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Unsure How to Vote Your Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Other Proxy Ballots?

Kim Cranston | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, CEO Pay, Lgbt, Executive Pay, Chevron, Pride Foundation, Income Inequality, News, Ed Begley Jr., Exxon Mobil, Wall Street Bailout, Global Warming, Employment Non-Discrimination, Ceres, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Shareholder Proposals, Responsible Wealth/ United for a Fair Economy, Environment, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Responsible Endowments Coalition, Shareholder Resolutions, Greenhouse Gases, Say on Pay, Shareholders, Transparentdemocracy, Larry Lessig, Executive Compensation, Shareholder Rights, Proxy Ballots, Economy, Politics News
Kim Cranston

See how organizations and people you trust, like Ed Begley, Jr., Ceres, Pride Foundation, Responsible Endowments Coalition, recommend you vote and why.

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Outrage: An Interview with Director Kirby Dick

Brad Listi | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jim McGreevey, Lgbt, New Releases, Ed Koch, Jim McCrery, Closet, Documentary Film, Larry Craig, David Dreier, Ken Mehlman, Homosexuality, Kirby Dick, Charlie Crist, Washington Blade, Outrage Film, Brad Listi, Gay Rights, Outrage, Closeted Politicians, Jim Kolbe, Entertainment News
Brad Listi

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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Gay & Lesbian Manners: Is Outing Closeted Legislators Unethical?

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Lesbian, Barney Frank, LGBT Rights, Kirby-Dick-Outrage, Outing, Gay Issues, Manners, Living News
Steven Petrow

Manners usually takes up on the side of privacy, but when hypocrisy is at play, truthfulness and honesty are our more important companions in our struggle for fairness and equality.

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Don't Be An Adult Bystander

Rosalind Wiseman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Youtube, Peer Pressure, Parenting, Gays, Gay Issues, Bullying, Politics News
Rosalind Wiseman

We must do better. We must individually and collectively change the definition of masculinity to standing up for social justice so that real men speak out when they see someone being targeted.

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Lessons of Hate in the Bible Belt

Reproductive Justice | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Bible-Belt-Politics, Hate Crimes, Hate, Ethics, The Laramie Project, Bible Belt, Wyoming, Grandfield High School, Gay Issues, Politics News
Reproductive Justice

Any gay student at Grandfield High School has been taught a dubious lesson. They have learned they better keep quiet until they are old enough to leave town.

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Tragically, Transgender Identifiers Have a New Martyr

John Ridley | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Transgendered, LGBT Issues, Angie Zapata, Transgender, Transgender Issues, Civil Rights, Politics News
John Ridley

While the loss of Angie Zapata is tragic, the fact that with due process a trial was held and a conviction obtained speaks to how greatly America is altering its nature with regard to acceptance of transgender individuals.

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Queeries: Beware of Sexting

Steven Petrow | Posted 05.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Lgbt, Pornography, Sexting, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Lesbian, Teens, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Gay Issues, Style News
Steven Petrow

It's simple enough: Sexting is the sending of nude (or semi-nude) photos with your cell.

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National Day of Silence, LGBT: Watch LANCE BASS Speak Out

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Day of Silence, Lgbt, National Day of Silence LGBT, National Day of Silence, LGBT, Politics News

Lance Bass of *NSYNC talks about the importance of GLSEN's National Day of Silence in this public service announcement, leading up to the Day of Silen...

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Getting to the Roots of Hate Crime

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Hate Crimes, Hate, Annual Day of Silence, Bullying, Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Mathew Shepard Act, State Hate Crime Statutues, Colorado, Harassment, Transgender, Gay, Oppression, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Schools., Angie Zapata, Federal Hate Crime Law, Privilege, Inequality, Hate Crime, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Politics News
Abby L. Ferber

If we are serious about protecting people from violence and crime simply because of their group identities, we must also take seriously their right to equality in the home, workplace, and school.

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Queeries: "Is He Your Brother or Lover?"

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Coming Out, LGBT Rights, Lgbt, Coming Out to Family and Friends, Gay, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Gays, Gay Issues, Sexual Orientation, Living News
Steven Petrow

Displaying your boyfriend's photo is a good way to come out (at least partially) without shouting the dreaded, "Hey, I am gay!" Obviously, there are many degrees to being out.

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Cheney and Lesbians!?: Tag Teaming Amazon in Response to Sales Ranking Censorship

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Amazon.com, Lgbt, Gay Glitch, Amazon Glitch, Amazon-Sales-Rankings, Books, Amazon Sales Rankings, Amazon Censorship, Censorship, Amazon, Media News
Lisa Derrick

The first book that pops up on Amazon when searching the word "homosexuality" is A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Unlike Heather Has Two Mommies, this book has a sales ranking.

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Rolling with the Changes: Egg Roll Redux

Alisa Surkis | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Easter Egg Roll, White House Egg Roll, LGBT Rights, Family Equality Council, Family Pride, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Alisa Surkis

People complain that the White House Egg Roll invitation extended to the gay and lesbian families is just a symbolic gesture, but symbols are powerful.

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Note to Newt: Back Off Harry Knox!

Candace Gingrich | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Faith-Based Initiatives, Candace Gingrich, LGBT Rights, Harry Knox, Barack Obama Faith Based Groups, Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Human Rights Campaign, Newt Gingrich, Hrc, Faith, Politics News
Candace Gingrich

When my brother Newt Gingrich attacks Harry Knox, he's attacking me. And I don't take too kindly to bullies.

