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Military accepts gays and won't delay repeal of DADT | - Changing The Planet -

I have a profoundly new respect for the military. No game playing, no hidden agenda.... more

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Redneck Insights: Punch

Watch this redneck provide his insights on several subjects of life.

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Michael Irvin is Backing The Gays

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GOP Governor: Stopping Discrimination Is Bad for Business

Stopping businesses from discriminating against gay people would be bad for the... more

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Bachmann Won't Say Whether Clinics Try to Convert Gays

Rep. Michele Bachmann claims it would be immoral to say whether her husband's clinics perform so-called reparative therapy on gay people.

"Those matters are protected by patient-client confidentiality," her campaign staff said in a statement issued to ABC's Nightline, which reported on the issue Monday night. "The Bachmanns are in no position ethically, legally, or morally to discuss specific courses of treatment concerning the clinic's patients."

Asked by ABC News during a campaign stop about whether the clinics use reparative therapy, Bachmann offered a boilerplate answer on the importance of creating jobs and said only, "I'm running for the presidency of the United States."

In the past the Bachmanns haven't taken such a hard line on whether it's OK to discuss the menu of treatment available at their clinics. Marcus Bachmann told a Minnesota newspaper in 2005, "If someone is interested in talking to us about their homosexuality, we are open to talking about that. But if someone comes in a homosexual and they want to stay homosexual, I don't have a problem with that."

He was defending his practice after giving a presentation called “The Truth About the Homosexual Agenda" to a group of Minnesota pastors.

But now the Bachmanns are faced with the result of a hidden camera investigation by Truth Wins Out, an activist group that combats "ex-gay" claims. In his account of what it was like to pose as a man "struggling with homosexuality," John Becker describes being told “it’s possible to be totally free" of same-sex attraction. “It’s happened! It really has happened to people,” the counselor on the tape reportedly says. Portions of the videos aired for the first time on Monday night as part of the ABC News report.

The Bachmann & Associates website lists its range of therapeutic services in broad strokes, including "anger management" and "marriage counseling," and counselors there claim to specialize in things like "men’s and women’s issues" and "shame."Rep. Michele Bachmann claims it would be immoral to say whether her husband's... more

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In His Own Words: How I Went Undercover at Bachmann's Clinic

Truth Wins Out activist John Becker took a hidden camera with him to five therapy... more

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Gay's Force Agenda on Innocent School Children

Orange County public schools may soon have to teach the history and contributions of... more

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Catholic Theologian James Alison says if ex-gays are real, then prove it. Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence.

Alison says if the Church makes an outlandish claim, then they need to back it up with... more

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Tony Destructo: God Hates Dumbasses

Destructo takes on a pastor that protests marine funerals.

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Herman Cain: Homosexuality Is ‘A Sin’ And ‘A Choice’

In an interview Wednesday with CBS News, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain... more

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Gay Sex is a Class Six Felony in Virginia. Dispute triggered by gay flag waving over the Federal Reserve Building.

Some of you may know that the Federal Reserve is hanging a rainbow flag to honor gays... more

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Rolling Stone: Roger Ailes' Bomb Proof Office Protects Him From 'Those Gays'

Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes is big on security. And as he sees it, according a... more

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CNN's Don Lemon... "My Faith: How I Learned to Stop 'Praying Away the Gay'"

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/22/my-faith-how-i-learned-to-stop-praying-away-th... more

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Gallup: For First Time, Majority of Americans Favor Legal Gay Marriage

PRINCETON, NJ -- For the first time in Gallup's tracking of the issue, a majority... more

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Don Lemon is an Open Book

In his new memoir, Transparent, CNN's Emmy award–winning journalist talks about pride, getting personal on the air, and how being gay gave him a leg up on the competition.
By Winston Gieseke

Don Lemon was imbued with the gift of pride at a young age. The youngest of three and the only male in a houseful of women, Lemon was encouraged by his family to dream big. “I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States,” he says. “I was told I could be whatever I wanted.”

