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The Express Gay News
http://www.expressgaynews.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=11213
Christian university fires transgender professor
Complaint filed with EEOC
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) | Feb 5, 7:58 AM
A private, Christian university is firing a transgender professor who beganappearing as a woman on campus in 2005.
John Nemecek, 55, who goes by Julie Marie Nemecek and often wears a wig anddress, is fighting the dismissal by Spring Arbor University, which takeseffect June 1.
The ordained Baptist minister has filed a discrimination claim with the U.S.Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"I have worked hard for this university, have been praised for myperformance, and I have done nothing immoral or sinful," Nemecek told theJackson Citizen Patriot for a Sunday story.
Officials at Spring Arbor, which is affiliated with the Free MethodistChurch, declined to comment to the newspaper. They said in a statementreleased by a public relations firm: "We expect our faculty to modelChristian character as an example for our students."
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365gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/02/020407israel.htm
Israeli Police Bust Gang Preying On Gays
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: February 5, 2007 - 12:01 am ET
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Seven gang members have been charged with beating androbbing gay men in an area of Tel Aviv where men go looking for hustlers.
The arrests were the result of a lengthy undercover operation after threebadly beaten men said they were lured into a dark corner and then attacked.
"The victims were attacked and beaten with extreme violence, ClockworkOrange style," police Superintendent Ronen Avnieli told Haaretz.
All of the attacks occurred near the central bus station, an area known as ahangout for male prostitutes.
Avnieli said that one man served as the decoy, luring the victims down thestreet into a dark alcove on the pretext of sex. The other gang members werelying in wait.
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SFGate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/05/MNG5LNUTQG1.DTL&type=printable
West Bank gays more at home in Israel West Bank gays find social life inIsrael
They fear new wall will trap them where their lifestyle is taboo
- Matthew Kalman, Chronicle Foreign Service
Monday, February 5, 2007
(02-05) 04:00 PST Ramallah, West Bank -- In the center of town in a cafenamed Stars & Bucks, a young Palestinian who likes to be known as the DivaNawal sips a bright pink milkshake and checks out the early evening crowd.
"I'm not the only gay person here, but I'm the only one who's out," he says,exchanging silent greetings with two young Palestinian men at a nearbytable. "They're also gay, but nobody knows, and you shouldn't approachthem."
When the tall, slim, delicately featured Nawal dons the blonde wig, makeupand tight skirts that transform him into a drag queen, he's ready for hisperformance -- at gay clubs in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa.
A 21-year-old university student with serious professional ambitions, Nawalwouldn't dream of performing in his hometown, where homosexuality, as in therest of the Palestinian territories, is strictly taboo, sometimes violentlyso. Last year, a group of gay Palestinians visiting East Jerusalem from theUnited States were threatened and one of them badly beaten after theyannounced plans to join an Israeli gay pride rally. The Web site of ASWAT,an organization of Palestinian gay women, says Palestinian society "has nomercy for sexual diversity and/or any expression of 'otherness' away fromthe societal norms and the assigned roles that were formed for women. ...The Palestinian woman has no right to choose an identity other than the oneenforced on her by the male figures in her family and surroundings."
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The Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16623627.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Posted on Mon, Feb. 05, 2007
AIDS burden worsens and the silence lingers
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
I 've written this column before.
Eight years ago, to be exact. I opened with a line from Marvin Gaye's mostcelebrated song. It goes: ``Talk to me, so you can see, what's going on.''
Eight years ago, the statistics were terrifying: 9,526 African Americansdead of AIDS in 1997, the latest year for which figures were then available.At 13 percent of the nation's population, African Americans accounted for 36percent of its AIDS cases.
Eight years ago, I wrote this: ``The silence, the absence of voices raisedin fear, raised in warning, raised in alarm -- raised -- is deafening.''
Eight years later, the silence is still loud and the numbers are worse.Blacks now account for nearly half of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses andcontract AIDS at a rate 10 times that of whites. Sixty-four percent of allAmerican women living with HIV/AIDS are black. AIDS is the leading cause ofdeath for black women 25 to 34 years old.
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/05/us/politics/05edwards.html?ei=5094&en=509576dc76453ab1&hp=&ex=1170738000&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
February 5, 2007
Familiar Face, but a New Tone
By JOHN M. BRODER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 - John Edwards has no intention of getting lost in theshuffle.
Faced with what he always knew would be a tough race against Senator HillaryRodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination and now thechallenge of convincing his party that he is also a better alternative thanSenator Barack Obama, Mr. Edwards is trying to muscle his way past them andthe rest of the field, in part by staking out early and provocativepositions on the big issues.
