March 2011
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White House names first gay social secretary →
gaywrites:
The White House just announced that Jeremy Bernard has been appointed to the position of Special Assistant to the President and Social Secretary. He’s the first man and the first openly gay person to have this title.
President Barack Obama said, “Jeremy shares our vision for the White House as the People’s House, one that celebrates our history and culture in dynamic and...
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The power of change.org petitions. →
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Delaware: New Group Eyes Civil Unions →
Delaware Legislative Hall
Delaware’s newly formed gay rights group has hit the ground running, launching a public push to legalize civil unions for the state’s gay and lesbian couples. Equality Delaware’s first meeting, attended by about 120 people, resulted in the unveiling Thursday of the campaign to get civil unions. State Rep. Melanie George and Sen. David Sokola...
February 2011
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Ted Olson statement on Prop 8 stay →
In a press call earlier today, Ted Olson, who is seeking, with David Boies, to overturn Proposition 8, gave this statement. Prop 8 limits marriage in California to heterosexual couples. Last August, a federal court ruled that Prop 8 is unconstitutional - but the court of appeals put a stay on gay marriages until there is a decision regarding who can appeal.
Olson and Boies today filed a...
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Vatican Adviser Blasts Cuomo →
Vatican canon law adviser Edward Peters said Tuesday that New York governor Andrew Cuomo, who supports marriage equality, committed an “objectively sacrilegious” act by receiving Communion while living with his girlfriend, celebrity chef Sandra Lee.
According to the New York Daily News, Peters told the conservative CNSNews that Cuomo should be denied Communion as long as he lives with Lee,...
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[TRIGGER WARNING - heterosexist language/violence,... →
An Federal Communications Commission complaint is being filed against a Spanish-language talk show for its use of offensive language, nudity, and attacks against LGBT people. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Coalition filed the joint complaint to the FCC in regards to the show José Luis Sin Censura, which airs twice a day during the ...
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Gay Va. lawmaker pursues state Senate seat →
A gay four-term member of the Virginia State House last week declared his intention to pursue a seat in the General Assembly’s upper chamber.
Del. Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria), who’s served as a state House member since 2004, announced he would pursue the state Senate seat that Patsy Ticer (D-Alexandria) will vacate upon her retirement this year.
Ebbin said he’s interested in moving from the ...
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Texas School Shuts Down All Clubs to Avoid GSA →
Filed by: Bil Browning
February 28, 2011 1:00 PM
Corpus Cristi, Texas’s Flour Bluff Intermediate School District Superintendent, Julie Carbajal, has decreed that all extracurricular clubs on campus will be shut down to prevent the formation of a Gay-Straight Alliance group. Student Bianca “Nikki” Peet was blocked from creating the club and after a national outcry, the...
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DOMA: What Everyone's Saying →
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California Gay Marriage Supporters: Lift Prop. 8... →
Attorneys who brought the federal case against Proposition 8 asked the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit to lift the court-imposed stay on marriage equality in California.
A three-judge panel of the ninth circuit had imposed that stay last year without comment after U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker ruled the 2008 voter initiative unconstitutional. Gay couples are still unable...
nonbinaries: Call For Submissions: Out of the Box! →
crustyriotqueer:
fuckyeahnonbinaries:
Out of the Box: Queering the Gender Binary is a compilation zine for those of us who don’t fit into neatly organized gender boxes (trans*, genderqueer, gender variant, bigender, etc.). Looking for submissions on a wide variety of issues pertaining to our experiences, including, but not limited to:
language/ pronouns
how gender pertains to sexuality...
lookhowmanetfucksigive asked: Hey there! So, I don't know if you do promotions. But a friend of mine just started a blog about her genderqueer journey.
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Shes just starting out, so she could use some followers. If you don't do promotions, sorry to bother you! I just thought I'd try.
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Shes just starting out, so she could use some followers. If you don't do promotions, sorry to bother you! I just thought I'd try.
Anonymous asked: My mom wants to link to Obama's statement on DOMA on her FB. This is the 1st time she's acknowledging my homosexuality. I warned her some of her friends may react not so positively and she said she's immediately defriend them because she doesn't want to be friends with people like that.
This is amazing for me and my mom. I didn't know how to react when she...
