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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Tags: will & grace, ex-gay ministry, focus on the family, mike haley, jon kinnally, complaint, response, neil patrick harris

We've gotta thank our friends at Huff Po for directing us to our biggest laugh of the day. The website Letters Of Note has unearthed an awesome piece of correspondence between ex-gay former Focus On The Family member, Mike Haley and Will & Grace Story Editor, Jon Kinnally.

In the June 2000 letter, Haley takes Kinally to task for an episode of Will & Grace that mocked the ex-gay movement (an ex-gay leader was memorably portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris). 

Check out Haley's complaint and Kinnally's awesome response after the jump!

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Tags: obama, marriage equality, text messages, anti-gay, human rights campaign, federal communications commission, complaint

To paraphrase Beyonce in Lady Gaga's "Telephone": "Should have left my phone at home cuz this is a disaster..."

The Human Rights Campaign is filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over mass spam text messages that are targeting President Obama and his support of marriage equality. 

People are receiving unsolicited texts saying, "Obama supports homosexuality and its radical social agenda. Say No to Obama on Nov 6!," and other charming messages like that. 

More after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 08 June 2012
Tags: california, ethics office, fair political practices commission, national organization for marriage, nom, fred karger, complaint, prop 8, marriage equality, funds, raised, secret, donors

Fred Karger carries his string of successfully petitioning states to investigate the campaign finances of the National Organization for Marriage to California, where the state's Ethics Office has announced it will jump into the matter. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 01 September 2011
Tags: aids healthcare foundation, florida, bareback, porn, hiv, positive, actor, infected, files complaint, health department, brazzers

After an actor in the stable of bareback porn production company Brazzers allegedly became HIV positive during a shoot, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation decided to scour the public health laws of Florida, the state in which the company operates, for hint of a complaint-worthy violation. What they found is a loophole that they believe allows them to file a complaint for a "sanity nuisance." Details follow.

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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Friday, 19 August 2011
Tags: fred karger, fox news, rupert murdoch, fec, federal elections committee, complaint, file, gay, iowa, debate

Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, likely having hoped GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger would go away quietly after Faux denied him an invitation to its Republican debate last week, are now the subjects of an FEC complaint filed by the openly-gay candidate. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 01 August 2011
Tags: texan, fashion, cowboys, time magazine, complaint, letter to the editor, criticism, nyc pride, huffington post

We are all use to people hating on us gays and our ability to have fun where ever we go. But the complaint that came from one Texan was way harsh. Read after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 03 June 2011
Tags: brisbane, australia, activism, rip and roll, controversy, adshel, anti-gay, homophobia, ads, video, letters of complaint, bigotry, christianity

We've been keeping you up to speed on the safe-sex adverts that were first pulled off Brisbane, Australian bus stops after homophobic letters of complaint reached the advertising host, then returned after an international outcry. Following is a video of safe-sex and hiv/aids activists acting out the anti-gay letters of complaint that inspired Adshel to initially remove the ads. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 02 June 2011
Tags: jose luis sin censura, spanish-language, tv, fcc complaint, glaad, media, homophobia, bigots, d-bags, violence, anti-gay, hate speech, at&t, time warner, controversy, boycott

On Thursday morning, GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) were happy to announce the first major success of a national campaign asking advertisers to pull out of the vehemently anti-gay Spanish-language "Jose Luis sin Censura" show: AT&T and Time Warner Cable have pulled advertising from the show.

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Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Monday, 28 February 2011
Tags: glaad, jose luis sin censura, hate speech, bigots, spanish language, tv, reality, talk shows, fcc, complaint, homophobia

An FCC complaint on behalf of GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition has been filed against Jose Luis sin Censura, a Spanish-language TV show, for broadcasting on mulitple occassions anti-gay hate speech and promoting violence against LGBT guests appearing on the show. An example of the hate speech and homophobia producers of the show regularly encourage can be found in the YouTube clip embedded in this post.

From GLAAD's press release announcing the FCC complaint:

In over twenty episodes that aired between June 18 and December 7, 2010, the program contained images and language of the nature that is never displayed or is bleeped out of pre-taped English-language programs of the same nature, including the words "pinche"...

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