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Breaking: Obama Says Gays Should Get Married

  From Yahoo News: President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president. In an interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, the president described his thought process as an “evolution” that led him to this place, based [...]

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North Carolina And Bigotry: From Black ‘n’ White To Technicolor

  In 1957, Klansmen picket the Visulite Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina. They were protesting the showing of the movie, “Island in the Sun,” directed by Robert Rossen and starring such notable performers as James Mason, Joan Collins, Dorothy Dandridge, and Harry Belafonte.   The film depicted interracial romances.

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Only In White Gay Land: Anderson Cooper Attacks Obama Over Gay Marriage—-But Won’t Come Out Himself

  No, he’s not waving at throngs of gay folks at a gay pride parade. Yea, it’s common knowledge among LGBTs that CNN’s Anderson Cooper is gay.  Speaking for ourselves, frankly we don’t care if he never comes out. But dude, if you’re going to get up on a pulpit about Obama’s silence on gay marriage…like…WTF? [...]

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Black Ministers Preach Searing Sermons Endorsing No On Amendment One (Video)

  Whew Lawd. Some GOOD CHUCH (no that’s not a misspelling kids) has been going down in North Carolina.  It’s centered around the debate over the state’s Amendment One. The anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment proposal goes before voters statewide on Tuesday, May 8. If you’re not familiar with Amendment One here’s a quick primer (courtesy of [...]

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Joe Biden Says Same Sex Marriage Okey Doke With Him

Vice President Joe Biden came out Sunday morning on Meet The Press and stated that gays should enjoy the same rights as heteros when it comes to marriage. Here’s what he said:

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Meet Dumb And Dumber 2012: Dan Savage Agree’s To Bible Debate With NOM’s Brian Brown

Last month Huff Post published a rather interesting piece titled Where Are the Pro-LGBT Religious Voices in Mainstream Media? The article was written by GLAAD’s Director of Religion, Faith & Values, Ross Murray. We found the piece intriguing because Murray lamented over the fact that there are very few voices from the LGBT Christian community represented in [...]

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The Root’s Latest Lame Foray Into Blacks Vs Gays: Thoughts?

On Monday, The Root published a post titled Is the Black-LGBT Divide Exaggerated? Of course we eagerly ate up the piece in a matter of seconds. We wanted to know exactly where the respected black online mag’ was coming from with this post. So we read it. Sigh… Let’s put it this way. We’re kinda’ [...]

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