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Gay Rights Activists Stage Protest Ahead of Pope Visit
08.09.2006
Deutsche Welle
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The pope's stance on homosexuality has riled gay activistsThe pope's stanceon homosexuality has riled gay activistsWhile hundreds of thousands are expected to cheer Pope Benedict XVI when hevisits Bavaria starting Saturday, his critics got a chance to speak up onFriday -- respectfully, that is.
Around 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning, Pope Benedict's most visible critics -- at least for the coming days -- quietly gathered in the centre of Munich.
It was the only official demonstration scheduled to take place during thepontiff's visit. In a state with regions where up to 87 percent of thepopulation are Catholic, at least on paper, few seemed interested instanding up against Bavarian-born Benedict.
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Hate is not a principle of any religious teaching
Saturday, September 09, 2006
To the Editors:
Mubarak Dahir's editorial, ("Personal truce, Aug. 18) brought home somerealistic experiences dealing with my visit to Palestine and Israel during aDecember 2005 sojourn to a divided Holy Land revered by Christians, Jews andMuslims alike.
Having personally been to that land, and garnered a subsequent understandingof it, I can comprehend what Karl Marx referred to when he suggested that"religion is the opium of the masses."
If anyone thinks there isn't plenty of suffering, abuse and shared guilt byall in the Holy Land, then that person is seeing the situation through aflawed observation.
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Archbishop: Gays must change to be welcome in Anglican church
Saturday, September 09, 2006
LONDON - Gays must change their behavior if they expect to be welcomed intothe Anglican church, the archbishop of Canterbury said, according to theSunday Telegraph. Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican Communion, is puttingdistance between himself and his once-liberal support of gay relationships.Instead, Williams is emphasizing that the tradition and teaching of thechurch is not altered in any way by the consecration of its first openly gaybishop. In a newspaper interview, Williams said it is not time for thechurch to accept gay relationships, and that the church should welcome gaysif not their relationships. "I don't believe incluion is a value in itself. Welcome is," Williams told a Dutch journalist. "We don't say 'Come in and we ask no questions.' I do believe conversion means conversion of habits, behaviors, ideas, emotions. Ethics is not a matter of a set of abstractrules, it is a matter of living the mind of Christ. That applies to sexual ethics."
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Some calls intensify for parents to avoid 'pro-gay' public schools
NEW YORK (AP) - Led mainly by evangelical Christians, a new movement depicts public education as hostile to religious faith and claims to be behind asurge in the number of students being schooled at home. The movement is ledby such groups as Exodus Mandate and the Alliance for Separation of School &State. One new campaign aims to monitor public schools for whatconservatives see as pro-gay curriculum and programs. "Homeschoolers avoidharmful school environments where God is mocked, where destructive peerinfluence is the norm, where drugs, alcohol, promiscuity and homosexualityare promoted," says the California-based Considering Homeschooling Ministry.
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Getting over coming out
Exiting the closet was never a good strategy for winning equality.
Societal problems require collective action.
By JULIE ENSZNER
Sep. 09, 2006
IT'S BEEN A hard conclusion for me to embrace. I organized "Speak Outs" forNational Coming Out Day in the 1990s. I advocated coming out as critical toour liberation.
I've come out to everyone and reveled it in. When I ran out of familymembers, I moved on to dry cleaners and grocery baggers and state senatorsand plumbers and metro passengers. I can't think of a person I haven't told.
Even still, it's come time for me to admit that coming out is a flawedstrategy. In fact, coming out is the wrong strategy for queer liberation.
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French presidential hopeful rules out gay marriage
Same sex couples should not be able to marry or adopt, the leader ofFrance's Union for a Popular Movement ((Union pour un MouvementPopulaire) and potential presidential candidate Nicolas Sarzoky has announced http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2441.html
07-September-2006
Marc Shoffman
Same sex couples should not be able to marry or adopt, the French interior minister and presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarzoky has announced.
Mr Sarzoky outlined his policies and campaigning strategy in a Frenchmagazine interview this month gearing up for the country's 2007 presidentialelections.
