The Advocate is a well-known magazine that caters to the Queer community. It runs serious articles that inform readers of issues facing gays, and lighter fair for when you’ve read enough about Uganda’s legislative genocide for one day. One such…
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The US Government’s Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission will hold a hearing on the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill this afternoon. Over the course of 90 minutes, the TLHRC will hear evidence and testimony on the legal and humanitarian aspects of the…
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Gay Brit Turns Straight, Attacks Gays
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From The Guardian’s Comment is free this morning: Writing in the Times earlier this week, Patrick Muirhead describes “the day I decided to stop being gay“. Even allowing for its firmly tongue-in-cheek tone, the problem with his article is that…
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XGW Digest: January 16, 2010
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-Portugal’s parliament enacts marriage equality. -Former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) has a change of heart in favor of marriage equality. -Nate Silver points out that divorce rates have, on average, risen in states with an anti-same-sex marriage amendment and declined…
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Ugandan President Softening on Anti-Gay Bill?
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The President of Uganda appears to have distanced himself from the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, which would effectively introduce the death penalty for gays. President Museveni told members of the National Resistance Movement that the bill had not been proposed by…
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Sounding like a conservative from the days before the Moral Majority, et al, began what would become a devastating theocratic infiltration of the GOP, top conservative attorney Ted Olson makes the case for gay marriage in the latest Newsweek. At…
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As ugly and vicious as Iris Robinson’s attacks on gays were, I cannot say I take much pleasure in joining the media to expose the details of her adulterous affair. But the main issue here is one of moral authority….
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Looking for Uganda Videos Mentioned on Maddow?
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Here is a rough list until tomorrow: Scott Lively in Kampala, Uganda Stephen Langa whipping up fear and anger in Kampala, Uganda. Stephen Langa, teaching from Michael Swift satire as fact — there really is only one use for doing…
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RIP, Reverend Brett Harris
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Gay activist Reverend Brett Harris has passed away at the age of 48. As the founder of Friends of BRYCE, he did much to draw attention to the plight of Bryce Faulkner, the 23-year-old gay man allegedly coerced into ex-gay…
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Iris Robinson, the wife of Northern Ireland’s First Minister, has resigned as a UK Member of Parliament after confessing to marital unfaithfulness. The controversial politician said she had suffered severe mental illness and had attempted suicide as a result of…