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NOM Buys Domains to Divide LGBT Community Over Marriage Equality

NOMexposed revealed that Brian Brown’s crew has purchased the above URLs in an apparent plan to sow infighting among LGBT people. Earlier this year secret NOM documents exposed the hate group’s plan to incite anti-gay hatred in the black community. Full Story at Joe.My.God

Glenn Beck for Marriage Equality?

Getting axed from Fox News must do wonders for your outlook on life. Just look at weepy conservative pundit Glenn Beck. Beck recently discussed same-sex marriage with comedian-magician (comician, if you will) Penn Jillette on his online talk show, The Blaze. “Let me take the pro-gay marriage people and the religious people — I believe

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What Marriage Equality’s Monetary Advantage in 2012 Means for the Future

In the wake of the major electoral victories for marriage equality across the country this fall, the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had some explaining to do. No longer able to rely on its long-standing argument that voters always reject same-sex marriage, NOM did some soul searching and finally identified the reason it suffered

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Being Transgender No Longer a Mental Disorder, APA Says

Advocates welcomed the American Psychiatric Association’s decision on Saturday to remove being transgender from its list of mental disorders. The APA specifically removed the term Gender Identity Disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel (DSM) of Mental Disorders and replaced it with Gender Dysphoria. The organization, which represents more than 36,000 psychiatrists from around the

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Three Paths The Supreme Court Might Take on Marriage Equality

It’s been a year full of news on gay marriage, including President Barack Obama’s statement that he personally favors allowing it and several state votes in November supporting it. Now one of the biggest developments may be imminent. Supreme Court justices are discussing gay-marriage cases at their conference today and may announce as soon as

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African American Community More Accepting of Gays

Word to conservatives: Don’t bother trying to peddle your divisive politics to African-Americans; it won’t work anymore. A post-election poll conducted by The Economist suggests that social issues may no longer be an effective means for Republicans to get Black voters on board. (Further evidence suggests that the same goes for Latinos.) A co-worker handed

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Gay Groups to Boehner – Stop Wasting Money Defending DOMA

Eleven LGBT groups on Tuesday called on House Speaker John Boehner to stop wasting money defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. After the Department of Justice announced it would no longer defend the law in court, Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, directed the so-called Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) to step in.

Social Networks Helped Win Marriage Votes

It was no secret during past decades of ballot-box pummeling that social connections help determine where people stand on LGBT rights, say the organizers behind November 6′s same-sex marriage wins in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington. They knew the public-opinion polls. Simply having a gay family member, friend, or colleague doubles the likelihood of support.

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KEEP ON DANCING ‘TIL THE WORLD ENDS

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Supreme Court Asks Attorney to Argue DOMA Standing

The Supreme Court chose a Harvard professor of constitutional law, Vicki C. Jackson, to argue that the Court does not have the authority to rule on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. She will file a brief and appear to argue the two procedural issues that the Court itself had raised in