lgbt

LGBT is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. The LGBT community is a diverse community of people embracing a variety of sexual identities that are alternatives to heterosexuality.

As a movement, the LGBT community encourages the rights and equality of all people despite their sexuality or sexual preferences. LGBT activists have fought for the right to marriage, which has been a main point of contention among many within the heterosexual community.

Like any community of activists, LGBT members encourage a renewed sense of tolerance and inclusion, with the hopes of gaining the same rights that heterosexuals are afforded.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “lgbt”

• in Politics
  Mitt Romney: The Anti-Cupid?
  An Australian's viewpoint on Romney's intent to prevent same-sex marriages.
  by kimmybabe74 / on Nov 22, 2012
• in Music
  A Driven Voice - Interview With Singer/Songwriter Brandon Anderson
  Jason Shaw interviews extraordinary singer/songwriter Brandon Anderson
  by jasonshaw99 / on Oct 7, 2012
• in Business
  It's Not About The Chicken - The Chick-fil-A Controversy!
  The row between the fast food chain and human rights activists escalates.
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lgbt”

 

• STUDY: Banning Same-Sex Marriage Psychologically Harms Gay Community

  
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  Research has previously demonstrated that ballot initiatives to ban same-sex marriage create psychological stress for the gay community, and new analysis from a massive National Institutes of Health study has confirmed the same effect. Around 2004, NIH began conducting interviews for a massive mental health survey, ...
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• Wheres the Conservative Outrage Over NYCs Anti-Gay Violence?

  
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  By  Tim Peacock These are Jesus people, after all, right? Via Memeographs this morning: Per Memeographs: NYCs gay community and allies will march tonight to protest a rash of hate crimes directed at the LGBT community. Much progress has been made, but America, even New York City, is ...
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• Queer Talk: FL Teen Kaitlyn Hunt Arrested for Lesbian Relationship

  
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  Kaitlyn Hunt, a Florida high school senior, has been expelled, and arrested, as Think Progress reports, charged with a felony for a lesbian relationship. It’s one of several recent reports that make clear that, in spite of all the progress, full equality under the law remains a goal, not a reality, for lesbian, ...
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• Recent news round-up

  
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  Good NewsArchie Comics gay kiss a poke at real controversyBad NewsTurkey cancels Eurovision Song Contest over lesbian kissAlgerian editor accuses government of censorshipSlow Response by Georgians to Mob Attack on Gay RallyMeasles surges in UK years after vaccine scare
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• Immigration Asylum And Detention Amendments Could Protect LGBT Immigrants

  
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  Sharita Gruberg is a Policy Analyst for the LGBT Immigration Project at the Center for American Progress. Last week , the bipartisan immigration reform bill survived its second week of Senate Judiciary Committee markups largely intact and faithful to the “Gang of 8’s” core principals , which would provide ...
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• Killer In Anti-Gay Hate Crime Laughed As He Told Cops: ‘I Shot Him In The Face’

  
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  The gunman who shot and killed a 32-year old gay man Friday night in New York City’s Greenwich Village reportedly laughed as he confessed to the police, “I shot him in the face.” Elliot Morales , 33, was caught within minutes by the NYPD as he fled the scene, after taking a silver .38 out of his pants and ...
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• TODAY: West Village Protest Rally And March In Honor Of Mark Carson

  
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  From the New York City LGBT Community Center: On Monday evening we will gather on the steps of the Center, along with the Anti-Violence Project, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, community members, other elected officials, and LGBT community leaders and allies, and march to the site of Fridays shooting ...
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• A Wave of LGBT Hate Crimes Strike New York City

  
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  New York City is experiencing a rash of violent crimes against members of the LGBT community. Five incidents have occurred in the last two weeks as the Big Apple preps for the 2013 Gay Pride. The shooting death of Mark Carson, 32, in Greenwich Village is the latest incident highlighting the issue of violence ...
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• Falling in love with another girl lands Florida teen in criminal jeopardy

  
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  Florida teen Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, is seeing her young life turned upside down and her future jeopardized simply because she fell in love . Unfortunately for her, she fell in love with a younger girl who has vindictive bigots for parents. Hunt was a highly respected student at Florida’s Sebastian River High School ...
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• Obama To Morehouse Grads: ‘Be The Best Husband To Your Wife, Or Your Boyfriend, Or Your Partner’

  
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  President Obama delivered the commencement speech this weekend at Morehouse College, an historically black all-male liberal arts school in Georgia. His remarks were remarkably gay-inclusive, challenging the graduates to be the best husband they can be even if their partner isn’t female, and to recognize the kind ...
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• Comment: Say no to same-sex bill marriage amendments, Mr Cameron

  
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  The amendments to the same-sex marriage bill are demeaning to LGBT people. Resist them and make the opponents to equality explain their true agenda, writes Adrian Tippetts for PinkNews.co.uk. David Cameron and the Coalition government went out of their way to appease the anti-marriage lobby and traditionalist MPs. ...
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• The 41 List Of TBLGQ Latino/a People Has Girls Like Us On It!

  
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  In 1901 a clandestine Mexico City party was raided and 41 people were arrested .   Half of those 41 people were dressed as women (and probably girl like us)   They were publically paraded by the police and sent off to slave labor camps simply for being gay, trans and bisexual.   Those that survive the ordeal had ...
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• Open Thread–5/20/2013

  
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  Yesterday, I intended to nap during the day, but I could not.  They were doing maintenance on the building all afternoon and evening, causing the power to go out over and over again.  Each time it does, it sets off an alarm on my O2 system that wakes me up, so I could not sleep [...]
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• Czech President Milos Zeman in gay-rights dispute

  
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  ASSOCIATED PRESS PRAGUE -- Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nations top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights activist. Zeman has refused to fully explain his stance, saying he doesnt want ...
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• Virginia Republicans Nominate Rabidly Anti-LGBT Ticket

  
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  At its nominating convention Saturday, the Republican Party of Virginia selected three candidates for the November 2013 statewide elections. Their selections — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II for governor, Bishop E.W. Jackson for lieutenant governor, and State Senator Mark Obenshain for attorney general — ...
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• Czech President Milos Zeman criticised for homophobic snub of gay academic

  
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  The president of the Czech Republic has been criticised over claims he refused to honour an academic with a title because the man in question is also a gay rights activist. Czech President Milos Zeman has refused to fully explain his stance, saying he doesn’t want to “humiliate” the candidate, Martin Putna, ...
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• France Officially Enacts Marriage Equality!

  
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  France officially enacted marriage equality this weekend when Socialist President Francois Hollande  signed the measure passed by the French legislature last month into law on Saturday, one day after the nations highest court ruled that the measure was indeed constitutional. France became the 14th country in the ...
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• Gays Are ‘Very Sick People Psychologically, Mentally And Emotionally’ Says GOP Lt. Gov. Nominee

  
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  Delegates from the Republican Party of Virginia officially nominated an anti-gay extremist, Tea Party candidate E.W. Jackson, as their Lt. Governor nominee after four ballot votes that took ten hours Saturday night. Jackson, a Christian minister, has a long, documented record of attacking gay people, ...
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• Florida Teen Faces Felony Charges Over Same-Sex Relationship

  
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  Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year-old high school senior from Indian River County, Florida, is facing felony charges for engaging in a sexual relationship with another girl at her school . Read more...        
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• "Mr. Carson’s killing was the first in the West Village precinct this year. In all of 2012, one..."

  
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  “Mr. Carson’s killing was the first in the West Village precinct this year. In all of 2012,...
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