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Arts

The Clerk Says You Are Not

by Chivas Sandage ● 1:06 PM April 6, 2013
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Chivas Sandage wrote this poem and read it at last week’s Marriage Equality Rally in Hartford, Connecticut, which she helped organize.

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. [...]

Civil Rights

Targeting Minorities: NYPD And ‘Stop And Frisk’ Go On Trial Today In Federal Court

by Guest Author ● 3:38 PM March 18, 2013
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Today the New York City Police Department goes on trial. After more than a decade of stopping and frisking literally millions of New Yorkers, the tables have been turned and the NYPD will have to account for its actions.

Gay Agenda

On Our Radar – LGBT Legal Groups Sacrifice Three-Year-Old Jacob For A More Favorable Venue

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 9:09 AM March 10, 2013
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As the special needs son of a lesbian couple, three-year-old Jacob’s rights should have been championed by the LGBT legal organizations. Instead, they sabotaged the lawsuit that would have granted him two legal parents. Today, the decision to sacrifice Jacob in the hopes of a more favorable venue, is On Our Radar.

Legal Issues

DA Carmen Ortiz Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz. Did They Bully Him To Death?

by David Badash ● 11:50 AM January 14, 2013
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Carmen Ortiz, today has dropped all charges against Aaron Swartz, now that her office’s campaign of bullying, zealotry, and overreaching prosecution ended in Swartz’s committing suicide by hanging.

Don't Ask Don't Tell

Feds Agree To Full Severance Pay For Service Members Dismissed Under DADT

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 10:44 AM January 8, 2013
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The ACLU announced that they have reached a settlement with the federal government which entitles service members dismissed under DADT to full severance pay.

Legal Issues

Maine Gay Marriages Begin at 12:01 Saturday Morning Throughout the State

by Tanya Domi ● 1:08 AM December 29, 2012
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The State of Maine opened its marriage bureaus at 12:01 a.m. in multiple locales to enthusiastic couples and great fanfare

Guns

Mandatory Gun Insurance – A Practical Plan To Change America’s Cowboy Gun Culture

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 9:42 AM December 27, 2012
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Could a national mandate for gun liability insurance bring market forces to bear to reduce gun proliferation? Here’s a proposal that would change the Wild West nature of America’s gun culture.

Celebrities

George Takei: Scalia Should Recuse Himself From Marriage Cases For ‘Repugnant’ Comments

by David Badash ● 4:57 PM December 12, 2012
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George Takei says Justice Scalia should consider recusing himself from the two same-sex marriage cases the Court will hear this term because of his “clearly biased.”

Legal Issues

Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Seven Worst Anti-Gay Statements

by David Badash ● 10:16 AM December 12, 2012
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Justice Antonin Scalia has been talking recently about the issue of same-sex marriage, even days after the Court announced it will hear two marriage cases this term.

Bigotry Watch

Justice Scalia Forced To Defend Anti-Gay Opinion To Gay Princeton Freshman

by David Badash ● 2:22 AM December 11, 2012
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Justice Antonin Scalia got schooled on marriage, equality, and anti-gay bigotry by a college freshman while delivering a lecture at Princeton yesterday afternoon.

Legal Issues

Maggie Gallagher: DOMA Will Be Overturned

by David Badash ● 9:00 PM December 10, 2012
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NOM co-founder Maggie Gallagher has proclaimed that she believes DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act will be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Legal Issues

Listen: 83-Year OId Edie Windsor ‘Delirious With Joy’ SCOTUS To Hear Her DOMA Case

by David Badash ● 6:37 PM December 8, 2012
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In this audio, Windsor says she’s “delirious with joy” the Court decided to hear her case as she discusses her late wife, Thea Spyer, with whom she spent 40 years.

Legal Issues

Gay Republican Fred Karger Reminds Justice Clarence Thomas Why He Must Support Gay Marriage

by David Badash ● 5:12 PM December 7, 2012
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Gay Republican Fred Karger posted this to his Facebook page today to remind Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas why he must decide in favor of same-sex marriage.

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