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		<title>Target Needs To Hear From You</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Lowe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now I am sure most of us have heard the news that Target Corporation has donated about $150,000.00 to the PAC that supports anti-gay GOP Candidate Tom Emmer.   The ...


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		<title>Charges Dropped Against Choi, Pietrangelo For Protesting Ban On Battlefield Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Sanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments before D.C. Superior Court Judge Fredrick J. Sullivan was due to begin the trial of New York Army National Guard Lt. Dan Choi and former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo, ...


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		<title>OutFront&#8217;s Johnson to step down, Meyer to be new executive director</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OutFront Minnesota&#8217;s executive director Amy Johnson announced on Friday that she will be stepping down at the end of July and the organization&#8217;s public policy director, Monica Meyer, will take ...


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		<title>National Organization For Marriage Links Up With Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Sanna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the National Organization for Marriage announced it would be conducting a &#8220;summer of marriage&#8221; bus tour across the nation to promote their agenda.  According to the tour&#8217;s ...


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		<title>Gay Republicans offer &#8220;Drill baby, drill&#8221; condoms at Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CityPages spotted some entertaining political condoms at this year&#8217;s Twin Cities Pride Festival. The condoms were handed out by the Minnesota chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans and read &#8220;Drill ...


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		<title>Koering tells gay porn rag that he opposes gay marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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During a dinner with porn actor Brandon Wilde, openly gay Republican state Sen. Paul Koering allegedly told the actor that he supported same-sex marriage. But in an interview with gay ...


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		<title>Pine City Pride Brings a Rainbow of Love!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year’s 2010 Pine City Pride was a soggy but well attended event that focused on love and the celebration of commitments. Emceed by Jessie Tebben, the day was periodically ...


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		<title>David Schultz analyzes gay marriage suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Minnpost.com, Hamline University professor David Schultz lays out the facts and speculation about how the Minnesota Supreme Court might rule in Benson v. Alverson, the lawsuit filed by three ...


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		<title>Rep. Tim Walz: &#8216;I&#8217;ve always thought DADT was a bad policy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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Rep. Tim Walz, the highest-ranking retired enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress, and the representative serving southern Minnesota, emphatically supported the vote to add a repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask ...


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		<title>Bachmann on DADT: &#8216;It&#8217;s worked&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Birkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Michele Bachmann voted against repealing the military&#8217;s ban on openly LGBT servicemembers. She told the St. Cloud Times on Thursday that Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell is doing what it ...


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