December 2010
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You might want to know that there is this petition to the UK government regarding Shrouk El-Attar’s claim for asylum.
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Openly Gay Top US Official John Berry: It Gets... →
John Berry, the openly gay Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is the highest-ranking openly gay presidential appointee in U.S. history.
In this video for the It Gets Better Project, Berry says he was never bullied – but he experienced rejection when he came out to his family. That changed – very movingly.
Click the link above to watch the video.
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New Book “Obama & the Gays”: My Contribution →
by Karen Ocamb on November 23, 2010 |
Tracy Baim’s new book Obama and the Gays: A Political Marriage, released October 1, is an in-depth look at the career of President Barack Obama and his views about gay-related issues, starting when he ran for Illinois senate in 1996 and ending mid-way through his term as president. It extensively covers Obama’s record on gay and AIDS issues,...
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Guidance for Transgender Air Travelers re New TSA... →
The National Center for Transgender Equality has issued the following advisory regarding the new scanners and pat-down searchers for transgender people using airlines this holiday:
As transgender people and our families prepare to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, many have expressed concern about the various new invasive equipment and procedures at the airport announced by the...
November 2010
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Oh, It Gets Bitter, Too →
When you’re a young gay person ostracized for being fey, it can be hard to consider that one day, things do get better. They also get bitter as hell. And jaded, even, as Matt Siegel reminds us.
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Delhi India's First Pride Celebration →
Nearly 2,000 people gathered in Delhi, India’s capital, to celebrate gay pride in the first such event since homosexuality was legalized in 2009 by the High Court.
Carrying rainbow flags and signs, organizers told the BBC that gay people were lining the streets to celebrating having a place in a still-conservative Indian society.
“There has been a certain sort of change but...
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London gay charity hopes to keep premises →
London Friend hopes to buy the central London property it currently rents from Islington council after being told the building is to be sold imminently.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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Same-Sex Pair on DWTS Eliminated →
(L-R) Gilli Shem Tov and Dorit Milman
The first same-sex pair to compete in any global version of Dancing With the Stars has been eliminated from competition.
Television broadcaster Gili Shem Tov, who is a married lesbian, lasted three weeks with straight professional dancer Dorit Milman, according to JTA.
On the first episode of the show on November 1, Shem Tov said dancing with a female...
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McCain's DADT Blame Game →
Arizona Sen. John McCain said the only reason the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal is a hot issue in Washington is due to a pandering presidential candidate looking for votes in 2008.
McCain said Sunday on CNN’s Face the Nation, that the policy is not necessarily damaging to the military. Instead, he said, the issue was raised after an...
REBLOG THIS IS YOU CARE ABOUT TRANS RIGHTS!!! →
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Currently, the local (Conservative) MP in London, Ontario is running a poll on his website asking the following question: “Should Parliament support the NDP MP’s Bill to amend the Canadian Human Right Act to add gender identity and gender expression as grounds for prohibited discrimination?” There’s been a battle...
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The Ethicist Tells Lesbian Couple It’s Perfectly... →
Because of the Defense of Marriage Act, and Maine voters’ refusal to legalize same-sex marriage, a lesbian couple finds itself able to qualify for some government aid by applying as “single,” even though the two women are certainly not single, and together would make more money than the poverty line cutoff for such benefits.
Is it kosher to exploit the government’s...
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Teen Lesbian Fights Against Deportation →
An 18-year-old lesbian living in Wales said she fears being deported back to her home in Egypt because of the harsh conditions gay people in the country face. Shrouk El-Attar fled Egypt with her mother and brother when she was 15, according to Wales Online. They reside in Cardiff, Wales, where she has since come out as a lesbian and embraced Christianity over Islam.
However, her...
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Teen Lesbian Fights Against Deportation →
An 18-year-old lesbian living in Wales said she fears being deported back to her home in Egypt because of the harsh conditions gay people in the country face. Shrouk El-Attar fled Egypt with her mother and brother when she was 15, according to Wales Online. They reside in Cardiff, Wales, where she has since come out as a lesbian and embraced Christianity over Islam.
However, her...
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Surprise: The 2 Gay Vultures German Zookeepers... →
The saga of Germany’s gay griffon vultures Detlaf and Guido– whom zookeepers split up so Detlaf could be transferred to a Czech zoo to mate with a female — isn’t letting up.
Especially since Guido has yet to complete the act with a lady in his new home.
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Michigan Newspaper Runs Anti-Gay Ad →
You may remember that, several months ago, Family Research Council and Request Foods took out a full-page ad in Michigan’s Holland Sentinel. The ad was a list of lies about gays and lesbians. Looks like another homophobic ad has made its way onto the pages of the newspaper.
