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By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Move over Columbus Day; today is National Coming Out Day. Established in 1988, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights awareness day is being celebrating on college campuses and in communities across the country. This year, the LGBT community and straight supporters -- through Human Rights Campaign support under the National Coming Out Project -- are approaching the national day of civil awareness in light of recent tragic instances of sexuality-related bullying (such as the Tyler Clementi suicide) and other allegedly anti-gay attacks. Despite its name, National ...
Obama's Evasion of Gay Marriage Issue Irks Left
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- Nearly a month after California's Proposition 8 was struck down in federal court, the state of same-sex marriage on a national level has scarcely been dicier. Over at The New Republic, for instance, James Downie has assembled a timeline of President Barack Obama's statements on gay marriage dating back to 1996. What they reveal, says Executive Editor Richard Just -- in a scathing post put up on Monday-- is an "evasive stance on a controversial civil rights issue from a liberal president; an insistence that the issue is primarily local, rather than national, in character; a ...
Gay Marriage's Biggest Supporters: Children of Gay Parents
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyBy now we've all seen (and, in my case, wept over) the images: couples long denied the right to marry swept up in the energy and excitement of a battle (temporarily) won. With the majority of Americans now polling (for the first time!) in favor of gay marriage, today Judge Vaughn Walker indicated gay marriages will once again go forward, starting August 18, in California. The move came in the wake of last week's Proposition 8 decision, in which Judge Walker ruled the state's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. "Proposition 8 ," Walker wrote, "fails to advance any rational basis in ...
Time to Put a Fork in 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThis weekend, in an address to the Human Rights Campaign, President Obama affirmed his campaign promise of overturning the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military, promising, "I will end 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'" One thing, though, was still missing: a date. "Progress may be taking longer than you'd like," the president said, in a nod to those who hoped that he would use Saturday's speech to start setting a timetable. "Do not doubt the destination we are heading." But, without a deadline or even a loose time line, the promises echo those of Bill Clinton, who also vowed to ...
You Say Progress, I Say Apartheid...
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAccording to the Southern Voice, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote Thursday on a transgender-exclusive version of the Employment Non Discrimination Act, or ENDA. This version is opposed by more than 280 state and national gay and transgender advocacy organizations, who have signed a statement demanding Congress to vote it down. The article also discusses a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) forum on the issue in Atlanta yesterday. According to U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), the bill's sponsors lacked the votes to pass a trans-inclusive version, falling about 30 votes short. Speaker ...
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