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March 14, 2013
Gay porn star blasts US immigration laws; commits suicide shortly after partner did

Says friend: 'They would both be alive today if America had gay marriage'

Before gay porn star Wilfred Knight committed suicide earlier this month, he wrote a blog post with the title: 'My partner's life and death and its lesson: US Gay Marriage Must Pass on a Federal Level.'

That partner, an American citizen named Jerry Enriquez, had killed himself two weeks earlier in Canada. The couple had left Oregon to live in Canada because Knight, a French citizen, had a student US visa that had expired.

December 27, 2012
Against Me! lead singer buoyed by trans fans' support

Laura Jane Grace says more transgender fans come to her gigs since she came out earlier this year

The lead singer of US punk band Against Me! says she is 'encouraged' by her fans' support after she came out as transgender earlier this year.

The singer was greeted with cheers from fans in San Diego in May 2012 when she performed as Laura Jane Grace for the first time since telling the world she was transgender.

August 7, 2012
Anti-gay marriage protest goes up in smoke

A hilarious video claims to show a right-wing homophobe in US setting fire to a box of Cheerios in disgust at cereal company's pro-gay marriage stance

Same-sex marriage is an issue lighting a fire in the hearts of many people, but for one anti-gay protester in the US it's an issue which is just too hot to handle.

A YouTube video shows an unnamed man staging a lone protest outside the headquarters of pro-gay marriage cereal company General Mills in Minnesota.

‘One out of every eight boxes of cereal in this country is Cheerios. This is really the treat now for the homosexuals,’ the homophobic picketer exclaims.

July 29, 2012
Gay marriage brought the flood, says US pastor

Alabama pastor supports Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy's homophobic remarks, and suggests gay activists are 'heterophobic'

If society legalizes gay marriage then it will only lead to another flood that wiped out society like in the tale of Noah’s ark, according to a right-wing US pastor.

Aaron Fruh, a pastor at Knollwood Church in Mobile, Alabama, spoke out against marriage equality on American Family Radio.

In audio acquired by Right Wing Watch, he challenged listeners to ‘find any society in human history that ever tried that experiment and lived to tell about it, they’ve all been destroyed.’

June 19, 2012
Against Me! lead singer says being trans isn't 'going away'

Laura Jane Grace, who shot to fame as Tom Gabel, gives first TV interview since coming out as transgender

In her first TV interview since publically coming out as transgender, the lead singer of US punk band Against Me! said she realized her gender identity wasn't something which was 'going away'.

The artist who came to fame as Tom Gabel was greeted with cheers from fans in San Diego last month (May 2012) when she performed as Laura Jane Grace for the first time since telling the world she was transgender.

May 29, 2012
Trans Against Me! lead singer relieved by fans' cheers

Laura Jane Grace, who shot to fame as Tom Gabel, makes San Diego debut

The lead singer of US punk band Against Me! has made her first appearance on stage openly as a woman since publically coming out as transgender.

Laura Jane Grace, who came to fame as Tom Gabel, was relieved by fans' postive reaction to her when she played a 40-minute set as a support act for The Cult in San Diego.