For the last eight years, families -- all kind of families -- across the country have gathered together for food, fun, love and perhaps a little dysfunction on Thanksgiving. Political Editor Libby Post pauses to give thanks.
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Thirty years after the death of Harvey Milk, Americans can still learn from his inspiring and profound work as an activist, politician and friend. With the story of his life now playing in theatres, Lane Hudson takes a look back at how Milk's legacy lives on -- and what we can to do pay tribute to the legend.
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A Miami-Dade circuit judge decided Tuesday that a Florida man's sexual orientation should not preclude him from adopting his two foster children, effectively ruling unconstitutional a decades-old state law barring gays and lesbians from adopting children. Judge Cindy Lederman, a child welfare judge, found that the state law has 'no rational basis' and ruled that Frank Martin Gill, 47, should be entitled to adopt two young boys he has been fostering for the past four years.
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Clues are beginning to emerge as to what President Barack Obama’s priorities will be for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans during his first term. The most explicit directives came to the surface this week on the President-elect’s website within a section labeled more broadly as 'Civil Rights.'
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POWER UP’s annual event brought out the party girl and the activist in everyone. This year the organization, spear-headed by Stacy Codikow and Lisa Thrasher, honored Michaline Babich, Gaye Ann Bruno, Cheryl Dunye, Karen Flischel, Jenny Fulle, Barbara Gaines, Nancylee Myatt, Lisa Sherman, Samantha Sprecher and Suzanne Westenhoefer.
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When Californians took to the polls on Tuesday, November 4, 52.5 percent cast a vote against equal rights, saying same-sex marriage has no place in the Golden State. But in the wake of California’s LGBT population lamenting yet another blow to their rights, something magical happened. LGBT Californians stood up, brushed themselves off, and prepared for the fight of a generation.
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At 209 electoral votes, my enthusiasm was already waning. With reliable California and its 55 electoral votes soon to kick in, the living room stood with ebullience and took to their drinks of choice. Sarah Palin and Jesse Jackson were crying. Bells rang, wild mustangs neighed,willows bloomed, doves took flight… and then they looped back around towards California and shat upon us.
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In 1968, U Street in the northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., was on fire and a focal point of racial tension. Forty years later it was a scene of a racially diverse celebration of Barack Obama's election as president of the United States of America. But what does this excitement mean for our country? Will it translate into anything for the LGBT community?
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For years, civil rights activists have espoused the murky value of 'tolerance' for LGBT individuals. They have proclaimed that the key to progress lies in a smidgen of civility within the electorate's melting pot. But that pot is still simmering with an underlying message of distaste for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. As we move forward in historic unity, I say enough with the word 'tolerance.'
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider on Friday whether to hear a controversial Barack Obama citizenship lawsuit that questions if the President-Elect is a 'natural-born' citizen of the United States. Although a copy of Obama’s birth certificate has been widely circulated in an attempt to quell such challenges, the Donofrio vs. Wells lawsuit challenges the authenticity of the document and demands the original be reviewed and authenticated.
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Former football star O.J. Simpson will serve at least six years in prison, a Las Vegas court ruled on Friday morning. Simpson was convicted on 12 criminal charges at trial in October, including armed robbery and kidnapping. District Court Judge Jackie Glass sentenced Simpson to 15 years in jail, with the possibility of parole after five years. Co-defendant Clarence 'C.J.' Stewart will also spend at least six years in prison. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1995.
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