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Sigourney Weaver And Cast Of Prayers For Bobby Offer Hope To LGBT Youth

Jason Mannino | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Hate Crimes, Pflag, Lifetime, Gay, Film, New York, Sigourney Weaver, Lgbt, Religion, Television, Gay Rights, Mary Griffith, Emmys, Chicago, Living, Love, San Francisco, Living News
Jason Mannino

Service comes in many forms. In my article last week I discussed how positive images in television are serving LGBT youth. As Pride month comes to c...

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On Drinking Again

Dwayne Raymond | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Mailer, Cape Cod, Change, Drinking, Writers, Provincetown, Lifestyle, Gay, Living News
Dwayne Raymond

I was sitting alone on Norman Mailer's deck one night in early June, 2006. I chucked my last glass of cheap vodka and expensive cranberry juice over Norman's railing into the high tide. Plop.

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A Clunky Way to Spend Billions

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: 111th Congress, Long Beach, Krxa, Charles Karel Bouley, Billboard, Kfi, Kgo, Green, Motorcycles, Huffingtonpost, Honda, Politics, Scooters, Alternative Transportation, Kngy, Gas Mileage, Tata, Piaggio, Vespa, Entertainment, Mana, Karel, Tim Buche, Yamaha, Aprilia, Advocate, Gay, Motorcycle Industry Council, Mpg, Hybrid, Radio, Cash for Clunkers, Environment, War Funding, Knx, Green News
Charles Karel Bouley

The recent Cash for Clunker legislation passed by Congress as part of the $106 billion war funding bill is a complete and total waste of a billion dollars short term, four billion long term.

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Gays Should Drop the Washington Crack Pipe

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Gay, Washington, Lesbian, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Wayne Besen

What we seek is to reclaim our basic dignity and end needless suffering -- both goals that one is unlikely to achieve solely in the glamorous quicksand of Washington.

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Gay and Lesbian Manners: The Great Oral Sex Dilemma

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Style

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Stds, Sex, Safe Sex, Aids, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Etiquette, Gay, Gays, Condoms, Manners, Style News
Steven Petrow

Even if you feel embarrassed talking about sex (especially with someone new), discuss your preferences beforehand.

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Gays to Obama: "We've Seen Enough"

Wayne Besen | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Obama, Gay, Doma, Enda, Homosexual, Politics News
Wayne Besen

The Democrats took our money, our votes and our volunteer hours and now they tell us to wait patiently, like good little gays.

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Two Parties No Party for America

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Long Beach, Krxa, Charles Karel Bouley, Billboard, Prop 8, Entertainment, Kfi, Karel, Kgo, Universal Healthcare, Nancy Pelosi, Iraq, Advocate, Huffingtonpost, Gay, Single Payer Health Care, 2008 Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Politics, Constitution, 2006 Election, XIV Amendment, Radio, Equal Protection, Kngy, Afghanistan, Republicans, Knx, Economy, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.

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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
Jason Mannino

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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Gays To Obama: "If Not Now, When?"

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Same Sex, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Honeymoon, Obama, Democratic National Committee, Campaign, Gay, Campaign Promises, Election, Barack Obama, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Marriage, Lane Hudson, Change, Gay Rights, Clinton, Dadt, Change We Can Believe In, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Rick Warren, Defense of Marriage Act, John Aravosis, Dnc, Hudson, Doma, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Aravosis, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The political reality is that -- especially for contentious issues -- there is a very small window for presidents to get things done.

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Obama and the Gays: The Ruthless 6 Part Strategy? UPDATED 7pm

Leah McElrath Renna | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Obama, Gay Rights, Gay, Doma, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News
Leah McElrath Renna

The announcement today might be part of a larger strategy by the administration to triangulate two different constituencies on gay issues -- thereby appearing to be concerned about all while satisfying none.

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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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Celebrating LGBT Pride Month

Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, LGBT Issues, Workplace Discrimination, Gay Pride, Stonewall, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Gerald McEntee

This month, we mark the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, when the struggle for full citizenship for LGBT Americans began in earnest.

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China Gay Pride Week Squelched By State

Christian Science Monitor | Posted 07.12.2009 | World

Read More: China Gay Rights, Gay Rights, China Gay Pride, Gay Pride Week, Foreign Affairs, Gay, China Free Speech, China Gays, Gay Pride, China, China Human Rights, Advocacy, World News

Police warned two Shanghai venues against hosting events, even as a state-run daily hailed the festival as a "showcase" of progress....

