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10/19/2005
Walgreens gay support draws 'pro-family' ire; their colored pencils draw pretty pictures
In their ongoing quest to rid the Prairie State of all things fruity, the homo-decrying folks at the Illinois Family Institute are now attacking the Walgreens drugstore chain for serving as a Platinum-level sponsor of Chicago's 2006 Gay Games. According...
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10/18/2005
'Yep, I'm tied for #37'
As the 37th greatest magazine cover of all time (a position shared with four other covers), the American Association of Magazine Editors has chosen the April 14, 1997 edition of Time magazine, on which actress/talk show host/lesbian Ellen Degeneres announced...
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HS cheerleader loses spirit over 'gay' jibes
A male high school cheerleader has reportedly left his squad at Platte Valley High School in Weld County, Colorado, because of taunts from other classmates who have been calling him "gay." In addition to verbal teasing, the high school junior...
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WorldNet kicks anti-gay marketing up yet another notch
For those wanting to read an extremely offensive bit of gay-demonizing rhetoric, journey over to WorldNetDaily, where you will find: And of course keep reading Good As You, where you can always find out about: How 'gay rights' is being...
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Ohio Historical Society pays homage to gays gone by
The Ohio Historical Society has announced plans to commemorate the saga of gays in the state by collecting memorabilia, memories, and assorted other little nuggets of homo history. Great news for John Delancey of Dayton, who for years has been...
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Austin officeholders: Prop. 2 Sucks *ss
Yesterday in the real world of Austin, twenty-two elected officials, including mayor Will Wynn, announced their opposition to the state's proposed constitutional ban on queer nuptials. Tonight on the Real World: Austin, seven strangers, including Iraq war veteran Rachel, will...
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10/17/2005
GLAAD loses bit of glee over 'Today' interview
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has issued an action alert against NBC's Today show for last week featuring an interview with Catholic League president William Donohue, who used his time on the morning chat fest to blame...
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Report: Older daddy type sought bois on company comp
Contradicting his own assertions that he didn't visit gay web sites during workdays, the Spokesman-Review reported Saturday that the "acted sorta anti-gay, though really he was truly gay" mayor of Spokane, James E. West, used a city computer to visit...
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Marriage ban backer nabbed at Mass. grocery; no word on whether charge was debit or credit
While attempting to collect signatures for a petition that could eventually ban gay marriages and civil unions in the state, a man was reportedly arrested at a Massachusetts grocery store on Friday when his tactics turned too aggressive. The signature...
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Protesting "National Coming Out" events is SOO last week
A group of parents in Pikesville, Maryland, protested at the local high school this morning to demonstrate against the Gay/Straight Alliance's planned events to celebrate "National Coming out Week." Most ridiculous part of the story: "National Coming Out Week" was...
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Folks who tell us we're going to Hell are themselves going to Helena
Due to their constant mentions of "Improvised Explosive Devices" (which they say are being used to killed American soldiers in Iraq as retribution for a 1995 attack made on their Kansas compound), the fag-hating Phelps clan of Westboro Baptist are...
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During pee breaks this year, new UCC ad as unlikely to be airing as last
It appears that the broadcast networks will again reject a gay-accepting ad from the United Church of Christ, with the "advocacy" nature of the spot cited as the most popular reason for the rebuff. UCC president Ron Buford tells the...
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Tired of fruitless courting, NY fruits return to court
Today in NY, one of the three cases challenging the constitutionality of banning 'mo marriage for state residents will be heard in the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court. This particular suit, which is being argued by the ACLU...
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Top five pay nets for gay sets
According to Simmons Market Research, the top five cable networks viewed by the U.S. GLBT population in the first week of October were: A&E Discovery Channel Lifetime HBO CNN Upon hearing these findings, gay-centric network Logo immediately announced plans to...
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10/14/2005
Wildmon says gays 'slip it' into TV; we say, 'ouch, that sounds painful'
On the Oct. 11 broadcast of the American Family Radio program Today's Issues (the same edition on which the Rev. Louis Sheldon suggested exorcisms as a way to "release" gays from their gayness), host Tim Wildmon (pic.) shared the following...
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PSU to meet with NCLR to discuss RENE
Responding to a former player's allegations that women's basketball coach Rene Portland (pic.) discriminates against those that she thinks might be Sapphic, attorneys for Penn State University have agreed to meet with the National Center for Lesbians Rights to discuss...
