A bogus press conference may have been a joke, but members of the press and Utah’s gay community weren’t laughing. A phantom blog posting and Facebook page announced that a group called “Patriots for a Moral Utah” were holding a press conference to unveil a resolution that would call for the removal or relocation of all gay people in Utah. Read the full story from ABC.
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High school senior Constance McMillen knows the rule: no same-sex date at the senior prom. But the 18-year-old lesbian student is challenging the Itawamba County school district policy, saying she is worried she’ll end up missing the last major social occasion of her school years. Read the full story from the Clarion Ledger.
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State child-welfare administrators have appealed the adoption of an infant foster child by a gay Hollywood woman — the second challenge to Florida’s gay-adoption law currently under review. Joe Follick, a spokesman for the Department of Children & Families, said his agency appealed the decision last month by Miami-Dade Circuit…
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The struggle for gay rights in the United States has been going on now for decades. In other parts of the world, however, the fight is in much earlier stages. Here are four countries where nascent gay- and transgender-rights movements are just picking up steam — and meeting some ugly…
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A small Kansas church that has gained nationwide attention for protesting loudly at funerals of U.S.
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A bill designed to protect South Carolina teens from dating violence has been amended to exclude gay and bisexual teens in same-sex relationships. The Teen Dating Violence Bill (H3543) was briefly discussed several weeks ago before the Senate Education Committee and ultimately sent back to a subcommittee after further attempts…
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A nationwide school event launched by religious conservatives to counter the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network’s annual Day of Silence will be promoted and overseen for the first time next month by Exodus International, an “ex-gay” organization with extensive ties to so-called conversion or reparative therapy. Created in 2004…
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News that ABC is looking to transfer Desperate Housewives’ Dana Delany to a new procedural next season would seem to suggest that her late-in-life-lesbian alter ego, Katherine, is headed straight off Wisteria Lane. But that may not necessarily be the case. First off, Delany’s deal to join the cast of…
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A Christian registrar who was disciplined because she would not officiate civil partnerships has been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court. Lillian Ladele resigned from Islington council in 2007 after being threatened with the sack
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*WARNING* anti-gay source: As gay couples applied for marriage licenses in the nation’s capital Wednesday, congressional Republicans came under fire, including from their own ranks, for not doing more to block implementation of the District’s same-sex marriage law. “Weak and uncoordinated” were the adjectives Rep
