October 2011
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Philippine President Open to Marriage Equality,... →
By Julie Bolcer
When asked about same-sex marriage, Philippine president Benigno Aquino III said that adults should be able to do “whatever you want as long as you don’t harm anybody else,” but he called adoption by same-sex couples a “dilemma.” “Adults should be able to do whatever you want as long as you don’t harm anybody else,” said Aquino after initially refusing to...
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MAP: Which Countries Enlist Gay Soldiers? |... →
The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center.
By Scott McPherson
The United States is now one of 26 countries worldwide that welcome gays and lesbians in the military, according to the Palm Center. All laws are not created equal. The Palm Center notes that some of the countries listed are...
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Archbishop Dolan Tells Obama to End War Against... →
By Julie Bolcer
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter to President Barack Obama this week to criticize recent actions of the administration on behalf of LGBT equality, especially the decision to stop defending DOMA.
In the letter sent Tuesday, the archbishop of New York, writing in his capacity as head of the bishops’...
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The LGBT Imprint: Gay News Media Past, Present,... →
Recently, an article at Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab on the viability of gay news sites has prompted the LGBT news media industry to do some self-examination.
Award-winning veteran journalist Karen Ocamb explores the rise of the LGBT media in the 80s and examines its mainstreaming — and how its future affects us all.
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Rick Perry Taps Antigay Activists for Florida... →
By Lucas Grindley
Pam Olsen, John Stemberger
To help win him the Republican nomination, Rick Perry is joining forces in Florida with the evangelical leader who ushered in a same-sex marriage ban in that state in 2008. John Stemberger, president of the Florida Family Policy Council, which claims about 65,000 Floridians as its followers, is now part of Perry’s “leadership...
September 2011
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The Fonz Blasts Bachmann, Loves Gays and Gaga |... →
By Jeremy Kinser
Winkler, Bachmann
Henry Winkler, who created the Fonz, the iconic warmhearted ’50s greaser on Happy Days, compares Marcus Bachmann’s gay reparative therapy to upholstering furniture. Winkler was a guest on Sirius XM’s LGBT-themed radio program The Six Pack to promote his new book, I Never Met An Idiot on The River. DJ Ben Harvey and comedian Dave Rubin ask...
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President Barack Obama to Deliver Keynote Address... →
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today announced that President Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address at the organization’s 15th Annual National Dinner on Saturday, October 1, 2011 in Washington, D.C. President Obama previously addressed the event in 2009.
“We are honored to share this night with...
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Aaron Belkin on Lessons Learned From DADT |... →
Aaron Belkin shares an insider’s perspective on the strategies used to bring about the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the lessons we should learn from it.
By Winston Gieseke
As the founder and director of the Palm Center, a research institute that focuses on areas of gender, sexuality, and the military, Aaron Belkin has long has been one of the nation’s leading experts on...
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PROJECT QUEER UPDATE:
I just added a donation widget to the PQ tumblr home page.
All of the proceeds collected will be used towards upcoming projects and to keep Project Queer strong. Once enough money is raised, future proceeds will go towards various queer-friendly groups like Amnesty International, Equality America, and the Human Rights Campaign.
WE are a minority, and we must stand together.
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I just created an etsy shop for Project Queer!!
As soon as enough funds are raised to create lgbtqiaa+ friendly materials, I will be posting merch!!
Please keep showing your support for this blog by spreading the word and clicking the ads on PQ’s home page. All of your efforts are appreciated, folks. Thank you so very much.
Sincerely,
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ACTION ALERT!! Learn how you can take action with... →
Take action and help move equality forward for all LGBT Americans.
Demand Equality Face to Face: Meet with your members of Congress about LGBT equality
Tell Congress how DOMA affects you! Share your story now.
Tell Speaker Boehner to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on defending DOMA.
Help track NOM’s anti-equality activities across the nation - become a NOM Watcher!
Click the link in...
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QUESTION!! Anyone know where I can find a cheap... →
solemnhypnotik:
I am looking for an affordable button maker that someone is either willing to donate or sell to me. I wish to acquire this button maker in order to create buttons to sell on my queer news blog - Project Queer.
The funds from these buttons will go towards my being able to keep my internet (and thus continue Project Queer updates) as well as personal finances (like food and...
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Activists respond to transphobic National Post ad →
cassket:
TRIGGER WARNING: CISSEXISM, DISCRIMINATION, ASSHOLEISM
Social media outlets lit up on Sept 29 after a transphobic ad from the Institute for Canadian Values ran in the National Post.
