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Yankees Icon Yogi Berra Voices Support For Jason Collins And Forms Partnership With Athlete Ally

by David Badash ● 5:01 PM May 1, 2013
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Baseball icon Yogi Berra has voiced support for the NBA’s Jason Collins and supports his coming out announcement. Before Collins’ coming out, Athlete Ally joined with the Yogi Berra Museum in an historic partnership.

Marriage

NOM Pushes Poll With Best Title Ever: ‘Gay Marriage Still Unpopular Where It Isn’t Already Legal’

by David Badash ● 7:45 PM April 18, 2013
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NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, today is pushing a new poll by a brand new conservative polling organization. Best thing about the poll? The title:

“Poll: Gay marriage still unpopular where it isn’t already legal”

Civil Rights

Hospital Handcuffs And Removes Gay Man Visiting His Partner

by David Badash ● 12:23 PM April 11, 2013
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A Missouri hospital is under fire after using their security guards to handcuff and eject a gay man who was merely visiting his same-sex partner.

Marriage

NOM Bears False Witness — Chicago Bears Call NOM Claims About Support ‘False’

by David Badash ● 8:35 PM April 3, 2013
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NOM’s Jennifer Roback Morse claimed the Chicago Bears support their anti-gay message, only to have the bears respond publicly by calling her claims “false.”

Guns

On Our Radar – Happy Eleventh Birthday, Son. Daddy’s Bought You Your Very Own Gun

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 8:00 AM March 31, 2013
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In anticipation of his 11th birthday, a “Gun Safety Instructor” gave his son a rifle manufactured to look like an assault weapon, and then posted his photo on Facebook. What’s wrong with this picture, is On Our Radar.

DOMA

Tea Party Congressman, Senate Hopeful Tweets Support For Repeal Of DOMA

by David Badash ● 10:34 AM March 30, 2013
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GOP Congressman Justin Amash tweeted this week that government is the “real threat” to traditional marriage, “not gay couples who love each other & want to spend lives together.”

Civil Rights

Gay Representative To Anti-Equality Senator Casey: Your Voice Is Silent. And I Am Angry.

by J. Rudy Flesher ● 2:01 PM March 28, 2013
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This week, as Facebook turned red with LGBT people and our allies supporting civil full marriage equality, it seems like Democratic Senators have been falling over themselves to finally come out in favor of marriage equality. Senators Begich (AK), Hagan (NC), McCaskill (MO) Rockefeller (WV), Tester (MT), Warner (VA) all announced their support this week. [...]

DOMA

Previewing Prop 8 And DOMA: Part II — Listening To The Oral Argument

by John Culhane ● 12:02 PM March 24, 2013

It’s obvious by now that the arguments this coming Tuesday and Wednesday morning in the two marriage equality cases — on the Defense of Marriage Act (Tues.) and Prop 8 (Wed.) — have cosmic significance. Let’s take a look.

Bigotry Watch

‘Totalitarian Homosexual Lobby’ Engaged In ‘Active Recruitment Of Children’ Says WND

by David Badash ● 5:06 PM March 20, 2013
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Joseph Farah, the founder of World Net Daily (WND) is claiming that the “dangerous and totalitarian … homosexual lobby” is engaged in “child abuse” and “the active recruitment of children.”

Civil Rights

LGBT Teen To Senators: ‘I Am Not Broken, I Am Not Confused, I Do Not Need To Be Fixed’ (Video)

by David Badash ● 5:39 PM March 19, 2013
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A New Jersey teen testified yesterday before a state senate committee and told lawmakers, “like every other LGBT person, I am not broken, I am not confused, and I do not need to be fixed.”

Discrimination

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Addresses A Black Constituent As ‘Boy’

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 1:02 PM March 15, 2013
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At a town hall meeting in Patterson, New Jersey last Tuesday, an irritated Governor Chris Christie, addressed a black constituent as “boy.” Was it a slip, or a slur? Watch the video and decide for yourself.

International

Prostitute Who Claimed Senator Paid Her For Sex Admits She Was Paid To Lie

by David Badash ● 5:59 PM March 4, 2013
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A prostitute who claimed U.S. Senator Robert Menendez had paid her for sex today recanted her lies, and admitted she had never met the New Jersey Senator.

Marriage

Who Are The 131 Republicans Asking SCOTUS To Support Gay Marriage? — List And Full Brief

by David Badash ● 4:41 PM February 28, 2013
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The list of 131 Republicans whom former RNC chair Ken Mehlman has managed to get to sign on to an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to support same-sex marriage.

Marriage

Clint Eastwood Joins More Than 100 Republicans Asking Supreme Court To Support Gay Marriage

by David Badash ● 12:18 PM February 28, 2013
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Actor and Mitt Romney supporter Clint Eastwood has signed his name to an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to recognize the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry.

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