Results for: gay marriage
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OPEN THREAD: 2012 Election Day Live-Blog, With Extra Feelings
Greetings Queers, and Happy Election Day! Welcome to our Feelings Thread / Election Day Party Live Blog. Are you excited? I’m excited.
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Why Claiming Republicans Are “Hardly Anti-Gay” Makes Hardly Any Sense
Spoiler alert: it takes more than “tolerance.”
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Obama Supports Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal DOMA, Make Gay People Happy
“Obama is proud to support the Respect for Marriage Act.”
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Obama Speaks For LGBT Pride Month, Doesn’t Counsel Patience
“And as long as I have the privilege of being your President, I promise you, you won’t just have a friend in the White House, you will have a fellow advocate.”
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Joe Biden Goes Rogue With Same-Sex Marriage Support
Joe Biden finished “evolving” a long time ago, it seems.
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Obama’s Not Signing LGBT Workplace Protection Exec Order For Vague, Unconvincing Reasons
Obama decided not to sign a piece of paper that would give LGBT employees of federal contractors the right to not be fired because of their sexual orientation.
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Obama Supports Planned Parenthood, Trusts Women
“If you really value families, you shouldn’t play politics with women’s health.” — President Barack Obama
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White House Announces LGBT Pride Video Contest, Clearly Likes Your Face
The announcement of the first-ever LGBT Pride Month White House Champions of Change Contest is one of many recent events suggesting Obama is on our side for real now.
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This Is A Marriage Equality Roundup: New Hampshire and New Jersey Edition
This will be an important few months for marriage equality, especially in New Hampshire and New Jersey.
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Obama and Hillary Officially Care About Global Gay Rights, a.k.a. “Human Rights”
The Obama administration’s decision to take treatment of gays and lesbians into account when making foreign aid decisions is actually really historic, and here’s why.
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Obama Says Gay Couples Deserve Equal Rights But Insists It’s Not a Federal Fight
Obama had a big fundraiser tonight for LGBTs and said he thinks gays deserve equal rights and hopefully the states will be taking care of that.
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Rhode Island House Approves Civil Unions, But With Restrictions
The bill still has to pass the Senate and be signed by the governor, but legislators say this is just a step toward full equality down the road.
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Gays May Win “Most Effective Activist” Award When It Comes to Obama
“Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.”
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Shock Me Shock Me Shock Me With That Deviant Gay-Related Behavior
What happens when homosexuals and conservatives come together? Something different every time, apparently! Stories from Maryland’s gay marriage debate, the Conservative Political Action Conference, the National Prayer Breakfast and more.
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Once More, With Feeling: DOMA Repeal Bill To Be Introduced Wednesday, Celebrities Petition Obama
The DOMA repeal bill is coming out the day after tomorrow, so you better hang on ’til the day after tomorrow, come what may! Also Ellen Degeneres & Martin Sheen & The Lynch have a petition for you to sign.
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Joe Solmonese Announces He Will Leave HRC In 2012
The HRC announced on Saturday that Joe Solmonese will not renew his contract after March 31, 2012.
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Deportation Adjournment Good News For Lesbian Couple, Bad News For DOMA
If you were wondering what Obama’s decision to stop defending DOMA in court actually means, it’s this.
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Everything You Never Knew About The Modern GOP And Were Afraid To Find Out
“…a disciplined minority of totalitarians can use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy itself.”
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Obama Administration is Over DOMA (UPDATED: Sen. Feinstein Will Now Introduce DOMA Repeal Legislation!)
In which Barack Obama declares that he officially has our backs, seemingly out of nowhere.
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And On the Sixth Day, Obama Made News on Same-Sex Marriage
“This brief represents the concrete manifestation of a complete paradigm shift in the federal government’s position on anti-gay discrimination and the constitutional rights of married same-sex couples.”