On the war in Iraq, Mr. Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, notonly came out for a complete withdrawal within 12 to 18 months, but he alsochallenged his Democratic rivals who are still in government to confrontPresident Bush more directly. And on Monday, Mr. Edwards will set out a planto provide health insurance to the 46.6 million Americans who do not haveit, stealing a march on Mrs. Clinton and other Democrats on what is shapingup to be one of the biggest domestic issues of the presidential race.
Appearing on "Meet the Press" on NBC on Sunday, Mr. Edwards said he wouldraise taxes on people making more than $200,000 a year to help pay for theplan, which he estimated could cost up to $120 billion a year.
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365gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/02/020407israel.htm
Israeli Police Bust Gang Preying On Gays
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: February 5, 2007 - 12:01 am ET
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Seven gang members have been charged with beating androbbing gay men in an area of Tel Aviv where men go looking for hustlers.
The arrests were the result of a lengthy undercover operation after threebadly beaten men said they were lured into a dark corner and then attacked.
"The victims were attacked and beaten with extreme violence, ClockworkOrange style," police Superintendent Ronen Avnieli told Haaretz.
All of the attacks occurred near the central bus station, an area known as ahangout for male prostitutes.
Avnieli said that one man served as the decoy, luring the victims down thestreet into a dark alcove on the pretext of sex. The other gang members werelying in wait.
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Utah News
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660192378,00.html
Deseret Morning News, Saturday, February 03, 2007
Gay-rights tour to stop at 2 Y. sites
By Tad Walch
Deseret Morning News
PROVO - The woman who organized the gay and lesbian march at Brigham YoungUniversity last year is singling out BYU and BYU-Idaho as two of the"darkest" places on her group's upcoming tour.
"My confession is this: I have a Mormon fetish," Soulforce Equality Rideorganizer Haven Herrin wrote in Lavendar, billed as Minnesota'sLesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender magazine. "As someone who works to endreligion-based bigotry, I have a special place in my life for Mormonsbecause they, by and large, exist in the most concentrated petri dish ofanti-gay religious rhetoric and its fallout - Utah."
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East Valley Tribune
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=83454
Spiritual Life
Gay-friendly pastors to protest Love Won Out
By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune
February 3, 2007
A major Valley conference next weekend on how homosexuals can overcomesame-sex attraction is being protested by pastors and lay people who say itamounts to "spiritual abuse" of gays and lesbians.
The daylong Love Won Out conference Feb. 10 at Bethany Bible Church inPhoenix, sponsored by Focus on the Family, is being countered by an efforttagged Love One In. The pastors and lay people plan a protest with pickets,a prayer vigil and a post-conference gathering for gays to tell theirstories.
Focus on the Family, founded by psychologist James Dobson, launchedLove Won Out in 1998 and has held 41 conferences around the world to showhomosexuals they "don't have to be gay and that a homosexual identity issomething that can be overcome."
"We have been protested and picketed more than we haven't," said GarySchneeberger, Love Won Out media director at Focus on the Family's officesin Colorado Springs, Colo. He says 800 to 1,000 people typically attend theconferences, some just to understand issues behind homosexuality, "to learnto love folks who are living homosexually but not compromise their faith atthe same time." Parents of gays come to be better equipped to "love theirchildren in a way that is Christian and is right, but not compromise theircore values," Schneeberger said.
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365gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/02/020407nepal.htm
Nepal Trans Woman Gains Dual Sex Papers
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: February 4, 2007 - 11:00 am ET
(Katmandu) In a country where transsexuals are routinely rounded up bypolice without provocation a Nepal transgender has won what LGBT rightsadvocates in the country are calling a major victory.
The government has agreed to revise the citizenship records of ChandaMausalman showing both male and female sex.
Mausalman was born biologically male. In her twenties she has not begunhormone therapy - the first step in sex reassignment.
She presents as female and applied to the government to have her officialrecords amended.
Blue Diamond Society, Nepal's LGBT rights organization, said it is the firsttime the government has officially recognized transsexuals in the country.
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Member of State Duma Chuyev considers gay parades as propaganda ofhomosexuality
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2558
Moscow, February 5, Interfax - The deputy chairman of the State DumaCommittee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations AlexanderChuyev regards homosexuality propaganda dangerous and supports the MoscowGovernment's decision to ban the gay parade in Russia's capital.
'I think the Moscow Government was totally right to ban the event (the gayparade - IF). I believe there should be a clear distinction between privaterights and public rights. The individual's rights end at the point whererights of the others begin,' the MP said during the TV show 'Evening withVladimir Solovyov' broadcasted by the NTV.
According to Chuyev, homosexuality propaganda 'is really destructing' as itleads 'to destruction of families, atomization of society and breaking ofnormal and natural gender relations.'
'There is but one problem. If you have this sort of sexual orientation,well, please have it in your privacy. It's your personal problem so dealwith it as you like... But please do not bring it outdoor and do not attractother people to it,' Chuyev said.
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