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The controversy over the restaurant chain Chick-fil-A continues. It all started when one ofthe restaurants donated food to an anti-gay, pro-traditional marriage group about a monthago. The CEO of the company made a video explaining that they donate to all sorts of groupsand they don’t necessarily check out all the details or agendas of the […]
A gay couple who were refused when trying to rent a room at a bed and breakfast in southern England have sued and won their case. There was a media uproar after Martyn Hall and his partner Steven Preddy were turned away from Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion, in southwestern England, in 2008. Husband and
While authorities in Minnesota will not release the nature of the emergency call that took them to the Lundsten home over the weekend, the fact remains that 18 year old Lance Lundsten has died, and authorities have confirmed it is apparently a suicide. His friends say he was bullied at school and they suspect
Anderson Cooper’s CNN show, AC360 will air an hour long episode tonight, Friday, January 14th, regarding the current state of AIDS. Watch "Hope Survives: 30 Years of AIDS," an AC360° special, at 9 p.m. ET Friday. Phill Wilson is the president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, a national HIV/AIDS think tank focused
Bill Zeller, a Princeton Ph.D candidate and renowned internet programmer, died Wednesday from injuries sustained in a suicide attempt. He was 27. Source – HuffingtonPost.com This an amazing story. Bill left behind an extensive suicide note, over 4,000 words, describing the torture he lived with due to sexual molestation and religious persecution from his
Two of Mark Twain’s classic books, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” are being rewritten, or should I say, censored. Twain scholar Alan Gribben, who is working with NewSouth Books in Alabama to publish a combined volume of the books, said the N-word appears 219 times in "Huck Finn" and four times in "Tom
Just how friendly and supportive is the community on Facebook? Simone Back, 42 years old, had over 1,000 friends on Facebook. On Christmas Day she committed suicide, after posting her intentions on her Facebook page, which resulted in no one rallying to her aid. Her last posting was… "Took all my pills be dead
Last month I went off on GLAAD for going nuts over the use of the word faggot on an episode of GLEE. Even in their written discussion of the matter the word faggot was never printed, but rather censored with asterisks, just as other words like dyke were. This is clearly nuts. It’s one
