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The Growing Impact of the Supreme Court's Gay-Marriage Ruling

The Growing Impact of the Supreme Court's Gay-Marriage Ruling | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The sweeping significance of the Supreme Court’s landmark gay-rights decision in United States v. Windsor, last June, has become even more evident in the past month, thanks to a series of important lower-court decisions that have interpreted it broadly.

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Lambda Legal Reacts to Nevada AG Statement Regarding Lawsuit Challenging State Marriage Ban

Lambda Legal Reacts to Nevada AG Statement Regarding Lawsuit Challenging State Marriage Ban | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
We make the case for equality in the nation's courts and in the court of public opinion. The work we do has impact on the way all of us live we change laws, policies and ideas.
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Photo of the Day / LGBTWeddingExpo: 'Over the next 3 years, some 37,000 CA Same Sex Couples are expected to marry

Photo of the Day / LGBTWeddingExpo: 'Over the next 3 years, some 37,000 CA Same Sex Couples are expected to marry | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
'Over the next 3 years, some 37,000 CA same-sex couples are expected to marry' Int'l Gay & Lesbian Travel Association http://t.co/C95YQ5K8tG
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Queen Latifah Marries Gay Couples During Macklemore Performance At Grammys

Queen Latifah Marries Gay Couples During Macklemore Performance At Grammys | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
33 couples were married during the Grammys on television. (RT @fincalcaterra: #business #finance Queen Latifah Marries Gay Couples During Macklemore Performance At Grammys...
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Bitchslapped on Grindr!

Bitchslapped on Grindr! | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The other day I was on Grindr (because I’m super classy) merely perusing the copious amounts of horny men unbearably close to me in a hunt to ease my boredom.
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Big Gay Ice Cream to open first LA shop downtown

Big Gay Ice Cream to open first LA shop downtown | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

"Downtown has such a great feel and it isn't as different from New York as going to Venice or even West Hollywood," Quint says. "If you're going to move to L.A.

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Gene Schaerr's Departure Memo

Gene Schaerr's Departure Memo | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
The gay rights group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has posted an exit memo by a BigLaw attorney who left his firm so he could fight gay marriage full-time in Utah. The HRC leaked the exit memo the week after Utah's ...
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FREE Mini-Lecture – On Didier Eribon’s New Memoir

Didier Eribon is a French thinker whose works are discussed and debated at cafés — an intellectual historian who has often roiled the waters of the academic establishment.
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LGBT health gets 0.5 percent of NIH funding

LGBT health gets 0.5 percent of NIH funding | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Only one-half of 1 percent of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health between 1989 and 2011 concerned the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)...

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Distinc.tt(ly) Delicious: When Technology Tastes Good

Distinc.tt(ly) Delicious: When Technology Tastes Good | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

It is a social/lifestyle network for the LGBT community designed to help members connect and explore relevant places, events, activities and travel packages.

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The Birth of the Queer T-Shirt

The Birth of the Queer T-Shirt | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The early lesbian organization Daughters of Bilitis even offered workshops on make-up and dress for lesbians, a move intended to challenge the social visibility of the butch dyke, very much as the...

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Gay athletes hit Las Vegas for Sin City Shootout

Gay athletes hit Las Vegas for Sin City Shootout | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Thousands of gay and lesbian athletes took over the Tropicana over the weekend, suiting up for action on fields around the Las Vegas Valley in the 7th annual Sin City Shootout tournament. Approximately 6,500 athletes from gay and lesbian community teams across the U.S. competed in 16 different sports.

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Black Gay Dads Attract Love, Hate on Social Media

Black Gay Dads Attract Love, Hate on Social Media | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
This week, the couple posted a photo of themselves in their bathroom helping their daughters get ready for school; they have a son as well. There were many homophobic comments on social media ...
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Increasing LGBT Homeless Population Target of New UIC-led Initiative in Chicago

Increasing LGBT Homeless Population Target of New UIC-led Initiative in Chicago | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
In nationwide efforts to tackle the pervasive problem of homelessness, the vast community of LGBT youth on the streets often flies under the radar. With temperatures dropping to deadly record lows in Chicago and elsewhere ...
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Dating App for LGBT Women Prizes Community Over Hookups

Dating App for LGBT Women Prizes Community Over Hookups | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Ariella Furman had a hard time connecting with the LGBT community when she relocated from New York to Pittsburgh, Pa., several years ago.

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Gay Influence: Klaus Wowereit

Gay Influence: Klaus Wowereit | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Berlin's current mayor, openly gay politician Klaus Wowereit (born 1953), has served as governing mayor of Germany's capital city since 2001. In coming out publicly prior to the 2001 mayoral elections, he coined the now ...

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The Myth of the Fag Hag and Dirty Secrets of the Gay Male Subculture

The Myth of the Fag Hag and Dirty Secrets of the Gay Male Subculture | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

It's a dirty secret of a subculture of the gay male world about women: That they're essentially unwelcome, unless they come to us as a Real Housewife, a pop diva, or an...

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2 Wall Street Moguls Champion Gay Rights - New York Times

2 Wall Street Moguls Champion Gay Rights - New York Times | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

But two of the busiest activist hedge fund managers on Wall Street spent 90 minutes on Thursday morning debating the state of gay, lesbian and transgender rights with an international array of...

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Author spurns anti-gay surge and comes out publicly

Author spurns anti-gay surge and comes out publicly | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The Kenyan author and founder of the influential Nairobi-based literary journal Kwani said he would continue to travel to Nigeria, where gay and lesbian people face arrest...

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Kenyon College Lacrosse Player Holden Richards Comes Out In An Unusual Way

Kenyon College Lacrosse Player Holden Richards Comes Out In An Unusual Way | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
Kenyon College lacrosse player Holden Richards, struggled to come to terms with his sexual orientation throughout High School, a result of his family's Cat

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10 Obvious Things Gay Men Love To Do in 2014

10 Obvious Things Gay Men Love To Do in 2014 | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
10. Star in funny Webisode series and talk about sex and relationships. This means your that gorgeous guy who just can’t get a date no matter how you try until you meet the other gorgeous guy who just couldn’t get a date either!
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Trans Woman Dares Bible-Quoting Anti LGBT Councillor to Stone Her to Death

Trans Woman Dares Bible-Quoting Anti LGBT Councillor to Stone Her to Death | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it
A City Council member of Shreveport, Louisiana has abandoned efforts to remove recently passed legal protections for LGBT people, after public outcry.  During testimony against the plans, a Trans woman dared the Councilman to stone her to death, if...

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Changes at Stonewall: LGBT museum seeks partnership with Smithsonian

Changes at Stonewall: LGBT museum seeks partnership with Smithsonian | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

Behind the changes is the repository's new executive director, David Jobin, who is looking to broaden the museum's audience beyond the lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

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Virginia emerging as key in gay marriage fight

Virginia emerging as key in gay marriage fight | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

The couple, who were married in California in 2008, decided to join a lawsuit challenging Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage.

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3 Gay Republicans Are Trying To Make Election History

3 Gay Republicans Are Trying To Make Election History | PinkieB.com | LGBTQ+ Life | Scoop.it

It didn't matter that Innis, a former business school dean, faced an aggressive Democratic incumbent, GOP colleagues who oppose his right to marry, and history...

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