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The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to take up a bill that would extend "Respect" to all American families--and repeal the anti-gay law form 1996 that forbids any federal level recognition of same-sex couples.

An activist with an anti-gay organization has sent word to America’s parents to watch out for gay doctors and nurses, and to be sure to let their children’s physicians know that GLBT hospital staff shouldn’t be allowed near injured kids.

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain says that being a sexual minority is a "choice," whereas being a racial minority in not--because being a racial minority is not something that a person can simply "wash off."

New research shows that the sex lives of gay men are neither as narrow as some anti-gay stereotypes suggest, nor so very different from how heterosexuals engage in and enjoy sexual contact.

An Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor told students that gays are "disgusting, unnatural and abnormal," according to a lesbian student who confronted him about his remarks. A male alum says the same professor made similar remarks 5 years ago.

An New Jersey teacher who posted anti-gay comments at her Facebook page also told a classroom that it’s a "sin" to be gay, and compared being gay to having "cancer," students allege.

Washington state officials on Monday released copies of signature petitions that forced a vote on a 2009 domestic partnership law, disclosing the names of signers after a judge rejected arguments that supporters could be harassed.

Vandals struck a building at North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, NC, reported NBC News on Oct. 18. The university’s GLBT student group has space in the building that was targeted.

A leader of the "ex-gay" movement, which claims that gays can be "cured" or "converted" into heterosexuals with counseling and prayer, has admitted what many gays have known all along: Being gay is not a disease. Attempts to "cure" it are bound to fail.

The same evangelical preacher who referred to GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith as a "cult" has a similar record of disparaging speech when it comes to LGBTs.