd supposedly believe), one need not look.
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Not every homophobe beats up gay men after a long day of firing lesbians

Bilerico  5 days ago

Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed a phenomenon the other day I've been meaning to post about here on Bilerico: droves of straight people in media trying with all their might to prove that folks who go out and vote against same-sex marriage aren't homophobic.
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Toward a better understanding of age in the gay community

Bilerico  5 days ago

Buried in a longer throw-away piece on how femmy TV gays are hurting the movement (no, the Bush years weren't just a nightmare - it's really 2009 and someone's still arguing that) is this paragraph on the old-young divide among gays:

For gays, that schism falls along generational lines.
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Quote For The Day

Men of Color  Nov 13 09

"The homosexual ethos depends on an abandonment of truth ... [T]he gay quest for "civil rights" bears little resemblance to the struggles of blacks and suffragists, whose eventual liberation benefited society at large.
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Gay Marriage Vote Expected Soon in NY

Gay Agenda  Nov 12 09

From WGRZ: Next Monday and Tuesday, a bill legalizing gay marriage will be on the agenda in Albany. The Governor promises it will come to a vote by the end of the year.
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Time to Fight Again for Civil Rights

Gay Agenda  Nov 12 09

In 1968, the longstanding ban on interracial marriage was overturned. Today, public opinion toward it is overwhelmingly favorable, but this sentiment wasn’t always a part of the nation’s morals.
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COMMENTARY: Why civil rights don't belong on any ballot

Topix Gay News  Nov 11 09

Take a moment to think of alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders, an issue state policymakers across the country are currently considering.
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