“Given the strength of the marriage movement, though, surely the major gay rights organizations could reappropriate just 10 percent of their budgets to fighting HIV and AIDS. “Contrary to the prevailing skepticism, that battle is not a lost cause. Treating people with antivirals both keeps them alive and prevents them from infecting others. Massachusetts saw its HIV infection rates drop …
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Via press release from Protect Marriage: Today our Prop 8 Legal Defense Team filed an emergency petition to U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Ninth Circuit’s premature move requiring same-sex “marriage” licenses in California. The petition, prepared overnight by our good friends at Alliance Defending Freedom, was submitted Saturday to Justice Anthony Kennedy, the associate justice who decides such motions …
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In response the ongoing spree of anti-gay hate crimes, the NYPD has doubled the usual number of officers for tomorrow’s gay pride parade. The surge of officers will include twice the usual amount of plainclothes cops assigned to the area, where several gay people have been attacked since the beginning of the year, police said. “There’s been concern, rightfully so, …
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Dozens were arrested today at a gay pride demonstration in St. Petersburg, Russia where anti-gay protesters assaulted and pelted the attendees with eggs. Media reports estimated that several dozens of LGBT activists came to the Field of Mars (Marsovo Pole) in the city’s downtown to rally for gay people’s rights in Russia. The event was attended by some 200 of …
Read More »Lady Gaga made an unannounced appearance at last night’s NYC Pride rally at Pier 26 in Tribeca. Her full speech is here.
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“In a case that has been marked by judicial arrogance and, frankly, lawlessness since the beginning, three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday lifted their stay which had been in effect since a trial judge had ruled against Proposition 8. Same-sex couples began being ‘married’ in California when state officials illegitimately declared Proposition 8 was no …
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