Topic: Lgbt Issues

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'Pro Football Weekly' host Dan Hampton will apologize on-air for an anti-gay remark made during Sunday's broadcast

Pro Football Weekly host Dan Hampton will apologize on-air for an anti-gay remark made during Sunday's broadcast.

Hampton earned his 2002 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction after a 12-year career with the Chicago Bears.

The syndicated show is co-hosted by ...

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Tom Tunney, Chicago's first openly gay alderman, is considering a run for the mayor's office

Tom Tunney, Chicago's first openly gay alderman, is considering a run for the mayor's office.

Tunney is among the Chicago-area politicians being considered for the job after Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday he won't seek a seventh term next year ...

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AFP Global Edition | yesterday

Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice made a tearful public apology Wednesday for making a homophobic comment on Twitter, saying her words were thoughtless but not meant to offend. The Beijing Olympics star refused to speak about swimming or the recent shoulder surgery which has taken her out of next month's Commonwealth Games, but broke down as ...

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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is done at six terms

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is done at six terms.

On Tuesday, the gay-friendly mayor credited with bringing the 2006 Gay Games to the city announced he won't campaign for a seventh term, ending a 21-year run as mayor of The Second City.

“Simply put, it's time,” Daley ...

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On Top Magazine | yesterday
A tearful Stephanie Rice apologized Wednesday for an anti-gay tweet

A tearful Stephanie Rice apologized Wednesday for an anti-gay tweet, the AFP reported.

The triple Olympic gold medalist tweeted “Suck on that faggots” after the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies, pulled a come-from-behind victory against South Africa's Springboks on Saturday.

But at a specially convened news conference in ...

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On Top Magazine | yesterday
The Montana Tea Party has dumped its president and booted him from the party over an anti-gay Facebook post

The Montana Tea Party has dumped its president and booted him from the party over an anti-gay Facebook post.

The board of the Big Sky Tea Party Association voted Sunday to removed Tim Ravndal as its president, the Independent Record reported ...

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AP News | 2 days ago
1st gay pride march planned in Serbia in years after threats forced cancellation last year

Organizers are planning Serbia's first gay pride march in nearly a decade next month — after the one last year was canceled amid threats of violence by extremists. Gays and lesbians often face harassment and pressure in predominantly conservative Serbia. Extremists broke up the Balkan ...

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Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice has been dumped by Jaguar over an anti-gay tweet

Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice has been dumped by Jaguar over an anti-gay tweet.

The triple Olympic gold medalist tweeted “Suck on that faggots” after the Australian rugby union team, the Wallabies, pulled a come-from-behind victory against South Africa's Springboks on Saturday.

The twenty-two-year old swimmer later ...

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AFP Global Edition | 2 days ago

Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice was stripped of her sponsorship deal with luxury carmaker Jaguar Tuesday after she posted a homophobic remark on Twitter. The swimmer landed herself in controversy after tweeting "Suck on that faggots!" in triumph at Australia's narrow win over South Africa in the Tri-Nations rugby on Saturday. Openly gay former rugby league ...

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On Top Magazine | 3 days ago
Target's reputation plummeted immediately after gay rights activists called for a boycott of the chain over its support of an anti-gay candidate

Target's reputation plummeted immediately after gay rights activists called for a boycott of the chain over its support of an anti-gay candidate, and has yet to fully recover.

According to Brandweek, Target lost one-third of its ...

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New Gay Colorado Justice Sees Mixed Reaction

ABC 7 Denver (KMGH) | 4 hours ago

Relief and skepticism both are greeting Colorado's next member of the state Supreme Court. Monica Marquez is the first Latina and the first openly ...

Challenge fails against blood donation policy that effectively bans gay men

The Guardian, PEI | 4 hours ago

An Ontario court has found that Canadian Blood Services is legally allowed to ban men who have sex with other men from giving blood.. . In ...

Ban on gay blood donors decried

Montreal Gazette, Canada | 4 hours ago

Growing up as the stepson of a firefighter, Jeffery Wood says giving blood was simply a given in his family. . . "We were raised with the principle ...

Cas swoop for Youngquest

WiganToday.net, UK | 5 hours ago

Castleford have confirmed Crusaders' Australian winger Nick Youngquest as their third major signing for 2011.. . . The much-travelled Youngquest ...

Twitter turns into anti-social networking trap for sport stars

Brisbane Times, Australia | 5 hours ago

FOR years, the public has been forced to endure cliches and rhetoric from sportsmen and women. But now social networking sites are allowing us to ...

Gay group protesting...Pelosi

The Politico: Ben Smith | 6 hours ago

An arm of the increasingly confrontational gay rights movement -- seeing this Congress as its last chance for legislative progress, even as...

Culture Of Secrecy Still Surrounds Gay Footballers

New York Times | 6 hours ago

More than one in four British professional football players, coaches and referees polled in an online survey personally know gay footballers ...

Microsoft apologizes for banning of gamer from Fort Gay

The Inquisitr | 15 hours ago

Microsoft has had to apologize to an Xbox 360 owner who was temporarily banned from the Xbox Live service for listing his location as Fort Gay.....

Gainesville Church Continues to Court Controversy

Tax Girl | 17 hours ago

Terry Jones, the controversial pastor of Evangelical Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, has been making news all week for his plans to burn...

Here comes Geert

The Economist: Democracy in America | 22 hours ago

I'M A bit behind the times, just having read that Geert Wilders (pictured) will come to New York for September 11th. American anti-"mosque"...

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