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PFLAG recognizes NFL commish; impressive, as we wouldn't know him from Adam
At the group's annual dinner Monday night, The Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) honored NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue (pic.) and his wife Chandler with the 2005 Stay Close Individual Leadership Award, due to their strong support for...
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Ohio U LGBTs get fishy
As part of Ohio University's "Coming Out Week" festivities, a group of 50+ LGBT students yesterday assembled themselves into what they called a "Queer Aquarium," to publicly display just how run-of-the-mill their "queer lifestyles" truly are. Further committing to the...
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Sheldon suggests exorcising gays' gayness; particularly stupid queers ponder to which muscle group 'gayness' belongs
On the October 11 broadcast of Today's Issues, a Christian radio show that airs on the American Family Radio Network, The Traditional Value Coalition's Louis Sheldon told host Tim Wildmon: "...once you enter into the culture, into the music, into...
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Harvard Law students protest inability to ask/tell
Yesterday at Harvard Law School, 150+ students and community members rallied on campus to demand that the University provide more financial and political muscle towards the effort to repeal the military's pesky "don't ask, don't tell" policy of gay stigmatization....
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10/13/2005
EQCA giving 'no props' to Ahnold
Still reeling from Gov. Schwarzenegger's recent decision to veto a bill that would've legalized gay marriage in the Golden State, the west coast activists at Equality California are urging citizens to vote against five different "anti-equality" propositions supported by the...
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Study: Queer parents don't ruin kids' lives
New research compiled from 15 studies on more than 500 children, suggests that kids who grow up in households with gay parents tend to not have their lives destroyed by the homo-sex in their midst. Tufts University Professor Ellen C....
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Florida Dem Governor wannabes support gay equality, oppose gay chupahs
Last night at the Dolphin Democratic Club in Fort Lauderdale, FL, the state's two Democratic gubernatorial candidates, Jim Davis and Rod Smith, both told the crowd that they are against a constitutional ban on queer nuptials, support gay adoptions, and...
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Pro-marriage equality ads hit Texas TV; sharp rise in anti-gay Tivo sales predicted
In Texas on Wednesday, gay rights supporters unveiled a series of seven TV ads dedicated to defeating Proposition 2, the Lone Star State's proposed constitutional ban on queer marriage. Featuring gay and lesbian couples and their extended families telling their...
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10/12/2005
'American Family' now gunning for 'American Girl'
In their quest to de-queerify/de-Roe the world, our ol' poker buddies at the American Family Association are now going after the American Girl doll company for being too gay/abortion-friendly for their 'mo-fearing liking. The AFAers are encouraging their "pro-family" denizens...
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Log Cabin's head resident attacked by flying pastry
While giving a speech at UNC-Chapel hill last night, national president of the Log Cabin Republicans, Patrick Guerriero, was bum-rushed by a person attempting to cream him with a chocolate pie. Later, the speech was again interrupted when someone pulled...
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Women's b-ball coach accused of shunning lesbians; yes, really
Jennifer Harris, a former women's basketball player for Penn State's Lady Lions, claims that coach Rene Portland discriminates against players that she believes to be gay. As for coaches that seem "just a little dykey" in photographs.... ...Taylor is said...
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Fashionable Manhattanite suing Catholic Church for giving him the gay
According to the NY Post, gay Manhattan socialite J. David Enright IV (pic.) has filed a $5 million legal notice against the Catholic Church, claiming that had he not been molested by a Catholic priest when he was a boy,...
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Maine gay supporters winning 'most dough' race; 'hot air' edge remains with anti-gays
Campaign-finance reports filed Tuesday indicate that those in Maine who are trying to repeal a state law that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, have taken in $270,000 less than those who support the gay-friendly measure ($220,000 vs....
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10/11/2005
GLSEN survey: 'Smear the Queer' still a popular teen pastime
A new Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of GLSEN (the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) finds that LGBT students are three times as likely as non-LGBT students to say that they do not feel safe at school (22%...
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Chicken soup for the soul savers
They say... We say...
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TX fliers accuse gays of planned voter fraud; TX flyers always annoy us on planes with constant chatter about how their state is so great
A flier being distributed to voters in Texas (by an unidentified group) reportedly accuses local gay rights activists of planning to bus in out-of-state residents to fraudulently skew the results of the state's forthcoming vote on gay marriage. The claim...
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Report: Ellner to queerify Bloomberg camp
According to the NY Post, NY mayor Mike Bloomberg (openly Republican) has hired former Manhattan Borough Candidate Brian Ellner (openly gay, openly Democrat) to join his reelection campaign, handling outreach to gay and lesbian voters. As you might remember, Ellner...
