USA Today published an op-ed by Wayne Perry, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, in which he urges the 1,400 voting members gathering in Dallas to vote to allow gay youth to be a part of Scouting.
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08/13/12
An openly gay, Evangelical Lutheran pastor from St.
08/10/12
A former high-school principal who has a pending discrimination complaint against the Paradise Valley Unified School
08/09/12
A longtime Vanderbilt University employee is in trouble after cameras caught her taking dozens of newspapers and tos
08/09/12
A federal judge ruled Wednesday against two Hawaii women who want to get married instead of entering into a civil union, handing a victory to opponents of marriage equality in a state that’s been at the forefront of the issue.
08/08/12
Two Seattle men say they were kicked off the Great Wheel last weekend because they’re gay, but the owners of the waterfront Ferris wheel have a different story about what happened.
08/07/12
A 39-year-old Molalla man who was accused of yelling anti-gay slurs at a pair of men holding hands in downtown Portl
08/07/12
The beating of a gay man outside the Missoula Club, where he’d gone to celebrate his 22nd birthday, early Sunday morning has spurred renewed calls to add sexual orientation to bias crimes laws in Montana.
08/06/12
The Tennessee Democratic Party said on Friday it was disavowing the winner of its primary for Senate because the candidate is part of an anti-gay hate group.