Topics :: Minnesota

Whither the Whiter GOP?

By Steve Weinstein | Wednesday Jan 16, 2013
Will the party of Lincoln come to its sense, or will it sink into crotchety senescence? Post-election, the question remains.

Minnesota Defeats Measure to Ban Same-Sex Marriage

By Winnie McCroy | Wednesday Nov 7, 2012
Minnesota made history by voting against a constitutional amendment that would have excluded same-sex couples from marriage, and rejected lawmakers who advanced the amendment.

Minn. Politician Public Won’t Face Charges for Alleged Public Sex With Male, 17

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Aug 17, 2012
A Democratic state representative from Minnesota was under a police investigation for "suspicious activity" that occurred in an interstate public bathroom, reportedly with a 17-year-old male he met through Craig’s List.

Minn. Sunday School Students Raise Money For Gay Marriage With Lemonade Stand

By Jason St. Amand | Wednesday Aug 1, 2012
Sunday school students from a Minnesota church raised money to support gay marriage in the state by setting up an old fashioned lemonade stand. Conservatives are not amused.

Anti-Marriage Group Sees Corporations Move to the Other Side

By Shaun Knittel | Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
Fortune 500 giant corporations have steadily become so outspoken in favor of gay marriage that the National Organization for Marriage, in a tacit surrender, is begging them only to be neutral.

Gay Minn. Man Brutally Assaulted at Party

By Jason St. Amand | Wednesday May 30, 2012
A 21-year-old gay man from northern Minnesota says he was attacked at a graduation party because he is gay but another attendee says he was attacked for stealing alcohol.

Catholic Church Raised $750K for Minn. Marriage Amendment

By Jason St. Amand | Thursday Feb 2, 2012
The Catholic Church raised $750,000 in 2011 to back an amendment to the Minnesota constitution that bands gay marriage. Additionally, several anti-gay organizations raised large sums of money to support the same cause.

Minn. School District’s Controversial LGBT Policies Debated

By Jason St. Amand | Tuesday Jan 10, 2012
Teachers from Minnesota’s largest school district debate about the current LGBT policy that forces them to remain neutral on the LGBT subjects as well as a proposed policy that prohibits them from discussing the topic as well.

Trouble in Bachmann-Land... For an Anti-Gay Amendment, That Is

By Kilian Melloy | Saturday Sep 10, 2011
A survey at the Minnesota State Fair revealed that two-thirds of that state’s public are opposed to a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution in an anti-gay manner.

Despite Lawsuits, Anti-Gay Parents’ Group Defends ’Neutrality’ Policy

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Aug 26, 2011
Even though the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota faces two lawsuits over anti-gay bullying, a parents’ group insists that a so-called "neutrality policy" regarding GLBT issues has served the district well.