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6/8/19 – LGBTQ+ Fundraiser Punk Photoshoot

EVENT LINK If you make a donation of any amount, you get a free photoshoot. Grab your punk clothes and rainbow it up with your Pride...

Wiretap: Rubio at sea on climate change science, economics

He pre-launches a presidential bid with a bold leadership position: He says he's not sure climate change is real and it doesn't make economic sense to do anything about it if it were real.

Littwin: Big boys don’t cry

It's big news. Michael Sam, All-American defensive end from Missouri, announced to the world -- and, maybe even more significantly, to the NFL -- that he is gay.

Colorado Springs pastor impersonated U.S. marshall to kidnap, rob gay man

According to reports, friends and relatives of Set Free Christian Ministry’s Rev. Michael Abromovich are completely baffled to discover his secret other life.

Courts consistently allow flagrant discrimination against LGBT jurors

“I believe that people who are either transsexuals or transvestites — I don’t know what the proper term is — traditionally are more liberal-minded thinking people, tend to associate more with the defendants because, obviously, they have been either ridiculed before or are feeling in a position of being in a microscope all the time and are outcasts which lends themselves to associating more with the defendant.”

Left out of first GOP debate, gay candidate Karger pushing forward

Members of the media refer to him as a "stunt candidate." He didn't appear on stage in South Carolina last week for the Republican presidential debate because he failed to hit the required support threshold-- 1 percent in five national polls. He won't pull down financial backing from the conservative oil billionaire Koch brothers, nor win over the far-right readers at the RedState blog. Yet, set against the uninspiring candidacies likely to be waged by the men so far lined up to challenge Barack Obama for the White House, Fred Karger's candidacy could be the most influential, if he stays with it. A moderate conservative former Reagan aide, longtime political consultant and civil rights activist, he is also unabashedly gay-- the first ever openly gay GOP candidate for president.

Shove it! Dan Choi won’t pay the government for his being...

The Defense Department, after discharging gay soldiers under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, apparently sends them bills requiring them to pay back "unearned portions" of their contracts. High-profile discharged soldier Dan Choi received his bill this week from Defense Department Finance and Debt Services in the amount of $2,500. He sent a strongly worded letter to White House Public Engagement Director Brian Bond explaining why he wasn't going to pay.

UCLA study: Lesbian parents are really good parents

Researchers at the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute this week wrapped another chapter of a 24-year study on American lesbian families. They reported...

Talking point: The Tea Party is not about abortion

In a Q&A hosted by the Washington Post last week, Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks-- the multimillion dollar Dick Armey advocacy group that fueled...

TV’s Kirk Montgomery lays it on the line for GLBT kids

9 News personality Kirk Montgomery adds his voice to the suicide and bullying prevention initiative, "It Gets Better." Why'd he do it? He told The...
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