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  • Campaigning to end homophobia
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • Louis-Georges Tin described the day of the United States election as one of the happiest and unhappiest days of his life — as both a step forward and step backward for equality. The 34-year-old French academic is speaking at Simon Fraser Universi...
  • LDS portion of Utah population is slimmer
  • Date: Friday, November 21, 2008
  • It's been targeted for a tourism boycott by some gay rights advocates because it is home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which opposes same-sex marriage. But Utah is now less Mormon than ever. An Associated Press analysis of church ...
  • Legislative panel approves first gay-rights bill
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • The first in a series of gay-rights bills being pushed for the 2009 legislative session cleared a committee Wednesday, but not without drawing staunch opposition from conservative activists. The pushback over Sen. Scott McCoy's wrongful-death measure -...
  • Prop. 8 gay marriage ban goes to Supreme Court
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • Reporting from Los Angeles and San Francisco Jessica Garrison -- The California Supreme Court voted 6 to 1 on Wednesday to review legal challenges to Proposition 8, the voter initiative that restored a ban on same-sex marriage, but refused to permit gay w...
  • A funny whacky Indian gay film... at last!
  • Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
  • By Sridhar Rangayan. I WENT to see Dostana with loads of apprehension: two reasons – just the other day I had seen the film Fashion, which was so shabby in its portrayal of homosexual characters who are once again stereotyped, emotionally abused an...
  • Sports Out Loud Becomes Compete: The Gay Sports Magazine
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Sports Out Loud, the only print publication dedicated to the life of the gay athlete, will officially re-launch as Compete, The Gay Sports Magazine, it was announced last week. The first issue of the newly designed periodical debuts on newsstands with the...
  • How civil unions square with GOP principles
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Thus, I write on the touchy subject of gay rights. My observations are written from the perspective of a long-time believer in conservative Republican principles. What are those you might ask? Well, a brief lis...
  • “Obama and the bishops are talking the same platform”
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • About 50 pro-life protesters held signs and conducted a candlelight prayer vigil on the sidewalk outside the gates of St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo a week ago today as Pepperdine University law professor Douglas Kmiec, a prominent Republican and ...
  • Tony Curtis: Picture this
  • Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
  • The Hollywood icon holds forth on acting, homosexuality, bedding Marilyn and inventing Elvis's haircut. With no shortage of tales of his wild days of carousing, the actor and painter tells all in a new book MATTHEW HAYS Special to The Globe and Mail...
  • California court urged to review gay marriage ban
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • California's Attorney General on Monday urged the state Supreme Court to consider whether a gay marriage ban passed by voters this month was legal. The state's top lawyer, former governor Jerry Brown, said the court should keep the ban in place while i...
  • Prop 8 Boycotts: Witch Hunt or Right?
  • Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  • Does the gay film community have an obligation to continue to support a festival and an organization whose head has been publicly called out for financially supporting a proposition that took away their right to marry? You'd never know it by reading a ...
  • Wanda Sykes Comes Out at Las Vegas Rally
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • Evan Almighty” actress Wanda Sykes expressed her outrage regarding the recent passage of California’s Proposition 8 on Saturday, decrying the piece of legislation that banned gay marriage in the state and revealing publicly for the first time ...
  • The battle to protect marriage
  • Date: Monday, November 17, 2008
  • The greatest threat to marriage and family is the attempt to legalize same-sex marriage, warned law professor Lynn Wardle from Brigham Young University in the U.S. state of Utah. Speaking at the October annual meeting of the Australian Family Association ...
  • Swedish gay Taj Mahal wedding
  • Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
  • By K. Mar Hauksson In the first known gay marriage at India’s legendary tribute to love, the Taj Mahal, two young Swedish women tied the knot following traditional Hindu rituals conducted by a priest at the Mahadeva Shiva temple in Agra. The two...
  • Kirk stunned by Mr Sulu's gay wedding snub
  • Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
  • Star Trek’s Mr Sulu is in big trouble with Captain Kirk. Actor William Shatner, who played the captain in the long-running science fiction series, is upset because George Takei, who was Mr Sulu, did not invite him to his wedding last month. In...
