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Gay Friendly TV Shows Helping to Drive Marriage Equality Poll Surge

Shows with gay characters, like Glee, Modern Family, and The New Normal, are helping drive voters to historically unprecedented support of gay marriage, an Oct. 29 THR poll conducted in conjunction with partner Penn Schoen Berland has found. Though gay TV also makes some voters more intensely opposed to gay marriage, they are outnumbered by […]

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Premiere of How to Survive a Plague

So as many of you know I have taken on allot of personal projects in our community over the years. My latest project is to bring the film “How to Survive a Plague” to the Central Valley in observance of World AIDS Day on Nov 30, 2012 at 7:00pm. Read below and follow my blog

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New Democratic Supermajority Could Put Prop 8 Repeal on Ballot

  California Senate President Darrell Steinberg is open to putting an initiative on the ballot asking voters to repeal Proposition 8, the state’s gay marriage ban. “Depending upon what the Supreme Court might or might not do with Proposition 8,” Steinberg told The Sacramento Bee, “in coalition with stakeholders and the gay and lesbian leadership,

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Tomorrow: Transgender Day of Remembrance

Tuesday, November 20th – Transgender Day of Remembrance  “Walk for Transgender Awareness” as part of our annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event.  Prior to the Walk for Transgender Awareness, a short rally will be held at Fresno Courthouse Park at 1100 Van Ness Ave from 4:30pm to 5pm in which inspirational speakers will brace us

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The Ruth Institute: Label Being Gay Just Like Cigarettes

The National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute is promoting the idea that being gay is as “harmful” as smoking. In a crosspost on its blog, the Ruth Institute asks, “How much worse do the risks of gay sex have to be before it rates the same public health warnings as smoking?” Here’s an excerpt from

Changes by Lorie Kay Frye

Changes is about more than lesbian vampires! Available on Amazon for electronic readers and paperback I love my first review: “Who does not enjoy a sexy vampire book? I cannot get enough! And Lorie Frye nails it with this one!”However, Changes is about more than vampires. The story includes a professional drag queen ranch hand

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Think Tank: Thank Your Grandparents for Marriage Equality Poll Surge

This year might bring the first-ever statewide vote in favor of marriage for same-sex couples — and for that you have your grandmother to thank. Why? Because contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans born in the 1940s have been changing their minds on the marriage issue faster than nearly any other age group. And they are

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Why Do Many Corporations Embrace Marriage Equality?

In the afterglow of Tuesday’s election, the term “historic turning point” for LGBT rights is hardly an overstatement. The passage of equal marriage rights by popular vote in three states, the blockage of an anti-equality constitutional amendment in a fourth (after losses in 30 other states), plus the reelection of the first president to ever