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Press Release - News from Daniel Dromm for City Council 2009 - (USA)
LABOR DAY PARADE - Daniel Dromm marched with United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in the Labor Day Parade on Fifth Avenue on September 6, 2008. Dromm has been endorsed by the UFT. Danny is a proud union member. OBAMA '08 - Danny joined NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, State Senator Thomas K. Duane and other lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community leaders at a press conference on the steps of City Hall to help unite the LGBT communities around Barack
http://davidmquintana.blogspot.com/2008/11/press-release-news-from-daniel-dromm.html
A Beautiful Letter From The Riverside Church - (USA)
A Beautiful Letter From The Riverside Church (The Reverend Brad R. Braxton, Ph.D.) The Riverside Church in the City of New York stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers throughout the United States who suffer from social and legal discrimination based upon their sexual identity. Our congregation is energized in its resolve to speak boldly on behalf of God's love and justice for all couples who wish to live in covenant love with one another and share their lives. The recent Calif
http://www.waynebesen.com/2008/11/beautiful-letter-from-riverside-church.html
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My on-going struggle with heterosexuality Janelle Hallman's The Heart of Female Same-Sex Attraction is fantastic. So is Jonathan Ned Katz's The Invention of Heterosexuality. I'm beginning to find my affiliation with heterosexuality just as problematic as my affiliation with whiteness. Katz describes how sexuality was organized in western society before heterosexuality, from Greece to Victorian America. Yes, men and women were attracted to each other and yes, they had sex, but that didn't make t
http://jenellparis.blogspot.com/2008/11/unnecessarily-long-post-on-my-on-going.html
Ten Money Questions for Peterson Toscano - (USA)
Ex-gay survivor and queer quirky Quaker, Peterson Toscano is a theatrical performance activist. His one-person show about how he tried to de-gay himself for a number of years is now available on DVD. As some of you might know, therapy and residential treatment programs cost money… and Peterson spent a lot of coin before moving beyond the ex-gay movement. That being said, he’s paid a price for his activism too. Read on to learn what all this has cost him. 1. What will an ex-gay program such as
http://www.queercents.com/2008/11/21/ten-money-questions-for-peterson-toscano/
TEL AVIV MURDER OF GAYS A BLACK DAY FOR EVERYRONE - (USA)
BY ILAN SHEINFELD On Saturday night a black ribbon was tied to the pride flags that flew across the country. Because on Saturday night two young people, Nir Katz, 26, and Liz Tarbishi, 17, were murdered in cold blood and another 11 were wounded, four of them critically, for being who they were. This is a dark day, not just for the homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community but for the whole of Israeli society. The murderer’s burst of bullets set us back years to when homosexu
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=37336
Is It Wrong To Be Bisexual? Should I Explore My Sexuality? (Video) - (USA)
Many people experiment sexually when they’re young. How many “college stories” have you heard where a girl got a little more than friendly with her roommate? Being young is all about experimentation and finding out what you like, whether it’s something to do with sex, a job, music, art or even food. You’re learning about yourself as you’re growing up. So you may be experimenting sexually, but what would determine your sexual orientation ? Are you bisexual if you have a sexual encounter with som
http://www.askdanandjennifer.com/sex-intimacy/sex-tips-advice/is-it-wrong-to-be-bisexual-should-i-explore-my-sexuality-video/
LGBT Parenting Roundup - (USA)
Yesterday’s Boston Globe had a front-page article on children looking for their anonymous sperm donors. While not specific to lesbian families, there are obvious connections. The article notes that at the end of October, a woman in Canada filed that country’s first class-action lawsuit on behalf of donor-conceived offspring, asking “that all donor records be preserved . . . and that offspring be granted the same right to access as adopted children have to the records of their birth parents.” (S
http://www.mombian.com/2008/11/24/lgbt-parenting-roundup-12/
A Day Without Gays - (USA)
I don't know if you're familiar with the movie "A Day Without A Mexican" but the basic premise that that you don't really understand what you have until it's gone and when that something you lose is a whole class of people it can create havoc. In this vein, some great guy named David Craig decided to put together his own real life version of this scenario and put together "A Day Without Gays" The event is set up as a cause on Facebook:We are calling for a nationwide strike and economic boyco
http://cockamamieideasinc.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-without-gays.html
Same Sex Marriage Comes to Nepal - (USA)
Nepal's Supreme Court has just ordered the government there to allow same sex marriage which will likely make it the seventh nation in the world, and the first in Asia, to grant homosexual couples full civil rights. The ruling stated that "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual ... are natural persons irrespective of their masculine and feminine gender, and they have the right to exercise their rights and live an independent life in society".If only the United States was as enlightened and progr
http://primordial-blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/same-sex-marriage-comes-to-nepal.html
Why Are People So Afraid of Bisexuals? - (USA)
Interesting - didn't know bisexuals inspired fear. Maybe it's that bisexuals straddle both worlds and people don't how to respond to that - kind of the same way shamans in primal cultures are sometimes cross-dressers. I agree with the author's distaste for the term bisexual - I think the reality is that many bisexuals simply fall in love with who they love, and gender is not an issue in that. Why Are People So Afraid of Bisexuals? By Adele M. Stan , AlterNet .
