gay rights

Gay rights covers many topics, including marriage, benefits, tolerance, and religion. The issues surrounding gay rights invokes strong viewpoints from people on all sides of the debate. Some of the concerns deal with the line between "hate speech," "hate crimes, " and "freedom of speech."

Politicians on many sides of the issue continue to debate whether or not these matters should be settled at the national level, or if they should be handled by the individual states who continue to run their own ballot measures, initiate legislation, and hash out these arguments in court. Citizens on all sides of the debate feel as though they are fighting for the survival of an ideal society and the future of a nation.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “gay rights”

• Where has all the online activism post 26/11 disappeared?

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Azera RahmanNew Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) When the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks happened last year, the tremors also shook the virtual world. Filled with rage and a passion to set things right, people, especially youngsters, used the web world to create discussion forums and pledged not to let the carnage be forgotten. A ...
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• I honeslty do not what to do about Albert the German Shepherd. Now he is commenting on Australian Gay Marriage!

  
  EDDI HASKELL'S SECOND LIFE — Authority: 440
  Ok.   Granted, Albert our VKC Kennet German Shepherd is the most famous dog in Second Life, has appeared on many You Tube movies, blogs, and has his own Sarah Palin blog -- unlike me, he is a social conservative. But now he is writing comments on Joes blog, the number 1 gay political blog in the United States ...
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• When Would Be A Good Time, Mr. Walker?

  
  Cognitive Dissidence — Authority: 553
  The impeccable Emily Mills take on Scott Walker being opposed to equality for all Milwaukee County citizens: Open Memo to Milwaukee County Executive / Candidate for Governor Scott Walker: You recently vetoed a measure that would have granted same-sex domestic partner benefits to county employees, ...
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• The Annual Misuse of Hate Crime Statistics

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 685
  Every year around this time, the FBI publishes its statutorily-mandated  annual report on hate crime statistics .  Like clockwork, every year that report gets misused no matter what the FBI does to discourage that misuse (previous examples of misuse here ).  This year is no exception, as several prominent liberal ...
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• Give Thanks: LGBT Communications

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  It’s the Monday before a brief Thanksgiving break. Your dreams are taking you to a place of turkey, pumpkin pie and shopping heaven. It’s lovely there isn’t it? You’re reminded of family gatherings and that indescribable warmth of being home. For some of us in the LGBT community, this holiday season brings ...
  14 hours ago

• Hate Crimes Against Gays Rise In LA County

  
  The Mad Professah Lectures — Authority: 482
  111: Hate crimes based on sexual orientation in 2007 134: Hate crimes based on sexual orientation in 2008 105: Hate crimes based on religion in 2007 120: Hate crimes based on religion in 2008 763: Overall hate crimes in 2007 729: Overall hate crimes in 2008 The Los Angeles Daily News is ...
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• Columbia: Being a Gay Parent in Columbia

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In a great number of ways, my last two years of high school in Hong Kong were quite different from my years of schooling in Colombia. For one, my Hong Kong school was much more liberal, and so were my fellow students. I remember that one day our teachers had organized a discussion on gay marriage and gay rights, for ...
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• Marriage should move with the times | Adrian Tippetts

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  A straight couples application for a civil partnership highlights the discriminatory laws that segregate couples by their sexuality Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, from Holloway, London, hope to make history tomorrow morning by becoming the first straight couple to apply for a civil partnership in Britain . Their ...
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• Great Moments in Entertainment

  
  HolyCoast.com — Authority: 580
  The cultural slide continues: Openly-gay performer Adam Lambert is defending his man-on-man kiss at the American Music Awards, saying female performers have been pushing the limits for years. The American Idol runner-up kissed a band member while performing his new single, "For Your Entertainment." The ...
  18 hours ago

• VIDEO: TATCHELL URGES LGBT COMMUNITY TO STAND WITH MUSLIMS RESISTING SHARIA LAW

  
  Gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV Gay TV, gay London videos and news, gay interviews, gay clubbing, gay health, gay comment and gay views on HOMOVISION.TV — Authority: 137
  At Saturday’s protest against Sharia Law, Peter Tatchell urged members of the UK gay community to stand shoulder to shoulder with Muslim people around the world who are resisting Sharia law.Talking to HOMOVISION, he said: “In so many countries, like Uganda, Pakistan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran, LGBT people are ...
  19 hours ago

• Natural Born Leaders

  
  Best Gay Blogs — Authority: 141
  Meet Will Phillips, the 10-year-old from Louisiana who refuses to recite “The Pledge of Allegiance” Until there truly is “liberty and justice for all”. Now here is a natural born leader. Love this kid. Love is parents, and love his dedication to equality. Watch the video:
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• Texas Constitution Bans All Marriages!!!

  
  Jacky Jasper's Diary of a Hollywood Street King — Authority: 147
  Tweet This Story! One Houston lawyer says a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment born to ban gay marriages, voids legal status of all marriages in Texas. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democratic candidate for state attorney general, says attorney general, Republican Greg Abbott is to blame for giving the ...
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• Christian is the New Black

  
  unrepentant old hippie — Authority: 479
  If you haven’t had your fill of Wild-Eyed Shitcrazy Bonkers for the week, at Wingnut Daily the deranged Ken Hutcherson begins an unhinged anti-gay screed by hinting at some upcoming craze-a-liciousness: It has been said loudly and proudly that gay marriage is a civil -rights issue. If that’s the case, ...
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• Chaz Bono Explains What It Means to Be Transgender

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 766
  Chaz Bono, whose mother and father Cher and Sonny Bono made sixties television fun for so many of us, explains to Chris Cuomo on Good Morning America the transition from being Chastity Bono. This is as good an explanation I have ever seen in the mass media of the process, thinking, and feelings of this extraordinary ...
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• Hundreds Gather In Liverpool Marching Against Homophobia, Nicholas Hoult, Anderson Cooper, Neil Patrick Harris

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 140
  Hundreds gathered Sunday in Liverpool, England, to march against homophobia, the city the site of recent gay bashing including one that left 22 year old police officer James Parkes in critical care for days in hospital and one that took the life of 18 year old Michael Causer. Causer was killed in the summer of 2008, ...
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• Corvino: The slippery slope of religious exemptions

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  This morning, I didn’t feel like getting out of bed. I wasn’t sick; just tired. But I had a full workday scheduled. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared unto me and said, “Behold, today is a sacred day, and you must not work.” Sweet! Okay, maybe I was dreaming. But as the 17th-century philosopher Thomas ...
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• so, CNN doesnt completely suck. neither does Arkansas, apparently

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 134
  this. is. awesome. missed it when first aired because I stopped watching CNN a while back. found via Shakespeare sister blog [partial transcript] entire at link Will Phillips: Well, I looked at the end [of the Pledge] and it said "with ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Gay Marriage Watch: Gay Marriage Events List 11/22/09

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 446
  Gay Marriage Watch Events List: We now publish a weekly recap of all the upcoming gay marriage events we can find. Know about something thats not on this list? Email us the information at info@purpleunions.com . Today, we have information on the candlelight vigils going on nationwide to honor the life of slain ...
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• NEW YEARS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?

  
  Warren and Derrick — Authority: 136
  January 1, 2010 is the first day same-sex marriages will be performed in New Hampshire and its time to celebrate! Activists in NH have organized three days of festivities around a mass-ceremony that will happen on Jan. 1 and have invited the whole country to join them!  Couples from all over the country are ...
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• I heart Sir Ian

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 134
  amen. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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