The White House announced today that President Obama would like to marriage equality in Illinois, his home state and a state where lawmakers are keen to pass a law before the current term ends in January. "While the president does not weigh in o…
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Archives for December 29, 2012
Posts from December 29, 2012
News: Gay Judge, Challenger, Subway Pusher, Fox’s ‘Embarrassment’
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a bill putting new limits on abortion clinics, including a law requiring that providers ask patients whether they've been coerced into having an abortion. At least four people are dead after a plane slid off t…
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Flashback: ‘Gay Comix’ Clobbered The Closet In 1980
Marvel Comics writer John Byrne has previously said he always planned to make superhero Northstar, introduced in 1979, gay, but that corporate and cultural forces kept him in the closet until 1992. Up to that point, Northstar's sexuality had only…
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England’s Anti-Gay Catholic Leaders Need To Lay Off The Sci-Fi
There’s some more dystopian doom and gloom about marriage equality coming from the Catholic Church in England. Days after Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols called conservative plans to legalize same-sex nuptials an “Orwellian plot…
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Mark Hundahl, Co-Owner Of Gay Magazine ‘Frontiers,’ Has Died
Sad news to report from Los Angeles: Mark Hundahl, the straight co-owner of LA’s Frontiers magazine, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 62. Frontiers has an excellent remembrance of Hundahl, a man who stood by the LGBT community for de…
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Crowd Goes Wild Over Maine’s First Gay Married Couple: VIDEOS
Steven Bridges and Michael Snell became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Maine last night, and they were greeted by hundreds of cheering supporters who broke into “All You Need Is Love.” Check out video of their singing, as well as video…
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Ugandan Gay Group’s Office Burgled As Bishop Claims They Don’t Exist
LGBT activists in Uganda had their Christmas cheer dampened by news that an unidentified vandal or vandals broke into the offices of Sexual Minorities Uganda, the African nation's leading equality group, and stole most of their essential equipmen…
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Maine Is Now The Eighth State Where Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal
Congratulations to Michael Snell and husband Steven Bridges, the first same-sex couple to marry after marriage equality became legal in Maine after midnight. From Bangor Daily News: The first gay couple to be married in the state of Maine took their…
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