-A new study reconfirms that children raised by lesbian parents fare as well children raised by opposite sex couples, and possibly better. -Oklahoma City councilman Brian Walters votes against approving a gay pride event, comparing gays to pedophiles. -Malawi couple…
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XGW Digest: June 5, 2010
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-Randy Roberts Potts, gay grandson of televangelist Oral Roberts, shares about growing up in his grandfather’s shadow. -Local activists successfully stage two gay pride demonstrations in Moscow. -Malawi couple Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga are pardoned and released, but warned…
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XGW Digest: May 29, 2010
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-Neo-Nazis disrupt Slovakia’s first gay pride event. -Two gay rights activists are arrested in Zimbabwe. -Musician Jason Mraz shares how he became an advocate for LGBT rights. -The Obama administration lends its support to a new effort to repeal Don’t…
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XGW Digest: May 22, 2010
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-Belarussian police break up a gay pride march in Minsk. -On the same day, Mariela Castro leads a gay pride march in Cuba. -Portugal officially becomes the latest nation to legalize same-sex marriage. -Another anti-gay politician is brought down by…
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XGW Digest: May 15, 2010
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-Lithuania’s first pride festival takes place, but not without opposition. -A group of UK Christians create a British version of the Manhattan declaration. –Debate rages over whether Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan should have to publicly declare her sexual orientation….
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XGW Digest: May 8, 2010
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-The religious right’s “May Day 2010” event draws fewer than 300 people. -Country singer Chely Wright comes out of the closet. -The Obama Administration delays efforts to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. -A pair of Republican congressional candidates in Tennessee…
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XGW Digest: May 1, 2010
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-A transgender student at Cal State Long Beach is violently attacked. -Amnesty International accuses several European countries of illegally deporting gays back to Iraq. -The California state assembly unanimously votes to repeal an outdated anti-gay law. -A Florida man is…
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XGW Digest: April 24, 2010
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-The Maine Family Policy Council declares that Jerry Falwell was right to blame 9/11 on gays. -Sonoma County, CA officials circumvent a gay couple’s legal arrangements to separate them and make financial decisions for them. -Australian Olympic medalist Daniel Kowalski comes…
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XGW Digest: April 17, 2010
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-Anti-gay mobs in Senegal exhume and desecrate the bodies of several gay men. -Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee compares gays to drug users. -A leading anti-gay activist in Scotland confesses to possession and distribution of child pornography. -Fred Karger, founder…
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XGW Digest: April 10, 2010
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-Nate Phelps, son of Fred Phelps, speaks out against Westboro Baptist Church. -Recently discovered correspondence reveals that Count Laszlo de Almasy, the inspiration for The English Patient, was gay. -Itawamba Agricultural High School tricks lesbian student Constance McMillen into attending…