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• Defriended Over a Wedding, a Straight Man Gains Perspective | evoL =

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• Jamaica's former Police Commissioner says Jamaica doesn't have a problem with violence against gays

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• YouTube - "It Gets Better" (Broadway sings for the Trevor Project)

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• Tu Er Shen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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• DC Comics' Hal Jordan has been confirmed has their new gay character

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• NPR looks at the many, many YouTube covers of "Call Me Maybe"

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Politics from Good As You

• Losing 'On My Honor' coalition says #BoyScouts can no longer use 'timeless values' phrase in good faith

  From The On My Honor coalition which, despite coordination from D.C. groups like FRC and Shirley Bannister Public Affairs, was only able to muster 31% support for their discriminatory position: Grapevine, TX – Following the vote today by the Boy...
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• Tony Perkins on #BoyScouts vote (hint: he isn't happy)

  The Boy Scouts just delivered a whopping defeat to the anti-equality crowd. But for some reason, FRC president Tony Perkins, someone who has been denigrating the current BSA leadership all through this process, still thinks he has the capital to...
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• BREAKING: #BoyScouts lift the ban on gay scouts!!!!!!!!

  WE WON!!!!!! But here, let him tell you instead: **UPDATE: According to a report I just got, it wasn't even close. 68%–31% are the numbers I'm hearing! (*now confirmed) **Of course there is still the ban on adults, which MUST...
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• Why I care so much about the Boy Scouts vote

  While LGBT rights fights are uniquely personal for LGBT people for obvious reasons, there is usually some degree of distance between known experience and current debate. With marriage, the fight tends to be prospective. You fight for the right to...
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• New Jersey's leading 'family' group posts truly nasty video equating gays with adulterers, alcoholics

  Many of you have seen the following video, produced by far-far-far-right anti-gay figure Janet Folger Porter: Well guess who is now promoting and defending this clip? That would be none other than the New Jersey Family Policy Council, the organization...
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News and Gossip from Queerty

• WATCH: FL Teen Arrested For Same-Sex Relationship Considers Plea Deal

  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Kaitlyn Hunt, the 18-year-old Florida cheerleader charged in February with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a minor — her 15-year-old high school girlfriend— has until Friday to decide whether to accept a plea deal. Hunt was expelled from Sebastian River High School in [...]
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• Tyler Posey In The Shower, Sailing With Attitude & More!

  Sailing With Attitude: The British magazine teams up with Georgios Parashos for a day out on the Mediterranean Sea. Lost In Translation: Clearly it’s time to start watching Spanish comedies, especially if Javier Anton’s bare butt will be seen in most of it. Less Ab, More Flab: The New York Times reports that underwear brands [...]
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• The Stonewall Riots Get The Comic Book Treatment

  The LGBTQ community will get to remember gay history in a new format with the limited release of The Stonewall Riots comic book. Bluewater Productions, the same group behind other gay-themed comic books, is currently raising money on Indiegogo in order to publish the first comic book about the birth of the modern gay rights movement. The goal is raise $9,000 by [...]
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• Nevada Senate Approves Resolution To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

  We knew it wouldn’t take long for the marriage bug to start biting more states after Minnesota became the 12th to legalize same-sex marriage earlier this month. Though we still have a long battle in front of us, KOLO TV is reporting that Nevada may next in line. But it’s not going to be easy. [...]
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• Boy Scouts Vote To Lift Ban On Gay Scouts

  Well, it’s a start. Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow openly gay scouts, but discrimination against gay adults will remain in effect. According to GLAAD “approximately 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts National Council convened in Grapevine, Texas today and the resolution passed 61.4%. The new membership standards, [...]
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• Cannes Loves Liberace/Hates Ryan Gosling, Navel-Gazing With Kyle XY & More!

  - Liam Hemsworth joins the ranks of wet men we love in this new still from the upcoming summer thriller, Paranoia. Based on his relationship with Miley Cyrus. - Get ready to go Behind the Candelabra and facedown into the toiletbowl with this drinking game. - While, Cannes loved the Liberace biopic, Ryan Gosling‘s new [...]
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• WATCH: Lady Gaga Gets Violent In Film Debut “Machete Kills”

  Leave it to Mother Monster to rack up a body count in her film debut. In the trailer for Machete Kills, which just leaked online, we catch a brief glimpse of  Lady Gaga as La Chameleón flirtatiously waving to an oncoming truck in the desert roads of Mexico—cue the “Alejandro” track. Gaga announced she was cast [...]
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• PHOTOS: Tom Daley Instagrams Birthday Gifts, Gives The Gift Of Nakedness

  Nearly everyone has had a wild birthday party that ended with half-naked shenanigans and a sombrero, but we can’t imagine they all looked this good while it was happening. Pocket-sized Olympic diver Tom Daley celebrated his birthday in Mexico this week, showing fans his favorite gift on Instagram: a brand new sombrero. He was also [...]
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• Moscow Pride Organizers Say Pride Will Go On Despite Court-Ordered Bans

  LGBT activists in Moscow are living in the true spirit of Gay Pride this year, announcing that Moscow Pride and the gay pride march this Saturday will go on as planned despite a court-ordered ban on the festivities. Nikolai Alekseev, co-founder of Moscow Pride and GayRussia, told Interfax last week that “Khimki City Court upheld [...]
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• Arrest Made In One Of New York’s Anti-Gay Attacks

  A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with one of the eight anti-gay attacks that have struck New York in recent weeks. Gornell Roman, 39, turned himself in Tuesday night and was charged Wednesday morning with assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes. Roman attacked his drinking companion, Dan Contarino, while yelling homophobic remarks on [...]
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