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Video emerges of Mormon leaders detailing undisclosed efforts in aid of Prop 8, appear to violate legal disclosure requirements in CA
Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:31 PM EST (YouTube)
Prop 8 - Did Mormons Go Too Far?
Obama May End Military's Ban on Gays
Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:11 PM EST (Military.com)
Sixteen years after Bill Clinton tried to end restrictions on gays in the military, the U.S. armed forces under Barack Obama may be forced to give homosexuals the same welcome as non-gays.
California labor coalition asks state justices to overturn Prop. 8
Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:44 AM EST (The Sacramento Bee)
"It really does establish the potential for a slippery slope of taking away the rights of one group and then potentially the rights of another group and another group," Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, said during a teleconference wit …
Gay, lesbian revellers can get syphilis tests
Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 12:48 AM EST (sbs.com.au)
On-the-spot syphilis testing is to be made available for the first time at an Australian event this weekend. The move comes as data collected by the Victorian Department of Human Services shows the number of syphilis infections in Victoria had increased from one case in 200 …
Gay Superhero Series Coming to T.V.
Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 7:19 PM EST (Gay Wired)
Other articles stated in the headline that this would be the first gay superhero. It's not, but it's a pretty good one. The series will be on Showtime and is based on Perry Moore's "Hero" about a gay teenage superhero named Thom Creed.
Starbucks asks customers to donate time
Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:12 PM EST (msnbc.com)
Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it is asking its customers to donate five hours of time to their communities as part of an initiative to coincide with President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration.
Gay bishop: Obama will be 'gay friendliest' president
Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:27 PM EST
The only out gay bishop in the Anglican community on Monday called President-elect Barack Obama the "gay-friendliest" president ever elected.
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Obama Will End "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 8:30 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)
President Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military, a spokesman for the president-elect said.
Obama changed views on gay marriage | Windy City Times
Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:45 AM EST (Windy City Times)
In an article that has been widely quoted by Politico and others, Chicago gay newspaper Windy City Times reports that it now has documentary evidence of Barack Obama's shift to become less supportive of marriage equality during his quick rise to the top from local to national pol …
Are Gay People The New Minority?
Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:19 PM EST
I have heard many people speak of the rights of gays and what is best for them. People like Rush Limbaugh who obviously is NOT gay - yet thinks he holds some type of insight to the gay world and what is best for them.
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U.S. battle over gay marriage shifts to Maine
Seeded on Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:00 PM EST (Reuters)
The legislation proposed by Democratic state Sen. Dennis Damonck would make the state the nation's third to allow same-sex marriage. It seeks to redefine marriage as the legal union of two people rather than between a man and a women.
Ken Blackwell, The Man That Would Lead The GOP: I Could Restrain Homosexual Urges -- If I Had Any, Which I Don't
Seeded on Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:38 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)
"I've never had to make the choice because I've never had the urge to be other than a heterosexual," Blackwell said, "but if in fact I had the urge to be something else I could have in fact suppressed that urge."
The Missionaries' Position
Seeded on Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:58 PM EST (The Stranger)
A Seattle journalist's interesting take on getting a little restitution from the Mormon's for their support of Proposition 8- order the Book of Mormon.
Prop. 8 part of 'Christian Taliban's' move to make Bible the law
Seeded on Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:28 PM EST (Raw Story)
The Protect Marriage Coalition, which led the fight to pass an anti-gay marriage initiative in California, is now suing to shield its financial records from public scrutiny....
Is Tintin gay? Cartoon birthday boy dogged by rumours
Seeded on Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:16 AM EST (expatica.com)
As Belgian comic-book icon Tintin celebrates his 80th birthday, an age-old question has resurfaced: is the boy reporter gay? One British commentator says the signs are unmistakeable.
Huckabee to Coulter: I'm not 'pro-gay.'
Seeded on Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:57 PM EST (Think Progress)
During the presidential campaign, far-right conservative columnist Ann Coulter made a hobby of criticizing former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee as insufficiently conservative, including claiming that the virulently anti-gay Huckabee was "pro-sodomy." This past Saturday, whe …
This Guy Could Be Running The RNC Soon: "Homosexuality is a compulsion that can be contained, repressed, or changed."
Seeded on Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:56 AM EST (signorile.com)
Yes, that's what Ken Blackwell, the sketchy former Ohio Secretary of State who now has a good shot at running the Republican National Committee, told me a few months back, among some other very interesting and kooky things.
Gay bishop invited to pre-inauguration event in DC
Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:12 AM EST
The first openly gay Episcopal bishop will say a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial for one of President-elect Barack Obama's first inauguration events.
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Minister chosen for inaugural prayer service
Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:39 PM EST
The Rev. Sharon Watkins, pastor of a Protestant denomination with about 700,000 members in the United States and Canada, will deliver the sermon at the National Prayer Service that caps the inauguration activities of Barack Obama.
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Gay church official to speak of civil rights and religious rites | Seattle Times
Seeded on Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:30 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
Out gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson will give a public address in Seattle Monday afternoon.
P-I's closure in Seattle would reflect U.S. trend | Seattle Times
Seeded on Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:17 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
A report from a business reporter from the paper that would survive about the likely demise of the Seattle PI (in printed form, at least).
Likely new Republican speaker of the Texas House attends gay-affirming synagogue, opposed foster-parenting ban
Seeded on Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:01 PM EST (dallasvoice.com)
The man who's expected to be the next speaker of the Texas House is a member of a gay-affirming synagogue where clergy officiate same-sex weddings and where the senior rabbi is an outspoken supporter of marriage equality.
Latest Newspaper Death Rattle: Hearst Corp.'s Seattle P-I To Be Sold In 60 Days Or Be Closed
Seeded on Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:27 PM EST (The Moderate Voice)
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the latest of several newspapers to announce it's up for an unlikely sale. Others include San Diego Union Tribune and Rocky Mountain News in Denver.
My stint as a Starbucks barista, baby-boomer style
Seeded on Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:43 PM EST (Salon.com)
The first clue that we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto, is that all of my co-workers are 20-somethings. I'm a baby boomer. I took this job as Assistant Manager for Starbucks when my Corporate gig got unendurable, I took this gig because: 1. I need a job 2. I like coffee
No defending the Defense of Marriage Act - Los Angeles Times
Seeded on Fri Jan 9, 2009 5:12 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
Even more so now than in 1996, I believe we need to reduce federal power over the lives of the citizenry and over the prerogatives of the states. It truly is time to get the federal government out of the marriage business.
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