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Follow the Artists to Our New Democracy

Tanene Allison | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Langston Hughes, Art, Participatory Democracy, Elizabeth Alexander Inaugural Poem, Elizabeth Alexander, American Democracy, June Jordan, Democracy, Artists, Obama, Patti Smith, Justin Bond, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tanene Allison

It was a poet who gave our nation, and new President, the words that led to our visioning of how this time of potential and possibility could become real.

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Iraqi Gays May Soon Be Executed: Gay Rights Group

Gay Rights | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Lgbt, Iraqi Gays, Gay Rights, Lgbt Executions, Gay Executions, Foreign Affairs, LGBT Rights, Gays in Iraq, Iraqi Government, Iraq, Advocacy, Gay Iraq, World News

It's no secret that LGBT life in Iraq these days is as dangerous as it gets - quite possibly the most dangerous in the world. Secret underground netwo...

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Re-Gifting

Kate Clinton | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: George Bush, Glbt, Lgbt, Hiv, Gay Community AIDS, Gay-Lesbian Community, Ronald Reagan, Lesbian Comedian, George W. Bush, Lesbian Comedy, Bush, HIV/AIDS, Pope John Paul, LGBT Community, Careers, Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Aids, Stonewall, Comedy, Living News
Kate Clinton

The same year I began my career, Pope John Paul and President Ronald Reagan began their careers. It was also the year that gay men began dying from AIDS.

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Why I Called Justice Scalia A Homophobe

Rep. Barney Frank | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Lawrence v. Texas, LGBT Issues, Gay Rights, Frank Calls Scalia Homophobe, Barney Frank, Antonin Scalia, Roy Romer, Barney Frank Scalia, Scalia Homophobe, Justice Scalia, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News
Rep. Barney Frank

In two virulent dissents, Justice Scalia made it clear that, in his view, sex discrimination is not only permitted by the Constitution, but is very much in society's interest.

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Queeries: "Where Did These Kids Come From?"

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Lesbian, LGBT Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbian Moms, Gays, LGBT Families, Gay Adoption, Gay Issues, Adoption, Living News
Steven Petrow

Although millions of gay and lesbian households with kids now exist, this phenomenon is still, well, a phenomenon and by that I mean something new and remarkable.

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Queeries: Can Boyfriends Make out in Public?

Steven Petrow | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, LGBT Issues, Lesbian, LGBT Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Gay, Gays, Lesbian Kiss, Kissing, Gay Issues, Living News
Steven Petrow

Can a gay or lesbian couple kiss in public? On the cheek or on the lips? How about holding hands?

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Gays In Latin America: Gay Rights Movements Coming Out Into The Mainstream

Foreign Policy | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Lgbt, Gay-Friendly Cities, Latin American Pro-Gay Legislation, Gay Rights, Latin America Lgbt, Latin America, Gays, Latin America Gays, World News

Most analysts haven't noticed, but a major social revolution is taking place in Latin America. The region is becoming gayer. It's not that there are m...

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Obama On LGBT Issues: Reverses US Position At UN Conference

UN Dispatch | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: Obama LGBT, Gay Rights, Durban Review Conference, Durban Racism Conference, United Nations, Un Racism Conference, Bush Lgbt, Obama Gay Rights, George Bush, Barack Obama, Lgbt, Obama Reverses Bush Gay Issues Un, World News

In late December the United Nations General Assembly held a symbolic vote on a statement calling for the universal decriminalization of homosexuality....

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When the President Orders, the Military Follows

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Howard Kurtz, Congress, Robert Gates, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Executive Orders, Washington Post, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Dont Ask Dont Tell, House Armed Services Committee, Dan Froomkin, Torture, Gays and Lesbians in the Military, US Military, LGBT Issues, Gays and Lesbians, White House Watch, Media, Civil Rights, Lgbt, Gays in the Military, Military, Armed Forces, LGBT Rights, Gays, Politics News
Aubrey Sarvis

I believe Congress will be in lockstep with the President on a repeal of DADT. At the end of this year, the law that bars gay men and women from serving openly in the military can be gone.

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President Obama, Equal Rights and Sexual Orientation

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Employment Non-Discrimination Act, Gay Rights, Sexual Orientation, Obama 100 Days, Equal Rights, Obama Administration, Matthew Shepard, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

As one of his first acts of office, Obama should call for federal legislation ensuring equal rights for all persons in the U.S. regardless of sexual orientation.

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A Response to Melissa Etheridge

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Melissa Etheridge, Barack Obama Rick Warren, Gay Rights, Rick Warren Invocation, Obama LGBT, Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, Rick Warren, LGBT Rights, Saddleback Church, Barack Obama Inauguration, LGBT Families, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Melissa Etheridge Rick Warren, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

I am willing to agree that Rev. Warren is a good guy who said some bad things. I, like you, do trust that communication and cooperation will lead to increased tolerance and progress. I can't forgive Obama, though.

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Marriott and Milk

Marc Gunther | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Milk, Bill Marriott, Gay Marriage, Marriott Corp., Lgbt, Religion, Prop 8 Donations, Milk Movie, LGBT Community, LGBT Rights, Religion and Politics, Religious Faith, Harvey Milk Movie, Politics News
Marc Gunther

What role should CEOS and big companies play when confronted with controversial issues? Ought they not take a stand on social issues, too?

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