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In DC, blacks were crucial to gay marriage debate
6:14 PM on 03/04/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Gay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over same-sex marriage has sounded different here...
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Black Pentecostalism's silence complicit in spreading HIV/AIDS
12:40 PM on 02/12/2010
OPINION - My conclusion is that the black church has been complicit in the spreading of HIV/AIDS because of our deafening silence...
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Powell favors repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
12:24 PM on 02/03/2010
Gen. Colin L. Powell, who as the nation's top military officer in the 1990s opposed allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, switched gears today and threw his support behind efforts to end the "don't ask, don't tell" law he helped shepherd in...
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TheGrio's 100: Anthony Woods, the future of gay black politics
5:00 AM on 02/01/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Anthony Woods attracted national attention as an openly gay, two-tour Iraq war veteran running for Congress in Northern California...
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Conspiracy theories about HIV do real harm
10:00 AM on 12/16/2009
OPINION - HIV/AIDS conspiracy theories circulate in homes, barber shops, churches, and among activists in the African-American community.
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Death penalty for gays? Uganda debates proposal
12:54 PM on 12/09/2009
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities.
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Gay teen beaten after warning school of threats
4:02 PM on 11/19/2009
VIDEO - A 16-year-old boy in Texas says his pleas of help to school officials were ignored last week...
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New hate crimes act links African-American and LGBT struggles
11:50 AM on 10/28/2009
OPINION - The LGBT struggle is a Civil Rights struggle yet, in the black community, fear of homosexuality (in others and in ourselves) prevents us from advancing this cause as our own...
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Congress extends hate crime protections to gays
7:00 AM on 10/23/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law...
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A mother's story: Hate crime brings new bond with transgender child
8:29 AM on 10/16/2009
OPINION - From one parent to another, more work needs to be done to protect our children regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity...
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Black working class gays left out of national gay rights agenda
9:00 AM on 10/12/2009
OPINION - When Obama delivered his "gay agenda" speech to the well-fed, well-scrubbed mostly white crowd of gays and lesbians...
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Same-sex couples stage 'kiss-in' to protest treatment at diner
12:15 PM on 08/20/2009
VIDEO - Dozens of same-sex couples locked lips inside a popular Maryland diner Wednesday to protest the treatment of a lesbian couple there.
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Anti-gay violence plagues the black community but too few notice
9:27 AM on 08/05/2009
The recent shootings in a Tel-Aviv LGBT center that left 2 dead and 15 injured understandably shocked the world...
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Young, black, gay and running for Congress
12:51 PM on 08/04/2009
In April, Anthony Woods, a 28-year-old West Point graduate who recently earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, announced his candidacy for a soon-to-be vacant seat in California's 10th Congressional District...
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E. Lynn Harris broke barriers for black writers, gays
5:28 AM on 07/26/2009
News that best-selling author E. Lynn Harris had died at the age of 54 shocked his fans and friends. On tour promoting his latest novel, "Basketball Jones," about the closeted relationship of an NBA player and his long-term boyfriend, Harris was reportedly in Los Angeles meeting with Tracey Edmonds, ex-wife...
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Obama reiterates support for gay rights
10:18 AM on 06/30/2009
President Barack Obama reiterated his support for gay rights on Monday. He spoke at a White House reception for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights advocates. The event was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the modern gay rights movement. Some activists have complained that the...
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40 years after Stonewall: black gays still targeted
8:55 AM on 06/30/2009
In the 1960's New York mayor Robert Wagner launched a campaign to "clean up the city" to help...
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Conn. church causes a stir with gay exorcism video
2:22 PM on 06/24/2009
JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writer BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP) -- The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a "homosexual demon" from his body. "Rip it from his throat!" a woman yells. "Come on, you homosexual demon! You...
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Don't blame it on our "down low" brothers
7:56 AM on 06/18/2009
As a single black woman, I am getting really tired of folks telling me, "Girl, you better watch out for the men on the DL, 'cause they have, and spread, HIV." In recent years, it's become common to blame black men having secret and unprotected sexual encounters with other men...
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Obama extends benefits to gay workers
5:22 PM on 06/17/2009
PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of U.S. government employees, a White House official said. Obama planned to announce his decision Wednesday, the official...
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