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Football Team Waterboarded To Make "Political Point" In Gay Pride Film

Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waterboarding, Gay, Film, Noam Gonick, Gay Pride, Gay Pride Parade, Politics News

A Canadian filmaker has made a movie for Gay Pride Week featuring football players getting waterboarded with rainbow-colored underwear covering their ...

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Gay-Married At Last

Isobel White | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marriage, California Gay Marriage, California, Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Prop 8, California Supreme Court, California Gay Marriage Ban, Gay, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Isobel White

When I was finally pronounced legally married, I wasn't in a church, nor a garden, nor at City Hall. I wasn't with any of my loved ones. In fact, I wasn't even with my wife.

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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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Friday Talking Points [79] -- Judicial Activism And Bias

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Nickolas, Supreme Court, White House, Autoworkers, Burris, Constitutional Crisis, Power Struggle, Founding Fathers, Detainee Deaths, Gingrich, President, War Crimes, Rnc, Courts, Princeton, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Sotomayor, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pussy Galore, Un, Ralph Nader, Judicial Activism, Republican National Committee, Court, Twitter, Terry McAuliffe, Congress, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Rod Blagojevich, Sonia Sotomayor, Truth Commission, Youtube, Banks, Hillary Clinton, Uaw, Bonuses, Up or Down Vote, Michael Guest, Same Sex, Nader, President Obama, Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, United Nations, Blaggy, Filibuster, Bankers, Obama, Scotus, Prejudice, Auschwitz, Blago, Republican, Government, Blagojevich, Lionel Sosa, Pelosi, Clinton, Activism, Federal Government, Bias, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Defense of Marriage Act, Legislating From the Bench, Benefits, Gm, Pyne Prize, Roland Burris, Philip Alston, Gay, State Department, Checks and Balances, Mcauliffe, Chris Kelly, Secretary of State, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Spousal Benefits, Nominee, Doma, Torture, Alston, Politics News
Chris Weigant

"Judicial activism" (or, alternatively, "legislating from the bench") is defined -- no matter what your political beliefs -- as "judges not ruling the...

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Sexual Orientation and the Pursuit of Happiness

Marianne Williamson | Posted 06.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Freedom, Gay, Lesbian, Liberty, Home News
Marianne Williamson

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.... These values are enshrined in our Declaration of Independence as inalienable rights of every American....

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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
Stinson Carter

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

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Celebs and Other Opponents of Prop 8 Take to the Streets. But Is it Enough?

Greg Archer | Posted 06.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Henry Rollins, California Gay Marriage, George Clooney, Proposition 8, Gay, Carrie Prejean, Gay Marriage, Home News
Greg Archer

The bottom line? California can do better -- and ought to -- especially now that Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Iowa have given same-sex marriages an official green light.

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Lt. Dan Choi Takes "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Directly to Obama

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rally, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lieutenant Dan Choi, Courage Campaign, Gay, Rick Jacobs, Daniel Choi, Hal Sparks, Ee, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Outside the hotel on Wilshire Boulevard across from the Beverly Hilton, Lieutenant Dan Choi was surrounded by several hundred gay rights/equal rights supporters who hung on his every word.

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The Solace That Gay Marriage Brings

Noel Alumit | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Gay Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Gay, California Gay Marriage Ban, Proposition 8, California Supreme Court Gay Marriage, California Supreme Court, Living News
Noel Alumit

We have died of AIDS, we have been attacked and humiliated, we have been thrown onto the streets to fend for ourselves. Now, you're telling us we can't even get married?

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Prop 8 Defeat Shatters Myth of Liberalism and Democracy

Earnest Harris | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, California, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Gay, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, African Americans, Politics News
Earnest Harris

Important issues like the right to marry shouldn't be treated in "American Idol" style decision making where whatever is most appealing to the largest number of people wins.

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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
Emma Ruby-Sachs

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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Cannes 2009 Day Ten: One Bad Movie After Another

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Terry Gilliam, Gasper Noe, Johnny Depp, Gay, Heath Ledger, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

To Die Like A Man: The latest in a long line of tragic transvestites movies, this somber flick has a plot worthy of Almodovar.

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