  • Prop. 8 debate exposes divisions within families of gay couples
  • Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
  • By Matt O'Brien OAKLAND — By the time Shidiva and Sherri Black-White were married at Oakland City Hall in June, they had spent two years trying to help their families adjust to the idea of their lesbian relationship. Shidiva's relatives in Con...
  • Pro gay-marriage film extraordinary, yet bittersweet
  • Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
  • By Michael Janusonis Tomorrow night’s screening at the Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium of the documentary, Saving Marriage, about the struggle to allow gays and lesbians to marry in Massachusetts, was designed to celebrate the recent rul...
  • Alarm over HIV infection among gay men
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • While the overall figure for people living with HIV/Aids is declining, new infections among men who have sex with men have been increasing drastically during the past few years, causing grave concern at the Public Health Ministry. Dr Somchai Chakrabhan...
  • Gay man fights to retain stadium ANC post
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • A gay businessman who owned the land in a gay entertainment enclave that was wiped out by the Washington Nationals baseball stadium is fighting to retain his Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat in a dramatically changing area. Robert “Bob&rdquo...
  • All out fight to save gay marriage in California
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • The campaigns for and against a ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriage in California were clamoring this week to win the support of a small group of undecided voters that could decide the measure’s fate on Election Day. The fight over th...
  • Reeling 2008: Gay film fest takes a mostly American approach
  • Date: Friday, October 31, 2008
  • Think of America, and Mom, baseball and apple pie come to mind, and if Reeling 2008's organizers have their way (at least from Thursday through Nov. 16), so will gay-themed movies. Reeling is Chicago's Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, and ...
  • The man who set America straight about gay rights
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • The streetcars are being renamed and the red carpets rolled out in the Castro district of San Francisco for the world premiere of Milk, the latest film to break Hollywood's long-running taboo over homosexuality. A roar of approval greeted Sean Penn and...
  • Our view on same-sex marriage: Gay-wedding bell blues
  • Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008
  • Backers of Proposition 8 in Calif employ scare tactics to win votes. In California during these last days of Election 2008, the biggest fear-mongering ads aren't from the McCain or Obama camps. They aren't even about taxes or national security. Almost ...
  • Proposition 8: Gay marriage issue spawns rallies, signs, nuptials
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • Proposition 8 is anywhere but in the closet. Supporters of the proposed ban on gay marriage wave signs at motorists from a Highway 101 overpass. Opponents send each other text messages to meet after work at street corner rallies in Thousand Oaks. The f...
  • This Gay Week in Sports: Kyle Kendrick, Condoleezza Rice
  • Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
  • Less than one week until Election Day and even the sports world has taken on a bit of a political bent. World-famous hockey mom and Tina Fey impersonator Sarah Palin followed up her jeer-inducing stint dropping the ceremonial first puck at a recent Philad...
  • City to play host to 2011 Outgames celebration of sport
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • Vancouver will be the 2011 host of the Outgames, a celebration of sports, culture and human rights that brings together gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities. It's a Vancouver first. The Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association...
  • Sean Penn's new gay drama avoiding publicity
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • The opening of "Milk," director Gus Van Sant's account of California's first openly gay politician, is four weeks away. Yet you wouldn't know it. Unlike the hoopla over Focus Features' previous gay-themed awards magnet, "Brokeback Mounta...
  • North County donors give $1 million in support of Prop. 8
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • North County donors have shelled out more than $1 million toward banning same-sex marriage in California, more than 10 times what their neighbors have given in opposition to the Nov. 4 ballot measure. The donations to the "Protect Marriage" c...
  • Gay-only housing development planned in Germany
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • A £5.3m housing development for homosexuals only is planned in Germany with the hope that residents will be able to live in a discrimination-free environment. Villa Anders in Ehrenfeld in Cologne features 70 flats, which all but 15 have been snap...
  • Obama Surge Confounds Gay Marriage
  • Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  • In 2003, Rev. Roland Stringfellow, who had served as pastor of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Indiana for a decade, resigned quietly rather than face his African-American congregation and explain that he was a gay black man. "At that time, the...
