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07/03/2009

Bias-motivated crimes: You can accurately analyze, or you can Rush

Wanna see a clear example of how Rush Limbaugh deliberately misleads his leaders? Well here, check this out. This is a transcript from yesterday's show: RUSH: I want you to hear this. June 25th, a week ago, Senate Judiciary Committee,...

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Come to see the Constitution, stay to see those who work to undermine it

Look our District, peeps: Someone from the National Organization For Marriage (presumably Maggie Gallagher) has tweeted the following: Just in time for Independence Day: A group that wants to force gay couples to be nothing but independent in the eyes...

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Video: FOF vs. unions, teachers' and ours

Kim Trobee got some highlights. Unfortunately, the above-the-neck enlightenment begins and ends there: But the highlights look good, Kim. Honestly. They're youthful. Summery. Now that you've opened your head up to some new strands of color, now let's open your...

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07/02/2009

They who'd picket on Uranus vs. he who walked on moon

Well you knew this one was coming: We always knew they were Jermaine fans. No word if they'll also hit up Billy Mays' memorial. Though something tells us that God was too big a fan of the Hercules Hook and...

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They say 'cash for fams'; We hear, 'pennies for rights-depriving thoughts'

New FOF head Jim Daly has put forth a new fundraising video: But wouldn't you know it? In an exclusive to G-A-Y, we have managed to obtain the alternate, ultimately nixed script: Personally we would have stuck to that version....

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GLAAD looks @homophobia, gives it poor (#onlineantigaynesssucks)

Have you ever been happily watching old "Growing Pains" clips on YouTube, when a fellow online denizen's homophobia made you lose your Boner? Yea, well, so has GLAAD. And now they are doing something about it: New York, NY, July...

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Appalled-apalooza: HRC/SU announce anti-bias summer tour

A proactive DADT approach from HRC/Servicemembers United: Next week the Human Rights Campaign will launch a national tour to encourage repeal of the failed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in conjunction with Servicemembers United. The kick off event will be...

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Not so graphic, but novel

Many assumed Wonder Woman would be the one to break this barrier, in a special edition in which she traded fighting baddies for a little R&R at the Dinah Shore Weekend. But alas, ladies, it's the boys who get to...

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Currying gay favor: India removes police tape from same-sex bedrooms

Score one for long overdue basic human decency: A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act. Gay sex decriminalised in India [BBC] In keeping with the spirit of...

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New York bled: 2 gay papers, 1 bleak future

Sad times for gay Gotham's print media outlets. This from The New York Times: The New York Blade, one of the two major gay and lesbian newspapers in New York City, has laid off its editor in chief and suspended...

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07/01/2009

Video: 'I guess I'm just kinda a b-hole kinda guy'

Oh Hardee's: Always slipping new products in through the back door. A vs B - Biscuit Holes at Hardee's [YT] (h/t: Towle)

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Perkins: Waah! We don't get to stall this bill like we have in the past. Waah!

Of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy's (R-VT) plan to finally get inclusive hate crimes legislation passes after the July 4th break, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or his ghostwriter) today says the following: In a letter to members...

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They see a 'way out'; we see the music and the mirror

This is the image that greets folks when they stumble upon the Southern Baptist Convention's "The Way Out" pro-"ex-gay" site: SBCTheWayOut.com Our one and only thought upon seeing it? God we hope he gets it. We hope he gets it:...

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Video: Just wait until he really does something for us. That's when the real anti-gay 'fun' begins

(3:23): "It's not rocket science": No. No, it's most certainly not science in any form.

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Court to Cap City: Recognize this, anti-gays!

Bishop Harry Jackson and his merry band of pranksters have been denied in their attempt to stifle D.C. marriage recognition. This from The Washington Post: A Superior Court judge decided yesterday not to delay enactment of a law stipulating that...

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'Sinister language' indeed.

You know what we find "sinister"? Willfully confusing millions of people so that they will oppose a piece of legislation wherein the sole goal is to keep a demonstrably vulnerable group safe from bias-motivated violence. You know what we find...

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Wait -- aren't these the same fans who obsess over guys who grab sticks, play with balls, and smack each other on the ass?!

