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Constance McMillen Named Grand Marshal Of NYC 2010 Gay Pride Parade

Finally, I can spill what I’ve known for ten days. Mississippi high school senior Constance McMillen has been named a grand marshal of NYC’s gay pride parade. Constance McMillen, a Mississippi high school honors student who fought back when her school told her she couldn’t take her girlfriend to the prom, has been announced as one of the Grand Marshals …

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National Top 40 Radio Teen Advice Host Partners With “Ex-Gay” Groups

Tom Lang of Know Thy Neighbor alerts us that nationally syndicated radio host Dawson McCallister is directing teens that question their sexually to contact “ex-gay” organizations like Exodus International. McCallister’s teen advice program is heard on Top 40 stations in 165 markets. Lang called the show and posed as a 16 year old boy to one of McCallister’s counselors: Pretending …

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Bill O’Reilly: I Don’t Report On Race Because People Will Call Me Racist

Bill O’Reilly says that he and “other white journalists” shy away from commenting on black issues because no matter what they say, their words are twisted to make them look racist. O’Reilly references his infamous accounting at having eaten at the legendary Sylvia’s in Harlem, after which he marveled that folks were actually well-dressed and well-behaved. He said at the …

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Turning Moths Gay To Save Crops

The larvae of codling moths destroy millions of dollars of fruit crops every year. Scientists have begun treating their larvae with female pheromones, “turning the male moths gay” and preventing reproduction. A Sainsburys spokesman told the Daily Express: “Codling moths have the ability to devastate entire crops if left uncontrolled. The new technique means males are attracted to males, disrupting …

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Italian Bishop: It’s The Jews’ Fault

Italian Bishop Giacomo Babini continues the Catholic Church’s pedophilia blame game: The latest attempt to deflect culpability and accountability and protect Pope Benedict XVI is drenched in vile anti-semitism and represents a new low — even for the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Giacomo Babini, an emeritus bishop of Grosseto, Italy, believes recent criticism of Pope Benedict XVI’s failure to deal with …

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Barney Frank On DADT & ENDA: Gays Need To Lobby Like The NRA

In an interview with Karen Ocamb, yesterday Rep. Barney Frank dismissed activism devices like marches and petitions, saying that if the LGBT community wants progress on DADT and ENDA, they need to lobby like the NRA – by calling their representatives personally and often. “I’ve been begging people for years to lobby their senators. And I have very little sympathy …

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On The End Of St. Vincent’s

As I mentioned earlier this month, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan’s West Village is set to close in bankruptcy very shortly. New York Magazine’s David France reflects on St. Vincent’s role in the early years of the AIDS pandemic. The obituary for St. Vincent’s, when it is finally written, will recall that the hospital’s greatest moment—and its darkest—came in the …

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