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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Tags: american family association, buster wilson, google, boycott, hate group, anti-gay, legalize love

This could actually be fun!

Buster Wilson, general manager of anti-gay hate group the American Family Association's more than 200 radio stations, has called for a boycott of Google following the planned launch of the "Legalize Love" initiative, which will combat anti-gay legislation around the world.

Buster accurately notes that this one will be tough, not only based on Google's status as the world's dominant search engine, but also because of the company's extensive technological reach (Android phones, Gmail, YouTube—all Google!).

Check out his comments after the jump!

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 09 July 2012
Tags: chicago fire, midwest, partnership, equality illinois, first, lgbt, groups, marriage equality, sports, mls, soccer, same sex, gay pride, night

The MLS team Chicago Fire and Equality Illinois have announced a well-timed and groundbreaking partnership as the battle for marriage equality heats up (no pun intended) in the state. Details follow.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 05 July 2012
Tags: vanessa l. bryant, doma, pedersen vs office of personnel management, bipartisan legal advisory group, blag, gay and lesbian advisors and defenders, glad

While we spent our 4th of July in various states of mildly to wildly inappropriate behavior, Judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the U.S. District Court of Connecticut was doing work on behalf of the people.

Judge Bryant bitchslapped the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), by denying their motion to stay the proceedings in the case of Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management.

This case challenges the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and is now pending.The plaintiffs in this case are represented by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) they strongly opposed BLAG's motion to stay.

More after the jump.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Monday, 02 July 2012
Tags: outserve, servicemembers legal defense network, sldn, combine, merge, one, lgbt, military, group

With "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" a thing of the past (but still much work to do on behalf of LGBT troops), OutServe and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network today made the huge announcement that the two LGBT military organizations will spend the next several months combining forces.

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 29 June 2012
Tags: us supreme court, doma, defense of marriage act, first circuit court, court of appeals, bipartisan legal advisory group

Is the Supreme Court about to review the Defense of Marriage Act?

Metro Weekly reports that the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, led by Republican House members, mailed in its petition today to the Supreme Court following the May 31 ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that found DOMA's federal definition of marriage to be unconstitutional.

More after the jump!

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 28 June 2012
Tags: president obama, affordable care act, healthcare, supreme court, ruling, lgbt, groups, react, hrc, family equality council, lambda, task force

With all the noise and tantrums emitted from the right wing today following the Supreme Court's major ruling in support of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, it's important to not let the hiss drown out what the decision means for the LGBT community.

Some of the top gay organizations react to the big news, after the jump. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 28 June 2012
Tags: brian and tom, gay couple, wedding, photo, image, used, in political, attack ad, colorado, public advocate of the united states, hate groups, sen jean white

Heading to voters' mailboxes to be demonized and used against a civil unions advocate is not our idea of a happy honeymoon. Unfortunately for Brian and Tom, recently married in New York, that's exactly what happened to one of the most moving pictures from their Big Day, courtesy of a conservative hate group. 

 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 21 June 2012
Tags: national organization for marriage, nom, minnesota for marriage, announces, launches, general mills, boycott, protests, marriage amendment, same sex, lgbt, dbags, hate groups, dump

Analysts are likely expecting General Mills stock prices to rise over the coming weeks after a shady National Organization for Marriage associated-group announced a protest of the gay-friendly company. And we all know how great "Dump Starbucks" was for the coffee corp! (Details follow). 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Tags: one million moms, jc penney, president, leaving, michael francis, take credit, anti gay, hate groups

Again trying to take undeserved credit, One Million Moms is simply overjoyed by a restructuring at uber-gay-friendly JC Penney. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Friday, 15 June 2012
Tags: brian brown, national organization for marriage, the big mo for marriage, hate groups, dbags, gaffes, humor

A tongue-in-our-booty-cheek Freudian slip has occurred on a seriously real graphic released today by Brian Brown and the National Organization for Marriage. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Thursday, 14 June 2012
Tags: bryan fischer, dbags, hate groups, anti gay, child abuse, adoption, same sex parenting, afa

Nervous he will lose the American Family Association's hate-group status for 2013, Bryan Fischer went on a particularly nasty anti-gay and anti-child rant on his radio show recently. 

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Written by Instinct Staff | Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Tags: video of the day, kyle piers, tommy, marriage proposal, gay, boyfriends, a capella, group, college, viral, 2012

YouTube is The.Worst. thing to happen to gays in possession of grandiose romantic fantasies, such as ourselves. How can any of our mortal suitors possibly come up with something better than the major movie-quality proposals that go viral from time to time? The latest viral proposal to make Kleenex see a rise in its stock market price comes by way of Kyle Piers, who drops to one knee and pulls out a ring at his boyfriend's college a capella group's 20th anniversary.

Follow the jump only if you don't mind unabashedly debuting your crying face to coworkers.

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