Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Hello everyone,
My name is Brian. I’m writing to all of you about past and present thoughts of my feelings on Marriage Equality.
At one point in my life I always thought that same sex marriage was blah blah blah. I always just wanted to have a good time with all my friends and family. I never [...]
Tags: Gay Marriage, Gay Online News, Marriage equality, Marriage Equality Rhode Island, Same Sex Marriage
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Via MatthewShepard.org
Amendments added Monday by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) require new Justice Department rules on the use of the prosecution authority; add military personnel, their families and their property to the bill’s protected classes; and most controversially, authorize federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in some hate-crimes cases, a move opposed by many of [...]
Tags: gay, Gay News, Gay Online News, Hate Crimes, homophobia, Judy Shepard, lesbian, Matthew Shepard
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Via Pink News
The parents of a US student who is thought to be in ‘ex-gay’ therapy have threatened legal action over a website set up to find him, his boyfriend has said.
Bryce Faulkner, 23, is believed to be at an Exodus International ministry in Florida after his parents discovered he was gay.
His friends have said [...]
Tags: Ex-gay Therapy, gay, Gay News, Gay Online News, homophobia, lesbian
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Via Radio Free Europe
MOSCOW — It was love at first sight.
Irina Fedotova-Fet met Irina Shepitko met during a vacation in Sochi five years ago. Soon after, Shepitko moved to Moscow to be with Fedotova-Fet, who now describes their partnership as a “family.”
“We’re a couple of girls who have been together for a long time, who [...]
Tags: gay, Gay Marriage, Gay News, Gay Online News, lesbian, same sex, Same Sex Marriage
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Via Dallas News
The Fort Worth City Council took the unusual step Tuesday of requesting a federal investigation into a police raid at a gay bar last month that sent one man to intensive care for several days with a brain injury.
If the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas agrees to conduct the inquiry, it will be [...]
Tags: gay, gay bashing, Gay Online News, Hate Crimes, homophobia, lesbian, Texas Gay News
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
Via Sacramento Bee
A proposed law to recognize a growing number of same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries is winding its way through California’s Legislature.
Opponents of gay marriage say Senate Bill 54 violates Proposition 8, a voter initiative approved last November that amended the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and [...]
Tags: California Gay News, gay, Gay News, Gay Online News, lesbian, Proposition 8, same sex, Same Sex Marriage
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
More Sonny, less Cher.
Celebrity daughter Chastity Bono is undergoing a sex change to become a man, her publicist announced Thursday.
The gender-swap process began shortly after Bono’s 40th birthday in March and more than a decade after she came out as a lesbian.
“Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his [...]
Tags: Breaking News, gay, Gay News, Gay Online News, lesbian, Sex Change, transgender, Transsexual
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