Openly gay New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn has received several antigay death threats while on the campaign trail, her wife Kim Catullo revealed in an interview with the New York Daily News yesterday. "Chris has gotten thr…
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Archives for August 19, 2013
Posts from August 19, 2013
Mike Huckabee Uses His Fox Show To Spout False Information About Trans People And Gender Identity – VIDEO
Failed Republican presidential candidate and current Fox News pundit Mike Huckabee recently joined the growing chorus of conservative talking heads that disapprove of California's new legal protections for trans public school students. On last ni…
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Kazakhstan May Be Following In Russia’s Footsteps
Members of the Kazakhstan parliament want to become the next country to adopt an anti-gay propaganda law, similar to the controversial one adopted in Russia earlier this year. Worse yet, Aldan Smaiyl, the Majilis (the Lower Chamber of the…
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CA Assemblyman Pulls Son From Public School Because Of Transgender Protections
In an example of completely sensible behavior that is not in any way a pearl-clutching overreaction, California Assemblyman Tim Donnelly is pulling at least one of his sons from public school this fall because of the newly-enacted protections for tra…
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Liberty Council To File Lawsuit Against New Jersey’s New Ban On Conversion Therapy
Earlier today, New Jersey governor Chris Christie signed the state's ban on gay-to-straight conversion therapy for minors. In his statement, Christie recognized that the ban was "government limiting parental choice on the care and treatment…
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Russian Gay Rights Activist Feared Abducted Or Insane After Bizarre Facebook Posts
Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseev is thought to have either been abducted or to have gone crazy after a series of troubling status updates appeared on his Facebook wall this past weekend. Though his Facebook profile has since been taken do…
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Glenn Greenwald’s Partner Detained by UK Authorities Under Anti-Terrorism Law
Journalist Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda was detained by UK officials and held for nine hours in London this weekend on his way home to Rio de Janeiro from Berlin. Miranda–who had been visiting Laura Poitras, the documentar…
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Prominent Gay Filmmaker John Greyson Arrested In Egypt
Greyson, a documentary filmmaker from Toronto, Canada, along with Tarek Loubani, an ER doctor from London, Ontario, Canada, was arrested last night after 10 PM. The two men were reportedly on their way to Gaza, according to a friend's blog.…
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Gender Identity As Explained By A Six-Year-Old
California Governor Jerry Brown's recent decision to sign landmark protections for trans public school students into law has already prompted negative reactions from opponents. Said opponents, when expressing their distaste for the new law, often…
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‘Pastafarians’ Arrested In Moscow For ‘Unsanctioned Rally’ – VIDEO
For those out there who haven't heard the good news of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Pastafarianism is a satirical "religion" designed as "a thought experiment, satire, illustrating that Intelligent Design is not science, but rathe…
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