Video games on Valentine's Day: 5 games with relationship themes for 2016

Video games on Valentine's Day: 5 games with relationship themes for 2016
Take yourself back to the year 2002, complete with a retro-themed online chat client modeled after the now-iconic AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, and Windows XP aesthetics as, over a five year period, your friend Emily navigates her relationships with you and …

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An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience

An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
There’s also recurring sketches about two flamboyantly gay characters called Tidders, an Aboriginal term for sisters, a take-off on the “The Real Housewives” called “The Housewives of Narramine,” a tiny town in the Australian bush. Lui is a also a …

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Backlash over Mallee MP's 'randy rams' anecdote on gay marriage

Backlash over Mallee MP's 'randy rams' anecdote on gay marriage
The federal member for Mallee, Andrew Broad, has sparked a backlash for his comments about same-sex marriage, comparing gay couples to farm animals … When we had our first chat about this in Ouyen some years ago you gave me the “bulls in a paddock …

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Australia v New Zealand, first Test: Usman Khawaja finally fills the Ricky Ponting void

Australia v New Zealand, first Test: Usman Khawaja finally fills the Ricky Ponting void
USMAN Khawaja’s career-defining century against New Zealand in Wellington has finalised his progression … “But even before I played that game Boof (Darren Lehmann) sort of had a chat to me and just told me to relax and said I’d get a fair crack …

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Mike Pence Probably Still Believes It’s OK To Fire People For Being LGBT, But He Won’t Say So

Mike Pence Probably Still Believes It’s OK To Fire People For Being LGBT, But He Won’t Say So

“It’s a great privilege for me to be your governor” does not answer the “yes or no” question that was asked.

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Let Valentine’s Day be a joyous celebration for all lovers

Let Valentine’s Day be a joyous celebration for all lovers
Valentine’s Day is approaching and no doubt many will be preparing to pop the big question and enter into a life-long commitment with the person they love. There is nothing more uplifting and life affirming as seeing two people in love and ready to take …

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Questions for the Republicans Debating in South Carolina

Questions for the Republicans Debating in South Carolina

This week, while Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were debating in Milwaukee, Ted Cruz was busy attacking Marco Rubio and Donald Trump on marriage equality. Both have suggested that they would appoint Supreme Court judges who would overturn the court’s ruling that led to nationwide marriage equality. And yet, Cruz accused them both of using “the talking points of Barack Obama” on marriage equality.

South Carolina is home to an estimated 37,647 active duty military personnel. With that in mind, two questions for the candidates that don’t get a lot of attention, but are especially relevant during the debate in South Carolina:

  • Would you bring back “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” (DADT)? For 17 years, DADT prohibited qualified gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans from serving openly in the Armed Forces and sent a message that discrimination was acceptable. A 2010 study also found that women and minorities were disproportionately discharged under DADT. From World War II until the end of DADT, an estimated 114,000 service members were discharged from the military because of their sexual orientation. So far, Carson and Cruz have left the door open to bringing back DADT.
     
  • Would you drop the Obama Administration’s ban against allowing transgender people to serve openly?  According to the Palm Center, there are approximately 15,500 actively serving transgender members of the U.S. military, making the Department of Defense (DOD) the largest employer of transgender people in America.  These courageous men and women are forced to serve in silence by DOD medical regulations prohibiting their service and requiring their separation from the military if discovered – regulations are outdated and out of step with current medical practice.

More on the record of the candidates can be found here: www.hrc.org/blog/topic/2016-republican-facts

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Northern Lebanon's team run comes to an end with gutsy performance, time to focus on individual postseason

Northern Lebanon's team run comes to an end with gutsy performance, time to focus on individual postseason
Today doesn’t define what they have done.” PIAA Team Wrestling Championship Day 2 live chat: Full coverage from Hershey’s Giant Center Even in defeat, the Vikings left it all on the mat. They pushed a pretty good Warriors squad that gave state champion …

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Adidas assures its athletes that it won’t fire them if they come out as gay

Adidas assures its athletes that it won’t fire them if they come out as gay
gay, bisexual and transgender) community.” Most countries in Europe have laws in place protecting employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation, but the practice isn’t as prevalent in the United States: Only 22 American states have similar …

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Indonesia asks messaging apps to remove same-sex emojis in LGBT backlash

Indonesia asks messaging apps to remove same-sex emojis in LGBT backlash
But now the popular app LINE, which had 30 million users in Indonesia as of late 2014, pulled its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender stickers from its online store in Indonesia on Thursday. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is a big fan of emojis.

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