Gay Rights

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January 27, 2011
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A prominent Ugandan gay rights activist whose picture was published by an anti-gay newspaper next to…
December 22, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Surrounded by senior military officials and members of Congress, Obama said he is proud to sign the…
December 21, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Even now, with racial violence largely in the past, blacks hold only about 6 percent of…
December 19, 2010
OPINION - Much like those who marched the streets of Detroit, Chicago, Selma and Montgomery -- we must believe...
December 18, 2010
OPINION - When the Senate voted this afternoon, the men and women of our Armed Services finally felt free to…
December 18, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 13,500 service members have been dismissed under the 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" law requiring…
December 15, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House, in introducing the stand-alone bill, sought to avoid the complications of combining it with a…
December 9, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The vote ends months of political wrangling on the bill and makes congressional action on the repeal…
December 4, 2010
OPINION - Heterosexual couples are rewarded by the U.S. military with higher incomes, better housing benefits and food subsidies. None…
December 2, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP) - "I hear adulterers and womanizers and folks cheating on their wives and down-low brothers saying they're…
November 29, 2010
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday said homosexuals who are found in the midst of sex…
September 9, 2010
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) - The U.S. House voted in May to repeal the policy, and the Senate is expected to…
August 9, 2010
THE ADVOCATE - Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at a rally for the anti-gay National…
August 9, 2010
OPINION - Supporting traditional marriage and adhering to timeless religious doctrine does not mean you have to be against gay…
August 6, 2010
OPINION - The idea that blacks cannot choose to be black but gays can choose their disposition, appears to be…
August 5, 2010
SLIDESHOW - An appeal was expected, as lawyers on both sides of the legal battle repeatedly vowed to carry the…
August 5, 2010
OPINION - Many gay rights activists see the yesterday's decision as a direct extension of the landmark 1967 Supreme Court…
June 3, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The moves come a year after Obama signed a memorandum giving federal workers' same-sex partners a first…
June 1, 2010
OPINION - The military is an institution built upon uniformity, integrity, equality and singularity of mindset. How then will it…
May 27, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House vote came just hours after the Senate Armed Services Committee took the same course and…