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Tiptoeing around an epidemic
AIDS infection rates are soaring in Thailand, but conservative U.S.
watchdogs keep gay men at risk.
By VINCENT MACISAAC, Sep. 08, 2006
"I'M FRIGHTENED ENOUGH that talking to you makes me nervous," a seniorofficial at an American health organization tells me in an interview that is- for the most part - off the record.
"I'm an American. We have free speech," he continues, as though this is afact he needs to remind himself.
We're talking about AIDS. Specifically, the epidemic among gay and bisexualmen in Thailand, where infection rates in Bangkok have surged by more than50 percent in two years to a 28.3 percent increase last year, according tostudies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.
What I want to know is whether the U.S. government's "ABC" preventionstrategy - abstinence, be faithful in relationships, and condoms - ishindering efforts to contain this epidemic.
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Moscow gay march organizers call for probe into attack on Bundestag member
08 September 2006, 17:28
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=1968
Moscow, September 8, Interfax - Organizers of the unsanctioned gay pridemarch that took place in Moscow on May 27 have filed an appeal with theMoscow prosecutor's office, which earlier refused to open a criminal caseinto an attack on German Bundestag Member Volker Beck, a participant in theevent.
"Organizers of the gay march protest the decision by the deputy prosecutor
of the Tverskaya inter-district prosecutor's office to refuse to open a
criminal case into the attack on Bundestag member Beck," a statement
published on the GayRussia.ru web site on Friday reads.
"Beck sent an appeal to the Russian Prosecutor's General Office demanding acriminal case be opened against Aleksey Napylov, who said that he does notregret his actions in an interview with the Russian version of the Newsweekjournal," the press release reads.
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August 16, 2006
Riyadh - Saudi authorities arrested 20 young men after raiding a suspectedgay wedding in the southern town of Jizan, a newspaper reported onWednesday.
The detainees, who were among some 400 men attending "the wedding party oftwo men" on Tuesday, had been "emulating women," the Al-Watan paper said.
In all, some 250 people were detained in the police raid on the party butthe rest were later released.
Police had "arrested the wanted people and released those who have nothingto do with the matter," the paper quoted a police commander as saying.
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Indiana Court Lets Gay Adoption Stand
Indiana's Supreme Court let stand a ruling that allows unmarried couples, including those of the same sex, to adopt children through a joint petition that gives both partners equal custody.
In a 4-1 decision posted Friday, the high court refused to hear arguments in the case. That left in tact the April ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals, which had overturned a lower court's ruling that state law limits adoption to married couples and individuals.
"The court acknowledged that two people can create a caring, stable, loving home for children without being married," said Patricia Logue, senior counsel for Lambda Legal's Midwest office in Chicago. "Not only is this a decision that will keep our clients' family intact, but this is a victory
for the thousands of children in Indiana desperately in need of a caring home."
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
Gay activist's book says right has gone wrong
The Rev. Mel White, former Pat Robertson speechwriter turned gay activist, says in a new book that liberals and progressives should aggressively counter Christian fundamentalists' beliefs and actions on issues involving gays.
Pamela Miller, Star Tribune
Last update: September 08, 2006 - 10:28 AM
WHITE TO VISIT MINNESOTA
An unlikely couple often attend services at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. -- the Rev. Mel White, a gay activist and author, and his partner, Gary Nixon.
The two attend as a quiet protest against what they view as a dangerous anti-gay agenda pushed by Falwell and other fundamentalist Christians.
White is author of several books, including the memoir "Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America," and founder of Soulforce Inc., an organization that works to end faith-based bias against gays.
The former evangelical pastor, professor and ghostwriter for Billy Graham and Pat Robertson came out in 1994 after years of struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with his conservative Christianity. He argues in his new book, "Religion Gone Bad: The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right," that fundamentalist beliefs about gays cause suffering and can lead to violence.
The book implores progressives to challenge preachers and politicians who believe the United States would be best ruled by fundamentalist Christian principles.
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Call for one law on marriage
Cape Town - The general secretary of the SA Council of Churches, Eddie Makue, has called for a single law governing all forms of marriage, including same-sex unions, rather than the dual legislation proposed by the government.