  • Gay seniors
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer but his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment. As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many...
  • Apple and Google oppose ban on gay marriage
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • APPLE JOINED GOOGLE on Friday in opposition to California ballot Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage in the state known for its population of fruits, nuts and flakes. If passed by California voters, the measure would amend the state's cons...
  • Gay Marriage: Vote No on 8
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • The right of gay and lesbian couples to enter into a legally recognized marriage has traditionally been met with great opposition. However, four months after a landmark California Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage, a significant social shif...
  • Senate Dems aim for filibuster-proof majority
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • Although still a long shot, they have raised their goal to a magic and rare 60 members, a filibuster-proof majority of enormous significance. Depending on how things break Nov. 4 in a handful of states, Democrats could move from a tenuous Senate majori...
  • Gay Activists Target Smaller Races in U.S.
  • Date: Monday, October 27, 2008
  • While most eyes are on the White House race, homosexual activists are quietly targeting smaller contests throughout rural America this year. CBN News first exposed the strategy this summer when it was presented by multi-millionaire donor and gay organi...
  • Downtown to be even more pedestrian
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • The experimental closing of Ste. Catherine St. E. through the Gay Village this summer was such a success, the pedestrian mall will be resurrected again next summer, and lengthened, Ville Marie borough mayor Benoit Labonté announced yesterday. Th...
  • Gay Republican seeks N.Y. Senate seat
  • Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
  • John Chromczak, New York’s first openly gay state Senate hopeful, recently spoke with the Blade regarding his election bid, gay Republicans and the nation’s financial crisis. Washington Blade: You’re in south Manhattan, a heavily Demo...
  • The secret lives of gay black men
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • For years, Noah's Arc was a bold, blunt and melodramatic look at the lives of its predominantly gay black characters on the Logo channel. Yet director Patrik-Ian Polk (Licks) felt the need to take the series a step further by putting the crises and confli...
  • ‘King and King' class not likely to happen
  • Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008
  • A young girl exclaims to her mom, “Guess what I learned in school today? I learned how a prince married a prince and I can marry a princess.” Her mother's eyes widen as a law professor at Pepperdine University says, “Think it can't ha...
  • Gay couples rush to tie the knot in California
  • Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2008
  • A controversial proposition, that could outlaw same sex marriages in California, has led to an influx of gay weddings in the state, as couples fear they are running out of time to tie the knot. Hundreds of same sex couples are rushing to marry before N...
  • KIRK: Prop. 8: Arguing the obvious
  • Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
  • Injustice is good and justice is naivete. That's the proposition Socrates' irascible interlocutor put forward in The Republic ---- a viewpoint the Greek philosopher admitted was hard to counter because it fell so far outside the norms of ethical discourse...
  • Palin supports ban on gay marriage
  • Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
  • Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin says she supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a break with John McCain, who has said he believes states should be left to define what marriage is. In an interview with Christian Broa...
  • Unitarian Universalists work to preserve gay marriage in Calif.
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • With Election Day drawing near and conservative religious groups investing more than $25 million in efforts to end same-sex marriage in California, Unitarian Universalists throughout the state are mobilizing to fight back on behalf of marriage equality. ...
  • Nov. 4 election important for gay rights
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • In this historic period of our nation's history, every bit of news seems to be bad news. As Wall Street continues to drown in a sea of economic turmoil, it can be hard to find something to be happy about. But last week many Americans rejoiced as a b...
  • Festival of gay films in city
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • OUTSIDERS, the fifth annual Liverpool lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival, is now under way. Running until Halloween with a midnight showing of gay zombie movie Otto; or Up with Dead People! by journalist Bruce LaBruce, the programme i...
  • Obama seeks gay help in battleground states
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is seeking help from gay voters to win some surprising new battleground states in November’s election. Dave Noble, who is in charge of mobilizing the gay vote for Obama, said Democrats are “re...
