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New Hampshire is currently debating HB1590, which would repeal the state’s marriage equality laws.
Representative Nancy Elliott, a Republican, saw this as an opportunity to go into a lengthy description of anal sex as a way of explaining why she supports the bill.
You’ll have to watch the video to get her statement in [...]
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A piece of gay history was recently made available online.
CBS aired The Homosexuals on March 7, 1967. Hosted by Mike Wallace, it was the first major television special dedicated to homosexuality.
Considered a pioneering broadcast at the time (homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in 1967), viewing it today is a bittersweet [...]
Since the 1990s, gay Republicans have remained loyal to their party in spite of a platform that opposes marriage equality, adoption rights, open military service, employment protections, and most other items of interest for the LGBT community.
When asked why they continued to support people who don’t support them, the rationale was that they were changing [...]
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Last week I wrote about Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, who held the first public gay commitment ceremony in Malawi’s history.
(Monjeza is on the left, Chimbalanga on the right)
At the time, I mentioned how their bravery in stating their love for each other, considering that homosexuality is illegal in Malawi.
The BBC reports that they [...]
One of the many absurdities gay people have to contend with is dealing with people who believe same-sex desires can be modified with a little heterosexual lovin’.
A benign form of this is challenging gay people by asking if they’re sure and trying to find out if they have had heterosexual sex, as if [...]
With this being the holiday season, you would like to believe that people are being a bit more charitable to each other.
Unfortunately, there are always reminders that some individuals are not feeling the holiday spirit.
On December 19, a friendly snowball fight in Washington, DC was interrupted when an off-duty policeman pulled a gun on [...]
In an event that shows how society does not view gay people as full human beings, the BBC posted a poll asking “Should homosexuals face execution” on its website yesterday.
The question was meant to be in response to antigay legislation in Uganda, but the wording provided an opportunity for respondents to make the [...]
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Now this is too much!
Reggae superstar Buju Banton was arrested December 10 on drug conspiracy charges involving the distribution of five kilos of cocaine.
The arrest is the latest in a wild series of events surrounding the singer, who remains a target of the gay community because of his 1988 song “Boom Bye Bye,” [...]
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There is an update to the heinous situation for LGBTs in Uganda.
Thanks in part to pressure, including condemnation from a leader of the Ugandan Anglican Church and Canada and Britain, and the bill has been revised to remove the death penalty and imprisonment for LGBTs.
While the White House never made a formal statement, [...]
It is the kind of end-of-year list that you wish didn’t exist, but Alicia Eler provides an overview of the year’s top 25 examples of homophobia at the Chicago Tribune website.
You can read the article here.
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