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After Rick Perry’s controversial video, members from the gay Republican organization GOProud outed Perry’s strategist via Twitter.

Presidential GOP hopeful Rick Perry recently launched a new ad video attacking gay military members and various LGBT organizations respond.

Republicans in early voting states, once excited about Rick Perry’s presidential bid, are openly questioning the strength of his candidacy. High expectations have been met by the sudden national scrutiny that comes with the front-runner bull’s-eye.

Attacked from all sides by fellow Republicans, Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a snarky presidential campaign debate Monday night.

Republican presidential rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney sparred over job creation and Social Security Wednesday night in a feisty campaign debate that marked a contentious new turn in the race to pick a 2012 challenger to President Barack Obama.

Now that the Republican is running for president, his campaign has begun distancing itself from some of the candidate’s own words on issues such as Social Security and states’ rights.

Rick Perry has signed a pledge to back a federal constitutional amendment against gay marriage - a reversal from a month ago when the Texas governor said he so supported individual states’ rights that he was fine with New York’s new marriage law.

An ad in an Austin newspaper asks for sexual dirt on Texas Gov. and presidential contender Rick Perry. Is it a low-down ploy, or a practical means of skipping the machinations of accident and circumstance -- and is there a difference?

Perry’s team is braced for a return of rumors from years ago that suggested the Texas governor is a closeted gay man, and that he and his wife had separated.

LGBT Texans who attended or protested the prayer rally inside Houston’s Reliant Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 6, returned home with a better understanding of those on whom Gov. Rick Perry hopes to count for support during his presidential campaign.