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FRANCE: Anti-Gay Marriage Protesters Interrupt Finals Match Of French Open

A member of France’s anti-gay marriage group HOMMEN rushed the court waving an ignited smoke torch during the finals match of today’s French Open. CBS News reports: Several protesters, upset by recent legislation in France allowing for same-sex marriages, disrupted the French Open tennis final on Sunday between Rafael Nadal and fellow Spaniard David Ferrer. Two protesters appeared shirtless in …

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Britain’s Got Eggs

During last night’s finale of Britain’s Got Talent a member of the onstage orchestra left her seat to hurl eggs at Simon Cowell. Natalie Holt, 30, stormed the stage as opera singers Richard and Adam Johnson were approaching the climax of their performance of To Dream The Impossible Dream and began pelting the music mogul. Speaking to the Telegraph she …

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Born In A Trunk In Pocatello

The town of Pocatello, Idaho has approved a bill that protects LGBT residents from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. A similar bill had deadlocked the city council 3-3 in April. Voting for the ordinance that contains only three modifications compared to one that failed in April were Roger Bray, Gary Moore, Steve Brown and Eva Nye. Those opposed …

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Esurance: $100K For LGBT Charities

Yesterday Esurance announced a $100,000 giveaway to “three worthy charities” which will get a percentage of the donation based on the votes made on the company’s Facebook page.  Right on cue, Bryan Fischer tweeted out a call for a boycott. Expect Esurance’s stock value to triple shortly, a la Home Depot.

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Jason Collins Marches In Boston Pride

Recently out NBA player Jason Collins marched in Boston’s pride parade yesterday.  Via Sports Illustrated: Delivering on a promise he made in an essay for Sports Illustrated in which he revealed that he was gay, Wizards free-agent center Jason Collins marched in Boston’s annual pride parade on Saturday. Wearing a black Nike shirt with rainbow lettering that read “#BETRUE”, Collins …

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Cory Booker Enters Senate Race

Surprising no one, yesterday Newark Mayor Cory Booker formally entered the special election to replace late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. The 44-year-old Democrat made his candidacy official at a news conference Saturday in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city. He was joined by former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, a former pro basketball player who for 18 years held the seat Booker is …

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At Brooklyn Pride 2013

JMG reader Phillip Davis writes: My first NYC Gay Parade was the 10 year anniversary of Stonewall. Today, for the first time in my 35 years in NY, I went to the Brooklyn Pride Parade. It reminded me of the earlier NYC events, more intimate and local and less commercial. It was very much a community event, but the Brooklyn …

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Watching The Defectives

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the ninth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. This year it appears a week early because of a widely circulated …

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