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Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay Scouts in
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The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership voted Thursday to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its millions of members.
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Boy Scouts: Should the Boy Scouts allow gay members?
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Last year, Steven Colella relinquished his Eagle Scout award. As a gay man, he felt he couldn't be a part of a group that would exclude him.
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Boy Scouts to consider allowing gay boys to join
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The Boy Scouts of America will convene a two-day meeting of 1,400 local leaders to consider changing its long-standing ban on allowing openly gay boys to don the Boy Scouts uniform.
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Jason Collins, NBA star, comes out as gay
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Tired of what he describes as living a huge lie, NBA star Jason Collins has shattered perhaps one of the final barriers in major league sports.
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Jason Collins comes out as gay, becomes first openly gay pro American athlete
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Jason Collins, a 34-year-old NBA player who most recently was a member of the Washington Wizards, has come out as gay in an article to be published in Sports Illustrated
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Former Ravens LB Ayanbadejo sees gays coming out
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Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo says up to four NFL players may soon come out as gay, according to a published report.
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GW students campaign to remove priest
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Two gay seniors who said they felt alienated by the Newman Center's controversial priest plan to launch a campaign to force him off campus.
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The Supreme Court and same-sex marriage: High court hears case
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The Supreme Court is raising the prospect that it will find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a substantial ruling on whether gays have a right to marry.
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Boy Scouts survey members on whether to keep gay ban
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A questionnaire distributed to 1.1 million adult Scouts uses fictional situations to discern where Scouting's membership falls on questions of homosexuality, gays camping with children and gays in church leadership.
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Clive Davis is bisexual, he reveals in new memoir
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Record executive Clive Davis says he's bisexual.
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Robbie Rogers comes out as gay, leaves soccer temporarily
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Robbie Rogers, a former University of Maryland soccer player who spent five years playing in Major League Soccer and for the United States National Team is leaving the sport after coming out, the New York Times reports.
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Boy Scouts gay exclusion vote delayed until May
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Scout officials today decided that any decision on changing the policy on gays will be up to the 1,400 voting members of the group's national council at a meeting in Texas in May.
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Boy Scouts considering reversing gay exclusion policy
The Boy Scouts of America is considering a dramatic change in its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.
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Tracy Thorne-Begland confirmed by Virginia House
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The House of Delegates has voted overwhelmingly to confirm Tracy Thorne-Begland of Richmond as Virginia's first openly gay judge.
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Tracy Thorne-Begland: Va. House panel welcomes first openly gay judge
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Tracy Thorne-Begland, who was appointed to a Richmond General District Court vacancy last summer by the Richmond Circuit Court after the General Assembly rejected him, received a warmer reception Monday before a GOP-dominated panel vetting judges.
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Kentucky hate-crime case: Cousins acquitted after attacking gay man
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The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them guilty of kidnapping in a 2011 attack on a gay man.
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Straight man lives a year as gay to gain 'empathy'
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It’s a social experiment that is sure to raise some controversy: A straight man chose to live life as a gay man for a year to see what the societal response would be.
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Massachusetts gay couple sues Roman Catholic Diocese over mansion sale
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A gay couple from Massachusetts has sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester for allegedly refusing to sell them a mansion because church officials were concerned they would host gay weddings at the site.
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