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From their website: Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement regarding the charges filed in the Mark Carson murder case in New York City: “We denounce any and all acts of unprovoked violence. No American should be the target of violence – period. We hope and trust that justice will be served in that the perpetrator of …

ABC News reports: Police say Gornell Roman was charged Wednesday with assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes. Roman is accused of yelling an anti-gay remark and attacking a drinking companion in the East Village on Monday. Roman and the victim, Dan Contarino, lived at a nearby homeless shelter. The attack was one of two bias reports authorities announced …

His candidacy is finally official. “Look, I made some big mistakes. And I know I let a lot of people down. But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I hope I get a second chance to work for you.”

Video by Sean Chapin. “What came to be called ‘The Hope Speech’ was initially conceived as a stump address, wherein Milk attempted to embolden a strong GLBTQ nationalism within the Castro, while also appealing for an alliance with other disenfranchised groups and straight folks,” wrote Jason Edward Black and Charles E. Morris III in their anthology An Archive of Hope: …

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake will officiate at a mass gay wedding ceremony during her city’s gay pride event. The GLBT Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland is hosting the annual parade and block party in Mount Vernon and festival at Druid Hill Park — the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender gathering in the state — on June …

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“President Obama is finally admitting that sexual assault is a serious problem in the military, but what he hasn’t conceded is that his policy on homosexuality helped create it. According to a new Pentagon survey, most of the victims were not female (12,000 incidents), but male (14,000), highlighting a growing trend of same-sex assault in our ranks. How could this …

My eyes are still aching from the rolling when I saw this live yesterday. Somehow the interview subject handled him graciously.

We haven’t heard much from anti-gay crackpot Elaine Donnelly since the repeal of DADT, but today she appears on World Net Daily to gleefully join in on wingnut claims that gay rapists are running rampant in the military. Among the assaults formally reported, 88 percent of reports came from women and 12 percent from men. The numbers are getting dramatically …