http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-are-people-so-afraid-of-bisexuals.html
Harvey Milk to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom - (USA)
Belatedly - and likely as another sop thrown to betrayed LGBT Americans - President Barack Obama has announced that the late Harvey Milk will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom as one of "16 Agents of Change." Please, do not get me wrong. I truly believe that Harvey Milk deserves the award and it's very sad that he isn't here to accept it because of homophobia that lead in part to his murder. The same kind of homophobia that Obama refuses to refute by real substantive action to end DADT
http://michael-in-norfolk.blogspot.com/2009/07/harvey-milk-to-receive-presidential.html
A full picture of Milk - Los Angeles Times - (USA)
Los Angeles Times A full picture of Milk Los Angeles Times, CA The suit has been preserved 30 years for a purpose, explained Boneberg, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society in …
http://blurbberry.com/a-full-picture-of-milk-los-angeles-times/
Gay Pride Amsterdam - Gays in the Army (USA, NL, TR) - (USA)
Most of the Dutch people thought in the nineties of the last century that homosexual emancipation was a done deal. Around 2005 they came to the realization that in fact they still had a long way to go; rising violence against homosexuals played a role, as did to a lesser extent the "islamisation of society". Radical Imams openly preached that beaten up homosexuals was a duty of Muslims. Some radical imams preached that homosexuals could be thrown of a high tower. In the end, more and more homose
http://internationmusing.blogspot.com/2009/08/gay-pride-amsterdam-gays-in-army-usa-nl.html
No More Mister Nice Blog (2009-08-06 14:13) - (USA)
FOX NEWS: OBJECTIVELY PRO-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE? The folks at Fox Nation think this is a bad idea: Federal Stimulus Funds Will be Used to Train 'Domestic Violence' Counselors for Cohabitating Homosexuals Funds from the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will be used in Alexandria, Va., where same-sex marriage is not legal, to "train staff who work with sexual/domestic violence victims who identify themselves as member of the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2009/08/fox-news-objectively-pro-domestic.html
COLORADO FOCUS: Blogs, Alternative Energy, Groups and Events - (USA)
BLOGGING COLORADO: Square State, The Progressive Political Blog for ColoradoColorado IndependentColorado MediaMatters: Colorado Media Matters is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the Colorado media. Colorado Media Matters is managed and staffed by Coloradans trained in the rigorous editorial policies and research methods developed by Media Matters for
http://moleprogressive.blogspot.com/2008/11/colorado-focus-blogs-alternative-energy_21.html
My Path To Equality Is Incomplete Without My Mormon Kin - (USA)
Of all the tragedies in our nation due to the passage of proposition 8 this year, the most significant loss must indeed be the hardening of attitudes on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. While equal marriage activists have largely recognized the groups of Mormons who actively opposed their own churches stance on Prop 8, at a more grassroots level the anti-Mormon vitriol his reached ever higher levels. Many pro-queer individuals see the civil rights of LGBT people sacrificed at the al
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8395
Join The Impact’s/San Diego’s Kelly Moyer - (USA)
Last July, a JJ In Chicago posted a comment at the Box Turtle Bulletin that included the following statement: …How much lobbying are transgendered people doing on behalf of gay men and lesbians? (And no, trans board members on state and national non-profits don’t count. I mean private citizens.) How many trans folks are lobbying to end Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?? How many trans folks are lobbying to end a relic of the Anita Bryant era– Florida’s complete ban on gay men and lesbians to adopt chil
http://transadvocate.com/autumnsandeen/archives/2825
Gay rights from Milk to Prop 8: Out of the closet to the same sex marriage - (USA)
The angry, vocal protests by gays and lesbians heartbroken by the passage of Proposition 8, recall a time 30 years ago when grief stricken groups took to the streets in San Francisco after the assassination of Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay elected official. But in the history of modern gay rights, the seminal setbacks — the Stonewall riots, Milk, AIDS — were catalysts for political movements that historians say advanced gay rights to a place unimaginable during Milk’s time. Th
http://outgaylife.com/gay-community/gay-rights/gay-rights-milk-prop-8-closet-sex-marriage/
