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National Coming Out Day: We are gay, we are out and we are proud! Share your story!

Today is National Coming Out Day.

Now, more than ever, it is time to take a stand and let family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and people we do business with know that we are gay, we are out and we are proud!

As the LGBT community continues to make major gains in acceptance and tolerance among the American public, evidenced by countless polls and studies in recent years, the work is far from done.

Lured into a trap in the Bronx, then tortured for being gay

NEW YORK -- He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture — he was sodomized, burned and whipped.

All punishment, the police said Friday, for being gay.

Indiana state official accused of public indecency in a restroom resigns

INDIANAPOLIS -- Andrew J. Miller, Indiana motor vehicles commissioner, resigned late Thursday, a day after being arrested for public indecency.

Miller, a member of Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels’ administration, was accused of exposing himself to a male undercover police officer in a public restroom in downtown Indianapolis.

The incident occurred at Claypool Court near the Circle Centre mall. Police said they had set up stings after receiving complaints of lewd activity.

Protests against LDS Apostle’s anti-gay sermon planned

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- Just days after an LDS Apostle’s anti-gay remarks made national headlines, Utah’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community has planned a number of events to protest the leader’s sermon, and to show support for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their straight allies.

VIDEO: Meet Chris Armstrong, gay student body president cyber bullied by Michigan assistant attorney general

NEW YORK -- Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan, breaks his silence about the stalking and cyber bullying that he has endured from Andrew Shirvell, the state’s assistant attorney general.

Armstrong, who is a senior on the Ann Arbor campus, spoke with Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night on “AC360.”

He told Cooper that he was speaking out because of the rash of gay teen suicides, sending bullied kids a message of hope and urging them to reach out to family and friends for support.

VIDEO: Larry Flynt to out closeted gay senator?

According to a CNN report, attorneys for Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps are citing Larry Flynt's landmark case against the (late) Rev. Jerry Falwell as part of the defense in its U.S. Supreme Court case.

Flynt gives CNN a reaction to his inclusion in the case, and also teases that he's holding onto some potentially explosive political secrets.


VIDEO: All eyes on Supreme Court case involving homophobic Westboro pickets at military funerals

Attorneys general from 48 states and the District of Columbia are closely watching oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court today in a free-speech case that questions whether -- and to what extent -- a Kansas church can protest at the funerals of U.S. service members.

VIDEOS: HRC says NOM charitable group violates tax-exempt status by campaigning for Carly Fiorina in California

SAN DIEGO – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) today called on the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to explain why its tax-exempt charitable organization, the Ruth Institute – a project of NOM’s Marriage Education Fund – is violating federal laws by intervening on behalf of a candidate for elected office.

On Monday, Ruth Institute President Jennifer Roback Morse spoke on behalf of her organization at a campaign stop of the “Vota Tus Valores” bus tour, a NOM-backed independent expenditure in support of California Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina in San Diego.

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Country music singer Chely Wright: "I wanted to be a voice" for gays and lesbians

Chely Wright came out publicly this spring. Before that, she was an award-winning country music star. Now it may appear to some that she is a professional lesbian. But she is so much more.

Her coming out process was very much like a marketing campaign, and Chely planned it that way. She spoke to all the big names -- Entertainment Weekly and People in print; "The Today Show," "Ellen" and her riveting appearance on "Oprah," on television.

Chelsea LGBT group debuts anti-homophobia subway campaign in New York

GREENWICH VILLAGE — Amid reports of gay hate crimes in Greenwich Village and Chelsea and a national discussion about suicide among LGBT youth, the Chelsea-based Gay Men's Health Crisis Center launched a new anti-homophobia subway campaign Monday.

The "I Love My Boo" campaign will plaster 1,000 subway cars and 150 subway stations with posters that highlight healthy, monogamous relationships among black and Latino gay men.

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