This is a T-shirt that's apparently become popular among Chicago White Sox fans: Local columnist Richard Roeper has more on this anti-clever anti-gayness: Get it? Sox fans are winners, but Cubs fans are GAY. Ha ha ha ha ha ha....

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Video: Keith and Dan: Commanders of righteously up-in-arms forces

Obama stonewalls 'don't ask, don't tell' policy [Countdown]

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06/30/2009

Video: Protect children...from 'protect children' rhetoric

You've got to be carefully taught [JMG]

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[::inhale::] Yo, this is some dank ::cough, cough:: gayness ya got here, bud

So what is the professional anti-gay community's "culture war" endgame? Well, in a new, 237-page, queer-obsessed e-book, extremist evangelical Scott Lively gives us the 420 411: How can we stop the homosexual movement and restore a family-centered society? To reverse...

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Congrats, Senator Franken!

(*all rights belong to Broadway Video/SNL Studios) Court Rules Franken Has Won Senate Seat [NYT]

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And now kids, Ms. Minnelli will confuse you about gay history

God love her. Liza Minnelli at Paris gay pride 2009 [YT]

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26 groups, 1 set of talking points

We just learned that a whole bunch of familiar G-A-Y suspects (AFA, CWA, Exodus International, etc.) are joining forces to strategize new and unique ways that they can, among other socially conservative things, voice their intense disdain for LGBT people...

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Video: Maddow Stewart looks at 'Fierce Advocate' source of great gay debate

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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What they need to 'lose' is the tired victim act!

"I hear they threw bags of urine at a temple. If we had lost, it never would have occurred to me to react that way." -Alaina Stewart, a Mormon church member who was involved in the Prop 8 fight, speaking...

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When do we think the AP will start caring about this?

We've seen the American Family Association's One News Now site take liberties with the AP wire many times before. But this one, covering yesterday's White House Pride event, just might take the journalistically unethical cake! Here's the AFA's take: Obama...

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The AFA: Could find 'controversy' in a TV test pattern

You may have seen "The Goode Family," an ABC-TV show that spoofs political correctness: It's another show that follows the ever-popular "take on any and everything" thats become an animated television cliché in recent years. But if there is any...

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Video: No son, I can't go swimming on this lovely June day -- I have gays to film.

Pete's discovered YouTube: Okay, (a) a parade participant is not expected to support every last message that makes up the processional, and (b) one decidedly hardcore group's message about fighting back against instances of unfair police harassment doesn't mean that...

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06/29/2009

We    NY -- Now let us    our partners!

Q. What's the state of marriage equality in New York? A. The clown car that we call a state legislature is too busy seeing whose is bigger to move forward on the matter: It remains unknowable what will become of...

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Matt's baseless rhetoric: Destined to leave him base-less

The reliably unhinged, hyperactively hyperbolic Matt Barber is at it yet again: Most are unaware that during the Revolutionary War George Washington was a staunch advocate for allowing "gays" in the military. In fact, he boldly commissioned the little-known "Fabulous...

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It'll be kinda like a wedding reception where the host doesn't (publicly) support guests' right to have own

Due to both real and perceived rights slights, today's White House reception for LGBT Pride Month is intensely controversial. And at 4:25ET, you can come back here go to the White House site to watch it play out live: President...

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Pete decries 'Christian Left'; And evangelicals wonder why so many have 'left Christianity'?!

Tit: "I think there are Christians who struggle with the sin of homosexuality -- but proud homosexual Christians? That's an oxymoron to me in the same way as I would say proud adulterous Christians," he adds. "And so, I think...

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They hate him because he's a progressive gay. Period.

Over the past month or so, we've routinely been disgusted by the way the far-right social conservatives are defaming Kevin Jennings, a decent human being who has dedicated his life to making public schooling easier for LGBT kids and teens,...

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While we were away: America's Pride-hostile tradition marches on

Yuck. Faces of Hate [YT]

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While we were away: First Lady's toned arms supported husband-hugging

Activist Michael Petrelis recently brought word of this exchange, which fellow LGBT advocate Bill Wilson reportedly shared with First Lady Michelle Obama: Bill Wilson: My husband and I have been together 23 years. We need to get rid of the...

