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St. Patrick's Day weekend in Boston is just days away. As we continue practicing renditions of our best Irish brogue, honing our beer guzzling skills and mapping out the ultimate bar crawl route, the LGBT veteran community is vying for equality. In a letter to the Allied War Veterans Council of South Boston, Southie's Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers, LGBT veterans call them out in the most standup way. 
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She said on Monday she and Colombian LGBT rights advocates continue to fight to secure recognition of gay and lesbian families and other measures to “guarantee our dignified life” and ensure...
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Credit Card Start-Up Set to Boost Fundraising for the LGBT Movement -
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The photographer spent six months documenting and connecting with each city’s unique community of lesbians, drag queens and ladyboys, and venturing through love hotels, pride parades, dominatrix sessions and more. Via CenterLink LGBT
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A US church has dropped a case against a NYC pastor who was accused of going against its teachings by officiating at his gay son's wedding.
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It's not that Sichta thinks she's been mistreated by members of the LGBTQ community, but rather what she feels is her own social awkwardness preventing her from...
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At a meeting of the Democratic National Committee's LGBT Caucus on Saturday, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced the creation of a Lesbian Leadership Council. Wasserman Schultz said the new council ...
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With the NFL draft approaching fast, Michael Sam will continue to remain in the national spotlight. And why not? He could be the first openly gay professional football player in the history of the league. But it’s important to note that while Sam’s admission is groundbreaking on many levels, female athletes have long since knocked down the sexuality barrier in professional sports.
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Did I mention that in years past CPAC has developed a reputation for being one of the biggest gay hook-up destinations this side of the...
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Javier Gonzales was elected Mayor of Santa Fe in a three-way race on Tuesday, becoming the city's first ever openly gay mayor.
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One of the reasons they posed was that the first openly gay player would create a media firestorm that teams couldn't — or wouldn't want to —...
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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. In discussing the vetoed legislation in Arizona that would have allowed business owners to discriminate against gays and lesbians on religious grounds, she invited LGBT residents from Arizona to move to Baltimore even though Arizona has better weather.
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The awards are made to those who have made a significant contribution to the lesbian and gay community and winners are recommended by the city’s Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board.
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An elderly lesbian couple from Vancouver has been turning to a network of friends — mostly younger lesbians — for support as they deal with dementia.
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#HRC wins 3 #SXSW - Best of Show, Social Media, Digital Campaign of the Year #LGBT @hrc @sxsw pic.twitter.com/3tx4KMon17
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Prudential hosted a panel discussion this morning at which executives from the company announced their most recent initiative in the LGBT market: a white paper entitled "Financial Planning...
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"This cohort of gay men who are in their 60s today, many of their most productive earning years were spent surrounded by people who were dying, or they spent some of that time themselves in... Via Homophobia news watch, Kelly Riker
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The club is based in South Carolina. ”I am excited to be joining the Mutiny this season,” Outsports reports Hysen, 23, said. “This is a great opportunity for me on a personal and professional level. I hope I can help take the team ...
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Gov. Jerry Brown praised gay rights advocates Monday night forbeing on “the cutting edge” in pushing for equality over the last several decades, as he was honored with an award for what supporters said was his lifelong push to advance equal rights.
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In a landmark decision for Lebanon’s LGBTQ community, a court in Beirut ruled that same-sex relations are not “contradicting the laws of nature” and therefore are not a crime.
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Your next destination: Los Angeles, where you believe you can be free to be yourself. “I just can't live in New York anymore,” you wrote. “Everything I hated about L.A.
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In today's workforce, employees still face persistent discrimination and unfair treatment due to their gender, age, race, and sexual orientation. But some companies have been better at embracing diversity than others.
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Obama has pushed LGBT rights more than any other president before him, but his administration has been inexplicably quiet about moving on anti-LGBT discrimination in the workplace. Members of Congr...
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Do you view the issue of gay rights as being mundane? Are you annoyed by the ‘hype’ over homophobic bullying and marriage equality? Then these are the facts you need to know, writes Christine Allen.
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Almost half of people in the UK are opposed to same sex couples adopting children, even though it’s been legal since 2005 in England and Wales. Our British Social Attitudes survey asks people whether they think that same sex couples should be allowed to adopt children under the same conditions as other couples; in 2012, just under half (49 per cent) of Brits say yes and 44 per cent no – a fairly even split.
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