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• Benefits for same-sex partners are expanding

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 132
  By Ashley SurdinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, November 27, 2009 LOS ANGELES — With public attention focused largely on battles over whether gay couples should be able to marry, a less-noticed movement to grant health and other benefits to same-sex partners is gaining significant ground across the country in ...
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• …Because What We Really Need is a Dying Magazine Acting as Surrogate for the Exclusionist Fantasies of the Permanent-Activist Class of Employed Gay Elites

  
  ENDAblog — Authority: 141
  What’s left of The Advocate is at it again: Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill? In the comments section to that ‘poll’, Jill Weiss asks some salient questions: Why is the Advocate suggesting that such a thing is even ...
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• 16 Days of Activism for the Elimination of Violence Against women – 25 November to 10 December

  
  womensphere — Authority: 428
  25 Nov International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 01 Dec World AIDS Day 06 Dec Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre 10 Dec International Human Rights Day International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 25th November November 25 was declared International Day Against ...
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• Wrapping Up National Adoption Month

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  “Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Family” is a series of conversations and blog posts celebrating National Adoption Month . This final post in the series comes from Ellen Kahn, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Family Project. It has been very exciting and rewarding for HRC’s Family ...
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• UPDATE on Houston Gay Teen Bashing: Hate Crime Charges and Disciplinary Action

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 612
  There are new developments in the case of the 16-year-old black gay Houston high school student who was viciously attacked by a group of 8 students, one of whom wielded a metal pipe. Jayron Martin learned the boys were planning...
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• Dialing for Equality Phonebanks at HRC HQ

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Every Tuesday and Thursday night, one can once again find the 4th floor of Human Rights Campaign’s Headquarters lit up like a beacon of equality.  Last week, phonebankers came together to socialize, dial for equality and do their part in a grassroots effort to make sure we get ENDA passed in the House.  From New ...
  5 days ago

• AfterElton Briefs: "A Single Man" Gets Re-Gayed, GLBT Media Lives On, David Sedaris, and more.

  
  AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters — Authority: 658
  Does the new poster, right, make it look less like Colin Firth and Julianne Moore are a couple? Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a...
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• HRCs Buyers Guide Recommends You Shop at the Companies Who Fund HRC

  
  Queerty — Authority: 727
  Just in time for Christmas, the Human Rights Campaign is out with the 2010 Buyers Guide . You know, the little pamphlet (PDF?) that lets you choose queer-friendly companies to spend your cash with, while avoiding others that, based on HRCs criteria, are profiting on inequality. Not that much has changed from last ...
  6 days ago

• Buying for Equality 2010

  
  Queers United — Authority: 477
  The Human Rights Campaign has released their annual Buying for Equality guide that scores businesses and products based on their commitment to LGBT equality. The LGBT community is estimated to have $712 billion in buying power this year, according to research by Witeck-Combs Communications and MarketResearch.com. ...
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• HRC Buyer’s Guide Allows Consumers to “Support Those that Support Us”

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Just in time to kick-off of the holiday shopping season, HRC is releasing our annual buyers guide that rates hundreds of popular American brands on their businesses’ treatment of LGBT employees. “ Buying for Equality 2010 ” divides businesses and their consumer products into red, yellow and green categories ...
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• Recap: Clifford Stanley Undersecretary DoD Hearings

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 612
  On Thursday, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a confirmation hearing for Clifford Stanley, the retired Marine general who has been nominated as the Department of Defenses Undersecretary of Personnel and Readiness. That is the position that oversees the "Don’t...
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• HRC Statement on Brutal Slaying of Gay Teen in Puerto Rico

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  The following release ( también en español ) was sent to media yesterday regarding the recent murder of a gay teenager in Puerto Rico: Human Rights Campaign Condemns Brutal Slaying of Gay Teen in Puerto Rico “Prejudice and hate are the true motivations,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese.   WASHINGTON – ...
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• Recap of Clifford Stanley’s DOD Undersecretary Confirmation Hearing

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This post is from Jarrod Chlapowski, a U.S. Army veteran who recently joined the Human Rights Campaign to consult on ending the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. Having been trained as a Korean linguist and cryptologic voice interceptor, he served in Korea, supporting the 3rd Military Intelligence ...
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• Reminder: Nationwide Adoption Chat today at 3pm Eastern

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  To invite participation in National Adoption Month, TODAY (Thursday the 19th) at 3 p.m. eastern, the Human Rights Campaign will host a national web chat on LGBT adoption and the issues surrounding it.Prior to the discussion, we’ll accept questions that will be answered live in our chat room at www.hrc.org/chat. ...
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• What Happens if Connecticut Ever Rectifies its Gay-Only Rights Statute? Do They Have to Give the Award Back?

  
  ENDAblog — Authority: 141
  Doubtlessly, the overpaid, underworked, privileged elite who draw paychecks from a certain disreputable organization located on Rhode Island Avenue in D.C. will wonder why trans people will consider this to be yet another slap in the face: [M]embers of the Connecticut legislature were honored on Nov. 14 at the ...
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• Barney Frank Covers His Ample Ass On DADT Repeal Timeline

  
  Back2Stonewall.com — Authority: 140
  "I don’t know whether it’s some desire on the part of some in the community to claim that they caused things to happen that were going to happen anyways so they can get credit for it." Thats the latest community activist/blogger "bash statement" from Rep. Barney Frank to reporter Kerry Eleveld of The Advocate.
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• Did Our Threats Really Convince Democrats to Announce Their DADT Repeal Timeline?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 727
  "I don’t know whether it’s some desire on the part of some in the community to claim that they caused things to happen that were going to happen anyways so they can get credit for it." Thats Rep. Barney Frank to reporter Kerry Eleveld, insisting all along that Democratic leadership always planned on repealing ...
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• Ala. legislator seeks to block same-sex benefits

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 532
  Gadsden Times : "Rep. DuWayne Bridges, R-Valley, said he has prepared a bill for the legislative session beginning in January. The bill would prohibit public universities from receiving state funds if they offer benefits to same-sex partners."
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• Thursday: National Adoption Web Chat

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  On Thursday, November 19 at 3pm eastern, HRC is hosting a national web chat on LGBT adoption. The session is part of HRC’s celebration of National Adoption Month. Prior to the discussion, HRC will accept questions that will be answered live in our chat room at www.hrc.org/chat. Questions may be submitted in advance ...
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• Withers: Ten random thoughts

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  1. Dr. Bert Chapman writes nothing worth a darn; however, he doesn’t need to lose his gig at Purdue University. 2. I’ve taken the Human Rights Campaign to task many a time, but this morning a lift of the coffee cup for this website focusing on students at predominately black colleges and universities. 3. ...
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