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The Advocate celebrates 45 years

SDGLN Staff
August 21st, 2012

LOS ANGELES -- The Advocate will celebrate its 45-years of sharing news, information, and entertainment with the LGBT community with a special anniversary issue that is rolling out this week.

Since its first issue was published in 1967, The Advocate has been an agent of change, a voice for the marginalized, and a connective thread that brought isolated people together. Through the years, the brand expanded from a 12-page mimeographed newsletter with few resources, to a full multimedia, powerhouse brand including the print, online, digital, and mobile incarnations.

Prop 8 architect named Archbishop of San Francisco

SDGLN Staff
July 28th, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO – Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, one of the leading architects in the campaign to pass the discriminatory Proposition 8 in California, has been named the new Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI.

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Fred Karger proud to make history as first gay candidate for President

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
May 25th, 2012

SAN DIEGO -- Fred who?

You know, that guy running for President of the United States. The one who made history as the first-ever openly gay candidate seeking the highest office in the land. The guy who launched the humorous “Fred who?” campaign to drum up his recognition factor.

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COMMENTARY: NOM lets others do their dirty work

Mark Potok - Senior Fellow at Southern Poverty Law Center
March 30th, 2012

About the worst thing said about gay men, an allegation that is regularly dragged out by certain religious-right organizations, is that they molest children at rates vastly higher than their heterosexual counterparts. It is as devastating a charge as one can make in a country where jailed pedophiles, known in prison parlance as “short eyes,” are frequently murdered by self-righteous fellow inmates.

Anti-gay activists looking for glamorous, unintelligent celebrities to advance their cause

Aaron McQuade - Director of News and Field Media, GLAAD
March 28th, 2012

(This article originally appeared on the GLAAD blog. GLAAD is a content-sharing partner with SDGLN.)

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COMMENTARY: Fred Karger says Maggie Gallagher bites the hand that feeds her

Fred Karger - Cross-posted from Truth Wins Out
March 28th, 2012

(Editor's note: Fred Karger is the first-ever openly gay Republican running for President. You may not know a lot about Karger or his campaign, since he has been denied participation in all the Republican presidential debates.

We are now certain based on much evidence that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was created by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) in 2008 to qualify and pass California’s Proposition 8.

Meet NOM's new face of hate: John C. Eastman

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
September 22nd, 2011

WASHINGTON -- The anti-gay hate group National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has ousted Maggie Gallagher as chairman of the board and named college professor John C. Eastman in her place.

Californians will recognize Eastman for his failed campaign to be elected state Attorney General in 2010. He finished second in a three-man race in the Republican primary and did not qualify for the general election. Eastman also lost a 1990 bid for Congress from California's 34th District.

Eastman, 51, is a professor at Chapman University School of Law in Orange, Calif.

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COMMENTARY: NOM is skating on thin ice

Fred Karger - Cross-posted from alan.com
July 8th, 2011

Editor's note: Fred Karger, seeking the Republican nomination for president, is the first openly gay candidate of a major party to do so. Political candidates are entitled to two commentaries per month on SDGLN.

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COMMENTARY with VIDEO: Phony polls, false witnesses, faulty science doom Religious Right

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
June 22nd, 2011

The Religious Right is losing the fight over cultural issues in America because it is impossible to stand on a platform whose flimsy foundation is based on the four pillars of bigotry, discrimination, homophobia and lies.

Take the hysteria over the past week in Albany, N.Y., as the New York Senate tries to take up a bill that would legalize marriage equality in the Empire State.

Numerous polls taken this year show that New Yorkers favor same-sex marriage by about 60%.

VIDEOS: GetEQUAL surprises NOM's Maggie Gallagher with an "award"

SDGLN Staff
April 19th, 2011

WASHINGTON -- In "honor" of her bigotry and anti-gay vitriol, GetEQUAL presented Maggie Gallagher, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, with the "First Annual Anita Bryant 'Unparalleled Bigotry' Award" at Friday's U.S. House hearing on "Defending Marriage."

Gallagher, who was a witness at the hearing called by GOP lawmakers, was first greeted by a representative from GetEQUAL to remind her of the consequences of her bigotry on LGBT teens.