Tag: Minnesota

Dan Hall is a chaplain and a Republican state senator from Minnesota who was first elected to office in 2010. While the rest of the city was out celebrating Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis last weekend, he was spotted across town at the state Capitol Building attending an antigay “Freedom March.” The event billed itself on Facebook as an afternoon of “celebrating freedom from homosexual/transgender lifestyles by the grace and power of Jesus.” Hall’s appearance there came mere weeks after he worked...

A local politician from Minnesota who has been exposed as bigot says he’s allowed to be as homophobic as he wants because his religion says so, and anyone who feels otherwise is attacking his faith. Kassim Busuri is a City Council member from St. Paul, Minnesota. Last Wednesday, the council approved a resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. The resolution was sponsored by every council member except Busuri. Busuri later said the reason he didn’t sponsor it was because he...

A 20-year-old man from Rochester, Minnesota is under arrest and facing charges for third-degree criminal sexual conduct, solicitation of a child through electronic communication, and possession of child pornography. Efram Ciavarelli responded to a 14-year-old on Grindr, but he told police that he thought he was over 16. Grindr’s Terms and Conditions state that all app users must be 18 years of age, but in Minnesota the age of consent is 16. According to KIMT3 News, Ciavarelli went to the home...

Justin Rabon and Brad Neumann have been together for over two years. Brad Neumann and Justin Rabon are teammates in love. The two Univ. of Minnesota Golden Gophers were both struggling on their college track teams just a couple years ago when they found the courage to come out to one another via text message. That was late in 2014 — They have been together almost since that day. While they have been out for much of the last two years, it was...

"When the question was asked about who's your significant other, I felt that maybe this was building up to something," says Dan Benson. A Minnesota firefighter is suing the city and his fire chief, claiming he was demoted because he’s gay. Dan Benson, an 18-year veteran of the Eagan Fire Department, says his constitutional rights were violated, as was the State Minnesota Human Rights Act. “It’s incredible that in 2017 this type of conduct could occur,” said Benson’s attorney, Paul Applebaum. “The...