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Colbert Destroys R.I. Governor For Denying Gay Couples Death Rights (VIDEO)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Colbert Report - By Stephen Colbert - Nov. 17 (Comedy News) - Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri vetoed legislation last week that would give same-sex couples the rights to claim the bodies of and make funeral arrangements for their deceased partners. He said such legislation was a "disturbing trend" signifying the erosion of traditional marriage.

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Are Same-Sex Couples Better Parents?

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lisa Belkin - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - Are the parenting styles of these couples and the psychological development of their children different from families led by heterosexual couples? There is an increasing body of data about this, too, compiled and analyzed in a new book by Abbie Goldberg, an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. In an essay in the magazine this weekend, I explore that question and conclude that in some ways same-sex parents have a lot to teach the rest of us.

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Are there asexuals among us?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Jesse Bering - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - some scientists believe that there may be a fourth sexual orientation in our species, one characterized by the absence of desire and no sexual interest in males or females, only a complete and lifelong lacuna of sexual attraction toward any human being (or non-human being).

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What the Gay Boycott of the DNC Can Do

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Emma Ruby-Sachs - Nov. 10 (Opinion) - There is a gay boycott of the Democratic Party afoot, and it has the potential to turn into something that leads to real change in American politics. I'm not selling hope here, but I can't help but feel it when I see the momentum gathering behind AMERICAblog's "Don't Ask, Don't Give" campaign.

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Why Gay Marriage Is Such A Big Deal

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

American Chronicle - By Sean Prophet - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - In the grand scheme of American politics, the gay marriage issue seems like it should really be a footnote. It affects so few people, how could it be so important? The question is simple enough, right? Either you think same-sex marriage is a symbol of plummeting morality and the decline of Western Civilization, or you see it as a fundamental human right. Like abortion or gun control, it's not a subject that lends itself to much middle ground.

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Lt. Choi Won't Lie for His Country

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amy Goodman - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - After receiving the letter from the Army, Choi wrote an open letter to his commander in chief, Obama. He said: "I have personally served for a decade under Don't Ask, Don't Tell: an immoral law and policy that forces American soldiers to deceive and lie about their sexual orientation. Worse, it forces others to tolerate deception and lying." U.S. troops in Afghanistan are serving side by side with NATO forces that include openly gay and lesbian troops.

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Much Worse Than I Expected

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Andrew Sullivan - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - The president gave a speech he could have given at any point in the last three years. No one in that room could disagree with any of the things he said. I sure don't (with the exception of the hate crimes hooey). And he said it well

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Why Nobel Laureate President Obama's Speech to the Gays Matters

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Leah McElrath Renna - Oct. 11 (Opinion) - At first, I thought there was nothing new in President Obama's speech about lesbian and gay civil rights, but then I thought again. Like many...

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Chicago Conference Highlights Plight of LGBT Ethnic Elders

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Paul Kleyman - Sep. 03 (Opinion) - The Pride-parade image of carefree, middle class youth doesn’t fit the impoverished reality of millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) elders of color. Recent findings expose the multiple jeopardies that confront ethnic LGBT people in their later years.

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Commentary: Gay is not the new black - CNN.com

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By LZ Granderson - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Far from flowing rainbow flags, the sound of Lady Gaga and, quite honestly, white people, stands a nightclub just outside of Wicker Park in Chicago, Illinois, by the name of The Prop House. The line to get in usually stretches down the block, and unlike many of the clubs in Boystown and Andersonville, this one plays hip-hop and caters to men who may or may not openly identify as gay, but without question are black and proud.

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PlanetOut Entertainment: Did Certain Celebs Make us Gay?

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

planetout.com - Jul. 11 (Comment) - A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about Brad Pitt, and one the comments posted by a reader resonated with me: "I had to face the fact that I was gay after watching Legends of the Fall." After reading that, it occurred to me that this otherwise innocuous comment scratched the surface of a larger, more profound question: how many gay people realized they were gay after discovering a certain celeb or public figure?

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Stonewall Plus Forty

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Hendrik Hertzberg - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - The President has said all the right things. But there have been signs, before the election and after, that where gays are concerned his fine-tuned ear for the emotional resonance of his actions has an alloy of tin.

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Pitts: What does a homosexual demon look like?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salt Lake Tribune - By Leonard Pitts Jr. - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.: Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me what a "homosexual demon" looks like. I will confess that until last week, I had no idea demons even had sexual orientations. Or, for that matter, sex. Then I happened upon a video that is making the rounds online. It depicts members of your congregation conducting what can only be described as the "gay exorcism" of a 16-year-old boy.

