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California bans ‘reparation therapy’ for LGBT minors
California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law late Saturday night banning therapy used to change the sexual orientation of LGBT children and teenagers. “This bill bans non-scientific ‘therapies’ that have driven young people to depression and suicide,” Brown said in a statement. “These practices have no basis in science or…
Joel Osteen tells Soledad O’Brien: LGBT people aren’t ‘God’s best’
Conservative televangelist Joel Osteen on Thursday asserted that homosexuality was a sin and not “God’s best” — but at the same time, he said had not chosen to be straight. During an interview on CNN, host Soledad O’Brien asked Osteen how he could claim to be uplifting LGBT people while…
Malaysia holds seminars for spotting LGBT children
The government of Malaysia is holding seminars for parents and teachers showing them how to spot supposed signs of homosexuality in children. According to Reuters, the increasingly religious and conservative country is determined to root out potentially LGBT children and discipline them into heterosexuality. The Teachers’ Foundation of Malaysia has…
Moscow outlaws LGBT pride parades for next 100 years
Moscow’s most powerful court has ruled to uphold a ban on LGBT pride parades in the Russian capital for 100 years, according to the BBC. The ruling places a major Russian city athwart the directives of the European Court of Human Rights for a second time with regards to LGBT…
Pat Robertson to LGBT students: ‘Bring forth a baby’ or ‘shut your mouth’
Televangelist Pat Robertson says that LGBT students protesting Christian fast food chain Chick-fil-A at about 30 colleges and universities across the U.S. should “shut their mouth” until they can “bring forth a baby from that part of the anatomy which they concentrate on.” During his Friday 700 Club broadcast, Robertson…
Vietnam to host first LGBT pride parade
Vietnam is to host its first gay pride parade this weekend, event organisers said Friday, after the communist country’s justice minister said it was time to consider legalising same-sex marriage. The parade, organised by Hanoi’s small but growing Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, will see people cycling through the centre of the capital…
Believers show support for LGBT rights at San Diego Pride Parade
Though the military personnel who marched in uniform at San Diego’s Pride Parade on Saturday received the most enthusiastic reception from the crowd of nearly 200,000 people, the dozens of believers who participated in the parade were fondly embraced as well. “Religion and the LGBT community seem to have come…
First-ever lesbian super PAC backed by Jane Lynch and Billie Jean King
A group of high-powered lesbians on Wednesday launched a first-of-its-kind super PAC to advocate for LGBT and women’s rights. During a year where North Carolina became the 39th state to ban same sex marriage and Republicans in Congress were accused of a “war on women,” LPAC hopes to raise $1…
Former Navy chaplain claims he can ‘exorcise’ LGBT activist’s gay demons
Former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who founded the lobbying group The Pray In Jesus Name Project, said on Tuesday that he possesses the power to “exorcise” the gay right out of people, including one of the nation’s leading LGBT advocates. Klingenschmitt, whose prior comments on LGBT people have raised more than…
Dan Savage calls conservative LGBT group ‘house f*ggots’ over Romney endorsement
This morning, the conservative LGBT group GOProud released their entirely expected endorsement of GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney (R-MA). Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia stated as part of their endorsement, “The truth is that gay people are living in the disastrous failed Obama economy too,” and cited Obama’s economic record as…
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