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Queen Elizabeth Sends 'Supportive' Letters To Religious Movement Accused Of Homophobia

Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World

Read More: Homosexuality, Religion, Gay Rights, Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Foreign Affairs, England, Homophobia, Queen Elizabeth II, Gay Issues, Advocacy, World News

Queen Elizabeth--who is the head of the Church of England--has irked gay rights advocates this week by sending letters described as 'supportive' to th...

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Gay stereotypes, in this day and age, are relevant enough to be funny but outdated enough to be innocuous.

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The Stonewall Riots Haven't Stopped - They've Gone Global

Johann Hari | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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In the Caribbean, majority-Muslim countries, and most of Africa, being gay is a death sentence -- yet many people who should be showing solidarity choose not to see it.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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40 Years Old and All I Get is This Damn Rainbow Flag?

Michael DeJong | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Queer, Gay-Rights-Movement, Patriarchal, Homogeneity, Enough Is Enough, Stonewall Bar, Queer People of Color, 40th Anniversary, The Closet, New York City’s “Finest”, Homosexuality, Common Cause, Dr. King, Progressive, Transgender, Cross-Dressing, Women’s Rights Movement, Us Department of Justice, Feminist Movement, Federal Hate Crimes Bill, The Mattachine Society, American Psychiatric Association, Daughters of Belitis, Stonewall, Gay Human Rights, Living News

The modern "Gay Rights Movement" has had and still has racism, classism, misogyny, ageism, and trans-phobia at its core.

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India's Gays Prepare To Join The Rainbow Nation

The Independent | Posted 07.30.2009 | World

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Andrew Buncombe | The Independent The Indian government is considering rewriting a law drafted more than 100 years ago that criminalises homosexualit...

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Gay and Lesbian Manners: When Best Friends Have Sex and the Sounds of Silence

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Friendship, Lgbt, Homosexuality, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Lesbian, Sex, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Style News

Last week I ended up having sex with my best friend, Richard. At least he used to be my best friend -- we haven't talked since. Did I mess up?

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Joining Together Those Whose Love Dare Not Speak its Name

Jane Minogue | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Homosexuality, Medieval, Bestiaries, LGBT Pride Month, Homosexuality and Religion, Civil Unions, Homosexual Rights, John Bowsell, Same-Sex Marriage, Homophobe, Living News

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

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No Drinking, No Drugs, No Lesbians: How Homophobia Still Rules in Sports

Dee Mosbacher | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Homosexuality in Sports, Female Athletes, Gay Rights, Sexual Orientation, Sports, Politics News

Five years ago, I decided to make a documentary about homophobia in sports. I wanted to understand why athletes seemed to feel being out was unsafe when lesbian and gay visibility was increasing everywhere else.

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Review: Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform

Larry Kramer | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Homosexuality, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform, Larry Kramer, Charles Upchurch, Book Review, Entertainment News

This is a very important book. It may even be a historic book, one with which gay history can arm itself with more sufficient factual veracity as to start vanquishing at last the devil known as queer studies.

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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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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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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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Outrage: An Interview with Director Kirby Dick

Brad Listi | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Dick: "It comes as a surprise to many viewers, but DC is actually a very gay town, and a very high percentage of the staffers who work on Capitol Hill are gay."

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Proposals of "Marriage"

Judith Shapiro | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Homosexuality, Gay Marriage Debate, Ban on Gay Marriages, Gay Marriage, Legalizing Gay Marriage, Living News

Gay marriage will be accepted not just because it reflects basic beliefs about individual rights, but because it is in harmony with the dominant cultural definition of marriage in America.

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Same Sex Marriages: What's the Big Deal?

Brendon Ayanbadejo | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Homosexuality and Religion, Ban on Gay Marriages, Homosexual Rights, Gay Marriage, Celebrities Talk Politics, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Politics News

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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CON GAMES: Gay Marriage Wins Again

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Homosexuality, Civil Liberties, Civil Unions, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Law, Living News

The disintegration of civilization is now officially upon us now that Vermont has legalized gay marriage--the first state legislature to do so. I onc...

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Iraq's Newly Open Gays Face Scorn And Murder

New York Times | TIMOTHY WILLIAMS and TAREQ MAHER | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response ha...

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Why Is America So Obsessed with Virginity?

Anastasia Kousakis | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Women's Rights, Abstinence Only Education, Women's Issues, Feminist, Reproductive Rights, Anti-Feminism, Virgins, Integrity Balls, Reproductive Health, The Purity Myth, Feminism, Sexuality, Women's Sexuality, Pornography, Virgin, Homosexuality, Feministing.com, Birth Control, Abstinence Only, Virginity Pledges, Women's Health, Sex, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, Women and Politics, Abstinence Education, Virginity, Purity Balls, Feminists, Valenti, Bristol Palin, Virginity Movement, Style News

As a concept, virginity is more dangerous than not, because it puts us into these virgin or not categories, which doesn't really give us a very nuanced perspective or understanding of sexuality.

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A Blessing on Gay Marriage from Iowa

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crunchy Con, Supreme Court, Homosexuality, Public Christianity, Christianity, Hetrosexual, Constitution, Iowa Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News

The Iowa Supreme Court did the just thing last week when it found laws prohibiting marriage between people of the same gender unconstitutional.

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Religious Fundamentalism Spreads... Beyond Islam

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

Read More: Varun Gandhi, Islam, Fundamentalism, Bible, Sri Ram Sena, Gaza, Judaism, Oic, Islamic Extremists, Taliban, Promised Land, Pope Benedict XVI, Homosexuality, Religion, Hinduism, Avigdor Lieberman, Torah, Quran, Christianity, Idf, Israel, Old Testament, Stoning, World News

It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.

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Prostitutes, the Internet, and Regulation, Part I

Jane Minogue | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Women, Homosexuality, Prostitution, Women's Issues, Sex, Brothels, Gay, Internet, Media News

Prostitution, whether illegal, tolerated and regulated, institutionalized, or on the Internet, is part the fabric of society.

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NAACP National Chairman Julian Bond tells Gay America to Demand a Front Seat on the Bus (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mildred Loving, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Prop 8, Montgomery Bus Boycotts, Harvey Milk, Same-Sex Marriage, Evangelicals, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Loving vs Virginia, Brown v. Board of Education, Julian Bond, Civil Rights. NAACP, Homophobia, Racism, Religion and Politics, Politics News

Bond's response to many of the biblical passages used by Christian conservatives to condemn homosexuality (including those favorite scriptures in Leviticus) is must-see TV.

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UN Gay Rights Declaration To Be Signed By US

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

Read More: Homosexuality, Gay Rights, United Nations, George Bush, Bush Gay Rights, Obama Gay Rights, Un Gay Rights Declaration, Obama Homosexuality, Barack Obama, Has u.s. Signed Un Declaration on Women, Un Gay Rights, Gay, Un General Assembly Declaration, Sexual Orientation, Rights, World News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Wednesday formally endorsed a U.N. statement calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuali...

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Yoga Forbids Homosexuality?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, History, Yoga, Marriage, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Tradition, Gay, West Wing, Living News

I run a little old media gone new media publication called elephant journal dot com. A week ago, I received one of the best/most interesting/most offensive/laughable/historically valid comments, like, ever.

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