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Alec Baldwin has retired from public life, blaming the ‘Gay Department of Justice’

Alec Baldwin has retired from public life, blaming the ‘Gay Department of Justice’ | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
ACTOR Alec Baldwin has announced he is retiring from public life, following a scandal-plagued 12 months.
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LGBT Mormons share their struggles

LGBT Mormons share their struggles | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Circling the Wagons conference seeks to build understanding among LDS Church members - As president of Affirmation: LGBT Mormons, Families and Friends, Randall Thacker has met many members of the LGBT community who have faced pain, frustration and confusion when...

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Photo of the Day: This is what #equality looks like

Photo of the Day: This is what #equality looks like | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
RT @cookcountyclerk: This is what #equality looks like. Congratulations to the newlyweds! http://t.co/Y8dvdgIss7
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UK Armed Forces ranked world's second most gay-friendly military

UK Armed Forces ranked world's second most gay-friendly military | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The UK Armed Forces has been ranked the second-most gay-friendly military in the world by Netherlands-based independent research group, Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS). Sharing second spot with the ...
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Arizona bill passes allowing refusal of service to gays, others

Arizona bill passes allowing refusal of service to gays, others | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The Arizona Legislature gave final approval Thursday to legislation that allows business owners asserting their religious beliefs to refuse service to gays...


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Nonprofit Launches Social Media Campaign to Empower LGBT Community

Nonprofit Launches Social Media Campaign to Empower LGBT Community | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Students Moving America has launched a social media campaign aimed at celebrating the act of “coming out” in the LGBT community.

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The Brave New World of Same-Sex Marriage

The Brave New World of Same-Sex Marriage | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Just as feminism has as its practical outworking, if not its theoretical core, the technological conquest of the female body—”biology is not destiny,” so the saying goes—so too...

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Whither Gay Rights in India?

Whither Gay Rights in India? | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
ANOTHER FIRST! The “India Conference at Harvard” is an annual, weekend-long, high-visibility event held at the Kennedy School of Government (on February 15th and 16th).
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi passes resolution recognizing LGBT residents

Hattiesburg, Mississippi passes resolution recognizing LGBT residents | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Hattiesburg, Mississippi tonight unanimously passed a resolution recognizing the dignity and worth of all city residents – including those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

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Dallas takes first steps toward addressing LGBT inequities at City Hall

Dallas takes first steps toward addressing LGBT inequities at City Hall | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Five years after the city of Dallas formed its LGBT Task Force, and close to one year after Mayor Mike Rawlings quashed a vote on a marriage equality resolution, a Dallas City Council committee voted to adopt a

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A Victory for Gay Rights in Virginia, but Opponents Vow to Fight On - New York Times

A Victory for Gay Rights in Virginia, but Opponents Vow to Fight On - New York Times | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Supporters of gay rights celebrated on Friday their latest courtroom victory, the overturning of Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, as opponents condemned the...

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Accidental 'I Love You' Derailed Gay Navy SEAL's Career

Accidental 'I Love You' Derailed Gay Navy SEAL's Career | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Jones said he had known he was gay since he was 6-years-old and had just decided to risk keeping the secret in order to serve with one of the most elite military forces in...

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Virginia Court Legalizes Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

Virginia Court Legalizes Marriage for Same-Sex Couples | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
A federal court in Virginia has ruled that same-sex couples in the state will be allowed to marry and that all same-sex couples legally married elsewhere will have their marriages recognized.
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"Queer Your Rights" conference educates LGBT students on rights for housing, employment

"Queer Your Rights" conference educates LGBT students on rights for housing, employment | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The Queer Resource Center put on the first “Queer Your Rights” conference last Thursday in the Richard Oakes Multicultural Center. The event was hosted by the Queer Resource Center, in conjunction with the Legal Resource Center, and ASI. Its  purpose was to educate students in the LGBT community about the legal rights and resources that are available to them. Speakers from eight different agencies spoke about problems facing the LGBT community and how to access help and support in the Bay Area.


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Gay marriage group launches $1 million PR campaign across South

Gay marriage group launches $1 million PR campaign across South | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Freedom to Marry is financing a $1 million campaign to boost support for same-sex marriage.  They will kick off an advertising campaign in Southern states in hopes of swaying public opinion and the judges who will decide the fate of state bans on gay unions.

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Sex & Love: The Millenials' Broken Road To Romance

Sex & Love: The Millenials' Broken Road To Romance | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Both of you are from two different perspectives, two different points of view, but share a common vision. What birthed “Sex and Love”?
Kyle Thomas: Millennials, in general, are experiencing a broken...
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Gay marriages begin in Cook County

Gay marriages begin in Cook County | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Gay couples in Cook County won’t have to wait until June to marry, under a ruling today by a federal judge in Chicago that scraps the delayed effective date of Illinois' same sex marriage law.
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Jim Crow laws for gays and lesbians?

Jim Crow laws for gays and lesbians? | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

What's the matter with Kansas? A bill protecting the religious freedom of businesses and individuals to refuse services to same-sex couples passed the state House of Representatives last week.

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Barefoot Wine Names Jeff Kagan ‘Sole of the Year’ for his Work with NYC Gay Hockey Association

Barefoot Wine Names Jeff Kagan ‘Sole of the Year’ for his Work with NYC Gay Hockey Association | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Keeping with their tradition of community building and sponsorship of nonprofits, Barefoot Wine & Bubbly has released the names of 2014 honorees for their annual “Soles of the Year.” The program honors people who put...

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Gay and Undocumented: Some, Like Dagoberto Bailón, Must Come Out Twice

Gay and Undocumented: Some, Like Dagoberto Bailón, Must Come Out Twice | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Born in 1986 in a town of 300 people in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, Bailón spent the first six years of his life in a town where the only technology...

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LGBT Center of NEPA readies for opening

LGBT Center of NEPA readies for opening | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The LGBT Center of NEPA will have its grand opening at 2 p.m. Sunday, opening its doors to those a part of and close to the area's LGBT community.

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Once again, marriage equality inches closer to Supreme Court

Once again, marriage equality inches closer to Supreme Court | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Once again, marriage equality inches closer to Supreme Court Washington Blade Although the Ohio ruling was limited to death certificates for married gay couples and the Kentucky ruling only provided recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages,...
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Chelsea Clinton: 'We have a lot more work to do' for LGBT rights

Chelsea Clinton: 'We have a lot more work to do' for LGBT rights | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Chelsea Clinton stepped to the podium at the Bally’s Events Center to the tune of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ hit rap song “Same Love.” The song about equal rights for lesbians and gays set the stage for the message she delivered Sunday at the inaugural Time to Thrive conference.
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I will not subject my innocent son to your lifestyle

I will not subject my innocent son to your lifestyle | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

A pair of gay dads were left shocked and upset by a bigoted response to an invitation to their child's birthday party in Baldwin, New York.

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What If We Held a Lawsuit … and Nobody Came?

What If We Held a Lawsuit … and Nobody Came? | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Recent twists in several marriage equality lawsuits have given rise to a fair question: What happens now?
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