Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal to headline event with hate group

WASHINGTON – Next month Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will host an event on the campus of Louisiana State University sponsored by the American Family Association (AFA) – an organization that has called for an “Underground Railroad” to take children from gay and lesbian parents and claims the Boy Scouts of America would be better off…

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Funding for anti-LGBT National Organization For Marriage drops by over 50 percent

A white-hot spotlight focused on the issue of same-sex marriage over the last few years hasn’t translated into financial success for an organization whose self-proclaimed sole purpose is to “protect marriage and the faith communities that sustain it.” In a time when virtually every nightly newscast, political debate, even television series delves into discussions about…

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Marriage equality: Doomsday scenario many anti-LGBT extremists prophesied not happened

WASHINGTON – Over the years, many of the nation’s most notorious and outspoken opponents of equality for LGBT people have warned of the disastrous effect legal marriage equality will have on American society.  Yet today, as same-sex couples can legally marry in 32 states and Washington, DC, it seems the country’s march toward nationwide marriage…

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Right wing anti-LGBT groups launch attacks on pro-marriage equality Republicans

Anti-LGBT groups, National Organization for Marriage, Family Research Council and CitizenLink have launched a new campaign attacking socially moderate Republicans. According to a report in Twocare.org the groups, heavily funded by the elite community of hard-right Christian leaders and foundations associated with The Gathering – a yearly meeting of evangelical financiers where New York Times…

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Baja Betty’s and Flicks sent hate letters

Eddie Reynoso of Baja Betty’s talking to 10 News Image: 10News 10News in San Diego has reported that at least two gay bars in Hillcrest have received threatening letters. Eddie Reynoso, marketing manager at Baja Betty’s, showed 10News the 15-page letter written by “Eddie777, servant and messenger of God Yahweh.” Yahweh is known as the proper…

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The 35 most LGBT-friendly U.S. cities, according to Vocativ’s first-ever ‘Queer Index’

NEW YORK — Which U.S. city is most friendly toward LGBT residents? Which big cities don’t even make the list? What’s the gayest city in “red state” America? Which metro area has the highest percentage of out politicians? Where do same-sex Craigslist hookups happen most frequently? Vocativ (vocativ.com), the global media organization for the Digital…

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‘Daily Caller’ gives platform to another anti-gay hate group

The Daily Caller provided a hate group spokesman a platform to smear marriage equality and same-sex families, part of the conservative Web site’s pattern of promoting the commentary of some of the most extreme anti-LGBT figures in the country, reports Media Matters for America. In a May 5 column, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg of…

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