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Boy Scouts to Continue Excluding Gay People

Submitted by ONE Community on July 18, 2012 - 4:32pm

The Boy Scouts of America has reaffirmed its longtime policy of barring openly gay boys from membership and gay or lesbian adults from serving as leaders. The decision, announced on Tuesday, came after what the organization described as a wide-ranging internal review, and despite public protests.

“While a majority of our membership agrees with our policy, we fully understand that no single policy will accommodate the many diverse views among our membership or society,” said the Bob Mazzuca, the chief Scout executive, according to the statement. Read more »

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Scout official resigns, supports ousted gay leader

Submitted by ONE Community on May 2, 2012 - 10:07am

A board member for an Ohio regional Boy Scouts group who resigned to protest the removal of a lesbian den mother said he wants the national organization to review its ban on gays.

The Boy Scouts of America's policy of not allowing gays within its ranks has been debated for more than a decade since being upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is facing renewed questioning in eastern Ohio after Jennifer Tyrrell, the mother of a 7-year-old scout, was thrown out in April.

David Sims resigned from the Ohio River Valley Council's board Friday after learning of Tyrrell's story. Read more »

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GLAAD launches Commentator Accountability Project

Submitted by ONE Community on March 16, 2012 - 5:59pm

From Politico:

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is launching a new effort today to target 36 commentators who speak out against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people. Read more »

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MTV Gets Top Marks for Gay Inclusion on Shows

Submitted by ONE Community on July 24, 2010 - 3:02pm

"The Real World" and "America's Best Dance Crew" helped MTV became the first TV network to win an "excellent" rating for its portrayal of gay, lesbian and transgender people on television, the U.S. activist group GLAAD said on Friday.

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Now, CNN Tackles Gays in America

Submitted by ONE Community on June 25, 2010 - 1:46pm
With an eclectic body of documentaries on the African-American and Latino communities completed over the past three years, journalist Soledad O’Brien has built “In America” into a respected, influential, and popular CNN franchise. Focusing her latest effort on two New York City gay men who called on the aid of an egg donor and a surrogate gestational carrier, O’Brien now extends her reach into the LGBT community. In what O’Brien said is just the first in an ongoing series of documentaries to be produced under the rubric “Gay in America,” “Gary + Tony Have a Baby” — chronicling the efforts undertaken by Gary Spino and Anthony Brown that resulted in the birth late last year of their son Nicholas — premieres on June 24 at 8 p.m., Eastern and Pacific time, and will be rerun on June 26 and 27
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Is Hollywood 'gay' enough?

Submitted by ONE Community on April 8, 2010 - 3:08pm
(CNN) -- Whether they're raising their adopted baby girl, dodging homophobic quips from their fraternity brothers or teaching the "Single Ladies" dance to the football team after glee club, it seems gay characters are becoming a vital part of prime time TV. With characters like "Modern Family's" Mitchell and Cameron, Calvin from "Greek" and Kurt from "Glee," the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters on scripted programs has just about doubled since 2005, according to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation. And characters will continue to identify as LGBT as time goes on, such as "Ugly Betty's" Justin, who recently had his first same-sex kiss.
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Adam Lambert "I'm gay"

Submitted by ONE Community on June 15, 2009 - 8:06am
By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) June 9, 2009 - "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert has told Rolling Stone magazine he is gay, answering a question that followed the singer for months since he gained millions of fans on the No. 1 U.S. TV talent show. "I don't think it should be a surprise for anyone to hear that I'm gay," Lambert told the music magazine in excerpts from an interview that were released on Tuesday. "I'm proud of my sexuality," he said. "I embrace it. It's just another part of me."
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