Some of us don’t have to imagine how painful it is to be a gay Scout. We were one. Growing up as a Mormon boy in Idaho, scouting was pretty much built into my pathway to becoming an adult. It was as much a part of the plan for my youth as many Mormon rights of passage: baptism, being ordained to the priesthood, and passing the sacrament on Sundays.
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11/05/12
On Nov. 6, 2012, 148 years after becoming “The Free State,” voters in the state of Maryland will have an opportunity to make history by becoming the first state in the Union to pass a marriage equality law at the voting booth.
11/05/12
Over 100 faith leaders – including lay people, divinity students and clergy – met last Saturday in Harlem for an insp
11/05/12
The Daily beast highlights the impact of revised photo-ID laws on trans voters.
11/05/12
Pastor Luke Robinson of Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Maryland (speaking at an anti-Question 6 event yesterda
11/02/12
Maine GOP House Member Stacey Fitts is telling voters in a pro-marriage equality ad "I've always been a Republican.
10/26/12
President Barack Obama's campaign released a statement this afternoon in support of Question 6, Maryland's same-sex m
10/25/12
After three years of steady decline, hate crimes in Los Angeles County rose 15 percent last year, including crimes motivated by anti-LGBT bias.
10/25/12
Lawyers for transgender inmate Ophelia De' Lonta in Virginia presented her case before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, asking that a lower court ruling that denied her state funding for surgery be reversed.