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Daryl Cagle | Military Sexual Assaults / media.cagle.com

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 10:30 — Dave Culver

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TWO Condemns Boy Scouts Decision As Cowardly, Incoherent, And Mean-Spirited

Sat, 05/25/2013 - 10:21 — Dave Culver

Today’s decision was degrading, dehumanizing, and disgraceful. It stigmatized LGBT people and their families and sends the dangerous message that they are inferior and a threat to society.
MD Gov. Deval Patrick | Gay Marriage and the Right to Be Ordinary

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May 23, 2013 An estimated 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) National Council just voted 61-38 percent to end the ban on gay youth participating in the program, but kept its outrageous and offensive policy banning gay leaders and volunteers.

The following is TWO Executive Director Wayne Besen’s statement:

Today’s Boy Scout’s decision was insulting and pandered to ignorance and bigotry at the expense of gay people and their families. Allowing gay scouts but not adult scout leaders was a compromise – only in the sense that BSA compromised its integrity and decency. Let’s be clear — this was not a step forward, but a step backward, because it reinforced the most vile stereotypes and misconceptions deliberately peddled by anti-gay activists.

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"Nine years ago Friday, same-sex marriages started happening in Massachusetts, and the time since then has proved wonderfully unremarkable. The sky has not fallen. The earth has not opened to swallow us up."

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MD Gov. Deval Patrick | Gay Marriage and the Right to Be Ordinary

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 17:04 — Dave Culver

Gov. Deval Patrick, Washington (DC) Post

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signing H.3810, 'An Act Relative To Gender Identity,' in the Senate Reading Room at the State House on Thursday. (photo: Eric Haynes/Governor's Office)

May 16, 2013 | I had an uncle whose second or third wife nobody in my family liked. I don’t really know why, and I didn’t have an opinion of my own. Yet no one uttered a contrary word in their presence. We may have been poor folk on the South Side of Chicago, but we had a Victorian sense of decorum. It was generally understood both that my family disapproved and that my uncle and aunt’s marriage was nobody’s business but their own.

When I was 10, around the same time I was coming to understand my family’s attitude toward my uncle’s marriage, the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional to prohibit blacks and whites from marrying. Now, that seems like another world ago. Interracial marriages are common today. Loving v. Virginia marked a seismic cultural shift. Yet what applied to my uncle’s marriage made sense here, too. Some things are private matters, nobody else’s business.

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Military Sexual Assaults Spike Despite Efforts To Combat Epidemic

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 12:43 — Dave Culver

The report released Tuesday by Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) follows the Sunday arrest of Lt. Col Jeffrey Krusinski, head of the Air Force SAPRO program, under allegations of sexual assault of a woman.
Film shows challenges of female veterans.

Molly O'Toole, Huffington Post

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel expressed "disgust" Monday at the arrest of an Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Officer on Sunday on allegations of sexual assault. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

05/07/2013 | Sexual assaults occurred at an average of more than 70 per day in the United States military during 2012, according to an annual report released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Reports of sexual assault in the military rose during October 2011 through September 2012 by 6 percent from the prior year. A total of about 26,000 service members said they experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, nearly 7,000 more than in 2010, when about 19,300 members of the military reported inappropriate sexual contact.

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Sue Downes, who served as a driver and gunner in Afghanistan, had both legs amputated below the knee after her Humvee hit landmines in 2005.
Stand with anti-war veteran Mike Prysner against right-wing attacks!

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Dave Granlund | Depressed teens / media.cagle.com

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 10:46 — Dave Culver

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Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into ‘men’

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 10:33 — Dave Culver

Game ranger course 'general' is on trial for murder, child abuse, neglect, and allegedly forcing teen to eat his own faces.
Honey, we’re praying for you

Joe Morgan, Gay Star News

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29 April 2013 | Three ‘gay and effeminate’ teens have died after being starved, tortured and killed at a camp that promised to turn them into 'men'.

A picture of Raymond Buys, 15, taken in April 2011 showed a skeletal, emaciated figure fighting for his life.

Just 10 weeks before, the teen’s parents signed him up to the Echo Wild Game Rangers training course in South Africa in perfect health.

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My parents can't handle the fact that I'm gay, and we'll never agree on religion. But I've found acceptance anyway.
Bayli takes the fight against bullying to Washington

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