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Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid No Accident

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Stonewall was an expression of power and identity in the face of forced anonymity and oppression. The raid at Fort Worth is a different story altogether.

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NYC Anti-Gay Violence Rises: Report

Advocate | Posted 07.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Lgbt, Hate Crimes, Anti-Gay Violence, Anti-Gay Violence New York, Violence, Homophobia, New York Gay Pride, New York City Violence, Gay Pride, Hate Crime, New York, New York Lgbt, Lgbt Violence, New York News

Following a gay pride weekend marked by hate-motivated violence, advocates in New York City plan a press conference on Wednesday morning to ...

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Obama Gives a Good Speech, But Will It Help Lt. Choi?

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 06.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Doma, National, Guantanamo, Obama, Gay, Lt. Dan Choi, Defense of Marriage Act, Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell, Lgbt, Reception, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Stonewall Riots, Gay Rights, Dan Choi, Health Care, Gay Pride, Gay Marriage, Stonewall, Home News

If the Obama administration can't pass a comprehensive overhaul of health care, then how is it going to repeal laws that a large proportion of Americans don't care about or to which many don't object?

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On the Ground at San Francisco's Pride Weekend (PHOTOS)

Jessica Gage | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Pride Weekend, Slideshow, San Francisco Pride Parade, Gay Pride Weekend, San Francisco Pride, Gay Pride, Gay Pride Parade, Politics News

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of San Francisco Sunday in flamboyant costumes and waving rainbow flags, marking the 39th year of the foremost pride celebration in the country.

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Media Could Use a Stonewall Uprising of Their Own

Karl Frisch | Posted 06.27.2009 | Media

Read More: The O'Reilly Factor, Msnbc, Hate Crimes, National Public Radio, LGBT Issues, Rush Limbaugh, Christian Broadcasting Network, Lesbian, Morning Joe, Adam Lambert, Gay, Lgbt, Npr, Joe Scarborough, Stonewall Riots, Gay Rights, James Dobson, LGBT Rights, Outrage, Michael Savage, Fox News, Willie Geist, Focus on the Family, Bill O'Reilly, Mike Barnicle, Pat Robertson, Gay Issues, Stonewall, Gay Marriage, Media News

Forty years after Stonewall, not only is sexual orientation still a taboo for many in the media, all too often it serves as a focal point for hate, ridicule, and misinformation.

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

Steven Petrow | Posted 06.26.2009 | 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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Disposable Income: How Gender and Sexuality Don't Add Up to Equal Pay

John Caldon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Gays and Lesbians, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Transgender Issues, Gay Rights, Pride-Month, Politics News

June marks Pride Month, an annual celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community's struggle for full equity. Despite the h...

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Code Orange And June Bugs

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 06.25.2009 | 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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Sigourney Weaver And Cast Of Prayers For Bobby Offer Hope To LGBT Youth

Jason Mannino | Posted 06.25.2009 | 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

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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The White House, the Gays, and Lessons to Learn

Lane Hudson | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lane Hudson, Obama Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, LGBT Rights, Lgbt, Politics News

Optics matter, they need to match the rhetoric and the reality. Part of the anger surrounding this announcement is that the White House was trying to claim credit for more than they were doing.

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The Face of the LGBT Movement and the Mainstream Media: Tackling the Diversity Problem

Pam Spaulding | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Lgbt, Obama Administration, Media, Gay Rights, Barack Obama, Media News

What I believe hurts our case a bit, from a PR (and strategic) perspective, is that we've seen few LGBT people of color on-air as the movement faces off against the first black President and his administration.

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Kathy Griffin Speaks Up for Gay Youth

Jason Mannino | Posted 06.18.2009 | 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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Our Moral Imperative

Rea Carey | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Barack Obama Gay Issues, Doma, Obama LGBT, Stonewall, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News

Last week's Department of Justice brief defending DOMA was not merely disappointing, it was a public abrogation of the promise of equality the president himself embraced as a candidate.

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Gay Rights Advocates Not Satisfied By Obama's "Very Small Step"

AMERICAblog | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Obama Gay Rights, Gay Benefits, Obama, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Ah, those pesky details. As you may have heard, President Obama tomorrow will be signing a presidential directive, not an executive order, providing ...

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How to Win Back Same-Sex Marriage In California - Voter Registration

Fred Karger | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, Proposition 8, Voter Registration, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

All LGBT organizations need to make voter registration the number one activity between now and next October 18th.

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The Gay Guide to Obama's Remarks Today

Lane Hudson | Posted 06.17.2009 | 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 06.16.2009 | 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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DNC-LGBT Fundraiser Boycott Called For Over White House DOMA Defense

AMERICAblog | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Equality Caucus, Lgbt, Dnc, Boycott, LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Doma, Tammy Baldwin, Democratic National Committee, Gay Marriage, Jared Polis, Barney Frank, Politics News

Pam Spaulding has published an email detailing just who's coming to the DNC's $1,000 (and up) a head gay fundraiser next week. I suspect those folks a...

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Celebrating LGBT Pride Month

Gerald McEntee | Posted 06.11.2009 | 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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The (Zigzagged) Arc of History

Tanene Allison | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, History, Proposition 8, Martin Luther King, Equal Rights, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Harvey Milk, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Every one of us debating inequality over our coffees in the morning has been granted a rare opportunity to change what it is those future grandchildren will read about.

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California Marriage Equality -- How We Will Win

Christine Pelosi | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Proposition 8, California, Prop 8, Ballot Initiative, Civil Rights, California Supreme Court, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Today's California Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 all but invited marriage equality proponents back to the ballot box.

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The Dallas Principles: The Best Response To Prop 8

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Discrimination, Proposition 8, Working Life, California Supreme Court, Dallas Principles, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

One day, as a society, we will look back at the absurdity of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals as something as abhorrent as racial discrimination.

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Would Harvey Milk Be Proud of Us?

Chuck Wolfe | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Gay Lesbian Rights, Harvey Milk Day, Harvey Milk, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Today would have been Harvey's 79th birthday but for Dan White's bullet. It's a good time to reflect on whether we have heeded his call to live openly and fight hard for true equality.

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White House Announcement On LGBT Policy Is Imminent, Says Calif. Congressman

The Advocate | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Congressman Howard Berman, President Obama, LGBT Rights, The Advocate, Obama Gay Rights, Politics News

California representative Howard Berman predicted in an interview Thursday that the White House would be presenting new information regarding LGBT pol...

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Obama, Don't Defend DOMA

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Equality, Paul Sousa, Social Security, LGBT Issues, Doma, Defense of Marriage Act, Marriage Equality, Lgbt, Marriage, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Glad, Constitution, LGBT Families, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Obama has the opportunity today, to stand up for equal rights by refusing to argue Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality in court.

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