Bob Collins
Last July, Major League Baseball used its biggest in-season stage — the All-Star Game in Minneapolis — to try to convince people that its days of creating a hostile environment for the gay athlete — or gays at all — are over. Read more →
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Tag: LGBT
The conservative group that’s opposed to the Minnesota State High School League’s proposed policy for transgender athletes has pulled another full-page ad out of the ‘say what?’ file.
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A monument to Apple founder Steve Jobs outside Russia’s IT University has been taken down, apparently because its creators were afraid it violates the recent Russian law against “gay propaganda.” Read more →
When Linda Robertson’s son revealed to her that he was gay, she and her husband told their son ‘he had to choose between Jesus and his sexuality. ‘ He did. And died.
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A conservative group, protesting a proposal that transgender students in Minnesota be allowed to play high school sports, went the full shower route in a full-page ad in the Sunday Star Tribune.
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Daniel Ashley Pierce, 19, made $93,000 in the last few weeks by getting thrown out of his home by his mother. He’s gay. The Georgia teenager posted a YouTube video late last month of his mother telling him to “get out” earlier this week on GoFundMe, in order to raise money for living expenses. (Obscenities Read more →
The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →
It’s too late for Glenn Burke but Major League Baseball might be taking one tiny, overdue step in acknowledging the gay athlete by inviting his family to the All-Star Game. Read more →
The latest battleground for gay rights? St. Patrick’s Day parades, specifically the one in Boston, home to one of the countries largest Irish enclaves.
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Gay athletes in the U.S. Olympic delegation to Russia are sending a loud message to the International Olympic Committee that it doesn’t want to hear. Read more →
Does two make a trend? For the second time in under a month, a restaurant server got a lecture on the meal check about her sexual orientation instead of the tip she deserved. In Bridgewater, N.J., Dayna Morales posted on the Have a Gay Day Facebook page that a couple stiffed her on the $95 Read more →
Haven’t heard Officer Javier Pagan’s story of the Boston Marathon bombing? You should. Read more →