With the release of The L word: The Complete series in DVD, one have a bonus in which Ilene Chaiken announces her biggest regret! What a surprise, it's about Dana's death!

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The Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index 2012 came out this week, ranking hundreds of major US companies based on a set of criteria. These criteria include an assessment of companies’ non-discrimination policies, the offering of equal partner benefits, availability of LGBT resources for employees, the provision of transgender healthcare, a public commitment to LGBT causes, and a lack of support more

After anti-gay filters on Internet in United States, here anti-gay filters for sms in Pakistan. The government wanted indeed to set up a filter on cellphones which would ban around 1,700 words considered to be "obscene" as 'gay' and even if the government decided to reduce the number of words to a dozen, nothing indicates that the project will not be developed in a near future.

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Nigeria Senate passed the law criminalizing gay marriage. The next stages are a vote in the House of Representatives then the signature of President Goodluck Jonathan before to be effective.

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I thought I heard everything about treatments against homosexuality but I never had heard about physical tortures “to cure� lesbians. What undergoes certain women in Ecuador is horrible.

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So over the holidays, I received a couple of new binders, so here is a review of how to bind and of the binders themselves. Whenever you approach something like binding, it is important to remember that it can be dangerous. You can damage your ribs or badly restrict your breathing. The most important thing is to listen to your body. Binding can hurt to an extent, but pain should never be to a level at which you must endure it. If your body is saying you have gone too far, always respond. Binding more

Still in New Jersey, next Tuesday, on January 24th at 11AM, Senate Judiciary Committee will hear arguments on marriage equality at the State House, 125 West State Street, Trenton and Garden State Equality (GSE) seeks civil union couples, LGBT youth and parents.

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Outrage!, Belgian movement which fights against hate crimes, launches a new application for Smartphones which makes it possible for victims to report where verbal as well as physical crimes took place and what happended.

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A judge in New Jersey has just decided that Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist-affiliated association, violated state laws while refusing a lesbian couple to use its boardwalk pavilion for their civil union ceremony in 2007.

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In Anoka-Hennepin School District, conservative Christian parents ask teachers to teach about the "ex-homosexual" movement and "gay-related immune deficiency". They would like the policy prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is not applied thinking it would open the schools to pro-homosexual teaching, so they want discriminations towards LGBTs continue.

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