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Deb Price – Author of First Nationally Syndicated Gay Column – Ends her Run at Detroit News

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Published June 4, 2010 at 4:58 p.m.

Deb Price broke barriers in 1992 when she became the first-ever syndicated columnist to write from a gay perspective. Nearly 1000 columns later, Price is leaving her post at The Detroit News to pursue a journalism fellowship in Massachusetts.In her farewell column published this week, Price reflects on the people she met while on her [ ... ] ...

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GLAAD Calls on Advertisers to Explain Support for Fox’s “The O’Reilly Factor”

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Published June 4, 2010 at 4:22 p.m.

Today GLAAD released a list of advertisers that supported the June 2 broadcast of Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.” During that broadcast, host Bill O’Reilly likened gay people to the international terrorist organization, al Qaeda.After playing a gay-friendly McDonald’s commercial from France, O’Reilly asked commentator Jane Skinner to weigh in on the content. Skinner pointed [ ... ] ...

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GLAAD Urges Media to Scrutinize Offensive Comments by Senator Orrin Hatch

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Published June 4, 2010 at 3:43 p.m.

During a town hall meeting this week on the Dixie State University campus in St. George, Utah, Senator Orrin Hatch made disparaging remarks about lesbian and gay people of faith. As the Salt Lake City Tribune reported:“He said the Republicans need to organize and pull together just as unions, environmentalists, personal injury lawyers and gay [ ... ] ...

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Seattle Man Accused of Assaulting Trans Woman

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Published June 4, 2010 at 12:45 p.m.

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A Seattle man was charged Thursday with malicious harassment under Washington's hate-crime statute after police said he yelled a derogatory slur at a transgender woman and assaulted her ...

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Immigration Officials Allow Gay Couple to Reunite

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Published June 4, 2010 at 12:25 p.m.

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A gay married couple who have been separated because their union is not recognized by federal law have been reunited by immigration officials ...

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OK City Pol Likens Gays to Pedophiles

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Published June 4, 2010 at 8:25 a.m.

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One of Oklahoma City's council members voted against issuing a special event permit for the upcoming gay pride celebration because it runs counter to his Christian beliefs. ...

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Gay Men Plan Blood Ban Action

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Published June 4, 2010 at 6:55 a.m.

HIV-negative gay and bisexual men in Cleveland plan to donate blood Friday and intentionally discard it in an action to demonstrate the urgent need to lift the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on their blood donations ...

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