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BREAKING: DC Court Rules Against Foes of Marriage Equality   SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “BREAKING: DC Court Rules Against Foes of Marriage Equality”, url: “http://www.hrcbackstory.org/2010/07/breaking-dc-court-rules-against-foes-of-marriage-equality/” });   By  Michael Cole July 15th, 2010 at 10:47 am Big victory for marriage equality in DC!  Today the DC Court of Appeals ruled against foes of DC marriage equality who […]

  "Bulletproof" by LaRoux provides the backdrop for a pride video from Syracuse, NY…there’s a lot of color in this video from Edmonton Pride…Get a glimpse of some fireworks from New York Pride from the barge launch point…see what it’s like to be in France for Pride in Paris…or maybe you’d prefer Napoli, Italy…or maybe

  Although there’s been plenty of bad press in recent past, you can now chalk up the Boy Scouts of America as another shamed American Institution, at least in terms of the "purity" they claim to represent. The Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal on behalf of the Boy Scouts of America regarding

  "Beyond Monogamy (Lessons From Long Term Male Couples in Non-Monogamous Relationships)" is a new study published in February of this year. The study was conducted by a same sex male couple, Blake Spears and Lanz Lowen, who’ve been in a non-monogamous relationship for the past 35 years.  They decided to conduct the study of

A San Mateo judge has rejected an initiative petition signature captured using an iPhone touch screen, dealing a setback to the technology’s proponents, who say it could help low-cost, grassroots initiative campaigns qualify for the ballot. In line with a tentative ruling issued last month, San Mateo Superior Court Judge George Miram ruled that the

After a CNN segment earlier in the week when Kyra Phillips spoke with CA Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal and "Ex-Gay" Richard Cohen about a pending bill, both she and CNN were denounced all over the internet. The discussion concerned Lowenthal’s sponsorship of a bill (which was just approved by the Assembly) to strike some language from

Support Gay Central Valley without spending a cent! GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It’s a simple and compelling concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it’s powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results.

After all was said and done in the case of Constance McMillen, the lesbian student who requested to take her girlfriend to her school prom, resulting in the prom being cancelled, now it turns out she was directed to a fake prom, and not the prom parents had put together to make up for the

How many claims of sexual abuse within the Catholic church would you imagine have occurred since the year 1950? I can tell you that just last year, the number of claims reported in the US was around 400. So how many, according to a survey commissioned by the bishops, would you say have been claimed