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Tag: LGBT

Sports

Why Torii Hunter’s views on gays matter

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 3, 2014, 5:11 PM Dec 3, 2014
58

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 →

Politics · Sports

Opposition mobilizes again to MSHSL transgender policy

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 30, 2014, 8:42 AM Nov 30, 2014
13

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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The iPhone as ‘gay propaganda’?

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 3, 2014, 10:56 AM Nov 3, 2014
5

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 →

Mother of gay son responds to the hate

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 20, 2014, 8:48 AM Oct 20, 2014
4

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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Sports

Opponents of MN transgender athletes hit the showers

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 28, 2014, 8:48 AM Sep 28, 2014
45

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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Teen, thrown out of house, finds financial support online

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2014, 7:11 AM Sep 5, 2014
3

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 →

Arts & Culture

Transmormon

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 5, 2014, 7:13 AM Aug 5, 2014
0

The Atlantic gives new life to the story of a Mormon born a boy but becoming a girl. Read more →

Sports

Baseball takes a small step to recognize the gay athlete

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 15, 2014, 6:53 AM Jul 15, 2014
5

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 →

Politics

Ban on gay vets threatens one of country’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parades

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 14, 2014, 6:06 AM Mar 14, 2014
17

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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Sports

The weapon of the new Cold War: gay athletes

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 16, 2014, 11:27 AM Jan 16, 2014
3

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 →

The jobs we do

The moral crusade on a meal check

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 15, 2013, 1:18 PM Nov 15, 2013
6

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 →

The jobs we do

A Boston Marathon bombing story you may not know

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 18, 2013, 3:00 PM Jul 18, 2013
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Haven’t heard Officer Javier Pagan’s story of the Boston Marathon bombing? You should. Read more →

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