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06/01/2009
Barack, paper, fissures: Does this document allay concerns?
It's official: Pride Month can again. In a welcome new document, the President says so: 2009LGBT Prc Rel (2) Great. We mean it: An excellent move from a friendly president. Now we need Barack Obama, constitutional scholar, to actually mean...
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Dickin' around with marriage equality
Marry. Cheney: "I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family....
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Video: It's that time of year again
Happy Pride from G-A-Y [YT]
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Well you never got this under Secretary Rice:
Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC June 1, 2009 Forty years ago this month, the gay rights movement began with the Stonewall riots in New York City, as gays and lesbians demanded an end to the persecution they...
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Video: NY. Civil. Liberties. Our Unions.
Gay New Yorkers want it. Lesbian New Yorkers want it. Hetero New Yorkers want it: More videos and information: Marriage NY [NYCLU] And by "it," we mean peace. By "it," we mean fairness. By "it," we mean the long overdue...
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Would autumnal weekend march lead to a weakened fall?
You may have heard that there's a growing call to march on Washington this fall. But what you may not know is that there's a parallel, less-resounding-but-equally-valid call for our movement to rethink whether a DC march would be the...
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Hey Maine: Do you really want to lend your name to gay 'conversion'?
The Bangor Daily News is reporting that the campaign to roll back marriage equality in Maine has begun in earnest: The Rev. Bob Emrich, a spokesman for a coalition of groups that support traditional marriage, traveled the state last week...
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'The only thing I hate more than physical violence is spiritual and moral violence.'
You know how we've been detailing the out-there words of Mike Heath, the more prominent figurehead for Maine's movement to rollback marriage equality? Well he's now written a piece in response to the Tiller murder that (a) directly links abortion...
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Video: A 'Meetin' Prop 8 foes' kind of scene
We couldn't make it to Fresno for the Meet in the Middle event. Fortunately, prolific YouTuber Sean Chapin could: Unfortunately, those who most need to see/hear this refuse to meet us anywhere other than the furthest reaches of the right....
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Envisioning a politically powerless opposition
An incentivized bully is, typically, a satisfied bully. Every school kid knows that whether lunch money, a desirous bus seat, or the nuclear codes that your sister Malia found in daddy's wallet are the commodities lying on the negotiation table,...
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Sorry governor, but we'll be taking our rights now
SUCCESS: The Nevada Legislature voted into law a domestic partnership registry for same-sex and unmarried straight couples on Sunday evening, with the Assembly mustering the two-thirds vote required to override a veto by Gov. Jim Gibbons, a Republican. Nevada Partnership...
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