The half-page ad features a picture of two men in a casual embrace along with anti-gay biblical quotes and the...
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Australia’s Worst Lesbian Sen. Penny Wong Finally... →
Do we get to stop calling Australia’s lesbian Sen. Penny Wrong, the nation’s finance minister, a quisling now that she’s finally come out in support of same-sex marriage?
After towing the line of Australian Labor Party boss Julia Gillard, the prime minister, Wong has finally come out in support of legalizing same-sex marriage and wants her party to change its own policy....
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Marines Resistant to DADT Repeal? →
The Pentagon’s much-anticipated DADT repeal survey won’t be released until Tuesday, but The Washington Post reports Marines have the strongest resistance to overturning the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the military. Early reports suggest the majority of the 400,000 active duty troops and reservists surveyed have no strong objections to repealing the “don’t ask,...
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2.5% of Vancouver’s Gays Are Walking Around... →
Gay men in the United States aren’t the only ones with frightening statistics about how many of them are HIV-positive and don’t even know it: One in 40 gays in Vancouver don’t know they’re carrying the virus.
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The Pope Is OK With Condoms →
He’s a little late to the party, but Pope Benedict XVI has endorsed condom use for women and transgender people.
The pope is clarifying recent statements he made in which he seemed to indicate that male prostitutes should be allowed, under Roman Catholic beliefs, to wear condoms. Using protection is seen as a lesser of two evils by the church, where transmitting HIV is a more serious...
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Teacher Accused of Assaulting, Showing Porn to... →
A former high school geography teacher is on trial on charges of sexually assaulting two male students on multiple occasions more than 20 years ago.
John William Gibson (pictured), a former teacher at Riverside High School in Windsor, Canada, is alleged to have served alcohol to minors and performed sex acts on at least two male students, performing oral sex on one while he was passed...
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ENTRY DEADLINE EXTENDED!! Enter our Anti-Bullying... →
Want to be creative, funny, terrifying, heartbreaking and/or moving – and also do some good?
By entering a :25 second PSA into our Anti-Bullying Contest, you can raise awareness of the tragic effects of bullying – or encourage people to stand up when they seem someone being bullied.
Read a great post about the contest on Change.org.
Check out this (long) example. Or this one (almost the...
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Please Don’t Let This Be Another Homosexual... →
Good news, gays: The second man indicted in as many months for threatening to kill the president might not be one of us!
While the stupid Twitter targeting of the president was the work of homosexual “comedian” Chris King, there’s no indication 54-year-old Roger Hudnall — who allegedly wrote a letter in January 2009, two weeks before Obama took office, “I will Kill the...
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David Cameron tells gay men ‘get tested for HIV’ →
Prime minister David Cameron has urged gay men to use condoms, get tested for HIV and support each other in tackling the virus.
In a message for Boyz magazine for World AIDS Day, he said that HIV infection rates had increased in the last decade.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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Apple Removes Anti-gay App →
Apple has apparently removed the antigay app the Manhattan Declaration, which called for users to fight marriage equality, from its iTunes store. The decision comes after thousands protested the company’s decision to approve the Manhattan Declaration for download in the first place.
Apple has been known to reject good number of gay-related mobile apps, which is part of what...
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Met Police arrest 195 people in anti-hate crime... →
An anti-hate crime operation carried out by the Met Police this morning has resulted in 195 arrests. The majority of arrests were connected to domestic violence, although two were related to homophobic offences.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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Pentagon: No gays were discharged in past month →
No U.S. service members have been discharged for being openly gay in the month since the Defense Department adopted new rules surrounding the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Monday.
Under new rules adopted Oct. 21, Defense Secretary Robert Gates put authority for signing off on dismissals in the hands of the three service secretaries.
Before then, any commanding...
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Family Research Council Demands Apology →
The religious right group Family Research Council is demanding an apology from the Southern Poverty Law Center after the SPLC, a civil rights organization, labeled the FRC a “hate group” because of its antigay rhetoric.
Earlier this week, FRC was included in alist of 18 hate groups because, as the SPLC’s Winter 2010 “Intelligence Report” explains, the group has “continued to pump out...
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PSSST!! FYI...
Project Queer JUST reached 2,800 followers.
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US judge says lesbians can be ‘cured’ by male... →
An American judge has been accused of advocating corrective rape for lesbians.
Joe Rehyansky, a part-time magistrate and Vietnam veteran, wrote on conservative news site The Daily Caller that lesbians should be allowed to serve in the military because straight male soldiers could “convert” them.