Posts about Perez Hilton as of August 11, 2009 - (USA)
Ashley Greene Scandal Pictures Online - crisiboy.com 08/11/2009 After Vanessa Hudgens Scandal issue, now it is the Twilight big star Ashley Greene Scandal pictures are rumoured of spreading over the internet. Ashley Greene , a 22-year-old future star, known as Ashley Michele Green is a daughter of Michele and Joe Greene who became popular because of the movie Twilight. She became a winner of 11 th Annual Teen Choice Awards and took the Choice Fresh Face Female award last nig
http://thedailyparr.com/perez-hilton/posts-about-perez-hilton-as-of-august-11-2009-6/
Be Who You Are - (USA)
I was going to add this to a daily digest post. But I don’t know that many people read those, and I don’t want people to miss this School will soon start again, and countless LGBT youth will return to classrooms all over the country. Some will return to schools where they find support and protection from harassment — where administrators and teachers work together to ensure a safe learning environment to all students. Some won’t. Some students will return to schools where officials tur
http://www.republicoft.com/2009/08/05/be-who-you-are/
The List: Every event worth listing Thurs., Aug. 6-Wed., Aug. 12 - (USA)
Ed. note: This piece was compiled by Danielle Favreau.VISUAL ARTS: OPENINGART UPTOWN 1367 Main St., Sarasota (955-5409 or artuptown.com). Dog Days Juried Art Show will feature submissions from local area artists 21 and over. Please see this week’s See & Do for more information. Opening reception 6-9 p.m. Aug. 7, exhibit runs through Aug 27. Regular hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. Free admission.S/ART/Q SCREEN PRINTING EVENT The HuB, 1421 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota
http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/2009/08/04/the-list-every-event-worth-listing-thurs-aug-6-wed-aug-12/
A Suppa Earl Gae - (USA)
Thank god for tea. It cures all ails. Your good writer partook of a beverage or 2 last night and is not feeling the better for it. However, she has done her best to search the world-wide interweb for all news and not so newsworthy stories about lovely ladies. We kick things off in our very own fair capital of Dublin with the news that the GAZE film festival is breaking records in its opening night last night. Organisers say the appeal of this year’s festival has extended well beyond the ga
http://www.gaelick.com/2009/07/a-suppa-earl-gae-14/
Thousands Defy Threats To Rally In Tel Aviv - (USA)
About 25,000 people rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. (Yael Golan/Ynet) About 25,000 people rallied in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square Saturday night to remember the victims of last week’s shooting spree at an LGBT youth center that left two people dead and injured about a dozen others. The rally took place despite threats of more violence : The rally was preceded by a number of threats against the gay community. Earlier Saturday, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces’ Nahal Haredi unit was ar
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/08/09/13959
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.RWANDA’S SILENCE ON GAY RIGHTS IMPACTS ON LGBTI ACTIVISMBy Jerina Messie (28/7/2009)RWANDA – 28 July 2009: Two years after the parliament brought, for debate, a Bill criminalising homosexuality, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) organisations in Rwanda, are still uncertain about their future since they are presently not protected by law.For Naome Ruzindana, Director of Horizon Community Association (HOCA), an LGBTI organisation in Rwanda, absence of the law protecting hom
http://gaynewsingreek.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_6845.html
scene-OUT.com - Welcome to scene-OUT.com - (USA)
scene-OUT.com serves up complete daily gay & lesbian scene news & listings for London, interactive club reviews and discussion forums, plus a huge photo gallery of people enjoying the clubs and Pride events across Europe.
http://scene-out.com/
Standing Firm, Moving Forward - (USA)
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Rea Carey is Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund. Over the past few weeks, the nation witnessed an outpouring of emotion and determination from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the wake of both a historic and painful Election Day. The outcry by LGBT people at having a fundamental right taken away in California is understandable and our demand to participate fully and equally in society is inspiring. T
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/standing_firm_moving_forward.php
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