-NOM’s sparsely attended “Summer For Marriage” tour concludes in Washington, DC. -Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach reaches an agreement in federal court over his discharge under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples in Mexico City have…
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XGW Digest: August 14, 2010
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-Attorney David Boies takes on Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Face the Nation. -Stephen Colbert weighs in on the Prop 8 ruling. -Mexico’s Supreme Court rules that Mexico City’s marriage equality law is constitutional. -The anti-gay “Truth Academy” flops….
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XGW Digest: August 6, 2010
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-Focus on the Family lays off another 110 employees. -Chilean Senator Fulvio Rossi announces plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill. -NOM’s summer tour meets with more tepid responses in Des Moines and Sioux City, IA. -Bishop Harry Jackson claims…
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XGW Digest: July 31, 2010
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-NOM’s Summer for Marriage tour scores a modestly successful turnout in St. Paul, MN after playing to near-empty plazas in Lima, OH; Indianapolis, IN and Madison, WI. Turnout returned to normal in Rochester and St. Cloud. -The New Jersey Supreme…
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XGW Digest: July 24, 2010
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-The National Organization for Marriage’s summer marriage tour continues to draw embarrassingly small turnouts in Albany, Providence, Trenton, Annapolis and Columbus. -Warsaw, Poland hosts the 2010 EuroPride festival. -President Mary McAleese signs Ireland’s civil partnership bill into law. -Gay teen…
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XGW Digest: July 17, 2010
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-Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer announces plans to marry in Connecticut to protest New York’s lack of marriage equality. -The University of Illinois decides not to renew the contract of a professor who spoke negatively of gays and lesbians. -The…
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XGW Digest: July 10, 2010
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-London mayor Boris Johnson comes out in support of marriage equality. -Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle vetoes the state’s civil unions bill. -Britain’s Supreme Court rules that gay immigrants who fear violent retribution in their home countries have a right to…
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XGW Digest: July 3, 2010
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-The Montana Republican Party joins its Texas counterpart in calling for the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -The National Organization for Marriage aligns itself with anti-gay activist Louis Marinelli. -The US Supreme Court refuses to grant legal immunity to the Vatican…
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XGW Digest: June 26, 2010
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-The Texas Republican Party calls for the criminalization of same-sex marriage and the reinstatement of sodomy laws. -Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker marches in Boston’s gay pride parade. -The Obama Administration announces plans to extend family and medical leave…
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XGW Digest: June 19, 2010
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-Two US Marines are arrested in Savannah, GA for beating up a gay man. -California’s Fair Political Practices Commission fines the Mormon church for failing to report all of its non-monetary contributions to the Prop 8 campaign. -The mayor of…