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Ashers Bakery lost a court case after refusing to make a cake with the words “support gay marriage” above a picture of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street. The McArthur family who own the bakery were found guilty of unlawful discrimination and fined £500. The bakery’s general manager Daniel McArthur said: “We don’t want to…
Did you know marriage equality is a mainstream thing these days? Polling released Monday shows that fully 56 percent of Americans are more than ready for the Supreme Court to do gay marriage to the entire country, and those numbers grow every single year. So you’d think a commercial featuring a gay Republican military doctor who really wants…
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been tweeting up a storm since Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by a national vote. When an Irish fan tweeted to the best-selling children’s book writer with the hope that Ireland’s vote would make wizards like Albus Dumbledore feel more welcome in the country, Rowling…
Expressions of wingnut support for Josh Duggar and his molesty past are starting to drip in, now that they’ve remembered that the focus of the narrative is REDEMPTION, because they have Jesus and you don’t. They are saved, you are going to hell. They can fuck kids, and you don’t fuck kids in the first…
When a straight dad gets blasted by the Internet for being an attentive father, what chance do two loving gay dads have? None, as a viral Instagram photo of proud pops Kordale and Kaleb proved this week. Power couple Kordale, of Chicago, and Kaleb, of Atlanta, clearly love their two daughters a perfect amount, as…
A man is being investigated for felonious assault after striking another man over the head with a chair, as seen in an Instagram video, posted May 5, 2015. By Brian Ries2015-05-06 16:38:50 UTC An Instagram video captured the shocking moment a man viciously clobbered two gay men over their heads with a chair at a…
Miley Cyrus has changed, just a little, from her Hannah Montana days. We can’t quite put our finger on what is different about her. Maybe it’s the short hair or the constant tongue-wagging or the dilated pupils.Whatever it is, she seems to be heading in a good direction. Cyrus made a media splash on Tuesday—not…
“We are especially concerned about how this legislation could affect our student-athletes and employees,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said in a statement Thursday afternoon. He said the NCAA will “work diligently” to ensure competitors and visitors at next week’s Final Four are not “negatively impacted by this bill.” Emmert also said the organization, which is…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — An Orange County, Calif., attorney has filed a proposed ballot measure with the California Attorney General’s office asking voters to criminalize homosexuality in the state and impose a death penalty sentence. The filing, submitted along with the required fee of $200, will allow attorney Matthew G. McLaughlin to begin the process…
Obama lied, nobody died. Is it okay, then? Maybe don’t believe in the part about opposing gay marriage. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images Eight years ago today, Barack Obama formally declared his presidential candidacy. He was opposed to gay marriage, a stance that his former adviser David Axelrodnow admitswas a sham. Obama privately believed in gay…