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Bishop Harry Jackson gets the glamour shot treatment by the WaPo

Pams House blend  3 days ago

UPDATE: Jackson and the Alliance Defense Fund have filed suit against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics over its refusal to allow an initiative to ban same-sex marriage.
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In Which Carrie Prejean Fails to Fit NOM's Story Arc

Fannies Room  5 days ago

It's not often that I would use the descriptor "good" in the same sentence as the National Organization for [Hetersexual] Marriage.
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Must listen: NPR talks with Blade’s Lou Chibarro, Jr.

Qnews  Oct 28 09

Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More, talks with veteran Washington Blade reporter Lou Chibarro, Jr.
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The Ex-Gay Cry Censorship: No One Wants Their Books

Topix Gay News  Oct 23 09

The headline of the story on FOX News is a doozy: "Gay Reversal Advocates Say School Libraries Banning Their 'Ex-Gay' Books.
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"Ex-Gays" Complain Libraries Won't Stock Their Books

Joe My God  Oct 23 09

The "ex-gay" movement is complaining that school and public libraries are refusing to stock books that tell people it's possible to change their sexual orientation.
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What Does 'Post-Gay' Mean, Anyhow?

Queerty  Oct 18 09

The recovering homos at Alan Chambers' ever-expanding Exodus International, particularly vice president and chief twink Randy Thomas (pictured), are moving away from that negative sounding ex-gay to the term post-gay, which to us sounds like the post-Will & Grace era.
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Austin Weekly News Features Story About "Ex-Gay"

Queers United  Oct 15 09

The Austin Weekly News has featured an article titled "An "Ex-gay' Speaks Out" about Cornelius Williams a man who claims faith cured his homosexuality and now serves as a pastor.
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LGBT Strategy: "My Way or the Highway"?

Bilerico  Oct 14 09

LGBT Rights. The Gay Movement. Queer Liberation. Full Equality. The Homosexual Agenda.

All are names that get thrown around in the fight for equal right for LGBTQ people.
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HRC's Rhode Island Avenue office vandalized: What does it mean?

Bilerico  Oct 13 09

A few hours after Obama spoke to the gay lobby, a group of queers going by the name "Queers Against Assimilation" (to the point) tagged HRC's building with the sentence "Quit leaving queers behind.
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Debate on March Exposes Split in Gay Rights

Google Gay Marriage News / New York Times  Oct 09 09

Sovo.com Debate on March Exposes Split in Gay RightsNew York Times“And there's nothing that remotely replaces it as a galvanizing force for the gay movement.
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Disappearing Act

IGF Culture Watch  Sep 25 09

by David Link

There was an elephant missing from the room during the congressional hearing on ENDA – the opposition.
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On loyalty oaths

Bilerico  Sep 14 09

I'm sure you've all heard by now that Rep. Jerry Nadler plans on introducing a bill to repeal DOMA in the House, and that Barney Frank isn't co-sponsoring because he's worried that the "certainty principle" will be a poison pill that will kill the bill and that it will be a distraction from other legislation like ENDA.
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The Ex-Gay Movement that Wasn't: A look at D.C.'s tiniest demographic

Topix Gay News  Sep 11 09

Last month, Robert Rigby approached a booth at the Arlington County Fair staffed by volunteers with Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays , a group dedicated to the rights of recovering homosexuals.
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Swing Swag Tuesday

Kenneth in the 212  Sep 01 09

To help celebrate the kickoff of the U.S. Open, this afternoon I'm giving away a DVD of The Tennis Channel's recent "Signature Series" documentary about Martina Navratilova, autographed by the legend herself.
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National Organization for Marriage takes aim on Iowa

GaySocialites  Aug 27 09

The same people who helped spread a message of hate and set California back by at least 5 years in the gay movement have their sites set on doing the same in Iowa.
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'Ex-Gay' Is Now a Legally Protected Sexual Orientation. That's Good

Queerty  Aug 26 09

Newly straight? Formerly gay? Congratulations, a judge just decided you're a sexual orientation that cannot be discriminated against.
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Vanasco: Do protests matter?

365 Gay News  Aug 20 09

The modern gay movement started with a protest 40 years ago. Stonewall showed us that being gay didn't make us weaker - it just made us different.
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Crashing the (Grand Old) Party

Independent Gay Forum  Aug 10 09

by James KirchickFirst published in The Advocate, September 2009

The scene at the White House East Room on June 29 was incongruous, if predictable.
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Official Repudiation of "Ex-Gay" Therapy

Straight Not Narrow  Aug 06 09

I know some of you will read this and go "well, duh," but yesterday's declaration by the American Psychiatric Association effectively debunking repairative (ex-gay) therapy is very important.
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Linda Harvey: JMG Is A Liar

Joe My God  Aug 04 09

Mission America founder Linda Harvey is very upset about my post characterizing her as saying the murder victims in Tel Aviv got what they deserved for being at a gay event.
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