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Poll: Asking potential recruits can be telling
According to new poll results from the Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military (a research institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara), 76% of potential military recruits say that lifting the ban on gay soldiers...
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Gays who rap look forward to late October; gays who wrap excited for late December
The PeaceOUT World Homohop Festival, described as an "international gathering of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender hip-hop artists, activists, fans and supporters to celebrate the LGBT presence in hip-hop music and culture," will be held in Oakland, California on October...
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10/10/2005
Focus on the Possible Back-Room Deals
In order to determine whether Karl Rove/other White House officials gave private assurance to James Dobson on how Supremes nominee Harriet Miers would rule if confirmed (as insinuated by Dobson himself), Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter has announced that...
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'Scouting for All' protests 'no knot tying for queers' policy
This weekend, members of the group Scouting For All rallied outside the Boy Scout campground in San Diego, in protest of the organization's policy banning gay and atheist scouts and scout leaders. Meanwhile, we hear that members of the organization...
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Who didn't like us at Philly Outfest?
Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding his presence at this weekend's Outfest gay pride celebration, professional protester Ruben Israel (pic.) says: "At this point, you're not going to get converts. This is their big day. But I'm here to rain...
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NYMC 'people of homosexual orientation studying to become medical professionals' get group
After a lengthy battle, queers at NewYork Medical College are declaring victory in their fight to have their own gay-focused group, though they did have to change the organization's name from 'NYMC Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender People in Medicine,'...
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Six degrees of 'Today Show' cancellation
Kevin Bacon is reportedly claiming that he was booted from an upcoming appearance on the "Today Show," because of a gay sex scene he shares with actor Colin Firth in his forthcoming film, Where the Truth Lies. Though we hear...
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'Ex-gay' derides the 'boob tube'; perhaps he prefers the 'ass pipeline'?
Stephen Bennett (pic.), one-time homosexual and current "ex-gay" mouthpiece, has his panties in all sorts of a twist over what he sees as the non-stop orgy of homosexual imagery that pollutes the wretched state of modern television. In a considerably...
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10/07/2005
Attempt at anti-gay programming note: 'Concerned Woman' Robert Knight on CNN
According to the Concerned Women for America's website, the organization's Robert Knight will be appearing tonight (10/7) on CNN's "Paula Zahn NOW," speaking on the topic of "teens coming out as gay at younger ages." Rumor has it that during...
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Stoner and acid tripper breeding duties complete, 'Time' now turns attention to producing homos
Responding to this week's Time magazine cover story on "gay teens," "Concerned Women" Robert Knight and Benjamin Frichtl have launched a verbal tantrum on the Concerned Women for America website, in which they attempt to paint the article as a...
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Gay Dems request equal time; dims request unequal gays
Responding to a conference call that was held yesterday between the White House and some of the nation's most outspoken anti-gay activists, the queer lefties at National Stonewall Democrats have called on the Republicans in power to "meet with gay...
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Mich. Senator utters utterly outrageous utterings
In an email to a constituent this week regarding reasons to deny domestic partner health benefits to public-sector employees, Michigan state Senator Michael J. Goschka (pic.) reportedly wrote that: "Homosexual and lesbian unions under any arrangement does not, and never...
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Storms and Company continue to ruin national reputation
We've been tracking for the past few months the hell that Hillsborough County Commissioner Kathy Castor (pic.) must experience on a regular basis as she struggles to serve as the lone voice of "gay-friendly" in an otherwise misguided Tampa-area commission....
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Report: Embargo on gay priests will extend only to those who are getting some
Going against earlier claims that all gay priests were soon to be banned from the Catholic Church, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera is reporting that the Vatican is planning to allow homo men into the priesthood IF they can...
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Ball-less discriminators plague SIU
Police at Southern Illinois University are looking for the bigot or bigots who recently trashed the room of an SIU freshman, leaving anti-gay slurs on the walls and dorm room door. Officials are encouraging students to be on the lookout...
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10/06/2005
Mich. Senate works to deny domestic partner benefits; domestic pets spared, for now
The Michigan Senate voted 22-16 today to seek a temporary injunction from the state Supreme Court that would block the issuance of domestic partner benefits to queer partners of gay public-sector employees until the high court has the chance to...
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Fun with typos, Mass. marrying edition
Today's Supreme Court hearing on out-of-state gays' right to marry in Massachusetts, as reported by the AP: Now we want gay marriage as much as anyone, but if it takes offing a nonagenarian to obtain such a right, we might...
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