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Macklemore: 'Anti-gay Language Has No Place In Music or Sports' DENVER, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the duo behind the biggest-selling single of the year, "Thrift Shop," have teamed with the You Can Play Project in its effort to challenge homophobia in sports. The platinum-selling artists filmed a video for You Can Play during the "Icelantic Winter on the Rocks" show earlier this month at Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver. In the...

Start-up iSeeGayPeople.tv identifies and seeks to be a leader in new era of independent LGBT Entertainment. New York, New York (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 ISeeGayPeople.tv, the online presenter of independent LGBT web series and films, this week announced a campaign to raise $40,000 on Indiegogo.com. The campaign will run through January 31, 2013. The site's founder, Toyce Francis, said that proceeds from the campaign will finance upgrades to the site to increase functional...

TSX:TVI  OTCQX:TVIPF CALGARY, Oct. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - TVI Pacific Inc. ("TVI" or the "Corporation") (TSX:TVI) (OTCQX:TVIPF) announced today that it has completed the purchase of an additional 24,000,000 units ("Units") of Mindoro Resources Ltd. ("Mindoro") from Mindoro, at an aggregate purchase price of $1.2 million ($0.05 per Unit) (the "Tranche  2A Private Placement").  Each Unit consists of one common share in the capital of Mindoro (a "Common Share") and one Common Share...

No Negative Impact on Readiness, Cohesion, Recruitment, Retention or Morale The study can be found at http://www.palmcenter.org/files/One Year Out.pdf LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The first academic study of the effects of repealing "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) has found that the new policy of open service has had no overall negative impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, recruitment, retention or morale, according to a new story on the Huffington...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Family Research Council President Gary Bauer reacted with "sadness and outrage at the news that the organization that I helped found and ran for 10 years has suffered an attack, and that a loyal and trusted employee has been shot in an incident that is being described as domestic terrorism." Bauer, the president of American Values made the following statement: "We at American Values are heartbroken at the news of a shooting...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins made the following comments after an FRC security guard was shot this morning: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080930/FRCLOGO) "The police are investigating this incident. Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and his family." SOURCE Family Research Council

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Family Research Council (FRC) mourns the loss of pro-life hero, Nellie Gray, founder of the March for Life. A lawyer by trade, Nellie retired from her post with the government and soon after began what would become the annual March for Life in our nation's capital in 1974. Held each year on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the March for Life is one of the most widely attended, youthful and peaceful...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, which requires all health insurance plans to cover contraceptives, abortion-causing drugs including Plan B and Ella, and sterilization takes effect today, August 1. Organizations that refuse to comply could be fined enormous amounts of money, as much as $100 per day per employee. Institutions that meet "safe haven" qualifications (including being a religious non-profit...

NEW YORK, July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vadim Segal Family Foundation is pleased to announce the commencement of work on a virtual museum for Holocaust victims to commemorate this tragic event in our history. The museum will accept user-submitted photographs and stories to display them in an effort to consolidate the memories of the Holocaust as told by the families of those who suffered. The Museum will be located at http://www.holocaustwebmuseum.org. It is...

WASHINGTON, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council Action (FRC Action), the legislative advocacy arm of the Family Research Council, praised the U.S. House of Representatives for voting today to overturn the 2010 abortion-funding health care law. The President's health care law includes subsidies for health plans that include abortion coverage in state health insurance exchanges, and a mandatory abortion fee in all exchange plans that cover abortion. It...