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Posts Tagged ‘Gay Rights’

Declaration Demonstration Raised Awareness of Inequality

By Joel McDonald • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Blog, Lead Story

It is a foundational doctrine in the development of our nation, and it’s time that GLBT people stand up and demand that the promise of equality become a reality in their lives.



Pictures from the National Equality March 2009

By Melanie Jones • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Pictures showing both the magnitude march and the personal resolve of the activists demanding for equality for all people.



Reflecting on the National Equality March

By Joel McDonald • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

We did much more than put pressure on the grass during the National March for Equality. We marched in affirmation of who we are, with the knowledge of the rights that we, as Americans, should have.



Curring Homosexuality as a Choice?

By Melanie Jones • Sep 28th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Conservative Christian communities have long advocated that homosexuality is a choice, one that once the offender had found the true path laid out by God will be abandoned.



For GLBT equality, a coalition must be built

By Joel McDonald • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Just for Fun

Building a coalition requires exposing the general public to the realities of what it means to be GLBT. It needs to become more than a concept to people. It needs to become personal.



Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Protest a Success in Virginia Beach

By Joel McDonald • Aug 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

The GLBT community came together to rally for their rights and protest against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell at Town Center in Virginia Beach, VA. [Pictures and Video Included]



Bob McDonnell’s fight against equality in Virginia [Video]

By Joel McDonald • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Campaigns & Elections

Bob McDonnell talks about his beliefs about marriage with CBNs Pat Robertson, and describes how he helped write discrimination into the Constitution of Virginia.



Obama opens way for expansion of benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees

By Joel McDonald • Jun 18th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum opening the way for the extension some benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, calling it a first step in the fight for equality, and against injustice and intolerance.



Obama Administration slams gay community in legal brief

By Joel McDonald • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

We knew that we were not electing an activist for gay marriage when we cast our votes for Barack Obama last November. What we didn’t vote for what for the same rhetoric used as pathetic arguments against the gay marriage and the gay community as a whole used by the Obama Administration.



Amazing testimony from young man on gay marriage

By Joel McDonald • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog, Related News

Amazing testimony from a young man who is fighting to be seen as an equal in the eyes of the State of Vermont. [Video]