The ad revives the “StopCorruptingChildren.com” campaign that launched last year to protest proposed revisions to the physical and health education curriculum that would include more sex education for...
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Sad news, folks... →
solemnhypnotik:
For everyone who does not know, I have been informed that I am being kicked out of my current home. My landlady has sold the house where my mates and I stay, and has told us that we have until October 31st to leave.
The good news is that I am not going to be homeless. I will be living with my parents for awhile until I get back on my feet.
The bad news is that I will have to...
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Androgyny: The Final Frontier of Gender Studies →
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I have, for a while now, tried to stop myself from writing any articles in which I articulate my own sexuality, or gender, or anything about myself. From hopefully unbiased eyes I have been able to comment on the effects of gender, sexuality, and feminism under the oppression of capitalism, but hitherto it has seemed wholly unjustified for me to have been so self-involved as to...
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Northern Ireland health minister refuses to lift... →
Edwin Poots, Northern Ireland’s health minister, has refused to lift the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood. He has said that the current policy “should not be altered” because of safety concerns around HIV transmission.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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It’s Time To Honor The Lesbians And Transwomen Who... →
Although Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is finally history, during its lifetime women got discharged at much higher rates than men. So let’s take a second to honor some of our lesbian and trans sisters who served in the armed forces during the anti-gay ban… and let’s jam out to the lesbian hip-hop duo God-Des and She while doing it.
In the song God-Des says “It’s up to us y’all. Our generation is way ...
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Nashville paramedic suspended after anti-gay posts... →
A Nashville paramedic was suspended after posting anti-gay comments on the Nashville Fire Department Emergency Medical Services’ Facebook page as well as his own page.
He posted that homosexuality is a perversion and that two gay EMS workers should “crawl back into the closet,” according to The Tenneseean.
Kevin Kennedy, who has been with the Nashville Fire Department for 20 years, must...
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As gay military ban ends, Outserve officer reveals... →
J.D. Smith came into being when a gay student group in upstate New York needed a speaker to talk about the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay troops. In the 16 months since then, he advised the Pentagon on the policy, became an oft-quoted media commentator on the topic and was a White House guest when President Barack Obama signed the bill paving the way for the ban’s appeal.
On Tuesday,...
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ACTION ALERT!! HOMOPHOBIA? THERE'S AN APP FOR... →
alllovenoh8:
Click through to sign the petition, and pass it on. As per usual :]
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“Research has shown that marriage provides substantial psychological and physical...”
– The American Psychological Association. Aug. 11, 2010 press release “American Psychological Association Reiterates Support for Same-sex Marriage” (via fuckyeahlgbt)
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UPDATE: Senator Reed will decide if he will... →
By Cameron Tolle
Yesterday, along with our friends at Courage Campaign, Marriage Equality Rhode Island, and Ocean State Action, we announced that we’re calling on Senator Jack Reed to cosponsor the Respect for Marriage Act, the bill that will overturn DOMA. Reed is the only member of the Rhode Island delegation who is not yet a cosponsor. In the last 24 hours, hundreds of Rhode...
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ACTION ALERT!! Nominate Homoground for PodCast... →
homoground:
Help us out by nominating Homoground in the People’s Choice & GLBT categories for the upcoming Podcast Award!
You can only nominate once, so make it count! Deadline is midnight Sept 30th! http://podcastawards.com
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Rightwingers Tricking Californians Into Opposing... →
By Neal Broverman
The effort to overturn California’s FAIR Act, which mandates the teaching of LGBT history and leaders in public schools, is ramping up and conservatives are turning to duplicitous means to get their way. JoeMyGod obtained video of a gay man in San Diego County who came upon a booth featurning information on Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted as a child. The...
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Ebony Magazine Spotlights Black Same-Sex Couples... →
Ebony, a monthly magazine that focuses on the African-American community, features the story of Iesha McConnell and Terry Treadwell, a couple raising three children together in North Carolina, in their October issue.
“We’re in love,” Terry, 45, told the magazine. “We work hard and worry about our children. We have the same struggles as everybody else.”The couple met when Iesha’s sons...
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New Standards of Care for the Health of... →
by Emilia Dunham; Program Associate
Just yesterday the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released it’s 7th Version of Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People (SOC) in Atlanta (where we’re proud to have several members of Fenway Health presenting at and/or in attendance).
This was last updated in 2001, and if you...
