“What’s powerful about it is that hip hop culture has become the new rock and roll in many ways. Hip hop is such a driving force of pop culture and there’s so much masculinity associated with the hip hop community.” “Guys look up to Jay-Z. So for somebody like that—with such a high-profile and respect—to [...]
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(CNN) – A gay pride parade in Mormon-heavy Salt Lake City drew thousands of participants, including a few hundred Mormons, whose church has been criticized by gay rights activists for its activism against same-sex marriage. The Mormon contingent for Sunday’s parade wasn’t made up of gay members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day [...]
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Queen Latifah is denying that she came out during a recent appearance at the Long Beach lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Pride festival. The rapper-actress-singer has long faced rumors that she is a lesbian and the fact that the Southern California event marked her first performance at a Pride festival had convinced excited fans that [...]
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The documentary is titled Truth and described as “a journey through the lives of trans- and nongendered people around the world and their epic struggle for equality.” The film will be directed by Robert Jason and is expected to begin production this summer. “All people are very important to me,” Jackson says in a statement released [...]
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President Obama issued his annual Pride Month proclamation Friday and for the first time ever the President included his support for same-sex marriage. “I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June [...]
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Another Christian pastor’s anti-gay rant has come to light in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) blogosphere. As first reported by Good As You’s Jeremy Hooper, Curtis Knapp, pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church in Seneca, Kan., appears to call for the death of gays in this disturbing audio. “They should be put [...]
Continue reading …When churches start propagating hate and intolerance then they are no different from religious islamic extremist that they like to condemn so much . It’s a sad thing that most of these christian’s don’t even follow the words of christ who preached about love above all things . Disturbing footage of what appears to [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO — In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites. The response was overwhelming: 94% were opposed, a sentiment that held for decades. It took nearly 40 years until a majority of those surveyed said marriage between people of different skin colors was acceptable. [...]
Continue reading …President Obama’s public endorsement of gay marriage hasn’t had any discernible effect on his approval rating or his head-to-head standing with Mitt Romney. And with Romney and most top Republicans largely content to leave the subject alone, it seems clear that the marriage issue will play a very minimal role in the national campaign, if [...]
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