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Lesbian Wife of Lt.Col. Denied Full Membership at ABOS.
Ft. Bragg Spouse Offered Guest Membership The Association of Bragg Officers’ Spouses (ABOS) offered Ashley Broadway, married to Lt. Col. Heather Mack, a ‘special guest membership’ at the Army Spouses...
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Go Proud Claims It Supports Same-sex Marriage
Once Reticent, It Now Begins Work at State & Local Levels The Tea Party Branch for Gay Republicans, GoProud, announced on January 18, 2013, that it supports marriage equality for gays and lesbians....
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Egalite pour LGBT en Francais Possible
Same-sex marriage bill debated beginning Jan. 29. On a leisurely Sunday, January 27, over 125,000 demonstrators marched in Paris to show their support for a same-sex marriage bill that lawmakers would...
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Kevin James, Gay Republican, Running for L.A. Mayor
A Long Shot for James Running In a Democratic City? Kevin James, a former conservative talk show host, and former prosecutor, is running for Mayor of Los Angeles to succeed Mayor Antonio R....
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Shhh! Don’t say “Gay!” It doesn’t Exist!
“Don’t Say Gay” Bill Back in Tennessee Last year, the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill died because the state assembly adjourned. Originally sponsored by Rep. Bill Dunn (R-Knoxville), the bill passed...
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Founder of PFLAG to Receive 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal
Jeanne Manford, Mother of Straight Ally Movement, Honored February 15, 2013 The founder of PFLAG, Parents and Friends of Gay and Lesbians, in 1972, Jeanne Manford, will posthumously receive 2012...
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Lech Walesa Criticizes Gay Rights
Poland’s First Elected President Homophobic Lech Walesa, Poland’s communist-era democracy campaigner, said in a television on March 1 that he believed gay people had no right to sit on the front...
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Bill Creating Anti-LGBT Discrimination Dead in Utah
Not Enough Votes In Senate Before Deadline A measure to create a Utah statewide law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or sexual identity died on March 11, 2013. Before the Monday...
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Conversion Therapy for N.J. Gay Youth May be a No-No Soon.
Bill Advanced to Senate On March 17, 2013, New Jersey’s State Senate Committee heard testimony from LGBT activist Troy Stevenson who spoke about the suicide of an individual who had tried conversion...
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Polls Show Support for Marriage Equality
Gay Marriage Support Hits New High in Washington Post-ABC News Poll A significant majority (58%) of American voters for the first time approve of gay marriage, ABC News reports. A previous ABC...
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A Greek flight and travel company is causing a stir with it’s most recent advertising campaign that appears to draw upon old, outdated homophobic stereotypes of gay men being predatory and lecherous....
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France’s Bill Legalizing Gay Marriage Expected to Pass Week of April 22.
Opposition Takes to Streets to Protest The Socialist-controlled Senate, the upper house of the French Parliament, on April 9th approved the most crucial article of a draft law that would legalize...
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Colorado’s Rep. Jared Polis Reintroduces Bill to Protect LGBT Students
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican Rep. from Florida Is Co-Sponsor Openly gay Rep. Jared Polis(D-Colo), former chair of the Colorado State Board of Education, plans to reintroduce the Student...
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Paraguay Presidential Runner Criticizes Gays
Tobacco Magnate Not Gay-Friendly Horacio Cartes, the front-runner in Paraguay’s presidential election on April 21, 2013, has not been “making nice” with gays in his country. He likened gays to...
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Philadelphia City Council Passes LGBT Equality Bill
First in the Nation! Bill 130224 passed with a 14-3 vote on April 25, 2013. It not only gives a tax credit incentive to private businesses that offered employee health plans, including surgery that...
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Fidel Castro’s Niece Cleared to Attend U.S. Conference
Will receive Gay Rights Award Mariela Castro, daughter of acting Cuban President Raul Castro is now allowed to travel to the U.S. to accept an award for her gay rights advocacy. On April 30, 2013,...
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No Marriage Equality for Northern Ireland
Marriage Equality in Northern Ireland took a step back earlier this week when the unionist politicians defeated a Sinn Féin bid to create marriage equality for gay couples. The votes of the Democratic...
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Tiny State of Delaware Takes Big Move
Gay Couples Can Marry July 1 On May 7, 2013, Delaware’s Senate voted,,12 to 9, to make Delaware the 11th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage. Governor Jack Markell, calling it “a great...
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Senator Leahy submits Gay Rights Amendment to Senate’s Immigration Bill
Would Allow Gays to Sponsor Foreign-born Partners On May 7. 2013, Senate Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) submitted to the Senate’s Immigration Bill an amendment that would allow legally...
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Minnesota House Approves Marriage Equality Bill, 75-59
Bill Likely Heard by full Senate week of May 13 Will Minnesota become the twelfth state to legalize same-sex marriage? It’s inching closer with the passage of House File 1054 in the...
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