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Mother of Suicide Victim Takes on Bachmann

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Andrew Harmon - Sep. 14 (News Report) - The mother of a gay Minnesota teen who committed suicide and was harassed in a school district now under federal investigation is asking Rep. Michele Bachmann to speak out against bullying.

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Justice Dept.: Strike Down DOMA

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Trudy Ring - Jul. 04 (News Report) - The Department of Justice Friday gave pro–marriage equality activists a pleasant surprise by arguing strongly against the Defense of Marriage Act in a brief filed in federal court that acknowledges the history of discrimination against gays and lesbians.

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Apple: 'It Gets Better'... Again

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Advocate.com Editors - Apr. 16 (News Report) - An “It Gets Better” video made by LGBT employees at Apple has returned to YouTube after it was mysteriously pulled for violating the website’s “policy on depiction of harmful activities.”

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NOLA Cops Targeted Gays, Blacks

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Advocate.com Editors - Mar. 18 (News Report) - The New Orleans Police Department is under fire for symptomatic misconduct, with charges that cops used excessive force and targeted black and gay residents.

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Reactions on Brown's Repeal Support

Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Advocate - By Advocate.com Editors - Dec. 05 (News Report) - Gay groups are heralding the decision by Republican Mass. senator Scott Brown to support repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," but a conservative leader is balking.

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GOP Attacks the Smithsonian

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Advocate - By Advocate.com Editors - Dec. 01 (News Report) - It’s 1989 all over again in Washington, D.C., as House speaker designate John Boehner of Ohio and incoming House majority leader Eric Cantor of Virginia have called for the dismantling of a Smithsonian exhibit focused on same-sex attraction.

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Stewart Mocks McCains' DADT stand

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Advocate - By Advocate Editors - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Jon Stewart tackled Sen. John McCain’s stand on “don’t ask, don’t tell” — and Cindy McCain’s apparent flip-flop on the issue — on Monday night’s Daily Show.

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Minnesota governor gives pep talk to GOP

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Wynne Parry - Jun. 28 (News Report) - "We have great choice before us as country," Pawlenty said at the annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner at the Sheraton Hotel on Summer Street. "We are going to pick someone who is the commander of the Free World, if you just looked at the resumes of these two individuals it is not even close." Pawlenty is on McCain's short list for a vice presidential candidate, according to U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Bridgeport.

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Obama Explains Why He's the Best Candidate for LGBT Americans

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:50:02 -0700

The Advocate - Oct. 27 (Interview) - When the Obama campaign announced that Donnie McClurkin would be among the featured singers on the presidential candidate's gospel tour in South Carolina this weekend, it inadvertently ventured into the void between African-American Christians and gays and lesbians.

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Reverend Mel White remembers Jerry Falwell

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:18:03 -0700

The Advocate - By Rev. Mel White, Michelle Garcia - May. 17 (Special Report) - I was in the dentist's chair when I heard that Jerry Falwell passed away. I couldn't believe that I started crying. I had to find an office and I just cried. I was trying to think, "Why the heck am I crying?" I think I was crying for his family. He was a great father and husband, and he was a really good pastor - I've been going to his church for years, so I know -- and he was a really good president of a university. There are 20,000 students at Liberty University, which Falwell founded, and they all like him. I knew there would be just a huge hole in Virginia and in Lynchburg, and I felt for those people. But at the same time I was feeling more strongly that now we'll never have a chance for Jerry Falwell to say, "I was wrong. I did wrong, and I said wrong, and I'm sorry. God creates gay people and loves them just like she created them. I'm not going to say anything more against gay people because I was wrong." Imagine the consequence that would have had for so many people. Falwell was the face of homophobia. Back when I was still afraid that I was sick and sinful for being gay, I got a job as a ghostwriter to get my kids through college. First I ghostwrote for Billy Graham, and the next thing you know, Jerry Falwell heard, and I ended up ghostwriting his autobiography. When you have to write 450 pages about a guy, you get really intimate with him, and I learned about this guy inside and out. I kind of liked him. I didn't like what he said, but he had a private persona that was really quite amiable.

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The new F word

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:03:54 -0800

The Advocate - By Carl Swanson - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - "Oh, it's such an awesome word," the TV actor T.R. Knight said to Ellen DeGeneres on her show January 17, his voice quavering a bit. He didn't want to be there. He seemed to want to grab hold of Ellen, to shift attention to her very public and, at the time, difficult coming-out a decade ago. Because Knight never wanted to be the poster boy for the word "faggot." Who would? The word is tinged with the inchoate stupidity of adolescence. Most of us have probably not heard it since then, except maybe from the mouth of a passing heckler. It's certainly not for polite conversation. And, in fact, "I had never been called that to my face," Knight told DeGeneres. It was the only interview his publicist said he would do--he and Ellen share a publicity firm--on the subject of his Grey's Anatomy costar Isaiah Washington referring to him as "a faggot" on the set back in October. (Knight declined to speak for this piece.) The event hit the gossip press; soon enough it compelled T.R.--cute, lovable T.R., as he's regarded by many of the ABC medical drama's millions of fans--to come out. By the time of the Golden Globes on January 15, things had settled down a bit. And then Washington, essentially without provocation, leaned into the microphone during a cast interview backstage and said, "No, I did not call T.R. a faggot. Never happened. Never happened." And what had been a dying controversy until then suddenly blew up into a major Hollywood scandal, with Washington sent to "counseling" by angry network suits, his job reportedly on the line, and cast members like Katherine Heigl incensed, worried that T.R. might leave the show over the unrelenting drama (as some media outlets speculated). "I'm going to be really honest right now--he needs to just not speak in public. Period," the actress told Access Hollywood about Washington's impromptu utterance. "T.R. is my best friend," she added. "I will use every ounce of energy I have to take you down if you hurt his feelings." And thus crumbled, once and for all, the utopian vision of harmonious diversity that Grey's Anatomy broadcasts each week, betrayed by off-camera antics of a very real sort.

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Gays in the ranks: Who cares?

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:45:19 -0800

The Advocate - By Fred Kuhr - Jan. 31 (Special Report) - Brian Fricke wanted to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather, who served as a sergeant in the Marines. So he joined the elite fighting corps in 2000. Fricke knew, even as a teenager, that to join the armed forces meant giving up personal freedoms. What he didn't realize was how much more difficult that would be for a gay man--who would have to be closeted. Two years later, while he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, Fricke had had enough. A friend and fellow marine was going on about having sex with women when Fricke blurted out, "You know, I'm not attracted to women."

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