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For anyone who missed the star-studded, one-night-only Broadway debut of the gay marriage play “8” or can’t get to Los Angeles this spring to see George Clooney lead a West Coast version, there’s hope: The play is coming to a theater near you.
The only bad news — no Clooney.
The pro-gay marriage American Foundation for Equal Rights and partner Broadway Impact are sponsoring dozens […]

Proponents of California’s gay marriage ban on Monday said a judge who struck down the law was biased because he is in a same-sex relationship himself, and that his ruling should be thrown out.

Former U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker last year ruled that California’s same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, was unconstitutional. The case is […]

Critics call it legalized discrimination; supporters say it protects religious associations, schools and charities By Meghan Malloy 

An Iowa House subcommittee will consider legislation Wednesday that would allow businesses and organizations to deny services to people whose marriage violates their personal religious beliefs.
The bill, which is aimed squarely at legally married same-sex couples in Iowa, mirrors […]

 
The American Civil Liberties Union claims in a new lawsuit that Miami Beach police illegally arrested a gay man and violated his civil rights.
 
The lawsuit filed Monday in federal court seeks unspecified damages on behalf of Harold Strickland. Strickland was arrested in March 2009 after calling 911 to report that two officers were beating a […]

By Kerry Eleveld

Democrats and progressive LGBT advocates were in for a long night Tuesday when news organizations began predicting around 9 p.m. Eastern that Republicans would take control of the House.
The wave of red, fueled by independents who gave President Barack Obama only a 32% approval rating, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on […]

Judy Shepard has called for an end to bullying and urges all suicidal teens to reach out to the Trevor Project hotline.
Shepard, mother of slain college student Matthew Shepard and president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation’s board, released a statement, “We Must All Protect Youth from Suicide,” on the spate of reported LGBT suicides:
Our family, […]

Mourners gathered Sunday night in New Jersey and New York to remember Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers University freshman who killed himself after two students secretly streamed his sexual encounter with another man live over the Internet.
According to the Star-Ledger, hundreds of mourners gathered at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, where they struggled to keep candles lit […]

Ann Coulter headlined the inaugural Homocon party for the gay conservative group GOProud in New York City on Saturday and told attendees that marriage “is not a civil right – you’re not black.”
According to Ben Smith at Politico, Coulter spoke to some 150 attendees at the fund-raiser presented by GOProud in the apartment of PayPal founder […]