When the women opened their stand at the market nearly two years ago they proudly displayed an equality symbol in the stand's sign.
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Half of Americans support a law banning job discrimination against gays and lesbians, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. But the poll found that even more Americans falsely believe it's already illegal nationally to fire somebody for being gay. Via Kelly Riker 
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Next winter, the Winter Olympic Games are set to take place in Sochi, Russia. However, recent legislation seen as an attack on the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community has sparked controversy, with many arguing for a worldwide boycott of the Games in protest. Now a series of illustrators have gathered together to support gay rights in Russia by creating a collection of inspirational artworks. Via Thomas Faltin
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We're representing an #IL gay couple who was forced to exit a taxi after they exchanged a kiss #discrimination #LGBT http://t.co/O6LSozoQsw
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As he grew up in Islamabad, reached puberty and realized he was gay, he suffered even more. “Being a gay in a society like Pakistan is not easy,” Khan says.
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“Because we (the gay community) are not visible, there is that mindset that we are not out there,” says Michael Marks, a founding member of the Fraser Valley Pride Society (FVPS).
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Three hundred miles southeast of San Francisco, there’s a different kind of Gay Pride Parade taking place. Far from the wild party atmosphere of San Francisco, this parade celebrates LGBTQ communities in a manner that reflects the town of Bakersfield itself: low-key, family-friendly and conservative.
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Cue the innuendo, the salacious follow-ups and the specter of mainstream media outlets picking up the item with a pair of tweezers.
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Growing up as a mixed-race kid in Chicago and in his father's native Nigeria, where he really stood out, Brendon Ayanbadejo became attuned to issues of identity from a very young age. By his midteens, while living with his family in a dorm for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at the University of California, Santa Cruz — his step-father was the dorm's headmaster — he thought no differently about LGBT people than he did straight people.
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Many credit a Hawaii case that started in 1990 with prompting action in courts, statehouses and Congress, leading to the federal Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 that was eventually struck...
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As the final notes of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” died in the Spokane Arena on Wednesday night, a high school senior pulled her girlfriend onto the stage. “I knew I liked girls since I was the age of 4, but you were the first girl I ever fell in love with,” Ephrata High School senior McKyna Jacobson told Chelsie Price before asking her to Saturday’s homecoming dance. The two were the first openly gay couple ever to attend the dance.
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Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit today on behalf of Steven White and Matthew McCrea, a gay couple who were unlawfully refused service and forced to exit a Chicago cab after they exchanged a kiss.
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In conjunction with the celebration of October as LGBT History Month, The Huffington Post will be providing you with "Know Your LGBT History" updates!
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Before falling in love with wife Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi struggled with revealing she was gay.
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Critics took to Twitter and Hallmark's Facebook page, accusing the company of making a political statement by using the word "fun" to replace "gay." Some Facebook...
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Even as public perception shifts and marriage equality gains headway, LGBT parents, who are raising an estimated 6 million children in the U.S., face discriminatory parental and adoption rights. Many trans parents especially have to choose between retaining custody of their children and coming out.
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(Warren Rojas/CQ Roll Call) The much more vocal (and typically vitriolic) tea party might be better at grabbing headlines, but Log Cabin Republicans — (Log Cabin holds out hope for GOP http://t.co/HDksYLfPZZ)...
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ENDA will soon get a full vote in the Senate — and possibly its first passage there ever — but it still needs two more votes before the employment protections for the LGBT community can be brought to the floor.
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Adrian Stockwell and Ezra Cherevin both battle the fallout from their broken families. Yet each one’s strategy is as different as each one’s past. Adrian’s childhood was left void by apathy, Ezra’s upended by violence. The written word soon becomes their therapy, their escape. This shared passion for literature is the vehicle that brings them together.
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Hawaii's battle over gay marriage brought state lawmakers back to work Monday after the governor called a special session that could make the islands a wedding destination for more couples.
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Marriages around the region show that the desire to wed is not just a part of the Western LGBT rights struggle.
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Their reasons are many and often personal. For some, marriage is an archaic institution. Others fear experiencing the pain of divorce.
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Tell me a little bit about your childhood and upbringing.
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There's also Jennifer Saunders, Dame Edna, Boy George, Alaska Thunderfuck 5000, Mark Gatiss, Celine Dion, Kate O'Mara, Charlie Hunnam, Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, Hollyoaks' PJ Brennan discusses his 'gay ...
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