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Hamburger Mary’s, the legendary LGBT- and drag-friendly chain of eateries that serve burgers with a side of sass, wants to remind customers that it’s a place for “open-minded people, a place where everyone is welcome and diversity is celebrated,” according to Ashley Wright, co-owner of  the Chicago and Milwaukee franchises and co-owner of the master franchise brand. “Mary’s is adding her voice to the increasing number of campaigns to counter Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s controversial public stance Read more [...]

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Rep. Barney Frank almost always makes for a fascinating conversation, and his two-step with Chris Matthews over the Democratic Party’s stance on marriage equality on MSNBC’s Hardball today was no disappointment, according to The Huffington Post. Matthews asked Frank if the DNC platform’s approach to same-sex marriage would create a federal law or leave the matter up to the states. Frank was nonplussed, telling him, “I literally don’t understand what that means. There is a fundamental confusion Read more [...]

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Regina Hawkins-Balducci fought to have her spouse’s name added to the lease for their rent-stabilized apartment in Harlem. A lesbian couple in New York City scored a victory Wednesday when their building’s landlord and management company agreed to comply with city and state laws and put both women’s names on the lease for their rent-stabilized Harlem apartment. Regina Hawkins-Balducci had sought to add her spouse’s Read more [...]

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Dan Cathy, president and COO of Chick-fil-A, has been raising eyebrows and ire nationwide with his recent statements about marriage equality. (In case you have been under a rock, he’s against it.) GoodAsYou.org has dug up video from Cathy at Hope Community Church as well as radio interviews Cathy did with The Ken Coleman Show. Both are doozies. Here’s an excerpt from the former: “It’s very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that’s going Read more [...]

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The editor of Advocate.com says the fight about Chick-fil-A isn’t merely a political debate in which both sides politely tolerate the other’s opinions and then eat a chicken dinner together afterward. A counter-protester stands outside a Chick-fil-A on the so-called “Appreciation Day.” Mike Huckabee wanted thousands of Read more [...]

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A polling memo says that “a November win for marriage equality at the ballot box in Maryland is well within our grasp.” Voters in Maryland favor the marriage equality law that will be on the ballot this November by 54% to 40%, putting the law in a “very strong position to pass,” according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey from Hart Research Associates, conducted in late July, showed a six-point Read more [...]

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Pat Boone at Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A declares it had a record day Wednesday as a result of Mike Huckabee’s call for an “Appreciation Day.” But the experience has left some gay and lesbian employees with a bad taste.A closeted gay woman who said she works at a Chick-fil-A in the South wrote an anonymous column on The Daily Beast about how the day changed her mind on whether Read more [...]

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Spiker A fourth Iowa judge will face the likes of a campaign that ousted three Iowa judges in retaliation for their 2009 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.The head of the Republican Party in Iowa, in an email to supporters reported on by The Des Moines Register, said, “Just as Iowans successfully showed in 2010, it is again time to put a check on this power and Read more [...]

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Hamburger Mary’s, the legendary LGBT- and drag-friendly chain of eateries that serve burgers with a side of sass, wants to remind customers that it’s a place for “open-minded people, a place where everyone is welcome and diversity is celebrated,” according to Ashley Wright, co-owner of  the Chicago and Milwaukee franchises and co-owner of the master franchise brand. “Mary’s is adding her voice to the increasing number of campaigns to counter Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s controversial public stance Read more [...]

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Regina Hawkins-Balducci fought to have her spouse’s name added to the lease for their rent-stabilized apartment in Harlem. A lesbian couple in New York City scored a victory Wednesday when their building’s landlord and management company agreed to comply with city and local laws and put both women’s names on the lease for their rent-stabilized Harlem apartment. Regina Hawkins-Balducci had sought to add her spouse’s Read more [...]

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Dan Cathy, president and COO of Chick-fil-A, has been raising eyebrows and ire nationwide with his recent statements about marriage equality. (In case you have been under a rock, he’s against it.) GoodAsYou.org has dug up video from Cathy at Hope Community Church as well as radio interviews Cathy did with The Ken Coleman Show. Both are doozies. Here’s an excerpt from the former: “It’s very clear in Romans chapter 1, if we look at society today, we see all the twisted up kind of stuff that’s going Read more [...]

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Throughout August, Schnipper’s will donate $1 from every purchase of a chicken sandwich to Marriage Equality USA. Schnipper’s Quality Kitchen, an American-style restaurant in New York City, announced Tuesday via their Facebook page that they would donate a portion of proceeds to the nonprofit organization Marriage Equality USA. Undoubtedly jabbing at chain competitor Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s stance against marriage Read more [...]

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Washington mayor Vincent Gray This weekend, Washington, D.C., mayor Vincent Gray joined the mayors of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco by announcing the Chick-fil-A chain is not welcome in his city. Gray went a step further on Twitter, referring to the Atlanta-based chain as “hate chicken.” Chick-fil-A has funneled millions to groups that work to strip rights from LGBT Read more [...]

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