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Before the IRS harassed the Tea Party, it harassed gay rights groups

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Checks and balances: Before the IRS targeted conservative groups like the Tea Party, it went after tax-exempt LGBT organizations. A 1980 court case reversed this discrimination, but the problem has surfaced again -- possibly because nothing has changed: "The standards for deciding whether a 501(c)4 is engaging in excessive political activity are impossibly vague, which inevitably assigns too much [more...]
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Mark Pocan, Gay Democratic Congressman, Secures Congressional ID Card For Spouse

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Badge of honor: For the first time in American history, the same-sex spouse of a gay Congressman has been issued a spousal congressional I.D. badge. Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan and his Canadian-wed husband Philip Frank are celebrating the symbolic victory this week, just 4 years after Colorado Rep. Jared Polis nearly made the same history, only to have his male spouse's I.D. confiscated. [more...]
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Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray, a former lesbian, opens up about falling in love with a man

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Asserting that she was able to put "aside the assumptions I had about the form and package my love would come in," Chirlane McCray is finally opening up about her lesbian past in a new interview with the NY Daily News. The wife to New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, McCray was the target of controversy during her husband's campaign because of her 1967 Essence article, titled [more...]
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1 year later: A look back at Obama's support for marriage

By Staff on from washingtonblade.com

A lot can happen in a year: On the anniversary of Obama's landmark marriage equality announcement on May 9, 2012, the Washington Blade looks back over the last year, and how the president set the tone for a new era of equality, including five states passing gay marriage equality, a surge in gay marriage support in the polls, and the Democratic Party's first-ever gay marriage platform. Spoi [more...]
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Illinois GOP chairman resigns after supporting gay marriage

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After stepping up to support Illinois' proposed gay marriage amendment, the state's Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady is now stepping down. While Brady did not mention the gay marriage controversy as a reason for his resignation, his steadfast support for the cause, which he said would "strengthen families and reinforce a key Republican value—that the law should treat all citizens [more...]
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Gingrich: LGBT rights fight ‘one sided’ because Catholics are oppressed too

By Staff on from rawstory.com

You can't spell "grinch" without G-i-n-g-r-i-c-h: Today on Meet the Press, former Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich accused the LGBT population of trying to "affirmatively eliminate" religious institutions that differ on issues like gay marriage and adoption. Fortunately, a cooler head (The Grio Managing Editor Joy Reid) prevailed: “If they oppose the idea of gay marriage w [more...]
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Italian minister removed after a day for gay 'ghetto' comment

By Staff on from telegraph.co.uk

Ciao!: Italian People of Freedom party member and recently-promoted equal opportunities ministry undersecretary Michaela Biancofiore has been reassigned to a civil servant position after local LGBT advocates called for her demotion. A day after Prime Minister Enrico Letta told cabinet members to avoid controversial comments, Biancofore said, "For once, I would like to see gay associations, instea [more...]
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Niall Ferguson Doesn't Trust Gay Economists

By Staff on from nymag.com

Veritas, not so much: Harvard professor and historian Niall Ferguson has already apologized for what he called "stupid" and "insensitive" remarks (he was right), but the damage may be irrevocable. Earlier this week, Ferguson had said that gay economists -- like the "effete" John Maynard Keynes -- could not be trusted with economic planning because childless gays do not care about the world after [more...]
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