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Sunday, May 19, 2013
12:22pm

Friday night in New York's Greenwich Village, police say a gunman, who is in custody but has yet to be identified, followed Mark Carson, taunting him with anti-gay slurs and homophobic language, before tragically shooting him in the head.

04/13/12

The Los Angeles Police Department will begin housing arrested transgender men and women in a women’s jail by the end

04/13/12

Rachel Maddow interviewed NYT columnist Bill Keller last night about his recent article about growing Republican support for marriage equality and the fate of the GOP state senators in New York who supported marriage equality last year.

04/13/12

A second big Catholic church in Seattle, St.

04/12/12

For the first time in history, the United States has issued an indictment in hate crime case involving a crime again

04/12/12

A former management analyst at the Library of Congress is claiming he was fired after he "liked" a Facebook page for

04/12/12

Last month, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — a Noble prize winner — made headlines when she refused to spe

04/12/12

As it turns out, coming out of the closet is good for your health—if your family members are supportive, that is.

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