Homosexual Rights

Not in our name: African human rights activists reject UK aid conditionality

Mark Canavera | Posted 01.29.2012

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An oft-told African proverb (whose precise culture of origin often changes with the teller) asserts that "When elephants fight, the grass suffers." Pu...

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Family Watch International Mangles Families And Rights

Katherine Marshall | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Families, Nigeria, Family Watch International, Homosexual Rights, United Nations, Religion and Sexuality, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Openness, caring and compassion are absolutely vital ingredients. How could a group that purports to speak for families and family values undermine such efforts?

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Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions

Liz Black | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you're religious to the point you refuse evolution as a concept, this is not the play for you. But for the rest of the world, Coming is that bitch-slap that will shock you and leave its impression after you leave.

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Ugandan Tragedy, Human Rights, and US Foreign Aid

Serra Sippel | Posted 06.17.2011

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While the U.S. has condemned egregious examples of rights-violating policies in Uganda, it still funds HIV interventions that are inherently anti-LGBT and anti-woman.

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Separate but Equal: Gen. Conway's Housing Project and the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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General James Conway's comments last week are illustrative of a push to create a second-class status for gay troops once DADT is repealed.

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The History Makers

Steve Ralls | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gay troops have fought and died for our country since the Revolutionary War. Soon, they will no longer have to do so while being treated like second-class citizens.

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The Bullying Years: A Survival Guide for Gay Kids

Gary Cohan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stay tough, stay hopeful, stay healthy and stay alive because, I promise you -- as a gay man, a medical doctor and, most importantly, as a survivor -- it absolutely does get better.

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The Kuchu Beehive

Mark Canavera | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite a penal code that criminalizes homosexual acts with penalties of upwards of 10 years of imprisonment, Uganda has witnessed an astounding flowering of gay and lesbian organizations in recent years.

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Italy Debates If Calling Someone Gay Is An Insult

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Stephan Faris ROME, Italy -- Is it an insult to call somebody gay? That is the question Italians are pondering as they await a pivotal court d...

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Gay Rabbi Seeks Recognition

Yermi Brenner | Posted 04.08.2012

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The first time I met Rabbi Ron he was lecturing at a tolerance festival about his life as an orthodox rabbi who is also gay. He is battling against homophobia, and doing so bravely.

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Gays Protest Church's Refusal To Give Communion To Gay Man

Posted 05.25.2011

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Hundreds of worshipers walked out of a Catholic mass in Holland in protest at the practice of denying communion to open homosexuals, according to repo...

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Uganda's Gays Fight Back Against Crackdown

Posted 05.25.2011

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By Gregory Branch KAMPALA, Uganda -- Even as Uganda's parliament considers the Anti-Homosexuality Bill -- which calls for the death penalty for som...

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Rainbow Planet: The Worldwide Struggle For Gay Rights

globalpost.com | Andrew Meldrum | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON -- All across the world, countries, cultures, societies and religions are struggling with the issue of gay rights. Over the last year, GlobalP...

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Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra Perform the Music of Henry Cowell

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's Cowell's biography that pushes this concert into the realm of serious social importance. For four years he was imprisoned in San Quentin for homosexual relations with a consenting man.

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Mr Gay China Gives Glimpse Of New Acceptance (VIDEO)

The Guardian | Tania Branigan | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's a swimwear round and a talent section where contestants can show off their singing and dancing. But organisers insist the contest to be held t...

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The Importance Of The Gay Cliche

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gay stereotypes, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous.

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Joining Together Those Whose Love Dare Not Speak its Name

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

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The irrationality and endurance of the intolerance of homosexuality really defies precise explanation, as does intolerance of Jews.

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Wedding Crashers: Two Men Fool City Clerk Into Same-Sex Marriage

New York Post | David Seifman and Stefanie Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The city revoked the marriage license of two men who obtained it while one of them was dressed as a woman, officials said today....

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Same Sex Marriages: What's the Big Deal?

Brendon Ayanbadejo | Posted 05.25.2011

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How could our society grant more rights to a heterosexual one night stand wedding in Vegas than a gay couple that has been together for 3, 5, 10 years of true love?

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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California's Top Court Rules Doctors Can't Withhold Care To Gays

AP | PAUL ELIAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — California's highest court on Monday barred doctors from invoking their religious beliefs as a reason to deny treatment to gays ...

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Presbyterian Church's Gay Clergy Ban Overturned

Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2011

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On the heels of a landmark California Supreme Court ruling that overturned a ban on gay marriage, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has done the same thi...

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