-The UPS Foundation discontinues its support for the Boy Scouts. -The Ugandan Parliament revives the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. -Kyrsten Sinema becomes the first openly bisexual member of Congress. -A lesbian is murdered in South Africa. -A Hong Kong pop singer comes…
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Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 — legislation that could see gays and lesbians punished with life sentences and even execution — has not gone away. Reports suggest it will go before Ugandan Parliament before the end of 2012. The plain facts…
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The UK’s Minister of State for Care Services has told Parliament the British government does not condone the idea of a “gay cure.” Asked for the government’s official position on the practise of therapy to change sexual orientation, Norman Lamb,…
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XGW Digest: November 10, 2012
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-Senator Marco Rubio campaigns against marriage equality for NOM. -The government of Malawi suspends its anti-gay laws. -The Slovakian Parliament rejects a civil partnership bill. -Protect Marriage Maine posts – and then erases – a sterotype-filled anti-gay screed. -The cousins…
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According to KSDK in Minnesota, Pastor Ryan Jay Muehlhauser of the Lakeside Christian Church in Cambridge has been arrested and charged with eight felony counts of criminal sexual conduct on two men. The assaults allegedly occurred over a period of…
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On the heels of Dave Rattigan’s recent post about the BBC’s “Gay to Straight” documentary, Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch finds conversion therapist Floyd Godfrey on the Linda Harvey show with an interesting take on the nature of homosexuality. You…
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Brief: Maine Votes for Marriage Equality
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According to the Associated Press, Maine’s Question 1, which allows for same-sex marriage in the state, has won approval with a comfortable margin.
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President Obama Wins Again!
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Democrats retain the Senate, Tammy Baldwin (out lesbian) won in Wisconsin and a lot more. I’m sure other more political oriented blogs will bloviate, but this is one citizen who is happy.
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XGW Digest: November 3, 2012
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-Lanae Erickson Hatalsky charts the growth of support for marriage equality across all age groups. -A transgender woman is stoned to death in Brazil. -The San Francisco GLBT History Museum is vandalized. -The reported bashing of a gay Republican in…
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I am an openly and unashamedly gay man — and yet, when I hug a male friend, gay or straight, I don’t need an instructor in my ear reminding me it’s a non-sexual hug. It is, contrary to the mythology…