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GLAAD thanks the many tireless advocates working to bring change to the #BoyScouts
Friday, May 24, 2013
3:01pm

After Thursday's historic vote, GLAAD would like to thank these incredible and tireless advocates for their working in helping to the BSA's anti-gay policies

08/12/09
Georgia Columnist Equates Gay Men to Public Sex, Suggests They Should be ‘Chased Off’ By Dogs | 08/12/09

08/05/09
Minnesota Based Online GLBTQ High School to Start Classes in January | 08/05/09

07/31/09
Salt Lake City Prosecutor Drops Charges Against Gay Couple | 07/31/09

As we mentioned here on July 15th, a gay cou

07/22/09
Anti-Gay Infomercial May Be Coming to Your Local TV Station | 07/22/09

07/20/09
Fort Worth TABC Chief Acknowledges Violations in Rainbow Lounge Raid | 07/20/09

07/15/09
Gay Couple Detained for Kissing | 07/15/09

It used to be Main Street in Salt Lake City – a road through the heart of downtown.  Now it seems a stroll down

07/15/09
Man Arrested In Connection With Anti-Gay Robberies in N.Y. | 07/15/09

Driton Nicaj, a 19-year old Manhattan man, was arres

07/10/09
GLAAD in Syracuse for Lateisha Green's Trial | 07/10/09

I am on the ground in Syracuse preparing for next week's court trial involving the murder of Lateisha Green.

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Illinois Gov. Quinn wants to see movement on gay marriage bill
12/11/12

Gov. Pat Quinn says he hopes a bill allowing gay marriage in Illinois moves through the General Assembly next month.

N.J. lawmaker introduces bill asking voters to decide marriage equality rights
12/11/12

Encouraged by three states last month that approved ballot measures supporting gay marriage, Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) today introduced a bill that would give New Jersey voters the same choice.

NEW JERSEY: Openly Gay Pol Introduces Marriage Equality Ballot Measure
12/11/12

Yesterday openly gay New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora introduced a bill to place marriage equality before the voters.

Couple at center of Prop. 8 Supreme Court case anxious, optimistic
12/10/12

Burbank residents Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo were catapulted onto the national stage Friday when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would rule on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the voter-approved same-sex marriage ban that the couple sued to overturn.

Local Community Members Hold Vigil For Missing Transgender Teen in Virginia
12/10/12

Friends, family and members of the Charlottesville community held a vigil for missing transgender teenager Sage Smith. The group walked from the 700 block of Orangedale Avenue to the Amtrak Station. The train station was where Smith was last seen.

Where Is Sage Smith?
12/10/12

Unless you've been following the work of Monica Roberts, The Opposing Views and David Lohr over at The Huffington Post, you probably don't know that a trans teenage girl from Charlottesville, Va., has been missing for nearly 20 days.

OK Marriage Equality Battle Caught in Court System
12/10/12

They've lived together since 1996, and took as much of a plunge as they legally could 12 years ago. "We had a commitment ceremony in 2000, recognized by the Unitarian Universalist Church," said Sharon Baldwin.

EDITORIAL: A divide on so-called "ex-gay therapy" law
12/10/12

So-called conversion therapy to change a patient's sexual orientation is a practice frowned on by mainstream psychiatry and deeply offensive to gays and lesbians, who rightly see it as a relic of a time when homosexuality was regarded as a mental illness. We think it's a terrible idea.

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