He made the call in an open letter, released on Thursday, to the chairs of parliament's home affairs and justice portfolio committees.
"Our national history illustrates all too painfully the folly and injustice of creating multiple legal and administrative mechanisms to perform essentially the same functions for different categories of people," he said.
"Separate institutions are rarely, if ever, equal.
Consulted with key figures
"Their chances of achieving equal impact are further reduced if they are embedded in a society that remains afflicted by prejudice and discrimination."
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September 8, 2006
Diversity and ARC Ohio groups denied entry to parade
by Anthony Glassman
Kettering, Ohio--For the second year in a row, an LGBT organization was denied entry into the Holiday at Home parade in this Dayton suburb.
This year, a nationally-recognized HIV prevention program was also barred from marching in the Labor Day parade.Diversity Dayton and the AIDS Resource Center Ohio's Mu Crew both saw their applications to join in the festivities rejected by parade committee.
The Mu Crew, an offshoot of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mpowerment program, is an HIV prevention and education program that targets young gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning men.
The Mu Crew was recognized by Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin for their efforts in
the area.
Mu Crew coordinator Andrew Hyde said that Holiday at Home, the private group that sponsors
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Michigan Womyn's Fest ends ban on Trans Women
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August 21, 2006
CONTACT: Emilia Lombardi, 412-480-4032; Bryn Kelly,
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Michigan Women's Music Festival ends policy of discrimination against Trans women
After 15 years of controversy, supporters welcome trans women to 'theland'
HART, MICHIGAN - The Michigan Women's Music Festival began admitting openly trans (transgender/transsexual) women last week, bringing success to a longstanding struggle by trans activists both inside and outside the festival.
"Seeing trans women inside the festival for the first time brought me to tears," said Sue Ashman, who attends the festival every year. "It's restored my faith in women's communities."
Ashman said "I have friends who have already committed to bringing themselves and others for the first time next year."
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NY Court Says State Law Protects Transsexuals from Discrimination
by New York Law School Professor Arthur S. Leonard, August 17, 2006 in Legal Issues
In what appears to be the first such ruling by a New York State court, a Westchester County judge ruled in Buffong v. Castle on the Hudson, anemployment discrimination case, that "transgendered persons" are protectedfrom workplace discrimination by the sex discrimination provision in NewYork State's Human Rights Law.
Justice Joan B. Lefkowitz's August 9 decision, first made public in a NewYork Law Journal article published August 17, does not describe the facts ofthe case, but the Law Journal article reported them based on an interviewwith one of the plaintiff's attorneys, Louis Ginsberg of White Plains.
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Study warns of skyrocketing HIV rate
Friday, August 18, 2006
SUMMARY: Fifty-eight percent of gay 20-year-olds in the Western world willbe HIV-positive by the time they are 60 if current trends hold, a new studyasserts.
HIV prevalence is set to skyrocket among gay men in the Western world asthey age, a University of Pittsburgh researcher said Thursday at theinternational AIDS conference in Toronto.
The Pittsburgh study, a review of papers published in journals, indicatesthat the number of new cases of HIV has been rising by about 1.9 percenteach year since 2001, meaning that as gay men as a group get older, more andmore of them will become HIV-positive, Agence-France Presse reported.
"Ongoing incidence rates at this level will yield very high HIV prevalencerates within each generation of gay men," University of Pittsburgh researcher Ron Stall told AFP.
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Princeton Review listing of MOST lgbt-friendly colleges
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1 New York University
2 Eugene Lang College/New School University
3 New College of Florida
4 Macalester College
5 College of the Atlantic
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Princeton Review listing of LEAST lgbt-friendly colleges
Demographics Alternative Lifestyles Not an Alternative
Is there very little discrimination against homosexuals?
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1 University of Notre Dame
2 Hampden-Sydney College
3 Brigham Young University (UT)
4 Wheaton College (IL)
5 College of the Holy Cross
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Blithe House Quarterly : queer fiction lives here
URL: http://www.blithe.com/
** featured in the January 2005 New York Times article on the literary magazine boom **
Blithe House Quarterly, the leading journal of lesbian and gay literaryfiction, is pleased to open submissions for its Spring 2007 issue.
