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5 year old LGBT advocate takes anti-gay lemons and makes pink lemonade for peace
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
5:46pm

"A little lemonade can go a long way," and that's exactly what happened when 5 and a half year old Jayden Sink decided to sell her Pink Lemonade for Peace this weekend. Her stand was located in front of the beautifully-painted rainbow Equality House that is located across from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church.

01/07/09
Join the Impact: Saturday, January 10 | 01/07/09

Join the Impact is coordinating a nationwide protest of the Defenase of Marriage Act, or DOMA.  Here's information f

01/06/09
Oregon's Groundbreaking LGBT Leadership | 01/06/09

With the new year, Oregon will see a new level of LGBT leadership in the state. A moment after the new year began, P

01/06/09
Share Your Stories From the Holiday Table | 01/06/09

Last year, GLAAD partnered with Mitchell Gold, e

01/02/09
Transgender Woman and Boyfriend Murdered | 01/02/09

This week we learned

01/01/09
Tickets Now on Sale for Palm Springs Film Fest | 01/01/09

Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will premiere his new film,

12/19/08
Diego Sanchez to Assist Congressman Barney Frank | 12/19/08
12/19/08
Jennifer Gale, Austinite Transgender Leader, Found Dead | 12/19/08
12/16/08
Announcing Equality: Oregon Newspaper's Policy Change Part of Growing Trend | 12/16/08

Thursday's news that the Oregon's Eugene Register-Guard 

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Sexual assault charge dropped against UM student who hit transgender woman
12/07/12

A sexual assault charge has been dropped against a University of Montana exchange student who struck another student after learning she was transgender.

Maryland issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples
12/07/12

Maryland issued its first licenses to gay couples Thursday morning, a month after voters upheld the state’s same-sex marriage law, which goes into effect Jan. 1.

'Stay with us,' new LDS website urges gay Mormons
12/07/12

With a clear invitation to gay Mormons to “stay with us,” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today launched a new website aimed at providing “greater sensitivity and better understanding” among Latter-day Saints with regards to same-sex attraction.

Indie Films Carry Gay Dads Across Threshold
12/07/12

From a late-2012 San Francisco perspective, Any Day Now and In the Family feel profoundly anachronistic.

Public Policy Poll: Majority of IL voters favor marriage equality
12/07/12

A new poll suggests that a majority of Illinoisans support same-sex marriage. Public Policy Polling (PPP) has released a poll that suggests that Illinois voters favor same-sex marriage 47/42, and that support increases among younger voters and voters of color.

Washington same-sex couples get ready to marry at City Hall
12/07/12

Hundreds of same-sex couples are getting ready to be welcomed at Seattle City Hall on Sunday to get married after many obtained their marriage licenses in Washington state early Thursday.

First marriage licenses issued to Maryland same-sex couples
12/06/12

With hugs and happy tears warming a normally bureaucratic transaction, gay couples flocked to courthouses to receive marriage licenses Thursday morning, the first day they were available after voters upheld Maryland's law allowing same-sex weddings in November.

Openly gay Republican Kevin James makes an outsider run for L.A. mayor
12/06/12

A fundraiser put on by heavyweights in Los Angeles' liberal-leaning environmental community should have been a tough crowd for Kevin James. If elected, James would make history as the first gay mayor of Los Angeles.

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