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…
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Ex-gay maverick Richard Cohen is a member of the Unification Church, according to the leader of the religious group better known as the Moonies. Church president Hyung Jin Moon made the claim at a Bay Area town hall meeting earlier…
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XGW Digest – October 27, 2012
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-A Missouri minister delivers a surprising gay rights speech. -Pastor Ted Haggard’s views on marriage equality evolve. -A North Carolina gay man accuses his church of imprisoning and abusing him for four months. -A UCLA study finds that children adopted…