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Human Rights Campaign has been slow to respond to the $250,000 donation by corporate giants Target and Best Buy to anti-gay would-be Minnesota governor Tom Emmer. Now, HRC is collecting signatures on an open letter demanding that Target and Best Buy “make it right” by donating another $250,000 “to support fair-minded candidates who will fight [...]

Pam Anderson is doing her part to aid victims of the oil spill. Anderson, the honorary director of PETA, personally paid local adoption, spay-and-neuter and flea treatment costs to relocate the pooches to Virginia, where PETA is based.

“Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about ‘Jewish domination of the media’ and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence,” Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL national director, said in a statement. “This is [...]

A Michigan-based gay rights foundation has given more than $400,000 to a California seminary to help craft formal liturgies for the Episcopal Church to bless gay and lesbian relationships. The Episcopal Church still officially considers marriage between a man and a woman, reflected in the marriage rite of its Book of Common Prayer. Many dioceses, [...]

NBC’s “Today” show said it is changing the rules for its annual wedding contest to allow same-sex couples to apply for a ceremony conducted on morning TV. Already thousands of couples have expressed interest in the on-air wedding, which the top-rated morning show has sponsored for a decade, a spokeswoman said. “We’re thrilled that ‘Today’ [...]

A federal district judge in Boston declared that the federal ban on recognizing same-sex marriage – as articulated in the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA – is unconstitutional. The judge based his decision on the notion that states, not the federal government, have jurisdiction over the definition of marriage. If his decision holds [...]

Google is going to begin covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits, largely to compensate them for an extra tax that heterosexual married couples do not pay. The increase will be retroactive to the beginning of the year. Under federal law, employer-provided health benefits [...]