As Huckabee puts hate on display in Hope, Hot Springs presents a brighter vision for Arkansas’ future

LITTLE ROCK — Last night, the city of Hot Springs took a tremendously important step forward in the fight for inclusiveness and equality under the law for all Arkansans. Its powerful actions stand in remarkable contrast to the vision for America that former Governor Mike Huckabee, who earlier that morning announced his presidential campaign up…

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Major child advocacy groups strongly oppose extreme anti-LGBT adoption bill in Texas

Today, major child advocacy groups joined the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), in opposing an extreme anti-LGBT adoption bill in Texas that is dangerously close to becoming law. Texas HB 3864, which has passed through the House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee, would enshrine special discrimination rights into law by allowing adoption agencies contracted by…

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New Gaymoji app lets LGBT community speak volumes with specially designed emoticons

AUSTIN, Texas — Humans have used symbols to communicate since the first hominids scratched pictograms onto cave walls. But in the thoroughly modern age of emojis, commonly available images just don’t fit every user. That’s why a trio of creative Austinites developed Gaymoji — a new app featuring a series of emoticons designed by and…

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‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ marks its 25th anniversary

In 1990, same-sex marriage wasn’t even a blip on our cultural radar and men and women were barred from openly serving in the United States military.  In 1990, in Eastern Europe, former Communist  strongholds were collapsing with dizzying speed and the year’s Best Picture was Driving Miss Daisy. And in 1990,  25 years ago, a…

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The Web site that’s coming back to haunt Carly Fiorina

Not long after Carly Fiorina announced her presidential bid the Web site CarlyFiorina.org appeared. That’s not so strange you may think, except that Carly Fiorina didn’t register it! The site which seemed to be registered in December uses the platform to criticize her time as CEO of Hewlett Packard. “Carly Fiorina failed to register this…

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WCF hires anti-LGBT activist as director of upcoming Salt Lake City conference

Today the World Congress of Families (WCF) announced it had appointed Janice Shaw Crouse as the executive director of their upcoming WCF IX conference in Salt Lake City. Under the leadership of Crouse, who is notoriously anti-LGBT, thousands of anti-LGBT and anti-choice activists will descend on Salt Lake City in October 2015. The Human Rights…

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Huckabee launches presidential bid; HRC highlights his long record of opposition to LGBT equality

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced his bid today for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. Huckabee, who is popular with the religious right, shared the news of his candidacy with supporters in his hometown of Hope, 113 miles southwest of Little Rock. “I was raised to believe that where a person started doesn’t mean that’s…

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