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Survey Says If You’re Reading This, Chances Are You’re Gay

July 14, 2010 5:53 PM by David Badash
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A new Harris Interactive survey just released finds that gay men and lesbians are more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to read and write blogs, and to belong to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. And those numbers are increasing. 54% (up from 51% in march of 2008,) of gay men and lesbians read [...]

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Caleb Eigsti

The Pentagon’s DADT Survey’s Five Most Offensive Questions

July 12, 2010 5:07 PM by Caleb Eigsti
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Before I give you what I believe to be the worst, most unacceptable five questions from the Pentagon’s survey that will be used to determine how allowing openly gay and lesbian servicemembers in will affect our “military readiness,” let me just say that I cannot believe how this thing is worded. Every question could end [...]

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Asides

Gays: Surprise! The Tea Party Doesn’t Like You.

April 15, 2010 3:59 PM by David Badash

Gays: Surprise! The Tea Party Doesn’t Like You. Despite the Tea Party’s rallying cry of smaller government, only 16% of Tea Party supporters think gay couples should be allowed to legally marry, according to a wide-ranging New York Times/CBS News poll. Perhaps it’s that Libertarian streak some of them claim that pushes the number up [...]

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Politics

FireFoxx Is Still Here! Are You?

March 6, 2010 1:18 PM by David Badash
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One year ago, I created FireFoxx, a Facebook group in direct response to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx’s despicable comments on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding Matthew Shepard. We worked hard to let her know her words were unacceptable, and her performance was unacceptable. Now, she will have to fight for her seat, [...]

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News

Breaking: NYT: “Paterson Said to Direct Aides to Influence Abuse Case”

March 1, 2010 9:29 PM by David Badash

Maybe Harold Ford should have thrown his hat in the ring for Governor? The New York Times just reported: “Gov. David A. Paterson personally directed two state officials to contact the woman who had accused his close aide of assaulting her, according to two people with direct knowledge of the governor’s actions. “According to one [...]

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Marriage

BREAKING: New York Governor Paterson Ends Reelection Bid Amid Scandal

February 26, 2010 12:37 PM by David Badash
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After fending off a recently-reported bombshell rumor, New York’s Governor David Paterson, the man who succeeded Eliot Spitzer after a sex-scandal resignation, has decided to not seek reelection, amid reports of his own scandal. Via The New York Times: “[M]any had said publicly this week that Mr. Paterson’s chances had been damaged, perhaps irreparably, by [...]

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Marriage

Poll: Support For Gay Marriage Slightly Lower, Opposition Stronger

February 17, 2010 3:52 PM by David Badash
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In a just-released ABC News/Washington Post poll, support for same-sex marriage among Americans dropped slightly to 47% from 49%, but 50% say same-sex marriage should be “illegal,” (up from 46%.)  42% believe “strongly” that same-sex marriage should be illegal. Only 31% of those supporting marriage equality do so strongly. The changes against an April, 2009 [...]

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News

Gays Respond To “Do Republicans Really Hate Us?”

February 4, 2010 5:48 PM by David Badash
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On Tuesday, in the wake of a newly-released Daily Kos/ Research 2000 poll that revealed how hostile to the LGBTQ community Republicans are, I asked, “Gays: Do Republicans Really Hate Us?” And you responded, “yes!” You can see the most current results below, but as of this writing, with 184 votes, 47% of you said, [...]

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Civil Rights

Watch: Maddow: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand On Obstacles To DADT Repeal

February 2, 2010 2:59 AM by David Badash
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Media

Watch: “Question Time” – Obama Cleans GOP Representatives’ Clock

January 29, 2010 7:26 PM by David Badash
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As I wrote earlier, President Obama met in Baltimore with GOP Congressmen from the House of Representatives today. He cleaned their clocks. He countered, so deftly and specifically, their whines and concerns. This is the Obama we voted for. Yes, Obama has a long way to go on equal rights for the LGBTQ community. But [...]

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News

Poll: Fox News Is The Most Trusted News Channel

January 26, 2010 10:28 PM by David Badash
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“Americans Trust Those Who Tell Them What They Want To Hear”




“A generation ago you would have expected Americans to place their trust in the most neutral and unbiased conveyors of news,” said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling. “But the media landscape has really changed and now they’re turning more toward the outlets that [...]

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Civil Rights

Kicking DADT Down The Road, And Into Obama’s State Of The Union?

January 25, 2010 11:44 PM by David Badash
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Will Obama Promise Repeal — Again?




For years under Bush, and for months under Obama, military leaders have been “kicking that can down the road,” when it comes to repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
All of a sudden, though, it seems there’s about as much speculation about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal in Obama’s State of the [...]

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Asides

Your Turn.

January 16, 2010 5:07 PM by David Badash

So, I’ve been writing The New Civil Rights Movement for exactly fourteen months. This will be post #668. As readers, you’ve made 4,342 comments. I’m asking you to make one more. Tell me what you think of the blog. I have a short survey – it shouldn’t take more than two minutes to complete. It [...]

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