But despite the support and encouragement he received at home in his small Louisiana community, Lemon says growing up gay in the Deep South left him feeling different from other kids — a feeling he now believes has served him well. “I think it made me keener about human behavior,” says Lemon, who came out to his family after moving to New York to go to college. “I felt empathy for people who were shunned, who were bullied, who were teased. It made me more aware of the human condition at an early age. I don’t know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.”

As a journalist Lemon has covered some of the biggest stories of the past decade, including Hurricane Katrina, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and the Washington, D.C., snipers, for which he won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award. He was a correspondent for the NBC Nightly News and Today before joining CNN in 2006, where he eventually landed the coveted spot of anchor for the prime-time weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. In 2009, Ebony magazine named him one of the most influential African Americans in the U.S.

After being approached by a publisher who thought Lemon’s career journey would make a motivating memoir, the 45-year-old journalist embarked on a process that ended up becoming an important journey in itself. “The book is called Transparent, but it could be called Transformation,” he says. “It was originally going to be an inspiring story about how I became successful, but when I started writing it all of these other things came out. And as I would read it back and become emotional, I said, ‘If I’m going to write a book, I need to tell everything. I need to be transparent.’ ”

What emerged is an engaging tale of triumph — the story of a man who grew up amid family secrets (including, for the first few years of Lemon’s life, the identity of his father), who overcame discrimination and refused to take no for an answer, who wasn’t afraid to take chances in his career and in life. Even on live television.

Lemon made news by revealing during a broadcast that as a child he had been the victim of a pedophile (whom he identifies in his memoir as an older boy in his neighborhood). He was interviewing four young adults from Bishop Eddie Long’s congregation who were defending the bishop against charges of sexual impropriety on the basis that he didn’t fit the profile of a sexual predator. While Lemon didn’t want to make a judgment about Long’s guilt or innocence, he felt it was important to convey what he knew firsthand — that sexual abusers come in unpredictable packages. “I was trying to say to those young kids that people aren’t always who they present themselves to be,” he says. “No one’s going to say, ‘Hey, I’m a predator. Let’s go to McDonald’s.’ ”

Lemon, who was overwhelmed by the messages he received applauding his courage and candor, insists the on-air revelation was completely spontaneous and agenda-free. The acknowledgment of his sexual orientation in Transparent is handled in similar way; it’s hardly a bombshell in the book. “I haven’t been in the closet for a long time,” he says. “It was just something I didn’t talk about in interviews. But I would date people and I would be out.”

He may not have gone public in a splashy announcement, but he says he didn’t go to great lengths to hide being gay. “I never played that game, that on-the-down-low thing,” he says. “I was too self-aware and I respected myself enough — and women enough — to not play that game.” Today, the only game he’s playing is the relationship one. For the past four years, Lemon has been dating a producer who works in television.

Lemon says CNN is supportive of the book and his decision to reveal personal aspects of his life in it. As for others who are contemplating coming out publicly or otherwise, Lemon offers a bit of advice. “I do feel it’s important for other people to take the leap,” he says, “but they should do it in their own time. It’s very personal. People being honest and open about who they are can only make things better. I’m very proud of what I’m doing and I hope it inspires other people to do the same.”In his new memoir, Transparent, CNN's Emmy award–winning journalist talks... more

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"Corrective Rape," Killing of Gay Rights Campaigner

Alleged rape, killing of gay rights campaigner sparks call for action By Faith... more

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Antigay Okla. Lawmaker Makes Racist Remarks

Sally Kern, the Republican state representative from Oklahoma who compared LGBT people... more

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'IT GETS BETTER' from the employees of NBCUniversal

Employees of NBCUniversal share their personal & empowering messages for the It... more

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Right-Wing Warns Of 'Homosexual Indoctrination' In Public Schools

To hear some on the political right talk about it, "homosexual... more

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Study: Teen Suicide Lower in Liberal, Gay-Friendly Areas

Gay and bisexual youth who live in areas with a higher proportion of same-sex couples... more

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