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While we were away: Robert Knight again acted like opportunistic hearsay is same as fact

Since 2000, professional anti-gay activist Robert Knight has been running with the claim that a gay activist involved in the Clinton administration inadvertently revealed hate crimes legislation's "true agenda." And now that the debate is back on the table for...

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While we were away: Chris Christie stripped his 'Chris/Christie unions only!' dogma

During his Republican primary face-off again far right conservative Steve Lonegan, New Jersey gubernatorial hopeful Chris Christie proudly ran a "shared values" webpage [here's the Google cache] on which he touted his aggressively anti-equality stance: "I also believe marriage should...

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While we were away: The Washington march found firmer ground

It looks pretty certain that the 10/11 March on Washington is gonna happen. At least according to organizer Cleve Jones. This from Joe.My.God.: Speaking with me by phone this afternoon, activist Cleve Jones confirmed that despite earlier reports that the...

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While we were away: Tenth -- TENTH! -- researcher told FOF to stop fudging their work

This from Wayne Besen's fab Truth Wins Out organization: In [an] article, “Childhood Sexual Abuse and Male Homosexuality”, [Focus on the Family's Jeff Johnston] wrote, “Many pro-gay researchers, activists and theorists deny that there could be a connection between child...

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While we were away: Denver Post gifted new anti-gay leader with credibility-lending puff piece

At last year's so-called Values Voters Summit, new Focus on the Family president Jim Daly said the following about those of us who "find [ourselves] in homosexuality" and who will, via our love, bring forth the "judgement of God": And...

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06/28/2009

While we were away: Cheekiness of Colbert's tongue doesn't prevent lashings

Some of the president's chagrin-inciting maneuverings, as presented through a Colbertian filter: Yup, there have certainly been some undeniable annoyances. We just hope we're over the largest hump, so that this stonewalling doesn't turn into full blown brick-shitting. The Word...

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While we were away: The president did this:

*RELATED COMMENTARY: President Obama’s decision to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees is a victory for fairness in the workplace. It is a serious omission, however, that his new policy does not include health and retirement benefits, which...

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While we were away: Same-sex marriage comes to NYC (but not really)

The June 14 edition of the New York Post brought word of one same-sex couple who managed to slip through the cracks of the NYS marriage system and obtain a license to wed. Here's a brief look at how Hakim...

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While we were away: Majority leader talker plan to lead minority out of biased bunker

On June 15, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid concerned reasoned fighters for fairness when he indicated that he'd prefer an administrative approach to Don't Ask Don't Tell, since he "[hasn't] identified any sponsors" in his Democratic-controlled chamber: Sen. Reid: No...

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While we were away: Census decided to sense us

On June 20 came the happy news that the 2010 Census will officially count same-sex married couples: "This is a huge win for our community. Our community and allies stood up and refused to allow same-sex marriages, our families and...

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While we were away: Ensign & Sanford stretched conserva-pocrisy to unexplored lengths

April, 2009: "I believe that marriage should be defined as that between one man and one woman. You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be...

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While we were away: 'New York' compared being at Stonewall, @stonewall

The recent New York magazine article at link is long and not ably reduced to sound bites. But it is worth the while, so we recommend you go take a peep: The Gay Generation Gap [NY Mag]

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While we were away: Savage societal model brought to white, stright light

Savage declares: "The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America" [Media Matters] *SEE ALSO: Our complete, routinely OMFG-invoking Michael Savage archive

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While we were away: Linda Harvey unironically accused others of lying

So in summary: Some people enjoy both God and gay people. Thoroughly shocking expose there, Linda. What next, are you gonna blow the lid off some folks' amazing ability to pave their driveways with stones yet somehow restrain themselves from...

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While we were away: NC: Protecting children triumphs over 'protecting children'

Despite vocal protests from those who see ulterior motives in the LGBT community's every push for peace, the North Carolina legislature managed to pass The School Violence Prevention Act (SVPA). The measure strengthens the state school's anti-bullying policies, specifically citing...

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