…from the Sun-Sentinel:
At school, his mother said, they teased him: “Gay! Faggot!”Around the neighborhood, a friend recalled, some mistook him for a young woman and catcalled — “Hey lil’ momma!” — and he ran, knowing what would happen when they came closer and realized he was a boy.Simmie Williams Jr., 17, lived a short life […]

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Businessman and philanthropist Mitchell Gold: “I do not want one more gay teenager to live through what I lived through.”
By JOHN WRIGHT/ Dallas Voice
Mitchell Gold says he has a passion for making the world more comfortable. But Gold, chairman and co-founder of luxury furniture manufacturer Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, isn’t just talking about the […]

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It’s become another rite of spring — the annual debate in the legislature about same-sex marriage.
Since Connecticut legalized civil unions in 2005, neither side of the controversial subject has been completely satisfied.
Gay and lesbian advocates, led by Love Makes A Family, have argued that civil unions are inadequate and do not provide enough rights or […]

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The pleading of advocates and law police officers echoed off the nearly empty walls of the State Capitol’s North Gallery on Good Friday as the Anti-Defamation League gathered its allies to stand Shiva for Georgia hate crimes legislation.
“We are here today to say two things,” ADL Southeast Regional Director Bill Nigut said. “We are terribly […]

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…from news-press.com:

Officials from the American Civil Liberties Union, at a meeting Saturday at Lakes Regional Library in south Fort Myers, urged Southwest Florida residents to spread the word of opposition to a constitutional amendment that will appear on November’s ballot.
The amendment would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ACLU officials […]

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By Brent Childers, Executive Director
Lou Dobbs on Friday stated it made him sick to hear Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s so-called hateful words against America coming from a pulpit. 
What’s truly sickening is to see the most blatant attempt yet to interject racial division into the presidential campaign being spoon-fed to Americans under the guise of religion.
That truly […]

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“If you think gay teens like Lawrence King are safe in our schools,” says Grey’s Anatomy’s T. R. Knight, “you’re wrong.”
In partnership with GLSEN, LGBT-oriented television network Logo, in response to the recent murder of openly gay junior high student Lawrence King, is airing a public service announcement urging awareness and vigilance against homophobia, transphobia […]

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If you’re like me, you’ve seen and heard enough reports of school shootings through the media to last several lifetimes. 
I urge you to read this one, though, because unlike previous cases of many random victims ending in the shooter’s suicide, this one is different.
It’s different because only a single shot was fired, and no suicide followed.  Now there are […]

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Imagine your loving partner of over 20 years was tragically lost in an airplane crash. How would you react when your claim for survivor’s benefits was denied only because of the state in which you lived?
Doesn’t that seem unfair?  
Shouldn’t laws grant the same rights to all of today’s families?
Nancy Polikoff’s article in the LA Times describes […]

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Elke Kennedy is the mother of the late Sean Kennedy, who was fatally attacked in May, 2007. More information is available at Sean’s Last Wish.

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