This is amazing for me and my mom. I didn't know how to react when she...
articlesofcleansingbreath asked: For the anon asking about binding:
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Irish politician says she received hate mail for... →
Irish Fine Gael politician Lucinda Creighton has complained at heavy criticism of her views on gay marriage. Ms Creighton, a party spokeswoman for equality issues, wrote on Twitter last week that she did not believe gay couples should be allowed to marry.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
Anonymous asked: Hey there
So lately I've been wanting to bind. And I got an ace bandage and tried it a couple of times. But I'm so chesty normally (I'm a 38 D), that it doesnt look right. Well, I mean, there's still a lot there. Do you have any suggestions for me, or any chesty girl looking to get flat?
So lately I've been wanting to bind. And I got an ace bandage and tried it a couple of times. But I'm so chesty normally (I'm a 38 D), that it doesnt look right. Well, I mean, there's still a lot there. Do you have any suggestions for me, or any chesty girl looking to get flat?
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Man Charged for Targeting LGBT Businesses →
A man arrested Feb. 8 in Long Beach, Calif., has been charged with felony vandalism with a special allegation for a hate crime after allegedly targeting businesses catering to the LGBT community.
Officials at the Long Beach Police Department say Oliver Rodrich Saintvictor, 23, of Rancho Palos Verdes, smashed windows at three separate businesses miles apart on December 17, 2010. The first...
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Polish Football Fans Want Gay Section →
Gay football fans are requesting separate seating to protect themselves from the rowdy and sometimes aggressive crowd.
A gay group of the Polish national team, known as Teczowa Trybuna 2012 (Rainbow Stand 2012), said its members fear the other fans will be too aggressive during the 2012 European Championships, according to the Associated Press.
While some agree with the idea of...
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The Illinois B&Bs That Won’t Welcome A Gay... →
Notice to all American businesses:
From now on you will not get away with discriminating against gay couples, so why not just stop? You don’t (I hope) discriminate against blacks and Latinos, so it’s time to take gays off the list of acceptable types of clientele to turn away.
Those signs that say “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” are fine to deal...
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ACTION ALERT!! Oppose SB 5: Say No to 'Yes on 8' →
Click the link above to fill out the form to let your legislators know that you oppose SB 5.
Far right-wing California Senator Tom Harman, a cohort of the Yes on 8 campaign, has introduced a bill that would compel the Attorney General to defend all ballot measures that get challenged in court, including Proposition 8. SB 5 would also authorize the groups that place measures on the ballot to...
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For Gay Conservatives, Lax Gun Laws Are Gay Rights... →
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Impeachable Offense? Fox News: Obama DOMA Defense... →
Monica Crowley today on Fox News likened the Obama administration’s announcement today that it will no longer defend DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, in court, to a “dictatorship,” called the President, “Mubarak Obama,” and falsely claimed that it is “his responsibility, under the constitution, to enforce that law.”
It is not.
Click the link above to watch the video.
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ACTION ALERT!! Victory! Administration drops DOMA... →
In a rare and extraordinary step, today the Obama Administration announced that it will not defend the discriminatory federal “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) in court.
HRC supporters have written tens of thousands of letters to President Obama, shared thousands of personal stories of how DOMA has hurt their families, and helped HRC engage in years of advocacy on this issue...
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Dan Savage Relaunching Rick Santorum’s Favorite... →
The website that’s still giving Rick Santorum fits — www.spreadingsantorum.com — hasn’t been updated since 2004. But we will be relaunching the site in the next few weeks.
Stay tuned!
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U.S. Hate Groups Top 1,000 →
The number of active hate groups in the United States topped 1,000 for the first time and the antigovernment “Patriot” movement expanded dramatically for the second straight year as the radical right showed continued explosive growth in 2010.
Several factors fueled the growth: resentment over the changing racial demographics of the country, frustration over the lagging economy, and the...
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Queer book censorship in US prisons and Freedom to... →
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Jacksonville Abstinence-Only Program Has Ties to... →
tattooeddicks-deactivated201112 asked: On the bisexuals thing, I personally think that for a long time, we were taught you had to be one or another, so most of them identified as straight or gay, and not as bisexual. It's getting to the point where everyone, not just heterosexuals, is starting to think a bit differently about bisexuals, maybe see them more equally than they used to. For the longest time, bisexuals were...
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“A right delayed is a right denied.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
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ACTION ALERT!! Sign Making Party TONIGHT for... →
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NOM'S Maggie Gallagher: Obama Has Declared 'Gay is... →
The National Organization for Marriage’s spokesperson Maggie Gallagher continues to offend as she justifies her bigoted political beliefs.
Shortly after news that President Obama has ordered the Department of Justice to consider the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, Gallagher called in to FOX News to denounce the act that moves our nation a whole lot closer to equality.
