By Arturo Garcia The American Family Association (AFA) emailed members urging them to keep their children out of school during an anti-bullying event organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). According to The New York Times, the evangelical group’s… Read More ›
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14 Years Ago Today
by Jamie McGonnigal On October 7, 1998, Aaron Kreifels was riding his bike through a field in Wyoming. He wasn’t expecting that day to be different from any other beautiful sunny afternoon in the vast plains surrounding Laramie, but that… Read More ›
California Is First State to Ban Gay ‘Cure’ for Minors
By ERIK ECKHOLM California has become the first state to ban the use for minors of disputed therapies to “overcome” homosexuality, a step hailed by gay rights groups across the country that say the therapies have caused dangerous emotional harm… Read More ›
New sketch released in shooting of teen lesbian couple in south Texas
Texas rangers have released a new sketch of the man suspected of shooting a young woman in the head and murdering her girlfriend while the two were on a date in a public park last month. Mary Kristene Chapa, 18,… Read More ›
Gay rights groups condemn shooting of Texas lesbian couple
Investigators on Wednesday were still trying to determine a motive for the killing of a teenage woman and the wounding of her girlfriend in a shooting at a South Texas park that has caught the attention of gay rights groups…. Read More ›
Court rejects appeal to overturn Proposition 8 ruling—case could head to Supreme Court
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that it will not review a three-judge panel’s decision to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. Following this ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Proposition 8 proponents plan… Read More ›
Mississippi Conservative Calls For Putting Gay People To Death On Facebook Page
Republicans have been furiously attacking the LGBT community ever since President Obama announced his support of marriage equality for same-sex couples. Some Republicans have taken their criticism to the extreme. In Mississippi, GOP state Rep. Andy Gipson posted a message… Read More ›
North Carolina pastor’s anti-gay sermon spurs protest
By Steve Lyttle, McClatchy Newspapers CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor’s sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday…. Read More ›
Why the Romney bully story matters
By Carly Rothman/The Star-Ledger It would hardly seem fair to judge a 65-year-old man for the shameful things he did in high school, as long as he also regarded them with shame. That doesn’t seem to be the case with… Read More ›
Obama Under Fire For Refusing To Sign Gay Protections Order
President Barack Obama is coming under heavy criticism for deciding against signing an executive order protecting LGBT workers. Senior Obama administration officials on Wednesday said the order which would ban federal contractors from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and… Read More ›
Christians Fight for Their Children’s God-Given Right to Bully Gay Kids
By Erin Gloria Ryan Despite the fact that there’s scant evidence in the Bible that Jesus was an asshole who commanded his followers to bully gay children to death, a group of American Christian parents seem to think Christ has… Read More ›
Dharun Ravi Guilty of Hate Crimes for Suicide of Tyler Clementi in Webcam Spy Trial
By KATE ZERNIKE NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student was convicted on Friday on all 15 charges he had faced for using a webcam to spy on his roommate having sex with another man, a verdict poised… Read More ›
Maryland lawmakers pass bill to allow gay marriage
State senators approved a gay marriage bill 25-22 Thursday, moving Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages. Gay marriage opponents in the Senate unsuccessfully attempted to attach amendments to the House bill, which… Read More ›
New Jersey Senate Votes to Legalize Gay Marriage
By KATE ZERNIKE TRENTON — The New Jersey State Senate voted on Monday to legalize same-sex marriage, a significant shift in support from two years ago, when a similar measure failed. The legislation faces a vote on Thursday in the… Read More ›
Washington governor signs gay marriage law
By Nicole Neroulias OLYMPIA, Wash | Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:20pm EST (Reuters) – Washington state became the seventh in the nation to put a law on its books recognizing same-sex marriage on Monday, as opponents of the measure signed… Read More ›