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5 hrs ago | The Mad Professah Lectures

Joint Statement from 32 LGBT Groups on Hate Crimes Act

And it came at too great a price: the brutal killings of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Gay/Lesbian, Immigration Reform

10 hrs ago | CBC

Paltrow joins Kidman's transsexual film The Danish Girl

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, pictured here in February in New York City, will portray a painter who asks her husband to pose as a woman, starting his journey to becoming one.

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14 hrs ago | OpenSecrets.org

Gay Democratic Fund-raiser Says Money Should Only Support Candidates Who Back Equality

A well-heeled Democratic fund-raiser is calling on donors to stop the "gay ATM" to politicians who don't fully support equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Maine, Maine Government

Fri Nov 06, 2009

EDGEptown.com Style Feed

Gay Renters to Get Some Discrimination Protection

More>> LIFESTYLE HOMESTYLE When it comes to negotiating a lease or paying fair rent, gay and transgender renters may soon get more protection.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

Salt Lake Tribune

Gay-rights group pulls Mormon-style handcart to make point

Peter Danzig and Janeen Thompson talk with Mark Burton, from the LDS Public Offairs Office, outside of the LDS Church Office Wednesday November 4, 2009.

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Related Topix: Religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Gay/Lesbian, Rap, Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City, UT

PMFM 92.9FM

Beth Ditto's gay date

Beth Ditto dated a man because she thought he was gay. The Gossip singer - who is in a long-term relationship with Freddie, a transgendered individual who was born a female - says she realised she was a lesbian when she was 15, but embarked on a three-year romance with a guy because she felt he wasn't a threat.

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Free Times

Gay Activists Say State Hate Crimes Law Still Needed

Local and national gay activists are celebrating a new federal hate crimes bill but say South Carolina still needs its own hate crimes law.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Gay/Lesbian, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Jim DeMint, Columbia Metro

Thu Nov 05, 2009

McClatchy DC

Commentary: Obama deserves praise for signing hate crimes law

As a legally blind lesbian, I celebrated on Oct. 28 when the president signed the Matthew Shepard and James Boyd Jr.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Gay/Lesbian, Middletown, NJ

SF Weekly

Erotic City: How S.F. went from prudish to porn capital

In obvious ways, and in ways less obvious, sex shapes city living. That's true in all cities, of course, but in San Francisco - well, come on, it's San Francisco.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro

Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Transsexual Jesus play sparks candle-lit Christian protests

About 300 protesters held a candlelit protest outside a Glasgow theatre over the staging of a play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

Spencer New Leader

Conservatives shop sex ops ban

Social conservatives are working to ensure that federal funding for sex change operations will be banned in the health reform bill.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

Free Republic

Fort Worth panel urges expansion of gay rights

A task force formed in the wake of the arrests at the Rainbow Lounge recommended a series of reforms Tuesday designed to give gay and lesbian residents equal treatment at City Hall.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Fort Worth, TX

XtraMSN Real Estate

Maine voters reject same-sex marriage

Maine voters have rejected a law allowing same-sex couples to marry, in a major setback to gay rights advocates hoping the northeastern US state would become the first in the country where voters directly approve gay marriage.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro

EDGEfireisland.com News Feed

LGBT leaders eye changes for 2020 census count

Demographer Gary Gates, the census bureau's Lynn Sorgenfrei, Equality California's Geoff Kors, and the census bureau's Tim Olson met last week to discuss changes in the census for 2020.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Gay/Lesbian

BBC

Transsexual Jesus play sparks candle-lit Christian protests

About 300 protesters held a candlelit protest outside a Glasgow theatre over the staging of a play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian

WWMT-TV Kalamazoo

Controversial anti-discrimination ordinance to be decided

KALAMAZOO, Mich. Polls opened at 7:00 across West Michigan Tuesday. While there are a number of important issues on the ballot, the one that's been drawing the most attention in Kalamazoo is the anti-discrimination ordinance.

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Related Topix: Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro

Tue Nov 03, 2009

TulsaWorld.com - Local

Hate-crimes law expansion hailed

Leaders from Tulsa's gay community hosted a victory party Wednesday evening to celebrate federal legislation that now includes sexual orientation under hate-crime laws.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Gay/Lesbian, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Oklahoma

WTOP-FM Washington

Police: Attacks near Georgetown are hate crimes

D.C. Police are investigating a string of apparent anti-gay assaults on Georgetown University students near campus.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Georgetown University

Edge San Francisco

Gay Greek Brothers Expand to New Chapter

Sigma Phi Beta, the nation's first gay and gay-friendly fraternity, is opening a new chapter--the first after its original Arizona State University founding chapter.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Student Society, Sigma Phi, Fraternities, Arizona State University

Advocate

Election Update: The Races to Follow

In many parts of this country, November 3, 2009 will be just another Tuesday. Because of scant press coverage, it's easy to forget there are numerous issues and races at stake on Election Day that will have significant ramifications for gay and transgender people.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro

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