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The revision makes it easier for transgender people to receive licenses that list their accurate gender. Read more [...]

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Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn said she rejected the VAWA because of its LGBT inclusion. Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn told MSNBC that she voted against the newly approved House version of the VAWA due to added protections for LGBT people subjected to partner violence, as well as Native American people and immigrants. Blackburn was one of the 138 to vote against the bill, with 286 in favor. Eighty-seven Republicans supported the LGBT-inclusive VAWA. “I didn’t like Read more [...]

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Obviously, as journalists, we on The Advocate’s editorial staff are word people. Also, the movement we chronicle is well aware of the power of words. As an Advocate copy editor (read: enforcer of language rules) for the past 15 years, I’ve seen the language we use to describe ourselves and our movement evolve, and a look at our archives reveals even more changes.Homo HistoryIn the first issue of what was then called The Los Angeles Advocate, in September 1967, an editorial announcing the publication’s Read more [...]

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Many of the greatest strides in the fight for LGBT social justice and sexual liberation were the result of court cases, often involving accidental activists simply fighting for the right to live their lives like everybody else. Sharon BottomsBottoms v. Bottoms The landmark 1993 ruling by a Virginia judge that denied a lesbian custody of her biological son because her sexual orientation made her “unfit” as a parent focused national media attention on same-sex-headed Read more [...]

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A Washington Post columnist’s defense of the Family Research Council is exactly why violence is the wrong way to react to a hate group. Tony Perkins, Dana Milbank Washington Post opinion writer Dana Milbank wrote Thursday, as if it were a matter of settled fact, that the Family Research Council is “a mainstream conservative Read more [...]

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“The voters of Wisconsin need to ask themselves whether or not they want to send a woman to the Senate who has a voting record to the left of Nancy Pelosi,” said the group. Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin GOProud, the group representing gay conservatives and their allies, announced that its board of directors has Read more [...]

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“The final document is marred by outdated social conservative ideology,” said the Log Cabin Republicans, which participated in the platform drafting process for the first time this year. R. Clarke Cooper Groups representing gay conservatives vented their frustrations with marriage-related language in the Republican Read more [...]

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Clockwise from left: Nicholson, Quintanilla, and Dragna Damon Nicholson was a longtime resident and gay businessman in Laguna Beach, Calif. On October 23, 2009, two men, Jacob Anthony Quintanilla and Matthew Thomas Dragna, allegedly entered Nicholson’s home by an unlocked sliding glass door as he slept on the couch. Then, according to local police, the men beat him to Read more [...]

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The head of Liberty Counsel praises Hawaii’s marriage ruling and says idiotic things while doing so. Matt Barber thinks your marriage will lead to polygamy and incest. On this morning’s episode of Faith and Freedom, Matt Barber, founder and chair of Liberty Counsel, declared that gay activists don’t actually want marriage Read more [...]

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Photography: © Jon Viscott In West Hollywood, the gay center of greater Los Angeles, a decoration meant to celebrate Pride month will now become a permanent fixture, West Hollywood Patch reports. The West Hollywood City Council initially approved rainbow-colored crosswalks in the LGBT-friendly area for Pride month in June. But the crosswalks have become so popular among Read more [...]

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With his new “homo-sex-art-film,” the always intriguing actor teams with director Travis Mathews to pay homage to the controversial 1980 thriller. More than three decades have passed since gay activists in New York, fearing the perpetuation of negative stereotypes, united to protest the filming of William Friedkin’s Cruising. The graphic psychological thriller, which starred Al Pacino as a cop investigating a series Read more [...]

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Kyrsten Sinema and Andrei Cherney Arizona lawmaker Kyrsten Sinema says that one of her opponents is using language to sway voters against her because of her sexual orientation.Sinema is vying against former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Andrei Cherny and state Senate minority leader David Schapira in the Democratic primary for Arizona’s 9th congressional district House Read more [...]

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Police say that Chad Cobb killed Ashley Biggs after a custody battle. Chad Cobb, the man who stand accused of killing a 25-year-old lesbian, Ashley Biggs, June 21 in Ohio, was arraigned in Summit County court yesterday, according to Newsnets5.com. Prosecutors anounced that they will be seaking the death penalty for Cobb, who pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and aggravated murder.  Biggs and Cobb had a 6-year-old Read more [...]

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