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Muslim Mayor's Gay Rights Drive Fights Homophobia In Conservative Amsterdam Suburb

Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | World

Read More: Amsterdam, Gay Rights, The Netherlands, Netherlands, Foreign Affairs, Muslim Gay, Homophobia, Gay, Gays, Europe, Gay Issues, Advocacy, Ahmed Marcouch, Religion, Muslim Mayor Amsterdam, Gay Muslim, World News

Ahmed Marcouch, the Muslim mayor of Slotervaart, an uncharacteristically conservative suburb of Amsterdam, is fighting back against a long-lived trend...

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The Importance Of The Gay Cliche

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Lesbian, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Ally McBeal, New York City, New York, Homosexual Rights, Culture, Homosexuals, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Gay and Lesbian Rights, West Village, Society, Gays, Gay Issues, Stonewall, New York News

Gay stereotypes, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous.

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Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media-Accountability, Media Activism, Lesbian, Kai Wright, Gay, Transgender Issues, Andy Humm, Journalism, Civil Rights, Pro-Media, Joan Garry, Lgbt, Transgender, Bisexual, Revolution, Media Criticism, Pride, Gay Pride, Gay Marriage, Stonewall, Gay Issues, Manhattan, New School, Nlgja, Politics News

It's June, that month more or less identified with weddings -- and Rainbow Pride -- and we seem to have been busily courting a new generation to embrace gay marriage.

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Are the Culture Wars Back?

Rachel Laser | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Hate Crimes, Culture Wars, Notre Dame, Progressives, Progressive Movement, Common Ground, Barack Obama, George Tiller, Gay Equality, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Sonia Sotomayor, New Hampshire, Pro-Choice, Third Way, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Politics News

An overwhelmingly popular President and a rising chorus of Americans are imploring policymakers to replace the culture wars with culture discussions. In this new moment, engaging in partisan warfare seems simply passé.

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Gays In China: Beijing Queer Film Festival Goes Off Without A Hitch

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 07.19.2009 | World

Read More: China, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, China Gays, Gays, Gay Rights, Gay Issues, Beijing Queer Film Festival, World News

BEIJING — The first time director and movie buff Cui Zi'en tried to hold a gay and lesbian film festival in 2001, it was shut down by police bef...

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Kathy Griffin Speaks Up for Gay Youth

Jason Mannino | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Media, Youth, Gay, Tv, Gay Issues, Movies, Television, Degrassi, Greek, Ellen, Kathy Griffin, Living News

Television is often touted as one of the banes of our culture, but it can also be of great service to the empowerment and uplifting of society. To hon...

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The Gay Guide to Obama's Remarks Today

Lane Hudson | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Equal Rights, Fairness, Barack Obama, Obama Extends Federal Benefits, Gays Federal Benefits, Barack Obama Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Politics News

The administration has taken backward steps away from fulfilling the vision Obama laid out for LGBT Americans. What the president says today will be far more consequential than what he does.

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Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 07.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Harlem, Harlem's Maysles Cinema, Albert Maysles, Lesbian, Roman Catholicism, President Obama, Rebekah Maysles, Aristotle-Onassis, Sara Maysles, Gay Rights, Tiger Woods, Judge Sotomayor, Gay Parade, Big Edie Bouvier Beale, Stonewall, African-American Issues, Latinos, Women, Gillian Maysles, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Episcopal Church, Grey Gardens, Gay Pride Parade, New York City, Lgbt, Columbia University, Philip Maysles, High Society, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Hotel St Regis, Gay Issues, Jerry Torre, Paper Magazine, Mr. Mickey, Jacqueline Bouvier, Lee Radziwel, New York, New York News

Bred to be lovely and pleasant, to take for granted an ample supply of cash, the women of Grey Gardens were essentially abandoned to languish in a mansion infested with raccoons and cats.

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Brazil Gay Pride Parade Bombing Injures 21

Latin American Herald Tribune | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

Read More: Gay Rights, Brazil Gay Pride Parade Bombing, Latin America, Brazil Gay Pride, Foreign Affairs, Brazil, Gay, Gays, Gay Issues, Advocacy, Brazil Gay Pride Parade, World News

At least 21 people were injured when a homemade bomb exploded at a spot where participants gathered after the gay pride parade in Brazil's largest cit...

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New York Times Fetes Gay Couples Featured In Wedding Pages With Cocktail Party

WWD | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times Wedding Announcements, New York Times, Gay, New York Times Gay Marriage Announcements, Gay Issues, Media News

It took a lot of Googling, Facebooking and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting to track down nearly all 300 same-sex couples that have appeared in th...

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When the People Are Wrong -- A Son's Defense of His Father's Gay Marriage

Stinson Carter | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Gay, California Gay Marriage Ban, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, California Prop 8, Prop 8, Living News

The opposition may never change their minds. But their children will, and if not them then their grandchildren.

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Levi's Sports White Knots in Support of Gay Marriage

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Gay Rights, Andrea Chalupa, Bruce Watson, WalletPop.Com, Walletpop, Gay Marriage Equality, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Business News

Should businesses take a side in the gay marriage equality debate? Only if they want to be on the right side of history or else it's just bad marketing, and karma.