  • Supreme Court unlikely to hear gay cases this year
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • A conservative legal group is unlikely to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Virginia child visitation rights case involving lesbian parents, according to legal experts. On the first day of its new session, the court denied Oct. 6 a petition o...
  • Most gay friendly presidential race ever?
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • As polls show a tightening presidential race in Georgia, high-ranking openly gay supporters of candidates Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) made their way to Atlanta last week to shore up support and get a look at conditions on the...
  • And Connecticut makes three
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled last week that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the state constitution and that a civil unions law enacted by the state three years ago fails to provide gay people with the “status and significance&r...
  • California gay marriage fundraiser reaches for stars
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • Battling to save the right to same-sex marriage in what is expected to be a close state vote next month, California gay rights backers are turning to Hollywood celebrities for help at a major fundraiser. Actress and singer Barbra Streisand is expected ...
  • Two of a kind
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • MANY PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR with the kind of couple, whether gay or straight, that is constantly engaged in tit-for-tat arguments without ever getting to the core of their dispute. They argue about dishes when they really want to talk about infidelity, th...
  • Six arrested on Florida University campus in gay rights protest
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Members of a gay rights "Equality Ride" protest were arrested yesterday as they attempted to enter a university campus chapel. Six members of LGBT equality group Soulforce Q, were arrested on trespassing charges at Palm Beach Atlantic Univers...
  • Wanted: Sponsorship for gay Australian athlete
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Sydney - There are out-and-proud cabinet ministers, ambassadors, high court judges and religious leaders, but Australia's only openly gay elite athlete is Matthew Mitcham, who came to fame but not fortune by denying China a clean sweep in the diving at th...
  • Liberal blogger touts Goode’s ties to gay film
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Do ties to a film featuring gay themes make socially conservative Congressman Virgil Goode (R-Rocky Mount) a hypocrite? That’s what Huffington Post blogger and third-year UVA law student Mike Stark strongly suggested today at a press conference outs...
  • Lesbian/gay film fest marks year 13 with reel maturity
  • Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008
  • Thirteen is anything but unlucky for this year's Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. As its 10-day-long, 170-film buffet -- running Friday through Oct. 26 -- of the best of international gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender feature-length and sh...
  • Same-Sex Marriage Foes: Blinded By Bias
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • The Connecticut Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage last week was a monumental step in the journey to equality for gay and lesbian couples, but that journey is far from over and California once again becomes the focal point of advocates for gay marriag...
  • Gay men prefer Prince Harry to William, poll shows
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • More than a third those questioned expressed a desire for a romance with Harry while William received 23 per cent of the vote. A third of the single gay men said they would steer clear of both. William's girlfriend Kate Middleton was named as the most ...
  • What’s the most common reason for divorce?
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • Sex is most common factor in divorce Sex is the single most common contributing factor to divorce, according to a new survey from a leading family law firm. In 43 per cent of recent cases analysed by lawyers at family law specialist Woolley & Co...
  • Women who like to watch gay porn
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • Watching Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal rolling around in a tent in Ang Lee's groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain had knees trembling all over the world. Many of those lustily quivering weren't gay romantics but women. 'Who knew man-on-man action could be...
  • Voters To Decide Fate of Prop 8
  • Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  • Come Election Day, Californians will have the option to vote for an amendment to the state constitution that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. A vote in support of Proposition 8 would constitutionally redefine marriage and eff...
  • Taranaki Nat objects to gay "choice"
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • The National Party's candidate for New Plymouth is a former Church Minister who says homosexuality is a choice and strongly objects to it being seen as a "normal alternative." Jonathan Young's views, printed in the Taranaki Daily Times at the...
  • East Bay's Rachel Maddow is cable's new talk-show titan
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • It's about 10:30 p.m. in New York and Rachel Maddow has just finished her nightly television gig at the MSNBC studio in Rockefeller Center, but she's still very much "wired." Now, she just desperately wants to cop some z's. "If I don't g...
  • Prank inspired by TV series South Park
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • The three teenagers who manipulated a picture of two gay body-builders by substituting their heads with those of Waterkloof Hoerskool headmaster, Dr Christoff Becker, and former vice-principal, Dr Louis Dey, said the image was "hilariously funny"...
