-Arson is suspected in the burning of a Tennessee lesbian couple’s home. -A gay Saudi Arabian diplomat seeks asylum in the US. -Florida governor and US senate candidate Charlie Crist assembles a paper supporting gay rights in general but not…
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XGW Digest: September 11, 2010
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-The Atlanta, GA police department creates an LGBT advisory board. -Montana’s Tea Party organization fires its president for posting anti-gay comments on Facebook. -Serbia’s LGBT community plans its first pride parade since 2001. -Religious right activists in Iowa twist Sandra…
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XGW Digest: September 4, 2010
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-Focus on the Family reiterates its objection to protecting gay students from bullying. -The New Zealand government denies charitable status to an ex-gay program. -African viewers respond negatively to the sight of two women sharing a bed on an episode…
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XGW Digest: August 28, 2010
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-Ann Coulter’s firefight with religious right activists angry at her for agreeing to speak at a GOProud event escalates. -LGBT demonstrators face off against supporters of anti-gay Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez in Guadalajara, Mexico. -Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for…
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XGW Digest: August 21, 2010
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-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…