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News • Homo • Queer

How Does That Work Exactly?

by Dan Savage • Jul 28, 2010 at 9:29 am

A giant corporation can make a $150,000 donation to a rabidly anti-gay politician who supports a rabidly anti-gay "Christian" "rock" "musician" who has loudly called for the execution of gays and lesbians... without that corporation losing its 100% rating from the Human Rights Campaign?

UPDATE: A Minnesota mom with a gay son heads to her local Target for the last time:

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