The Daily Caller swiftly removed some of his remarks but not before they were picked up by other...
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Dr. Laura Staying on Radio →
Well that didn’t take long.
Three months after announcing she would sign of from her current radio show at the end of the year in the wake of her now infamous “n-word” rant, Dr. Laura Schlessinger will debut a new 3-hour radio show on Sirius XM in January.
The Associated Press reports Dr. Laura will begin on Sirius XM on January 3, three days after signing off from her current radio...
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RIP Harvey Milk
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DOJ appeals lesbian’s reinstatement to Air Force →
A lesbian flight nurse discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell” can rejoin the Air Force Reserve, even as the government appeals a judge’s ruling that returned her to the job, her lawyers said Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton ruled in September that former Maj. Margaret Witt must be reinstated because her dismissal advanced no legitimate military goals and thus violated her ...
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Texas trans woman arrested for using female toilet →
A trans woman in Houston, Texas, has been arrested after using a female toilet in a library. Tyjanae Moore was arrested by police last Wednesday for “knowingly entering a restroom of the opposite sex” but trans groups say her arrest was unlawful.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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Message to Youth From Calif.'s Gay Assembly Leader →
The leader of California’s general assembly, Los Angeles Democrat John Perez, has a holiday “it gets better” message for LGBT youth.
Perez says it, “absolutely gets better,” especially once gay people free from themselves from the closet. The politician says he couldn’t have imagined as a gay teenager that he would one day rise to become one of the...
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Florida's Orange County Protects Gays, Considers... →
pansexualpride:
Dear Jacksonville: You might still languish on gay and lesbian rights, but many parts of Florida are coming along just fine. The poor LGBT folks who live in your city limits deserve better. Get with the program.
Love, Brandon.
PS: Read my blog post on Orange County below.
Moving along from that poetic love letter to Florida’s largest city. Let’s talk about Orange County, which...
Asian, Gay & Proud →
fuckyeahlgbtqasians:
As an Asian-American woman growing up in the U.S., it took me until I entered college that I realized that I was a lesbian. It wasn’t as if I hadn’t liked girls before, but in my eyes, all the gay people I had seen or heard of were white. When I looked up the words “lesbian” and “Asian” in the same space, my results were all porn. After witnessing and taking part in the...
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“Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.”
– Harvey Milk (via pinkpanthers)
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Figures show decrease in US anti-gay crime →
FBI figures for 2009 show that reports of anti-gay hate crimes in the US have decreased. However, a recent study claims that gays are more likely to be victims of violent hate crime than any other minority group.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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No place for gay Filipino man in Korean graduate... →
A Filipino man was expelled from a Korean graduate school for being gay, reports the Asian Correspondent.
‘P’, who is anonymous, was a student from the Philippines who arrived in Seoul in September to begin his studies at a Catholic graduate school on a scholarship offered by the school.
As part of the scholarship, he had to stay in the school’s men’s dormitory. P is openly gay – but soon...
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Slowdown of AIDS? →
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HIVPlusMag.com reports that the rate of new HIV infections has dropped by 19%. This may be the result of enhanced safe-sex education, condom use and possibly greater access to lifesaving drugs and/or treatments.
NPR reported a more in-depth interview with Michael Sibidé, the head of UNAIDS (the UN organization that works to fight AIDS). Read his thoughts on the matter here.
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then they should leave the church. you can't have it both ways. until there is a separatist mormon movement (similar to queer friendly episcopalians) you're still supporting what the corporate mormon machine does. if you still give a tithing, you REALLY support what the...
then they should leave the church. you can't have it both ways. until there is a separatist mormon movement (similar to queer friendly episcopalians) you're still supporting what the corporate mormon machine does. if you still give a tithing, you REALLY support what the...
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Events for World AIDS Day (Dec. 1) →
News from Washington Blade – Gay News
Tuesday, Nov. 3
Roby Chavez hosts “Persistent Voices: A World AIDS Event” tonight at the Thurgood Marshall Building (1816 12th St., N.W.) from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Presented by Us Helping Us, the D.C. Center, Ganymede Arts and the Vaccine Research Center, “Persistent Voices” is an anthology of poems by writers who died of AIDS. The event will feature...
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New Lesbian Project for L Word's Chaiken →
There’s life after The L Word — Ilene Chaiken, the creator of the fictional series and its reality spin-off, is developing a scripted hour-long show for CBS about a lesbian doctor.
Chaiken’s show is called Rhodes to Recovery, and it centers around a gay female trauma surgeon and her colleague, a straight male neurosurgeon. One of the doctors begins dating the other’s ...