  • Is it right to attempt to cure homosexuality?
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • THERAPISTS should not attempt to change an individual's sexual orientation, a News Letter voxpop has found. Asking people for their views about the controversial subject, ahead of Richard Cohen's appearance on BBC Northern Ireland last night, many were...
  • Gay couples rush to the altar before California marriage vote
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • Gay couples from around the nation are feverishly tying the knot in California before Election Day, in case voters approve a ballot initiative aimed at banning same-sex marriage. Aaron Twitchell and Orlando Manzo from Austin, Texas, waited two months f...
  • Orlando gay-pride festivities underscore serious themes
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • On the 10th anniversary of the murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard and a few weeks before Floridians vote on an amendment to restrict gay rights, Orlando's "Come Out With Pride" event Sunday was as much about self-preserv...
  • Hate crimes bill still illusive 10 years after savage gay killing
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • Matthew Shepard was only seven years old when he worked on his first election campaign, delivering flyers door-to-door. He grew up to be a political junkie and in all likelihood would have supported Barack Obama in the current race for the White House. ...
  • UCI Law dean speaks against gay-marriage ban
  • Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
  • The California Supreme Court's ruling allowing gay marriage is based on sound constitutional principles and allowing Prop. 8 to pass would be an "incalculable blow to progress," the dean of UCI's law school said Sunday. Prof. Erwin Chemerinsk...
  • Bolthouse To Implement Gay-Friendly Programs
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • Bakersfield's Bolthouse Farms will provide scholarships and sponsorships to show its support of gay, bisexual and transgender equality, according to an agreement that ends a boycott of the huge food producer. Bolthouse also will provide medical benefits t...
  • Officials ban gay rights demonstrations
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • Russian officials have banned two gay rights demonstrations in the city of Tambov, thwarting the efforts of local activists to protest at what they call officially sanctioned homophobia, the events' organiser said. Local officials said they had receive...
  • ’91 Houston case put anti-gay hate crimes on radar
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • Before there was Matthew Shepard or James Byrd Jr., there was Paul Broussard. Broussard, a 27-year-old gay banker from Houston, was brutally beaten and stabbed to death by a gang of 10 youths in the city’s Montrose area on July 4, 1991. Seven ...
  • Mormons renew calls for Calif. gay marriage ban
  • Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
  • Mormons are being asked by their church leaders to step up their already considerable efforts to pass a ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage in California. Senior elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a televised appeal t...
  • Group for gay students launched at WSSU
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • When Howard McQuirter Jr.’s parents found out he was gay, they disowned him. Stripped of his car, cell phone and financial support just two weeks before starting his educational journey at Winston-Salem State University, McQuirter says he was force...
  • Debate over gay-marriage ban heats up
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • The debate over Proposition 8 is heating up as rallies are held and local churches are getting involved in the gay-marriage issue. Supporters of Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage in California, held a rally Wednesday in Tehachapi. Proposition...
  • Gay Issues on Back Burner in Presidential Election
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • When Patrick Buchanan declared a "culture war" at the Republic Convention in 1992, it was a not-so-veiled reference to gay rights. It was the culmination of the politicization of the Christian eveangelical movement as a powerful force that had b...
  • 'Gay-friendly' school proposed for Chicago
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • Chicago may open a public high school that weaves gay and lesbian "heroes" into the curriculum, the district's chief executive officer said. The proposed Pride Campus of Social Justice High School would be open to all students citywide and wo...
  • Gay Insiders Unhappy About Term Limit End Run
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • A proposal by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to alter the city's term limits law to allow the mayor, City Council members, and other elected officials to serve three four-year terms instead of two is generally opposed by gay political insiders. "Almos...
  • Mormon Giving Against Gay Marriage In Calif. Tops $19 Million
  • Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
  • Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) continue to donate money against gay marriage in California at a breakneck pace. Mormons, whose members only make up about twelve percent of California's population, have donated an ...