BY GARTH GREENWELL Pride has always been a tense time in Sofia, Bulgaria, where I have lived for the last four years. In 2008, the year of the first Pride (not coincidentally, Bulgaria joined the European Union in 2007), the parade was disrupted by a…
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Archives for June 23, 2013
Posts from June 23, 2013
College Assignment Promoting Tolerance Causes Uproar
A professor at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee has come under fire for an assignment she gave to her psychology class, aimed at creating empathy for gays and lesbians, The Tennessean reports: "At issue is an assignment in…
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Gay Man Beaten In Assault Outside Cleveland, Ohio: VIDEO
A gay man from Norwalk and his friend were attacked and beaten earlier this week while visiting a 7-Eleven in Sandusky, Ohio about 60 miles outside Cleveland. Fox 8 reports: "The victim and his friend were inside the 7-Eleven initially an…
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Over One Quarter Of San Francisco’s Homeless Identify As LGBT
For the first time ever, the San Francisco Human Services Agency surveyed a sample of the city's homeless population about their sexual orientation and the results are startling. Of the 1,000 surveyed, 29 percent said they were gay, bisexual or t…
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Dan Savage Offers Some Gay Advice For Straight Couples: VIDEO
On the latest "Ask Anything" video for The Dish, Dan Savage discusses the benefits of gay couples not having to conform to gender expectations and suggests a four-word question that every straight couple should consider adopting into their…
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Lesbian Couple Married Across the Street from Westboro Baptist Church: VIDEO
As Julian reported on Thursday, Kimberly Kidwell, a 31-year-old EMT, married Katie Short on Saturday at Equality House, across the street from Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. The HuffPost reports: Members of the church, who have travelled acros…
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One Direction Performs A Strip Tease Scavenger Hunt: VIDEO
On a scavenger hunt segment of his show, Jimmy Kimmel instructs the members of One Direction to “come back with your underwear over your pants.” Harry Styles, however, has something much better in mind. Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP……
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LGBT Military Group Outserve-SLDN Fires Executive Director; Staff, Board Resignations Follow
Following a reported internal power struggle, the complete details of which have yet to be divulged, Allyson Robinson, the executive director of LGBT military group Outserve-SLDN and the first trangender leader of a national LGBT rights organization,…
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Glenn Greenwald Rips David Gregory for Asking if He Should Be Charged with a Crime: VIDEO
Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald had a terse exchange with David Gregory on Meet the Press today after Gregory suggested that he "aided and abetted" NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, who arrived in Moscow today after leaving Hong Kong, heade…
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Hardball’s Chris Matthews on the Death of the ‘Ex-Gay’ Movement: VIDEO
On Friday's Hardball, Chris Matthews welcomed Truth Wins Out's Wayne Besen and psychotherapist Dr. Laura Berman to discuss this week's news that Alan Chambers was shutting down the leading "ex-gay" organization Exodus Internatio…
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