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XGW Digest: March 3, 2012

March 3rd, 2012 Comments off

-Radio personality Fez Whatley comes out of the closet.

-A Catholic priest treats a lesbian spitefully while officiating at her mother’s funeral.

-A majority of Iowans oppose repealing marriage equality, according to a new poll.

-NOM is foiled in its last attempt to keep its donor list secret.

-A student and faculty group demands that Harvard issue posthumous degrees to seven students expelled in the 1920s for being gay.

-St. Petersburg, Russia, enacts an anti-gay ordinance.

-George Clooney talks to The Advocate about gay rumors and civil rights.

-Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signs marriage equality into law.

-Conservative activist and GOProud board member Andrew Breitbart dies at age 43.

-A Tennessee high school principal resigns after telling gay students they were going to hell.

-The Human Rights Campaign names Chad Griffin, founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, as its new president.

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XGW Digest: February 25, 2012

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-A Republican sheriff and congressional candidate in Arizona is outed.

-Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dinner with a group of gay constituents.

-The Virginia state senate votes to allow private adoption agencies to discriminate against gay parents.

-Baltimore County, MD extends antidiscrimination protections to transgender residents.

-Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie announces that he will not defend the state’s marriage ban.

-California District Court Judge Jeffrey White rules that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

-Authorities in Cameroon arrest ten women suspected of being lesbians.

-Republican former Senator Alan Simpson calls Rick Santorum a homophobe.

-A new survey finds overwhelming support for marriage equality in Ireland.

-The Maryland Senate votes in favor of marriage equality.

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XGW Digest: February 18, 2012

February 18th, 2012 Comments off

-Actor Matt Bomer comes out of the closet.

-The New Jersey Senate votes for marriage equality, but falls short of a veto-proof majority.

-Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signs marriage equality into law.

-Anti-gay groups show their true colors at CPAC.

-Oklahoma voters elect an openly gay state senator.

-A Liberian senator proposes punishing gays with the death penalty.

-The European Parliament condemns Russia’s recent wave of anti-gay bills.

-The US Justice Department announces that it will not defend anti-gay Title 38.

-A conservative radio talk show host is spotted in a gay bar.

-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie vetoes marriage equality…

-…as the Maryland House approves it.

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XGW Digest: February 11, 2012

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-Religious right activists react with predictable hyperbole to the Ninth Circuit Court’s Prop 8 ruling.

-A marriage equality bill is introduced in the Illinois legislature.

-The city legislature of St. Petersburg, Russia advances an anti-gay bill.

-CNN suspends Roland Martin for posting homophobic tweets during the Superbowl.

-Marriage equality is approved by the Washington State House.

-The Australian parliament prepares to debate same-sex marriage.

-Howard Stern defends Ellen DeGeneres.

-Virginia Republicans open up a can of worms in their zeal to deny rights to gay parents.

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XGW Digest: February 4, 2012

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-Another British footballer speaks out against homophobia.

-A new poll finds a plurality of Minnesotans in favor of banning same-sex marriage.

-The Virginia State Senate votes down an anti-discrimination bill.

-Kenya Chief Justice Willy Mutunga voices his support of gay rights.

-The National Organization for Marriage loses yet another court appeal.

-Country singer Drake Jensen comes out of the closet.

-Amazon joins the list of corporations supporting marriage equality.

-The Washington State Senate votes to legalize same-sex marriage.

-The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against releasing the video recordings of Perry vs. Brown.

-Rolling Stone scrutinizes the anti-gay policies of Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district.

-New Hampshire Republicans quietly omit repealing marriage equality from their 2012 agenda.

-Kathy Baldock shares the story of a woman who found freedom from Exodus’ version of “freedom.”

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XGW Digest: January 28, 2012

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-A 15-year-old boy writes a letter to his gay dads.

-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie nominates an openly gay judge to the state Supreme Court.

-Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley introduces a marriage equality bill.

-Glen Retief offers advice for parents with a child being bullied in school.

-Starbucks joins the list of Washington corporations in favor of marriage equality.

-Maine voters will have another opportunity to vote on marriage.

-Congressman Barney Frank announces plans to marry his long-time partner.

-Australia makes the lives of its LGBT citizens a little bit easier.

-The Family Research Council assails a videogame for recognizing the existence of gay gamers.

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XGW Digest: January 21, 2012

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-Support for marriage equality in France reaches 63%.

-Maggie Gallagher endorses Rick Santorum for president.

-A group of parents in Minnesota demand an anti-gay school curriculum.

-Comedian Todd Glass comes out of the closet.

-A gathering of anti-gay activists protests their inclusion on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups.

-Survivor casts a gay Republican for its upcoming season.

-The New Hampshire House defers a vote on its marriage repeal bill until February.

-Cuba to consider civil unions this year.

-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks noncommittally about his state’s marriage equality bill.

-Tennessee lawmakers seek to add a religious exemption to anti-bullying laws.

-More than 80 US mayors have signed the Freedom to Marry statement to date.

 

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XGW Digest: January 14, 2012

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-New Jersey Democrats fast track a marriage equality bill.

-An evangelical mother speaks in support of her gay daughter.

-The National Organization for Marriage spends $140,000 campaigning against Congressman Ron Paul.

-A Washington state Republican joins the push for marriage equality.

-Wendy Gritter and Kathy Baldock reflect on Alan Chambers’ appearance at the GCN conference.

-Jimmy Kimmel shows how gay marriage could destroy the world.

-The Canadian government issues reassurances that it will recognize all marriage licenses after a previous statement that they would only be valid if recognized in the couple’s home state or country.

-Another gay teenager commits suicide.

-A coalition of conservative religious leaders issues a new anti-gay manifesto.

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XGW Digest: January 7, 2012

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-Civil unions begin in Delaware and Hawaii.

-The British government honors gay war hero and inventor Alan Turing with a new stamp.

-The wife of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor voices her support for marriage equality.

-The North Carolina Psychological Association voices its opposition to the state’s proposed marriage amendment.

-A Colorado Republican group pushes for civil unions.

-The Concord Monitor argues against overturning New Hampshire’s marriage equality law.

-Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire announces plans to introduce a marriage equality bill.

-Another researcher’s work is twisted by an anti-gay writer.

-A New Hampshire Republican speaks out in defense of marriage equality.

-Former child actress Kristy McNichol comes out of the closet.

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XGW Digest: December 31, 2011

December 31st, 2011 Comments off

-Buzzfeed reveals the sordid details of what gay people do on Christmas.

-Just Out, Portland’s LGBT newspaper, shuts its doors.

-Congressman Ron Paul’s views on gays come under scrutiny.

-CNNMoney finds that same-sex couples pay up to $6,000 per year more in income taxes than straight couples.

-Several Jamaican political candidates use anti-gay statements to try to rally supporters.

-Barnes & Noble pulls an anti-gay calendar from its online store.

-A Florida appeals court restores parental rights to a lesbian mother.

-Marriage equality comes to Quintana Roo, Mexico.

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