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Former Idaho GOP Sen. Larry Craig will be on KBOI-670 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, filling in for conservative host Nate Shelman. Craig will be joined by Wayne Hoffman, executive director of the Idaho Freedom Foundation, and formerly an Statesman political reporter and spokesman for former U.S. Rep....

Gay marriage opponents have long used parents' fear of having gay children, but now it seems a martial arts academy is capitalizing on this fear, too. The Academy of Martial Arts RDCA ran two ads showing a little boy participating in generally feminine practices: applying lipstick and wearing high heels. The ads have just two words other than the group’s logo: “Karate lessons.” [1] The Facebook [2] page of RDCA describes the academy as “Your Ultimate Empowerment Group.” It continues, “If you are serious about your self improvement and empowerment you have reached the right group.” But the advertisements seem to imply that the martial arts academy is not looking to empower students who have alternative gender expressions. [3] Towelroad [4] accused the Fla. academy of targeting  “parents wanting to ‘man up’ kids who express an interest in their mother's clothes.” Florida is known for its anti-gay politics. Gay adoption is still illegal there, and now a gubernatorial candidate has suggested going further to ban gay foster parenting [5] too. [1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-man-up-karate-ad-1-top.jpg [2] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15690347369#!/group.php?gid=15690347369&v=info [3] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-man-up-karate-ad-2-top.jpg [4] http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/man-up-that-sissy-kid-of-yours-send-him-to-karate-class.html [5] http://www.365gay.com/news/fla-ag-wants-to-ban-gay-foster-parenting/

Openly gay actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson wants to marry Alec Baldwin in New York, but can't because gay marriage is illegal in the state. That's the premise of Ferguson's new video for Fight Back NY. The political action committee is working to oust New York senators who voted against a...

In the second-to-last week of the election campaign, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been questioned on the gay marriage issue almost everywhere she went. On the ABC's live Q&A show on Monday night, an audience member stood up to ask the PM why gay men and lesbians were not allowed...

About 150 same-sex marriage opponents rallied at the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, calling for the definition of marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one woman. National Organization for Marriage officials, who organized the event and billed it as the finale to a series of similar rallies held...