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Bachmann: Democrats manufactured tea party racial epithets

By Andy Birkey | 03.26.10 | 8:33 am

bachmannnewsmaxRep. Michele Bachmann appeared on Scott Hennen’s radio program on Thursday and spoke out about reports of violence and racial epithets surrounding tea party protests: She denied they existed and that Democrats brought the anger on themselves.

Barney Frank blasts Bachmann on Tea Party anti-gay slurs

By Andy Birkey | 03.22.10 | 8:00 am

On two days over the weekend, Tea Party Patriots hurled anti-gay epithets at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the openly gay chair of the House Financial Services Committee. The insults came as several black members of Congress had racial slurs shouted…

Iraqis flee in gay ‘underground railroad’

By Andy Birkey | 02.26.09 | 3:22 pm

picture-35An underground railroad has emerged in Iraq since the start of the United States’ occupation, as Muslim fundamentalists torture, maim and murder LGBT people in that country, The Manchester Guardian’s

KTLK’s Baker calls transgender man ‘mutilated lesbian’

By Paul Schmelzer | 11.17.08 | 11:56 am

The day before protests nationally and locally against Proposition 8, the California constitutional amendment that bans gay marriage, right-wing radio host Chris Baker took to the airwaves to call a transgender man a “mutilated lesbian.”