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- Gay marriage and the black vote, polling says views are changing
  Posted by Jeff from Los Angeles Times
  Don't bet on it. Although ordinary polls report lower levels of support for same-sex marriage among blacks than among whites, views on same-sex marriage are a rapidly moving target that's tough to pin down, even for experts. And a funny thing happened on the way to the ballot box in the last presidential election. When constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage were on 11 state ballots in November 2004, blacks in Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio and Oklahoma were at least one percentage point less likely than whites to vote for them, according to CNN exit polls. Only in Georgia were blacks slightly more likely to vote for the amendment
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- Obama Opposes California’s Gay Marriage Ban
  Posted by Jeff from Crooks and Liars
  Pretty consistent with his previous comments.
  
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- N.Y. plans to recognize gay marriages
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  As California set a date for gay couples to begin getting married in the state, it was revealed Wednesday that New York's governor has ordered state agencies to begin recognizing gay marriages performed in states and countries where they're legal.
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- Gay Iranian teen wins right to asylum in Britain
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Britain said Tuesday that it is granting asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who fears that he could face execution if forced to return to his homeland.
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- JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay
  Posted by Kaerast from BBC News
  Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay.
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- Vatican Official Insists He's Not Gay
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  In an interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."
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- Secretary of State, who keeps private life shrouded, co-owns home with female filmmaker
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice co-owned a home and shared a line of credit with another woman, according to Washington Post diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler, who reveals the information in his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy.
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Jon comments on:
JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay

You’re thinking of Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.

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9:01 pm 10/20/07
Jeff comments on:
JK Rowling outs Dumbledore as gay

Pretty effective meme – educating a generation of young kids who love Potter that gay can mean heroic and powerful. And isn’t the actor who plays Dumbledore out as well? I can see a Potter book burning from the GOP values crowd coming soon.

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8:33 am 10/20/07
Damianmann comments on:
Hardaway dumped from NBA events for anti-gay tirade

Straight up idiot

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12:54 pm 2/16/07
Jeff comments on:
Snickers ad pulled after complaints from gays

David, to me the ad exploits cultural fears of intimacy between men and homosexuality. When broadcast in this way at a widely viewed Super Bowl, it deepens cultural fears and hostility towards gays.

I think violence against gays begins with reinforcing these kinds of stereotypes.

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3:48 pm 2/07/07
Jeff comments on:
Snickers ad pulled after complaints from gays

David, I’m straight and found the ad very offensive.

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3:19 pm 2/07/07
Damianmann comments on:
Snickers ad pulled after complaints from gays

people need to relax

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1:32 am 2/07/07
Billbar comments on:
Tony Perkins Trying To Turn Foley Into A Gay Issue

Blame the queers, blame ABC, blame in on the Democrats if possible, but never, never blame it on Rep. Foley or, god forbid the weirdness of gay Republicans.

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8:33 am 10/03/06