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Op-Ed Contributor - Why I Now Support Gay Marriage

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tom Suozzi - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - WHEN I ran in the Democratic primary for governor against Eliot Spitzer in 2006, I vocally supported civil unions for same-sex couples but did not endorse equal marriage....I was wrong.

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Critical mass for same-sex marriage

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Nation - By Dan Kennedy - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - At some point, though, it seems inevitable that liberal, blue California will re-enshrine same-sex marriage. And with more than 36.7 million people, it remains the big prize. Add them to the other six states plus New York, and you've got 58.9 million people, or 21.7 percent of the U.S. population.

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Editorial - Vote on Gay Marriage

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Jun. 04 (Opinion) - ..There are few new arguments to be made behind closed doors. By now, the Senate’s 62 members have heard from every interest group. They know the polls and the politics. They know that New York is lagging behind others — including New Hampshire, where Gov. John Lynch, who had previously defined marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, signed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday.

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Sit Down, Ted Olson and David Boies

Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By William N. Eskridge Jr., Darren Spedale - May. 30 (Opinion) - Adversaries in Bush v. Gore, Ted Olson and David Boies are a power couple of super-lawyers supporting same-sex marriage. Dismayed that California voters overrode their state Supreme Court's guarantee of marriage equality for lesbian and gay couples, Boies and Olson have brought a federal constitutional lawsuit to invalidate the voters' action.

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California Was The Future

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Sandip Roy - May. 29 (Opinion) - In a few years some young activist in South Asia might be mystified why the world’s first group for LGBT South Asians was born all the way out in California.

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Calif. Marriage Ruling: One of the ‘Lucky’ Couples

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By David Schmader - May. 29 (Opinion) - My husband and I are lucky. We're one of the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who get to keep our Californiamarriage certificate after the state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure restricting the state's marriage rights to heterosexual couples. But as the San Francisco Chronicle's Bob Egelko wrote: "The justices ruled unanimously that Prop 8 was not retroactive and that gay and lesbian couples who relied on the court's May 2008 ruling to get married before the Nov. 4 election will remain legally wed."

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Attorneys Olson & Boies Interviewed About Filing Federal Suit Against Cailf. Prop 8

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Chris Matthews - May. 28 (Interview) - Attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies Interviewed About Filing A Federal Lawsuit Against California Prop 8

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Ted Olson and David Boies on why Prop 8 is unconstitutional

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Hot Air - By Allahpundit - May. 28 (Comment) - As clear and simple a case for attacking marriage laws in the courts as you’re ever likely to hear.

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A Setback for Equality

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - May. 27 (Editorial) - The California Supreme Court got it terribly wrong Tuesday. It upheld Proposition 8, a state constitutional change on last fall’s ballot intended to prohibit marriage by couples of the same sex. In addition to denying basic fairness to gay people, the court’s 6-to-1 ruling sets an unfortunate legal precedent that could allow the existing rights of any targeted minority to be diminished using the Election Day initiative process.

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Worse than the Worst

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Christopher Orr - May. 27 (Opinion) - It was not that long ago that the Standard's line on gay rights was that they were tantamount to an endorsement of pedophilia. In 1996 and 2001 the magazine published, respectively, "Pedophilia Chic" and "Pedophilia Chic, Reconsidered," two of the most obtuse, disingenuous essays it has ever been my displeasure to encounter. The case both made--the first, provisionally, the second, with greater assurance--was that, thanks to the gay rights movement, there had been a surge in acceptance of the sexualization of boys (by gay men) but there existed no comparable sexualization of girls in American culture.

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A Victory for Democracy

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 27 (Editorial) - The gay rights lobby is apoplectic, though we suspect the decision will eventually be seen as a victory for gay rights -- precisely because it respected the ordinary rhythms of democratic debate. That wasn't the case in 2008, when the same court created a right to gay marriage by reading it into the state constitution. Yet when moral and social disputes are "settled" by the judiciary, they inevitably become even more divisive than before, inspire a political backlash and in any case are denied the durability that comes from popular consent.

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Prop 8 May Be Same-Sex Couples’ Least Worry

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Ryan Blitstein - May. 26 (Interview) - In January, Miller-McCune.com posted an interview with Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis professor Jennifer Drobac on the conundrum of California's Prop. 8. With the state Supreme Court upholding the voter approved amendment to the state's Constitution, this interview answers some thorny questions.

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