British producer of Uganda’s first gay-themed play faces two years in jail

David Cecil, producer of “The River and the Mountain,” a play said to have been created to spark conversations about homosexuality in the African nation of Uganda, has drawn the ire of that country’s law-enforcement officials and higher-ups in government, as well as in the powerful church leadership there. The various parties’ displeasure at Cecil’s…

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Lesbian couple with children battling Michigan’s adoption laws, now also first to challenge state’s 2004 marriage amendment

Suburban Detroit lesbian moms, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse,announced their challenge in federal court to Michigan’s constitutional ban of same-sex marriage, according to the Detroit Metropolitan News, with their three children present at a news conference. The move comes as what the couple have come to see as a necessary step in their struggle to…

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Letters

Dear Stampp Corbin, Thank you for taking the time to explore and address the topic of the Republican Party within the social milieu of the LGBT community; although I do not agree with your rhetorical assessment that the party itself despises, or humiliates LGBT Republicans. The party I belong to was founded on principles. On…

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Pelosi, Nadler lead the way as 143 House Democrats file new Amicus Brief against DOMA

WASHINGTON – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Jerrold Nadler and 143 other House Democrats have filed an Amicus Brief in the case of Edith Schlain Windsor v. United States of America. Edith “Edie” Windsor, 83, a constituent of Rep. Nadler’s in New York City, challenged DOMA in court after the federal government taxed her more…

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