Lgbt Politics

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What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can Do

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dnc, Boycott, Americablog, Two Party System, Obama Gay Rights, Obama, Gay, Democrats, Democratic Party, Lgbt, LGBT Politics, Gay Rights, Ralph Nader Presidential Candidacy, LGBT Rights, Fundraising, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, Ralph Nader, Politics News

There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics.

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The Power of Fear and the Obligation to Hope

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- For All

Sara Whitman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, LGBT Rights, Question 1 in Maine, LGBT Issues, LGBT Families, LGBT Youth, Politics News

Wake up America! A huge battle for rights is about to be voted on in Maine. This will effect everyone from sea to shining sea.

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Gays Could Lose Domestic Partnerships in Washington State Nov. 3

Karen Ocamb | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Domestic Partnerships, Approve Ref 71, LGBT Politics, Gay Marriage, Politics News

While the eyes of the LGBT nation are now focused on President Obama signing the federal hate crimes bill today, and on beating back the Religious Rig...

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Ambassador Jim Hormel: "I Don't Have Time to Wait!"

Karen Ocamb | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Doma, Enda, Barack Obama, Jim Hormel, Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Community, Gay Rights Speech, Gay Activism, Politics News

"I am as eager as anyone else to have action .. So when I exercise any restraint, it's out of knowledge and awareness of the atmosphere under which the president is operating," says Hormel

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Let the Money Laundering Begin

Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Mormon Church, California Gay Marriage, Californians Against Hate, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Focus on the Family, Gay Marriage, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Prop 8 Protests, Yes on Prop 8 Mormons, Same-Sex Marriage, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, Yes on Prop 8, Mormon Prop 8, LGBT Community, LGBT Youth, Maine-Same-Sex-Marriage, LGBT Rights, Gay-Rights-Mormon-Church, Fundraising, Mormon Church Gay Marriage, Mormon Church Prop 8, Politics News

The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.

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Iraq: Stop Killings for Homosexual Conduct

Human Rights Watch | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

The killings -- committed without evidence or trial, on the basis of prejudice and whim -- violate standards in Sharia law for legality, proof, and privacy.

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Pandora's Box: The National Equality March

Bil Browning | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Equality March, March on Washington, Equality Across America, Hope, Pandora's Box, Eaa, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Obama LGBT, LGBT Rights, Pandora, Politics News

The LGBT community is used to being downtrodden and dismissed. Prejudice, animosity, and apartheid flew out of Pandora's Box long ago.

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Portugal Gay Marriage Ban Upheld By Court

AP | BARRY HATTON | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: LGBT Issues, Portugal Gay Marriage Ban, Portugal Gay Marriage, Foreign Affairs, Gay, Lgbt, LGBT Politics, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Gays, Portugal, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Advocacy, World News

LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country's ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are...

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Anglican Church: LGBT Recognition Raises Possibility Of 'Two Track' Structure

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: England, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Anglican Church, Global Anglicanism, Lgbt, LGBT Rights, LGBT Issues, LGBT Politics, LGBT Community, Anglican Church LGBT, Catholic Church, Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, World News

LONDON — The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy...

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UN: Brazilian Gay, Lesbian Group May Join Debates

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Un Gay Rights, Un Gay Rights Declaration, Un Gay Declaration, Brazil, Un Brazil, Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians and Transsexuals, Gay Rights, Lgbt, LGBT Rights, LGBT Issues, LGBT Politics, Un Lgbt, World News

GENEVA — The United Nations granted official status to a gay and lesbian organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. ...

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New Study Finds Gap in LGBT Health Services

Somjen Frazer | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, LGBT Politics, Gay Rights, Gay Pride, Health, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Policymakers must support efforts to collect data on LGBT people to ensure that our health care system is serving everyone.

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Sweet Speech, Mr. President - But Where Was the Apology? And Where's the Action?

Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT at the White House, Democratic Congress, John Berry, Don't Tell, Sam Nunn, Eric Holder, Defense of Marriage Act, Barack Obama, LGBT Politics, Victor Fehrenbach, Dadt, Rachel Maddow, Gays in the Military, Dan Choi, Frank Kameny, Doma, Don't Ask, Mike Lux, Politics News

If "equality" is a founding principle for freedom -- how do you justify withholding "equality for all" from LGBT people for any amount of time?

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Obama's Upcoming Hush-Hush Damage Control Meeting With Gay Leaders

Irene Monroe | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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

The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars.

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Will Gays Divorce the Democrats?

Karen Ocamb | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

The Democratically-controlled Congress talks a good game to get LGBT votes and money -- but they don't have much to show for LGBT loyalty.

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

Fred Karger | Posted 07.18.2009 | 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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Five Reasons Not to March on Washington DC This October

Karen Ocamb | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Cleve Jones, Prop 8, Gays in the Military, Geoff Kors, Equality California, March on Washington, David Mixner, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Gay Marriage, Politics News

I am stunned that Obama has so flagrantly forgotten, despite being a constitutional scholar, that equality is the first core founding principle of this country.

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Marriage For Everyone: Worth the Fight

Sara Whitman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, LGBT Rights, Glad, Families, Social Security Benefits, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Massachussets, Lesbian, Gay, Gay Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbian Moms, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Politics News

Today, we are approaching the fifth anniversary of marriage equality in our state. We have pushed the envelope, no question. And we will continue to.

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Tavis Smiley's Big Day

Karen Ocamb | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Black Gays, LGBT Politics, HIV/AIDS, State of the Black Union, Tavis Smiley, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Kevin Fenton, James Baldwin, Michael Eric Dyson, Barack Obama, The Williams Institute, Phill Wilson, Media News

Gay and bisexual black men in California have household incomes that are 44 percent lower than their heterosexual counterparts.

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Barack Obama, Linda Douglass, and Little Ole LGBT Me

Karen Ocamb | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Bill Clinton, Gay Rights, Prop 8, Linda Douglass, Same Sex Marriage, Rick Warren, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights Campaign, Maya Angelou, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Politics News

LGBT folks were not prepared for the sucker-punch Rick Warren, especially after having our legitimate, fundamental right to marry stripped from us by a majority of California voters.

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In the Wake of Prop 8: No More Us vs. Them

Sara Whitman | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Rights, Politics, LGBT Youth, Dadt, Youth, LGBT Rights, Strong America, No on Prop 8, Enda, LGBT Politics, LGBT Issues, Families, LGBT Families, Responsibilities, Living News

Let me have the full responsibility of being an American. Because every child in this country deserves a family. I am an asset to this society.

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Milk: Hope On The Screen And In The Streets

Tanene Allison | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, LGBT Politics, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Hope, Lesbian, LGBT Rights, Sean Penn, Gay Marriage, Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk Movie, Gus Van Sant Milk Movie, Milk Movie, Same Sex Marriage, Civil Rights, Entertainment News

The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.

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You Know What I'm Saying?

Joan Garry | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Barack Obama, Canvassing, Lgbt, Lgbt Voters, Gay Voters, 2008 Election, Politics News

We understood that the Pittsburgh LGBT community had been fiercely behind Hillary and that our work there would be about persuasion.

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Are Democrats Throwing Gays Under the Bus?

Karen Ocamb | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

It seems a pretty certain bet that most of the LGBT community will vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden, though with curtailed enthusiasm after numerous missteps.

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Gavin Newsom Calls Out Joe Biden Over Gay Marriage

Karen Ocamb | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, Yes on Prop 8, Gavin Newsom, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Same Sex Marriage, Joe Biden, Democratic Party, Civil Unions, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Sunday night aboard the Queen Mary, Gavin Newsom went beyond urging activism to defeat Proposition 8; he spoke of his frustration with Senator Joe Biden's agreement with Sarah Palin over same sex marriage.

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