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Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 3:13pm By Tim McElreavyMass Resistance, a right-wing extremist group based in Waltham, MA, has released an undercover video that one of its members filmed at a transgender conference held at the Marriott Hotel in Peabody, MA, in January. The poorly edited seven-minute...
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Monday, January 18, 2010 - 12:21pm By Matthew LawrenceIn less than twenty-four hours, Massachusetts voters will start heading to the polls to decide who will fill the seat vacated by the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Democrat, is facing Republican State Senator Scott...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 8:40am By Matthew LawrenceA man in Salem, Massachusetts, was picked up early Tuesday morning for walking down the street with a bag full of his ex-wife's sex toys, according to the Salem News. Well, that's what he claimed, anyway, probably hoping the officers would be...
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Monday, October 5, 2009 - 8:43am By Matthew LawrenceAs the Presbyterian Church USA moves closer to recognizing gays and lesbians, one transgendered woman from Waltham, Massachusetts is inching closer to ordination. The Christian Post reports today that Sara Herwig's journey to "fulfill God...
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News: Strippers 1, Strip Club 0 - Judge Says Club Must Honor Minimum Wage, May Not Take Share of TipsMonday, August 10, 2009 - 11:42pm By John PettittA Massachusetts Judge has ruled that strippers are not wallpaper. Suffolk Superior Judge Frances A. McIntyre wrote “A court would need to be blind to human instinct to decide that live nude entertainment was equivalent to the wallpaper of...
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Monday, June 15, 2009 - 5:57pm By Chris HallWhat is it with transphobes and their obsession with bathrooms? Every time someone brings up the possibility of treating transsexuals like, say, human beings, the family values crowd goes screaming straight for the potty. Look at Massachussetts, for...
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Sunday, May 17, 2009 - 5:00am By Tim McElreavyBack in 2004, if you asked just about anybody about the possibility of legal same-sex marriage, they might easily have responded that it would happen when pigs have wings. Well, history was made on May 17, 2004, when Massachusetts became the first...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - 10:38am By Tim McElreavyIt was going to be close, and nobody was sure if it would happen. The Associated Press reports that Tuesday morning Vermont lawmakers passed an override of Gov. Jim Douglas's Monday afternoon veto of the same-sex marriage bill. The Vermont State...
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Monday, April 6, 2009 - 1:21pm By Chris HallThe most popular rationalization for moral panics is some version of the words of Helen Lovejoy from The Simpsons: "Won't someone please think of the children?" See the recent freakouts over "sexting" as an example. You would think that children...
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Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 9:22am By Tim McElreavyThe Vermont House is expected to vote on the issue of same-sex marriage today. Last week, the Vermont State Senate overwhelmingly voted in favor of gay marriage, 24 to 6. The bill is expected to pass in the House today. However, Gov. Jim Douglas has...
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Monday, March 23, 2009 - 10:46pm By Tim McElreavyIn an unprecedented move in American politics, the Vermont State Senate, reports CNN, has overwhlemingly voted in favor of gay marriage. The 24 to 6 vote would mean that if the bill becomes law, Vermont would be the first state in the Union to...
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Friday, March 6, 2009 - 2:28pm By John PettittConnecticut lawmaker are holding hearing starting today on a bill to update the sates marriage laws. The bill, if adopted, would transform existing civil unions into marriages as of October 2010. Connecticut joined Massachusetts as the only...
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