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71% Say Newsom Beating Gallagher in Gay Marriage Debate

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Lesbian, National Organization for Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Civil Unions, Maggie Gallagher, Mayor Gavin Newsom, California Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Gavin Newsom, Ban on Gay Marriages, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Gays, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Homophobe, Media News

The California Supreme Court may have just weighed in on gay marriage, but participants in the NOW on PBS gay marriage interactive debate are still having their say.

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California Supreme Court Thinks Prop 8 Was No Big Deal

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amendment, Equality, Proposition 8, California, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Gay, California Prop 8, Eqaul Protection, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, California Supreme Court, Revision, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Politics News

The court says that because the effect of Proposition 8 is so "minor" we don't need to classify it as a revision and it can stand, as is, after a simple majority vote.

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Adam Lambert's "Loss" Due to Homophobia? A Stretch

Paul Katz | Posted 06.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Chris Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, Homophobia, Entertainment, Adam Lambert, Entertainment News, Gay, American Idol, Kris Allen, Entertainment Weekly, Clay Aiken, Gay Issues, Entertainment News

It's a great spot for Lambert to be in because it brings all the attention to the "problem." I just don't think the "problem" in this case is homophobia.

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Explaining The Nation's Non-Reaction To Gay Marriage

Dan Pashman | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Gay Rights, Evangelical Christians, Christian Broadcasting Network, Christian Right, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Pat Robertson, Politics News

As people start to see that New England hasn't turned into Sodom and Gomorrah, they're becoming more comfortable with the notion of same-sex marriage.

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Homo Sex in Colonial America

Larry Kramer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homophobia, Founding Fathers, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, American History, Gay Issues, Colonial America, Larry Kramer: Homo Sex in Colonial America, Larry Kramer, Homo Sex, Homo, Politics News

Gay people are victims of an enormous con job. An awful rip-off. A tragic heist. It is time to call its bluff and grow up. This means recognizing that we have been here since the beginning of the history of people.

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"Gay, or Straight, Black, or White: Love is Love, Right is Right!" Right?

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Liberties, Lesbian, George W. Bush, Gays and Lesbians, Harry-Belafonte, African-American History, Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, Edna Thomas, Gay Rights, Walter Nagel, Tiger Woods, Racism, Frederick Douglass, African-American Issues, Jasmyne Cannick, Sammy Davis Jr., Phillip Johnson, Pearl Bailey, Olivia Whyndham, Michael Bloomberg, Walter-White, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Lena Horne, Interacial Relationships, Interacial-Sex, Interracial Marriage, Jimmie Daniels, Gays in the Military, Seal, Martin Luther King, Jack Johnson, Homophobia, California Gay Marriage Ban, Bayard Rustin, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Sidney Poitier, Living News

Many activist gays have readily embraced the notion that "Queers" are "today's African Americans," with marriage equality an issue comparable to earlier more bitter struggles for civil rights.

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"Will you Civil Union Me?"

David Ambroz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Iowa, California, Domestic Partnerships, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Maine, Marriage, Gay Rights, Civil Unions, Gay Issues, Living News

I'm a radical liberal awaiting equality but Daniel -- forgive the lack of poetry -- will you domestically partner me?

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Thoughts on Gay Marriage

Bob Ostertag | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Gay, Gay Rights, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Seems like the debate my postings here on the Huffington Post about gay marriage have reverberated beyond. Among the various articles and interviews a...

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WATCH: Speak Out Against The Jim Crow Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Lee Stranahan | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Homosexuality, Military, Gay Rights, Segregation, Homophobia, Desegregation, Barack Obama Gay Issues, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Issues, Barack Obama, Politics News

I'm just personally sick of the stupidity of kicking people out of the military simply because of who they love.

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Peru Firing 'Scandalous' Gays From Police Force

AP | ANDREW WHALEN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

Read More: Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Peru, Peru Police, Peru Gays, Peru Gay, Gay Issues, Gays, Lima-Peru, World News

LIMA, Peru — Peruvian police officers who "damage the image" of law enforcement by engaging in homosexual behavior can lose their jobs under a n...

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Russian Lesbians Marriage License Rejected; First Attempted Application In Country

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay, Gay Issues, Gays, Russia Gay Marriage, Russia Gay Rights, Irina Fedotova, Irina Shipitko, Lesbian, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbians, World News

MOSCOW — Supporters considered it a historic moment: two radiant women applied for a marriage license in a Moscow government office, claiming to...

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Gay & Lesbian Manners: Is Outing Closeted Legislators Unethical?

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Lesbian, Barney Frank, LGBT Rights, Kirby-Dick-Outrage, Outing, Gay Issues, Manners, Living News

Manners usually takes up on the side of privacy, but when hypocrisy is at play, truthfulness and honesty are our more important companions in our struggle for fairness and equality.

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Gay & Lesbian Manners: To Drink or Not to Drink with Your Alcoholic, Lesbian Sister?

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Food Allergies, LGBT Issues, Lesbian, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Gays and Lesbians, Etiquette, Lesbians, Gay, Alcoholics Anonymous, LGBT Families, Gay Issues, Manners, Addiction & Recovery, Style News

Since your sister is only recently sober, she no doubt feels especially vulnerable to relapse. In this light, you may want to abide by her request until more time has passed.

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