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- Yesterday, the offices of several LGBT organizations in Washington, DC were evacuated after a bomb threat was called in to the Los Angeles Polics Department.
- Richard Tisei of Massachusetts may become the first openly gay Republican to successfully campaign for Congress.
-The New York Times clearly does not appreciate how insensitive its recent coverage of a trans woman’s death was.
- Conservatives’ challenge to New York’s same-sex marriage law — that the state’s open meetings laws were violated during last year’s proceedings — advanced in a state appeals court yesterday.
- A third anti-gay group has joined the fight against marriage equality in Maine, claiming five-year-olds will be taught about gay sex.
- Disney is now hosting same-sex weddings in Japan.
- Two men in the United Arab Emirates have been jailed for alleged public gay “fondling.”
- Ellen DeGeneres has been named this year’s winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
- Black Jewish hip-hop artist Yitz Jordan (“Y-Love”) has come out as gay.
- Minnesota United for All Families has released a new video about the impact of marriage of discrimination on military couples:
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