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LGBT Leader Will Be Indy Mayor's Press Secretary
Filed by Bil Browning | June 22, 2015 | 12:45 PM |Brad Jacklin, former Executive Director of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus for the House of Representatives, has taken a position as press secretary for Indianapolis' Republican mayor Greg Ballard.Read More
Jon Stewart On Charleston Attack
Filed by Ed Team | June 19, 2015 | 3:24 PM |I honestly have nothing, other than just sadness, once again, that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other.Read More
Rachel Dolezal Comes Out As Bisexual
Filed by Ed Team | June 18, 2015 | 10:30 AM |"And I will intentionally ask, like, so, do you just date light-skinned women."Read More
Gay 'Bear' Couple Own JebBushForPresident.com
Filed by Bil Browning | June 17, 2015 | 2:00 PM |Two self described "tech bears" own JebBushForPresident.com and have no plans to release it to the presidential candidate.Read More
Trans Woman Confirmed As Pennsylvania Physician General
Filed by Ed Team | June 10, 2015 | 3:30 PM |"I think [being trans] has helped me in terms of the LGBT community in terms of understanding what all the issues are."Read More
IN Guv Issues Pride Welcome, Forgets LGBT People
Filed by Bil Browning | June 03, 2015 | 11:00 AM |*facepalm*Read More
Huckabee Wishes He Was Trans
Filed by Ed Team | June 02, 2015 | 1:08 PM |"Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE"Read More
Bernie Sanders Announces Presidential Run
Filed by Ed Team | May 27, 2015 | 8:30 AM |This makes him the first official challenger to Hillary Clinton.Read More
The GOP Can't Have It Both Ways on Marriage Equality
Filed by Terrance Heath | April 29, 2015 | 4:00 PM |Republican presidential candidates trying to satisfy their ever-shrinking white evangelical base and the growing majority of Americans who favor marriage equality will find it impossible to have it both ways.Read More
North Dakota Anti-Gay Politician Outed
Filed by Bil Browning | April 28, 2015 | 3:00 PM |North Dakota Republican state representative Randy Boehning has a history of voting against the LGBT community, but that hasn't stopped him from cruising hookup apps looking for gay sex. Natch.Read More
Jindal: I'm Determined to Ruin Economy Over Gays
Filed by Bil Browning | April 24, 2015 | 2:30 PM |Governor and presidential wannabe Bobby Jindal is adamant that Louisiana should be able to discriminate against LGBT people and says he's willing to ruin the state's economy to prove it.Read More
Dan Savage Pokes GOP on Gay Wedding Angst
Filed by John M. Becker | April 23, 2015 | 4:00 PM |On Tuesday night's episode of 'All In With Chris Hayes,' LGBT advocate Dan Savage became the latest commentator to poke fun at Republicans for their awkward contortions on same-sex weddings.Read More
Report: Pope Met With Stalled Gay Ambassador Nominee
Filed by John M. Becker | April 23, 2015 | 2:00 PM |The French government is confirming that Pope Francis recently held a private meeting with Laurent Stefanini, France's openly gay ambassador-designate to the Vatican whom the Holy See has declined to confirm for months.Read More
SCOTUS Stops NOM from Reversing Marriage in Oregon
Filed by John M. Becker | April 21, 2015 | 5:00 PM |The U.S. Supreme Court has squashed NOM's last attempt at stopping marriage equality in Oregon.Read More
The Bigots' Hail Mary: Marriage Equality Kills Babies
Filed by John M. Becker | April 21, 2015 | 4:00 PM |In a laughably desperate Hail Mary attempt to disguise blatant bigotry as compassionate concern, 100 self-proclaimed "scholars of marriage" are claiming that same-sex marriage kills the unborn.Read More
