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Rangel, Sharpton and other black leaders talk to TheLoop21 on LGBT rights Community leaders speak out on blacks' supposed hostility against gays. ...

California Gay Couples Must Wait to Wed During Prop. 8 Appeal Calif. Same-Sex Couples Must Wait to Wed During Appeal Gay couples who had been gearing up to get married in California this week had to put their wedding plans on hold once again after a federal appeals court said it first wanted to consider the constitutionality of the state's same-sex marriage ban, msnbc.com reports. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals imposed an emergency stay Monday on a trial court judge's ruling overturning the ban, known as ...

Does MLK's family realize Malcolm X was on the downlow? Maybe homophobia wouldn't be as pervasive in the black community if we accepted some of our heroes as gay. ...

Gay marriage, the legacy of Civil Rights and the black community Gay marriage passes an important hurdle in understanding Black History and Civil Rights ...

Court Overturns Prop. 8, Allows Gay Marriage In California Federal judge in San Francisco decided today that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions, Los Angeles Times reports. U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker said Proposition 8, passed by voters in November 2008, violated the federal constitutional rights of gays and lesbians to marry the partners of their choice.. His ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. 9th Circuit ...

Cop Says He Killed Masturbating CEO After Being Attacked Defarra Gaymon was a 48 year-old married father of four and CEO of the Credit Union of Atlanta. Last Friday night, he was shot and killed by a Newark police officer shortly after leaving his 30th high school reunion, gawker.com reports. Yesterday, the Essex County prosecutor finally relayed the officer's statement to the press. The ...

The court case on gay marriage is as pivotal as Brown v. Board of Education But the judge in the Proposition 8 case has a bizarre line of questioning for the litigants ...

Transgender, Gay Workers' Civil Rights Promoted in Employment Non-Discrimination Act bill  As the Obama administration reviews whether to discard the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, House Democratic leaders are quietly pushing another testy issue in the culture wars: civil rights for transgender workers,  the Washington Post reports.  ...

Self-hating gays: Bigots or just neurotic? A parade of gay sex scandals by anti-gay crusaders ...

The Obama administration’s quiet gay rights revolution Going from the gay community’s greatest target to its greatest hope? ...