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Unemployed Because You’re Gay? Want To Go Talk To Congress?

March 5, 2010 12:10 PM by David Badash
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Bil Browning, founder of The Bilerico Project (I write for them as well) is working to get unemployed members of the LGBTQ community to go lobby Congress to pass ENDA — The Employee Non-Discrimination Act. You’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the coming days and weeks. But if you live in one [...]

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Bigotry Watch

Silencing The Liars, Redux

June 29, 2009 6:25 PM by David Badash
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Bigotry And Lies, Back In Action




Back in February, Janet Parshall’s bigoted, lying, and expensive anti-gay infomercial was scheduled to air on a local NBC-affiliate in Michigan. Fortunately, fairness and common-sense values at the station prevailed. Sadly, the same cannot be said for a Florida NBC affiliate, which aired, “Silencing The Christians” on gay pride day. Nice.
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Civil Rights

2.9 Million Orphans, Happy Father’s Day

June 21, 2009 12:55 PM by David Badash
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States Offering Full Marriage Equality Have Lowest Rates Of Child Homelessness.

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Asides

California Prop 8 Donors, Meet Arkansas Anti-Gay Adoption Supporters

April 30, 2009 2:38 AM by David Badash

California Prop 8 Donors, Meet Arkansas Anti-Gay Adoption Supporters. KnowThyNeighbor.org has a website. And they thought you should know the names and addresses of all the folks bigoted hate mongers who signed the petition to get the anti-gay adoption and foster care referendum on the Arkansas ballot. Take a look here. See anyone you know? No? [...]

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Gay adoption before Florida Legislature, courts

April 29, 2009 7:51 PM by David Badash

Gay adoption before Florida Legislature, courts. “The state Legislature is faced with a bill aimed at overturning the state’s 1977 ban on gay adoption, and Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals must resolve a lawsuit over the issue stemming from Gill’s case. The case is likely to move on to the Florida Supreme Court. The [...]

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Asides

Bid to Remove Civil-Rights Protections for Gays Fails

March 30, 2009 1:34 PM by David Badash

Bid to Remove Civil-Rights Protections for Gays Fails. In Gainesville, Florida, last Tuesday, voters “rejected a charter amendment, 58 percent to 42 percent, that would have removed the city’s anti-discrimination protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents. Charter Amendment 1 sought to strip away any equal-rights protections for employment, housing, credit and public accommodations [...]

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Legal Issues

The State Of The Gay Union

February 19, 2009 4:20 PM by David Badash

In the earliest years of the twenty-first century, it felt like things were going well for the gay community. The prior decade had brought us the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, forged as a compromise in 1993 to gays who had been promised by Bill Clinton that they would be allowed to serve openly [...]

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Celebrities

A Real Wedding Bash For Florida Governor Charlie Crist

December 1, 2008 3:27 PM by David Badash

Evidently there are a lot of Floridians wishing their anti-gay marriage Governor would change his stance and support their right to marry. Our friends over at Towleroad report that, “Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting married next month and the gay group Impact Florida plans to be there to peacefully protest the recent passage of Amendment 2, which bans [...]

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