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The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, The CAMPAIGN, Lgbt, Proposition 8, Twitter, Christie Herring, Lesbian, San Francisco. Maine, Anita Bryant, Gay, Gay Marraige, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Transgender, Bisexual, Mississippi, Love, Cailifornia, Obama, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

Was it bigotry that defeated gay marriage in Maine and California, or was it ignorance? Films like The Campaign, about the fight for gay rights, require our attention and our support.

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Voting on Equal Rights is a National Disgrace

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glbt, Briggs Initiative, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Civil Rights, Lesbian, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Truth Wins Out, Referendum, Anita Bryant, Gay, Wayne Besen, California, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Wayne Besen

With a record of 0-31 in marriage initiatives, now may be a good opportunity to review our complicity in a process that doles out or strips away basic rights by majority vote.

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I Voted (Twice) for Obama, and Apparently I Lost

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 14th Amendment, Harvey Milk Hope Speech, Proposition 8, Joe Cutbirth, Lesbian, President Obama, Lawrence King, Matthew Shepard, Obama, Gay, Civil Liberterian, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Lesbian and Gay, Gay Families, Briggs Initiative, Constitution, Hope, Mayor of Castro Street, Rick Warren, Homophobia, Obama Inauguration, Obama Transition, James Byrd Jr., Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Christian, David Duke, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

Warren's selection is a thumb in the eye of every lesbian and gay citizen, and an insult to kind and decent Americans who believed that Obama's presidency was the beginning of a new era.

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Sean Penn's Milk Has Blast From the Antigay Past

Marc Malkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prop 6, Josh Brolin, Briggs Initiative, Diego Luna, Emile Hirsch, Gus Van Sant, Anita Bryant, Milk, Sean Penn, Gay Community, James Franco, Antidiscrimination Laws, Harvey Milk, Entertainment News
Marc Malkin

Bryant became the gay community's public enemy No. 1 for leading a movement to overturn antidiscrimination laws. I called her office to find out what she thinks about the upcoming movie.

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