There’s...
firefly124 asked: The question I just saw on my dash made an interesting word choice that I really think is key, and that is matrimony versus marriage. I went to an extremely conservative Catholic high school, and while I'm sure they'd be horrified to see this taken to its logical conclusion this way, one thing they made sure we were very clear on was the difference between matrimony, which is a church...
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Submission:
hey well i was just going to post that The Westboro Baptist Church is planning to Pickett my school Northwestern High School in maryland on tuesday and we would really like people to know and support gay marriage.also if anyone lives near to come and join us :)
gaylene asked: Two things really quick ☺ …recently i watched something on tv saying that "gay is the new black" and it just made me think...are they trying to say that,our issues being gay in america today, are like what black people had to go through durring the times of the civil right movement??? (Your thoughts on that)
AND. someone w as arguing with me about PROP8 and how...
AND. someone w as arguing with me about PROP8 and how...
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Target agrees to stop funding anti-gay groups... →
stfuhomophobes:
“That discussion was one of the most intense conversations I’ve ever had in a business meeting,” Lady Gaga said. “Part of my deal with Target is that they have to start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups and begin to reform and make amends for the mistakes they’ve made in the past … our relationship is hinged upon their reform in the company to support the gay...
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Should Gay-Only Hotels + Guesthouses Welcome... →
From specific bathrooms to specific island resorts, we’ve heard the arguments for why it’s perfectly fine to discriminate based on sexuality and gender identity when it appears to benefit our community. But in the wake of that British hotel owned by Christian couple Peter and Hazelmary Bull being fined $5,700 for refusing to let a gay couple spend the night, apparently the...
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Westboro to Hackers: Bring It! →
The Westboro Baptist Church has a message for the anonymous group that threatened to “eradicate” the antigay organization’s website: Bring It!
An anonymous, pro-Wikileaks group has stated their intent to hack into Westboro’s inflammatory websites if they do not stop their protests. But in a just-released flyer, which Fred Phelps and company call “an open letter...
Decolonize Your Mind: Queer People of Colour... →
tiaramerchgirl:
delisub:
queerfury:
[ Decolonise Your Mind: Queer People of Color Conference April 8-10 2011 UC Riverside ]
I encourage those who can to attend this conference! If you’re gonna be attending, send a message to Queer Fury and perhaps we can meet up for tea or coffee? ;D
Stoked about this, my boo is presenting! Y’all should check it out if you’re in southern cal
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Did Ugandan Brenda Namigadde Lie About Being A... →
Brenda Namigadde, the 29-year-old Ugandan woman living in Britain who initially scored a reprieve from deportation by claiming her homosexuality would subject her to threats and violence, has renewed her appeal to avoid being shipped off. And it curiously leaves out any mention that she’s a lesbian — only that she’s been reported in the press to be one.
Now that she’s been...
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Russian Activist on U.S. Tour →
Prominent Russian gay activist Nikolay Alekseyev will undertake a speaking tour of U.S. cities February 26 through March 7.
Alekseyev made news last year with reports of his detention and kidnapping, allegedly by Russian government agents, when he tried to board a plane from Moscow to Geneva, and the announcement of the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Russia violated the...
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Army trains for ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal →
The Army’s top general kicked off the service’s training program last week on the new law allowing gays to serve openly in the military, and officials said they hope to have the(…)
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Lambert Ready to be Gay Role Model →
Adam Lambert says his stardom is “an amazing opportunity to be able to help people,” during an interview with Entertainment Tonight Canada.
Asked for his advice to people struggling with their identity, the pop stars says, “close your eyes and focus on who you are and what you want.” Later in the interview Lambert says, “You have to love yourself in order to...
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Bigotry Watch: The GOP’s war on women and children →
By David Badash
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Israel Appoints First Gay Judge →
Dori Spivak, a lawyer and the former chairman of Israel’s Association for Civil Rights, (ACRI) was named as a judge for Tel Aviv’s Labour court on Sunday, becoming the country’s first gay judge.
Spivak, a Harvard graduate who lectures in Tel Aviv University’s law department, has been involved in several high profile gay rights cases, according to TheJC.com. In 1997, he was...
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Target changes policy following gay protest →
Target’s policy on political contributions changed six months after receiving criticism for endorsing an anti-gay politician, reports say. The policy now mandates that an executive committee be responsible for balancing business interests with other important considerations. The committee also oversees donations to parties and candidates.
Target spokesman Jessica Carlson said in the...
