Word: pro-gay
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...harassed because of their sexual orientation. (He doesn't mention that GLSEN's last big survey, in 2003, found "a significant decline" since 2001 in the use of epithets like fag. Or that about the same proportion of kids--three-quarters--hears fag as hears sexist remarks.) Regardless, the pro-gay government programs he favors seem highly unlikely in this political environment. That's in part because of the growing influence on the right of another gay force: gays who don't want to be gay, who are sometimes called, contentiously, "ex-gays." On talk radio, on the Internet...
...generation is much more pro-gay marriage. I mean, there were a lot of Republicans out at the celebration on Sunday,” McSorley said. “The bottom line is that John Kerry is Catholic and a member of a much older generation....I really do believe this issue will change as our generation grows older...
...same-sex couples who wed in Oregon may not be married forever. Judge Bearden's ruling that the state must recognize the marriages is being contested, and everyone is waiting for the higher courts. But Roey Thorpe got what she wanted: the pro-gay side goes into that case with the p.r. armor of 6,044 happy newlyweds. Those who oppose same-sex marriage must now argue against rights already granted. "I give them credit for achieving that beachhead," says the G.O.P.'s Mannix. "But will that short-term objective be worth weakening their long-term objectives...
...predicted that a pro-gay marriage majority would likely have emerged in Massachusetts within a decade...
...Gay activists compare last week's ruling with the 1967 Supreme Court decision that struck down state bans on interracial marriage, a decision that also was unpopular in its day but now seems fundamental to our notion of justice. The Human Rights Campaign, a national gay organization, has just kicked off a $1 million print, radio and television ad campaign to give a human face to same-sex parents and their children. Evan Wolfson, executive director of the pro-gay group Freedom to Marry, likes to quote Gandhi: "He said, 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then...