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Chicago mayoral candidate Hendon won't apologize for calling Brady a 'homophobe'
Chicago mayoral candidate Rickey Hendon said he won't apologize for calling Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady a homophobe.
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Gay conservatives launch ads targeting Democrats Frank, Pelosi, Boxer
Starting Monday, a gay conservative group will launch a new ad campaign attacking Democratic leaders, including Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA).
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President Obama to LGBT youth: It gets better
President Obama has joined the thousands of adults recording "It Gets Better" videos directed at struggling LGBT youth.
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Pentagon makes it harder to get rid of gay and lesbian military service members
As the military's policy on gays and lesbians becomes a moving target, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that removing gay servicemembers is a job only to be handled by the top of the chain of command.
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Alec Baldwin fights for the right to marry fellow actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Actor Alec Baldwin stars in a funny and powerful new YouTube video in which he demands the right to marry Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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Ugandan newspaper publishes 'top 100 homos' list, says 'hang them'
An English-language Ugandan newspaper has published a front-page story with a list of the "Top 100 Homos" and a banner recommending the men be hanged.
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Illinois governor candidates Pat Quinn and Bill Brady debate gay rights
During a debate laced with personal attacks, Illinois gubernatorial candidates Pat Quinn and Bill Brady also exhibited a gulf on social issues like gay rights.
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Billboard depicts Obama as gay, gangster, terrorist, and bandit
A lot of people are talking about a new billboard in Grand Junction, Colo. which depicts the President as four caricatures sitting around a table: gay, gangster, terrorist, and Mexican bandit.
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Anne Coulter: Carl Paladino's gay comments like saying 'Go Cubs'
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter had an interesting analogy when asked about New York candidate for governor Carl Paladino's comments about gays: she said it's like saying "Go Cubs."
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Republican candidate for NY governor Carl Paladino: kids 'brainwashed' into accepting gays
Republican candidate for governor of New York Carl Paladino continues to defend his views on gays, and in fact has expanded on them.
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Anti-gay black preachers supporting lesbian mayoral candidate in Oakland, Calif.
There's a strange group trying to get lesbian Rebecca Kaplan elected mayor of Oakland, Calif., including some anti-gay black preachers who pushed hard to have the ban on gay marriage passed.
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Ozzy Osbourne 'disgusted and sickened' by Westboro Baptists' use of 'Crazy Train'
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne is "disgusted" by the fact that Fred Phelps and his homophobic Westboro Baptist Church members sing his song "Crazy Train."
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Gay North Carolina group sending 'Fruitloops' state lawmaker boxes of cereal
State Rep. Larry Brown (R) of North Carolina said in a recent email that gays are "fruit loops" and now he's going to have to eat those words-- with dozens of boxes of cereal.
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Meeks reaches out to LGBT leaders
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'Reply all': NC state lawmaker sends out mass email calling gays 'fruitloops' and 'queers'
Republican state Rep. Larry Brown of North Carolina knows how to make his opinions on gays known -- he hit "reply all" to a message about a pro-gay award for a fellow lawmaker and said the group was full of "queers" and