"*The* journal, online or off, for gay short fiction. Blithe House Quarterlyis one of the best literary sites on the Internet. Period." -- 42opus.com
"Internet-based fiction journals have become a significant force inpublishing, especially for serious short fiction. In Web-only lit journalssuch as Blithe House Quarterly, the short-story form is alive and clicking."
-- Baltimore City Paper
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DNC rejects affirmative action status for gays
Dean backs compromise 'Inclusion Policy' that satisfies many gay Dems
By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Aug. 18, 2006
After months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, top officials at theDemocratic National Committee last week turned down a proposal by the DNC'sGay & Lesbian Americans Caucus to add gays to the party's affirmative actionrules for selecting delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
DNC officials instead agreed to create a new "inclusion" section to theparty's delegate selection rules that recognizes the "LGBT community andpeople with disabilities" as underrepresented groups within the party.
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'Significant' drop in risky sex among teens, study finds
By Joyce Howard Price, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Published August 11, 2006
The proportion of sexually experienced U.S. high school students fell by 13percent from 1991 to 2005, according to a new federal study that examinedprevalence of HIV-related risk behaviors of teenagers.
The research by epidemiologists for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andPrevention found that the share of teens who acknowledged ever having hadsexual intercourse dropped from 54.1 percent to 46.8 percent during thatnearly 15-year period.
Among students who said they were sexually active, the study showed a 24percent drop in the proportion of those who said they had experienced fouror more sex partners during their lifetime and a 9 percent decline amongthose who said they were currently sexually active.
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Am. Psychological Assn. to pull its meetings out of Virginia
APA plans to pull its meetings out of Virginia Medical group cites anti-gay
laws, amendment for move to D.C.
By ELIZABETH A. PERRY
Aug. 11, 2006
http://www.washblade.com/print.cfm?content_id=8920
Washington Blade
The American Psychological Association will move its meetings out ofVirginia because of the possible impact of the Affirmation of Marriage Actand a proposed gay marriage ban on its members and their domestic partners.
The APA announced July 21 that governance meetings scheduled to be held inVirginia in 2007 and 2008 will be moved to Washington, D.C.
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September 8, 2006
Pope Calls Gay Marriage "Folly, " Warns Politicians
By REUTERS
Filed at 8:58 a.m. ET
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Friday Catholic politicians could not be swayed by opinion polls and social trends into supporting practices such as abortion and the ``folly'' of gay marriage.
The Pope repeated his opposition to abortion and gay marriage in a toughly worded address to visiting bishops from Canada.``In the name of tolerance' your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of freedom of choice' it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children,'' the Pope said.
``When the Creator's divine plan is ignored the truth of human nature is lost,'' he said.
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ACLU Challenges Denial of Housing Permit to Unmarried Couple in Black Jack, Missouri
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ST. LOUIS, MO -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri andthe ACLU Women's Rights Project filed a lawsuit today on behalf of a familythat was denied a permit to live in the city of Black Jack because of a lawthat prohibits more than three people from living together unless they arerelated by "blood, marriage or adoption."
"The City of Black Jack's behavior is both pompous and unconstitutional,"said Brenda Jones, Executive Director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri."Black Jack's attempt to criminalize people's choice to live together as afamily has earned international ridicule for Missouri."
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Houston Chronicle, TX, August 14, 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4114566.html
Gay foster families sought
Counseling center hopes to keep gay teens from street life By SARAH VIREN,
sarah.viren@chron.com
Elana Arthur inhales smoke, exhales, then explains:
"My mom kicked me out when I was 14 because I was a lesbian."
Her black hair is cropped short, her eyes serious. Across the street is her latest home: the Covenant House, a Montrose-area youth shelter.
The 21-year-old has flirted with homelessness for the past sevenyears: first at a foster home, from which she ran away, then a family home,where she said she was sexually abused and later moving from couch to couchat friends' and girlfriends' residences.
Now she is trying to remake her life at a homeless shelter.
Blocks from where she stands, smoking on the street corner, a Houston gayadvocacy organization has drafted a plan to save youths like Arthur - orlike Arthur seven years ago - from the streets.