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Michelle Obama Welcomes Gay Families to National... →
ff4equality:
First Lady Michelle Obama “looks forward to including” openly gay service members in her national military families initiative with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy set to expire in less than 24 hours. The campaign, Joining Forces, is a multi-prong national program launched in April by the First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden to support military families through public service outreach...
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Jamey Rodemeyer’s Bullies Are Happy He’s Dead, But... →
This past weekend, the sister of 14-year-old suicide victim Jamey Rodemeyer went to a school dance to take her mind off of her brother’s death and hang out with all of her friends.
“Then,” says Jamey’s mother Tracy, “all of sudden a Lady Gaga song came on and they all started chanting for Jamey, all his friends and whatever. Then the bullies that put him into this situation started chanting...
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Obama Celebrates Gay Man’s HIV/AIDS Day By Giving... →
What better way to celebrate Gay Man’s HIV/AIDS Day than for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to release $1.89 billion in grants through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
The money will help “ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS continue to have access to life-saving health care and medications.” $853 million of the money will go towards helping restore medications...
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FOO FIGHTERS “HOT BUNS” VIRAL VIDEO PRODUCER ... →
Having produced the highly controversial new viral video “Hot Buns,” which promotes the North American Tour of the Foo Fighters, Angela Guice, president of the award winning entertainment marketing and production agency Nucontext Creative, has found herself at the heart of a national controversy.
Depicting four of the 5 band members taking a shower, nude, at a truck stop, “Hot Buns” has...
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Ohio churches debate gay issue through billboards... →
The ongoing debate in churches regarding homosexuality is being argued on 10 billboards in northwest Ohio.
The Blade reports that Toledo’s Central United Methodist church posted a single roadside billboard in April that said that being gay is a gift from God.
That has led the minister at Church on Strayer to offer an opposite view.
The Maumee megachurch bought nine billboards last week...
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Southwest Kicks Leisha Hailey Off Plane For... →
pinktacolovers:
autostraddle:
GLAAD’s official airline Southwest claims their decision to kick Alice off the airplane was motivated by “behavior and not gender.”
But we’re not buying it — and neither is Shane or Adam Lambert or…
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What Do YOU Think of the BornThisWay Blog? →
The blog Born This Way is: A photo/essay project for gay adults (of all genders) to submit childhood pictures and stories (roughly ages 2 to 12), reflecting memories & early beginnings of their innate LGBTQ selves. Nurture allows what nature endows. It’s their nature, their truth!
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ACTION ALERT!! SIGN THE PETITION: Tell The Masters... →
gayinnj:
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT:
It has been widely reported that the The Master’s School in Connecticut recently asked a student to leave after finding out she was a lesbian.
No student should ever be kicked out of a school because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The Master’s School should immediately pass a non-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender...
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Dancer sacked from Chinese talent show because... →
A famous Chinese dancer says she was dropped as a judge on a TV talent show because she is transgender. Jin Xing, 44, had sex reassignment surgery in 1996. She was booked to appear for eight weeks on Feitong Fanxiang, a show for professional singers.
View Source at PinkNews.co.uk
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PQ posts action alerts, news, photos, videos, and art involving the: gay, lesbian, trans*, bisexual, pansexual, two-spirited, intersex & asexual communities.
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Police raid gay party in India, arrest 133 people... →
Indian police raided what newspapers called a “gay party” at a private villa early Sunday morning and arrested 133 people, including a well-known Bollywood actress.
Bobby Darling credit :: wikipedia/jessica rinaldi
Those detained were mostly cited for “indecent behavior.” The DJs were also cited for playing loud music. Well-known transgender actress Bobby Darling...
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Chris FitzsimonTall tales on anti-gay bill; Burr’s... →
House Speaker Thom Tillis told a town hall in Wilmington Thursday that the anti-gay marriage amendment approved by the General Assembly last week wasn’t really that big of a deal. Gay marriage is already illegal Tillis said, adding that “all we’ve done is put the question to the people.”
That’s one of the most offensive quotes of the week and this has been a week of awfully offensive...
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SIGNAL BOOST!! Check Out [SSEX BBOX]!! →
About [SSEX BBOX]: [SSEX BBOX] is a social justice film project that aspires to create awareness and accessibility around sexuality issues worldwide. The web series is based in San Francisco, São Paulo, Berlin and Barcelona, and uses film to explore Sex outside the Box. Film crews in the four cities interview sex educators and regular people about topics such as gender, sexual orientation,...
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