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Former Gill Foundation Executive Director Rodger MacFarlane describes Gill's strategic approach to funding the LGBT civil rights movement. He shares details of the Foundation's strategic planning process and subsequent restructuring to better serve its grantees and advance its mission.
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Meet the couple who got engaged on live TV during a Washington D.C. City Council meeting. The couple were among 250 other individuals who testified for the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act. If passed, the bill would allow same-sex couples to be legally marry within the Dis...
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Coming Out
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Brian Burke, the President and GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and his son Brendan Burke talk to Canada's The Sports Network (TSN) about Brendan's coming out and the struggles and challenges that still exist for gay athletes.
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In the weeks since Maine voters handed the gay marriage movement its 27th electoral defeat in five years, other activists have voiced similar qualms about making marriage their main goal. Gay rights leaders have insisted that anything less than full marriage equality is unacceptable, but some are as...
The Gay Civil Rights Movement Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air interviews author Jeff Sharlett about the work of America's elite Fundamentalist group known as 'The Family'. The Family is connected to proposed anti-gay legislation in Ugandathat could sentence, quote, repeat offenders to the death penalty.
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The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Uganda
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Britain and Canada today led Commonwealth protests against a law proposed by the Ugandan parliament which would introduce the death penalty by hanging for "aggravated homosexuality".
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Washington D.C.
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The District of Columbia Council is expected to vote next week to legalize same-sex marriage in the nation's capital. While Congress could use its power to overturn the law, local and national factors appeared to be aligned against any effort to do so.
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Turkey
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Ahmet Yildiz was shot last year outside his apartment in Istanbul, in what may have been the first “honor killing” of a gay man to gain public attention.
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Florida
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With the help of the ACLU, Martin Gill is challenging Florida's longstanding law that bans gay people from adopting. In November 2008, a Florida juvenile court judge ruled that Gill should be able to adopt the two young brothers he and his partner were fostering. However, the state of Florida appeal...
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Why would you want to take a portrait of someone without showing his or her face? The essence of portrait photography, after all, is to capture the spirit of the subject and to reveal some crucial aspect of his or her identity. But in the case of L.A. photographer Jeff Sheng's latest project, captu...
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Sports
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He cares very deeply about you and your happiness. You say he has always been there when you needed him. And he has a great sense of humor. Imagine that. But on this night in 2007, you are petrified of your dad. Because you, Brendan Burke, at 19 years old, are about to tell your dad, Mr. Testostero...
The Gay Civil Rights Movement and Science
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NatGeo explains how one's sexual orientation is determined during embryonic development. They look at how it is possible for one identical twin to be gay and the other to be straight. They address a new branch of Genetics called, Epigenetics.
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