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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

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

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

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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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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Cannes 2009 Day Nine: Parents, Palestinians and Panic

Michael Giltz | Posted 06.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Belgium, Palestinian, Drama, Israel, Canada, Gay, Cannes Film Festival, Comedy, Animation, Entertainment News

The critical consensus is as strong as I've ever seen at Cannes: the best film of the Festival is Une Prophete. Mind you, that doesn't mean the jury will pick it.

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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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Charlie Crist: Bad News for the GOP?

Adele Stan | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, John Cornyn, Charlie Crist, Gay Rights, Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Closet, Latino Vote, LGBT Rights, Hispanic Vote, Religious Right, Gay, Larry Craig, Republican Party, Mike Rogers, Kirby Dick, Outrage, Politics News

Is Charlie Crist the face of a new Republican Party, or a harbinger of the GOP's demise? He's handsome, personable and popular: a dream candidate for...

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American Idol May Need an Adam Lambert Win More than Lambert Does

Eric Deggans | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: No Boundaries, Kris Allen, Fox TV, Paula Abdul, Gay, Pop Culture, American Idol, Music, Adam Lambert, Simon Cowell, Kara Diogaurdi, American Idol Finalists, American Idol Finals, Entertainment News

Idol needs to look relevant: the problem with being the most-watched, biggest moneymaker on network TV? There's nowhere to go but down.

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WATCH: The New Republican Party Presents "Gay Don't Pay!"

Lee Stranahan | Posted 06.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Small Busin, Gay Rights, Rnc, Repbulican National Committee, Carrie Prejean, Barney Frank, Michael Steele, Gay, Gay Marriage, Comedy News

The Republicans have wasted no time in promoting Michael Steele's recent statement that gay marriage is a threat to small business.

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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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Tevye's Descendant to Sing "If I Were A Gay Man" on Broadway

Emily Bracken | Posted 06.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Upper West Side, Fiddler on the Roof, Matthew McConaughey, Bebe Neuwirth, Broadway, Jewish Culture, Musicals, Gay, Broadway Plays, American Jews, Nathan Lane, Single Women, Homosexuals, Matthew Broderick, New York-New York, Comedy News

"If I Were A Gay Man" lyrics from a Fiddler on the Roof spinoff. The story follows Tevye's great-great-great granddaughter, Rachel, a single Jewish woman in her 30's who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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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