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"Growing Pains" star Tracey Gold speaks out for equality after TV brother Kirk Cameron attacks LGBT community

(This article originally appeared on the GLAAD Blog.) SDGLN and GLAAD are content-sharing partners.

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The Blogoweet: Facing our fears and laughing at public foibles

(Editor’s note: The Blogoweet is a social media column where commentary will focus on the blogosphere and twitterscape as topics within in it may interest, apply to, or affect, the LGBT community.)

I began this column back in September, planning it to be a fun and regular analysis and/or summation of the perks and quirks of Social Media.

Not all that surprisingly, it got hijacked early on by my own social commentary, which can and still will happen on occasion.

Both of those first two columns took off like a wildfire, each with lives of their own.

CNN suspends Roland Martin for Super Bowl tweets

(Editor's note: This article was originally published on The Huffington Post. SDGLN is a content-sharing partner with both GLAAD and HuffPost's Gay Voices.)

CNN announced Wednesday that it is suspending Roland Martin in the wake of the pundit's controversial Super Bowl tweets.

ACTION ALERT: Advocates of anti-gay violence have no place at CNN or Time Warner

(This post was originally published at GLAAD Blog.)

Following retailer H&M's Super Bowl commercial featuring soccer player David Beckham, CNN's Roland Martin tweeted to almost 95,000 followers:

"If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl"

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Proposition 8 plaintiffs urge Ninth Circuit to uphold public's right to view historic trial's video

SAN FRANCISCO – The plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown, the landmark federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, late Monday filed a brief defending the public’s right to see the video recording of the historic public trial in this case.

The brief urges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court’s decision granting plaintiffs’ motion to unseal the digital recording of the trial.

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VIDEO: Meet LGBT History Month icon Dan Savage

Editor's note: October is LGBT History Month. Each day this month, Equality Forum will feature one LGBT icon who has made notable contributions to society and SDGLN will publish the story in the Causes section.

Dan Savage is an award-winning author, journalist, newspaper editor and political commentator. He launched the “It Gets Better” video project to combat bullying and prevent LGBT teen suicides.

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VIDEO: Meet LGBT History Month icon Keith Boykin

Editor's note: October is LGBT History Month. Each day this month, Equality Forum will feature one LGBT icon who has made notable contributions to society and SDGLN will publish the story in the Causes section.

Keith Boykin is a political commentator, a New York Times best-selling author and a veteran of two presidential campaigns. He is the editor of The Daily Voice and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and BET.

COMMENTARY: Log Cabin Republicans are right to ask why CNN won’t invite pro-equality candidates to GOP presidential debates

Don’t agree too often with the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), but they are spot-on in their criticism today of CNN.

The global network has decided which Republican presidential candidates will be allowed to participate in its upcoming debates, and they are excluding Fred Karger and Gary Johnson, the only two hopefuls who are openly supportive of equal rights.

Today, LCR called upon CNN to treat all presidential candidates fairly in allowing participation in televised debates.

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COMMENTARY: In "Hot-lanta" you stay "in the closet" as CNN’s Don Lemon did

CNN’s Don Lemon has penned a memoir titled "Transparent" that will come out in September. In writing his book, Lemon said "the decision to come out happened organically."

One of the motivating reasons for Lemon, 45, now revealing his sexual orientation is because of the suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi.

CNN News anchor Don Lemon comes out

ATLANTA – CNN News anchor Don Lemon, who is promoting his memoir, has come out publicly over the weekend.

Lemon, 45, told various media groups that he was scared of the possible fallout from his announcement, particularly among the African-American community. He said his colleagues at CNN were already aware that he was gay, but that he had remained silent about it publicly despite rumors to the contrary.

He released this statement:

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