PHOTO OF THE DAY: Batwoman pops the question. BY SAM GREISMAN A look back at today's top stories GAY ISSUES Being a gay Mormon seems like a nearly impossible thing, but one BYU student has discovered, by filming his comi…
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Archives for February 20, 2013
Posts from February 20, 2013
One Direction Covers Blondie’s ‘One Way or Another’: VIDEO
With a cameo by the British Prime Minister. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP……
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Illinois House Executive Committee to Consider Marriage Equality Bill on February 26
The Illinois House Executive Committee has set February 26 (at 3 pm) as the date it will consider SB 10, or the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, passed by the Senate last week. The Chicago Phoenix reports: The committee vote is the next h…
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Thomas Roberts Speaks to Freedom to Marry’s Evan Wolfson About Marriage Equality Ad Campaign: VIDEO
This morning I posted about the new million-dollar marriage equality campaign spearheaded by HRC and Freedom to Marry which has as its lead-off piece of media an ad featuring Dick Cheney, Laura Bush, and Colin Powell making pro-equality statements. F…
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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1311
MARRIAGE NEWS WATCH: AFER's Matt Baume with the latest on the Prop 8. and DOMA cases, as well as news form Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and Oregon. GoPRO: Woman freedives with Great White Shark. WHAT IS LIGHT? The folks at Veritasium try to explain…
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News: Michelle Obama, Puerto Rico, Jane Lynch, Clive Davis
Florida pastor attacks Sam Champion's marriage. Michelle Obama's official second term portrait. Kelly Clarkson smacks down Clive Davis for alleged lies about her in his new memoir. Clive Davis responds. Police: Oklahoma man may have spontaneo…
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50+ Pro-Equality Organizations Send Letter to Obama Urging Executive Order on LGBT Discrimination: READ IT
More than 50 pro-equality LGBT groups and allied groups sent a letter today to President Obama urging him to issue an executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating in employment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity,…
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GLAAD President Wants to Know ‘What the Hell is Going On’ at AP with Guidance on Gay Married Couples?
Last week we reported on new guidelines sent out by the Associated Press, indicating that the words "husband" and "wife" should only be used to describe married gay couples if the couples themselves describe themselves that way, o…
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Minnesota GOP State Senator Says He’ll Co-Sponsor Marriage Equality Bill, Wants to ‘Do the Right Thing’
Minnesota GOP state senator Branden Petersen may soon be the first Republican co-sponsor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in that state, the Star Tribune reports: Having a Republican co-author would be an enormous political coup for sa…
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‘Downton Abbey’ Creator on Thomas Barrow, Attitudes Toward Gays Then and Now
The NYT talks to Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes about Season 3, and part of their conversation discusses Thomas Barrow's storyline, and the attitudes toward gay people then and now. Another story line from this season dealt with the househ…
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