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November 17, 2012

New York City’s homeless LGBT teen center finds a temporary home

Ali Forney Center, New York City’s LGBT homeless center, raising money for new home.

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DC Comics’ new Knight’s gender shines forth

The Shining Knight, also known as Ystin, has said: ‘I’m not just a man or woman. I’m both.’

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Uganda speaker wants anti-gay bill passed by Tuesday

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has promised the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be a ‘Christmas gift’ to the Ugandan people

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Doctor Who’s crime-fighting lesbian couple returns for Christmas

Evil snowmen will attack in the British family science fiction television show’s Christmas Day special episode

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Cuba elects first transgender politician

Cuba elects transgender woman Adela Hernandez to office in a first for the Caribbean socialist state following local government elections

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UN rights office blasts Cameroon over persecution of LGBTs

UN Human Rights High Commissioner’s office urges Cameroon to stop jailing suspected homosexuals on circumstantial evidence and to reconsider its criminalization of sex between men

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Sally Field shares with Katie Couric her pride in openly gay son, Sam Greisman

‘It’s a whole different era, his generation’

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CBS cancels Partners, sitcom about best friends – one gay, one straight

Comedy starring out actor Michael Urie struggled in the ratings

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Gay diver Matthew Mitcham battled addiction to crystal meth after 2008 Olympics

‘Taking it was something I did to take my mind off things that were upsetting me – to make me feel better about myself’

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Ty Burrell gets a gay kiss from Matthew Broderick on Modern Family

His character of Phil is clueless as he also shares shirtless hug with gay man

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Gay rights activists criticize Emirates election to UN human rights council

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been elected member of the UN human rights council for a three-years, despite its appalling record on the issue, gay rights activists criticize the decision

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World to remember victims of trans violence

Vigils, plays and candlelit marches will be held around the world to mark Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Nations squabble over UN vote on gay and trans killings

The United Nations is set to vote whether LGBT people should get specific protection from extrajudicial executions and other murders

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Greek gay Jesus play faces ‘blasphemy’ charges

Makers of Athens play Corpus Christi could be jailed for depicting Jesus and the Apostles as gay

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Christian bus driver puts brakes on pro-gay marriage poster

Passengers in northern England left waiting 20 minutes after bus driver refuses to board over Stonewall’s gay rights advert

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GayCityNews
November 17, 2012
NYS Senate Democratic Defections Could Imperil GENDA
11-16-2012 15:57:05 PM

BY ANDY HUMM | Democrats in the New York State Senate looked to have won a surprise majority on Election Day, overcoming a huge financial disadvantage, Republican gerrymandering, and no help from Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo. But that prospective majority has been put in jeopardy — and, along with it, the fate of much progressive legislation, [...]…»

When a Lesbian Marriage Trivializes a Political Career
11-14-2012 11:50:57 AM

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Christine Quinn, just named to Out magazine’s annual Out100, began her career as a tenant activist, then got on board on the ground floor of State Senator Tom Duane’s political career, becoming his chief of staff while he served on the City Council. After several years as executive director of the New [...]…»

Supreme Court Delays Consideration of Marriage Cases for Ten Days
11-14-2012 13:26:44 PM

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Several cases involving the right of same-sex couples to marry — in the context of both the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8 — could go before the US Supreme Court in the current term. The Washington Post reports that the high court has delayed a conference on [...]…»

Arizona Elects First Out Bisexual US House Member
11-13-2012 18:43:51 PM

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In one of less than a dozen US House races that had not yet been called, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, on November 12, was declared the winner in a new Arizona district created as a result of the 2010 Census. Sinema, a former state senator, will be the first openly bisexual member [...]…»

Keep Reaching, Keep Fighting
11-08-2012 14:29:26 PM

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Four years ago, Barack Obama, a first-term US senator from Illinois, was the candidate of “hope and change.” In his young administration, handed an economy that was bleeding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month, change came haltingly and on some issues not at all. The word hope became a cudgel [...]…»

Not Exactly Kissing Cousins
11-12-2012 15:25:39 PM

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In 2010, Josh Mandel, then a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, rode the Republican wave to win election as state treasurer by 14 percentage points. In last week’s election, however, he fell short in his US Senate challenge to incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown by more than five points. Mandel not [...]…»