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UN Gay Rights Declaration To Be Signed By US

AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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

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Obama On The Spot Over Gay Partner Benefits

New York Times | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

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Just seven weeks into office, President Obama is being forced to confront one of the most sensitive social and political issues of the day: whether th...

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Bill To Overturn Gay Military Ban Being Introduced In Congress

The Plum Line | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Uh oh -- this could be a bit of a test for President Obama: The office of Dem Rep. Ellen Tauscher confirms that she will introduce legislation today ...

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A Letter to Our President

Harvey Fierstein | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Harvey Fierstein

Mr. President, we need you to rise above the daily politics of compromise. America needs to hear you say, "We will no longer tolerate the oppression of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters."

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Obama On LGBT Issues: Reverses US Position At UN Conference

UN Dispatch | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

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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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Obama Appoints Gay Man To Faith-Based Council

Gay Politics | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

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Fred Davie, the openly gay president of Public/Private Ventures, has been named to serve on President Barack Obama's Policy Council on Faith-Based and...

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Obama Is In No Rush To Repeal 'Don't Ask Don't Tell': Boston Globe

Boston Globe | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration is telling the Pentagon and gay-rights advocates that it will have to study the implications for national security and enlist...

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Rick Warren's Church Sees Rounds Of Protests

AP | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Gay rights supporters marched outside the church of evangelical pastor Rick Warren, protesting his selection as an inaugur...

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Obama's Gay Marriage Flip Flop: He Was For It Before He Was Against It

Gabriel Rotello | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

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Gabriel Rotello

The Windy City Times discovered two candidate surveys conducted in 1996, in which Obama wrote "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."

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Jason Linkins

Obama Once Supported Same-Sex Marriage 'Unequivocally'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.13.2009 | Media

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According to the Windy City Times, during the 1996 race for the Illinois State Senate, President-Elect Barack Obama gave statements that expressed an ...

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Chuck Norris Knows the Real Reason for Obama's Choice of Rick Warren

Chris Rodda | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Chris Rodda

Chuck Norris proposes that the use of Rick Warren's presence at Obama's inauguration might be a diversionary tactic to take attention off a covert plan to reintroduce the Freedom of Choice Act.

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The Mantra to End DADT: Yes We Can!

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

There is no question that our next president is facing a host of truly awful problems. Cut the Administration some slack regarding Don't Ask Don't Tell, yes -- but not too much.

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A Hate Crime You Won't See in Statistics

Mikko Alanne | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living

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Mikko Alanne

Each victim of a hate crime is equally precious. Each is equally deserving of protection and justice.

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A Solution for Obama

Sam Ciraulo | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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Sam Ciraulo

For Inauguration Day, I propose an alternative that both respects the choice of the President-Elect of Warren and affirms the dignity of those Gay and Lesbian Americans who have stood with him.

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Constructive Impatience

Joan Garry | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

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Joan Garry

So, to my fellow LGBT friends and our straight allies -- let's use the Rick Warren choice as an opportunity to be impatient. I for one plan to be impatient constructively.

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Gays and Rick Warren Could Come Together?

Sandip Roy | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

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Sandip Roy

When it comes to showing magnanimity, big-tent inclusiveness, suck-it-up-for-the-good-of-the-country -ness, why is it the gays who always get to be the sacrificial lamb?

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Rick Warren Announcement Is Slap In The Face To GLBTQ Army

Scott Foval | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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Scott Foval

Mr. Obama, by choosing Rick Warren, you have sent a shiver up the spine of every GLBTQ American who believed that you might actually be the voice and actor of real change.

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Time Mag Columnist: Obama Is "Very Rational-Sounding Sort Of Bigot"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

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In a Time magazine column, John Cloud writes that gay people should not be surprised that Barack Obama picked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at...

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The Rev. Rick Warren Controversy: A "Blessing" in Disguise?"

Gary Cohan | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Gary Cohan

I have expressed my outrage at Rick Warren's elevation to the national stage. Yet, if the gay community has the courage to take a deep breath, there's another way of viewing this situation.

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When inclusion becomes relativism

Morgan Warners | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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Morgan Warners

President-elect Barack Obama erred in asking Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. A spokeswoman for Obama implied that the move ...

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Obama Camp Denies "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repeal Delay

Washington Blade | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics

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A member of Barack Obama's transition team is denying media reports that the president-elect has decided to delay efforts to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't ...

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Obama and the End of the Military's Ban on Gays

John Ridley | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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John Ridley

While this will not be an easy fight, it also won't likely be a return to the belabored hearings of the Clinton presidency which produced the Bizarro World Don't Ask, Don't Tell non-policy of not asking what nobody's saying.

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The Bigotry of Hope

David Paul Appell | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

You'd think if anyone would appreciate that civil rights are civil rights, it's black Americans. And that's what makes the support of some among them of such bigotry particularly appalling.

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A new day for all people--but young people, let's not forget tomorrow

Morgan Warners | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Morgan Warners

In college we learn to be skeptical of claims like the ones being made about Barack Obama's historic victory. For today, forget it. His win really doe...

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Gay Day or May Day

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

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Joan Z. Shore

The irony of the gay rights movement is that it demands that sexual differences be accepted as normal while portraying these variations in an "un-normal" way. It's self-contradictory.

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