Aug 16, 2009
Gays barred from NY India Day Parade
The Federation of Indian Associations has barred the South Asian Lesbian Gay Association from the huge annual India Day Parade in Manhattan, on Sunday August 16.
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Jul 10, 2009
India Supreme Court steps into gay sex law dispute
India's Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a petition from a Hindu astrologer who is seeking to annul a recent landmark ruling that decriminalized gay sex.
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Jul 09, 2009
Gay Rights Activists Upbeat after Court Ruling
India’s gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling decriminalizing homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance of homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
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Jul 03, 2009
India's Historic Gay Ruling
After almost 150 years of introduction of Section 377, a law of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which describes same-sex relationships as an "unnatural offense", the Delhi High Court overturned the law on July 2, ruling that gay sex between consenting adults would no longer be unlawful.
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Jun 08, 2009
Court rejects challenge to 'don't ask, don't tell'
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed with the Obama administration and refused to review Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military.
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Jun 03, 2009
New Hampshire governor signs gay marriage law
New Hampshire's governor has signed legislation making the state the sixth to allow gay marriage. Gov. John Lynch was surrounded by cheering supporters of the move as he signed the three bills about an hour after the key vote on the legislation in the House.
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May 28, 2009
Schwarzenegger: Prop. 8 Will Be Overturned
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on The Tonight Show Tuesday night and talked about Prop. 8 with Jay Leno. Schwarzenegger said the state will support the court’s decision and uphold Prop. 8, but he also indicated it was only a matter of time before it would be overturned.
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May 28, 2009
It’s Not a Gay Thing...
A consumer of current news might imagine that access to same-sex marriage is the most contested issue in contemporary family policy, and that marriage is the only cure for the disadvantages lesbian and gay families face. Both of these observations would be wrong.
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May 28, 2009
L.A. Mayor: Gays Entitled to Liberty
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says that while he hasn't nailed down whether he will run for governor of California yet, he will remain an advocate for gay rights.
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May 28, 2009
California court's contradictory Prop. 8 decision
The decision Tuesday that upheld a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was social and moral nonsense.
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May 28, 2009
The Big Gay Chip on My Shoulder
I am a straight man, with a big gay chip on my shoulder.
A while back on my Twitter page (yes, I know how ridiculous it sounds), I mentioned that, if I believed in the devil, Pat Robertson might be him.
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Sep 04, 2008
Gay Republicans rally behind McCain-Palin ticket
As a gay Republican at his party's 1992 convention, Bob Kabel was sickened listening to Pat Buchanan's infamous "Culture War" speech, a prime-time, fire-and-brimstone tirade against, among other things, the Democrats' "amoral" and "militant" homosexual agenda.
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Sep 02, 2008
Suit against gay marriage recognition in NY tossed
A judge has thrown out the first direct legal challenge to the New York governor's move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, calling the policy a legally allowable stand for fairness.
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