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Counterprotesters say efforts not wasted despite fundamentalist no-show – NewsTimes

March 16, 2010
By Jeff

Dressed as angels, about 30 counterprotesters and about 40 supporters braved Saturday night’s cold, wind-whipped rain to take a stand outside the Brookfield Theatre for the Arts. The angels and their friends were there to block fundamentalist protesters who were scheduled to picket the theatre’s production of “The Laramie Project,”...
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Lesbian Sgt. Discharged After Police Tell Military – NYTimes.com

March 14, 2010
By Jeff

Lesbian Sgt. Discharged After Police Tell Military Filed at 9:37 p.m. ET Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an...
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Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather than Allow Same-Sex Couple to Attend

March 12, 2010
By Jeff

Mississippi School Cancels Prom Rather than Allow Same-Sex Couple to Attend « HRC Back Story March 11, 2010 12:00PM Michael Cole This post is from HRC Youth and Campus Outreach Associate Director Candace Gingrich-Jones: A high school in Mississippi has decided that they will cancel the prom entirely rather than allow a same-sex couple to attend. This...
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The New Jim Crow | Mother Jones

March 9, 2010
By Jeff

The New Jim Crow | Mother Jones Mon Mar. 8, 2010 11:15 AM PST This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating...
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Virginia attorney general to colleges: End gay protections – washingtonpost.com

March 8, 2010
By Jeff

Virginia attorney general to colleges: End gay protections RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt...
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Bob Cesca: The Tea Party Is All About Race

March 6, 2010
By Jeff

The Tea Party Is All About Race I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why they're treated seriously by the press and the Republicans. The analogy would go something like: “Imagine getting a serious profile in a mainstream newspaper, and imagine...
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Flying naked – Ask the Pilot – Salon.com

March 6, 2010
By Jeff

Here at my hometown airport, Boston Logan, the first of Transportation Security Administration's new full-body scanners was wheeled into place earlier this week. More will follow. In Europe, several of the machines are up and running. This is the latest and one of the more disheartening developments in our long war on the abstract noun...
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