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New York Gov. David Paterson signed a long-awaited anti-bullying bill into law at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, Sept. 8.

Anti-gay groups worried that efforts to promote safe schools and counter bullying say that Christians who believe gays are "sinners" are being sidelined and "belittled." But lawmakers and school administrators perceive a need to take action, in the wake of a string of suicides that claimed harassed victims as young as 11 years.

By now, we’ve all heard about conservative advice personality Dr. Laura’s "racist rant" on air. If for any reason you haven’t heard about it, the story is pretty simple.

A new report suggests that in many ways, same-sex marriages are virtually identical to heterosexual unions--at least, in the single heartland state where marriage equality is allowed.

Seymour Pine, the NYPD officer who led the historic raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village that effectively jump started the modern gay-rights movement -- & who later became a one-man mini-industry, dining out on the subject -- died at age 91.

The AIDS crisis that ravaged the gay community in cities like New York and San Francisco may be less visible, but it is still raging, health experts earn--and a new wave of HIV infections may be about to crest.

A Gainesville, Fla. anti-gay minister’s plan to make a bonfire out of copies of the Qu’ran--the holy book of the Muslim faith--has been denounced by the military and the State Dept., but the minister’s group has friends in Topeka, Kansas.

The president of a Montana tea party group has been kicked out of the organization for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.

Despite two terms as governor of New Mexico and recent visits to 26 states, most Americans have never heard of Gary Johnson.

The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said he was still praying about whether go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, which the White House, religious leaders and others are pressuring him to call off.