The idea - to recruit gay and gay-friendly parents to the foster care system- comes amid debates about caregiving by gays and lesbians. At least onestate, Florida, outlaws adoption by this segment of the population, andothers, including Texas, recently debated stopping them from serving asfoster parents.
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By Deb Price
The Detroit News
August 14, 2006
Michigan colleges among most gay friendly
W hen freshman Jen Hsu arrived at the University of Michigan twoyears ago, her first stop was at Gayz Craze, a picnic for gaystudents noted in the welcoming handbook.
That gay-affirming introduction to college life, Hsu recalls, gother off to a great start -- personally and academically: She jumpedinto gay activities, eventually becoming one of the most familiar lesbian faces on campus as co-chairwoman of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs Commission, which is part of the student assembly.
"I feel really supported and really happy with who I am here," Hsu says. "I'd hate to think about what I would feel like without all the support."
At U-M, gay students can participate in a 10-week coming outworkshop; skate on "Flames on Ice" night; and speed date, gettingacquainted with other gay singles on five-minute "mini dates."
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August 17, 2006 A tale of persecution in Iran
Maryam knew she was a lesbian from an early age, but in Iran, being gay ispunishable by death. Facing far more than parental disapproval, she waskicked out of school, fired from a job, imprisoned, and tortured, all in anunsuccessful effort to change her sexual orientation. Finally, she escapedto France, where her asylum request was still pending at press time.
By Doug Ireland
In this international exclusive, a lesbian victim of torture in the IslamicRepublic of Iran speaks on the record for the first time about the horrorsshe suffered at the hands of a regime that has made homosexuality illegaland punishable by death. Maryam, 25, was expelled from school, forciblyhospitalized, arrested, and tortured for being a lesbian before finallyescaping Iran. She eventually wound up in France, where she currently livesin an internment camp. Although she's filed an application for asylum as asexual refugee, given the conservative French government's new crackdown onillegal immigrants, Maryam could be deported back to Iran at any moment. "I
don't know what I will do if the French government sends me back to where myexecution pillar is awaiting me!" she says. Doug Ireland spoke to her by phone, aided by a Persian translator, from Paris, where she had traveled for a day to file documents for her asylum request. Here, in her own words, is Maryam's story.
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Hi Everyone,
We will be sending out a more official update to our current outreach tripshortly. Its a little hard to find the time and internet connectionsometimes on the road.
As most of you know already, we still need about $6500.00 for this tripwhich lasts through September 26.
Last Tuesday, we held an educational forum hosted by PFLAGStanislaus/Modesto, CA. It is not typical for the Outreach Team to betreated to dinner before a presentation but Cathy and Dean Jennisonprovided a wonderful dinner for us which was greatly appreciated. Withour budget constraints we rarely eat anything other than cheap fast food.
It was also announced that the chapter had decided to donate $1000.00 toHeartStrong. This is the single largest donation to HeartStrong from anyPFLAG chapter in the ten year history of our work. It is also the secondlargest donation to HeartStrong from any other organization.
It was such an encouragement to receive this donation from Stanislaus PFLAG. Their commitment to support the work of HeartStrong was both encouraging and energizing.
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A Message from Marc Adams of HeartStrong
Hi Everyone,
Here we are in toasty Phoenix. It's been a while since I lived here andits easy to forget about dry heat.
At any rate, our outreach trip is going well. We've been on the road nowfor two weeks. We held five educational forums so far (four in CA and one in AZ).
We've been delivering some of our outreach materials to some of thereligious themed entertainment venues here in PHX in hopes that ourmessage might reach someone. We've made a few church visits...churchesthat sponsor religious schools. Since school isnt quite in yet, we'vegone into some churches to leave our materials. We've visited oneSeventh-day Adventist, two Baptist and one Catholic church so far.
I will continue to keep you updated on how things are going. As youalready know we are still in need of about $5,000.00 for this trip. Asalways, you can make a donation online at http://www.heartstrong.org or by mailing a check to HeartStrong, PO Box 2051, Seattle WA 98111. We needyour help!
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