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This Saturday, October 10, President Obama will be the keynote speaker at a Human Rights Campaign awards ceremony and fundraiser. He'll be the first president in history to participate in a gay activist campaign event outside of the White House. (In June 1999, President Clinton had invited HRC along with other gay activist groups to the White House to celebrate "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.") But all is not right between the president and some of his most reliable supporters. On the campaign trail, Obama offered plenty to the gay lobby, promising to end "Don't Ask -...

This Saturday, October 10, President Obama will be the keynote speaker at a Human Rights Campaign awards ceremony and fundraiser. He'll be the first president in history to participate in a gay activist campaign event outside of the White House. (In June 1999, President Clinton had invited HRC along with other gay activist groups to the White House to celebrate "Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.") But all is not right between the president and some of his most reliable supporters. On the campaign trail, Obama offered plenty to the gay lobby, promising to end "Don't Ask -...

Petitions calling on Facebook to abandon its plan to create an Instagram-like platform designed for children have garnered widespread support as the company faces backlash over the proposal.

Instagram for kids? Facebook urged to scrap plans as more than 180,000 sign petitions against it Terry Collins, USA TODAY © Jenny Kane/AP Instagram app on Aug. 23, 2019, in New York. More than 180,000 people have signed petitions in an ongoing outcry urging Facebook to scrap its plans for an Instagram for kids.  The signatures come from three petitions from nonprofit and grassroots organizations including the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, SumOfUs, and a joint effort led by the Juggernaut Project. The groups collectively claim that a version of Instagram ...