Thursday, March 13, 2008

GLBT DIGEST March 13, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Sex Diseases in Many Gay Men Go Unfound, Experts Say
Many cases of sexually transmitted diseases are escaping detection becausegay men are not being tested each year as advised, federal health officialssaid Wednesday. And if the men do show up, the officials added, many doctorsand clinics are not following screening recommendations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/health/13std.html?_r=1&sq=GAY&st=nyt&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=2&adxnnlx=1205413403-/G2mbs+ebxhuGchYlkqDPw
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US Syphilis Up for Seventh Straight Year
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Syphilis-Increases.html?scp=3&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Liberals, Islamists Clash Over Morocco "Gay Wedding"
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/lifestyle-rights-morocco.html?scp=5&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Another Speeding Wreck
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/nyregion/13towns.html?scp=7&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Breakaway Episcopal Bishop Defrocked
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Episcopalians-Secession.html?scp=10&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Express Gay News
http://www.expressgaynews.com/
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Psychoanalysts Support Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080312/pl_usnw/psychoanalysts_support_legal_recognition_of_same_sex_marriage
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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
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Clinton Apologizes To Black Voters
(Washington) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night thatshe almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seemable to stop.
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Bush: McCain A Tough Competitor
(Washington) President Bush said Wednesday that he intends to finish hispresidency with his "head held high" and expects to hand the keys to theWhite House to John McCain, the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
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Dr. Death Runs For Congress
(Washington) Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian plans to run forCongress, complicating a Michigan race that is expected to be among the mostcompetitive in the nation.
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Reports: Meth Use Down
(Washington) Two studies released Wednesday suggest the use ofmethamphetamine is declining in nearly every part of the country. However,HIV/AIDS organizations say it is too early to determine if there has beenany impact on the correlation between meth use and risky sex.
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Egypt: New Indictments In HIV Crackdown
(New York City) The Egyptian government has handed down indictments againstfive more men who are HIV-positive.
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No Censure For OK GOP Lawmaker Homophobic Remarks
(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) Oklahoma state Republicans are refusing to condemnRep. Sally Kern (R) for saying gays are more dangerous than terrorists.
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U Hawaii Agrees To Gay Couple Housing
(Honolulu, Hawaii) A day after a same-sex couple filed a lawsuit accusingthe University of Hawaii of discrimination for refusing to allow the coupleto live in housing for married students the school says it will createaccommodation for gay and lesbian pairs.
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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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D.C.: Church Serving LGBT Community Shot Up
Congregants consider homophobia as a possible reason behind a shooting atthe Metropolitan Community Church in Shaw on Friday evening, WJLA reports.
MCC serves a predominantly LGBT congregation, and this marks the second timein recent history that the church was the victim of gunfire.
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Melbourne Radio Goes Gay
"I'm Dan Watson, and I'm a homosexual". This is not a meeting of GayAnonymous, rather the introduction to The Stick Shift, a two-hour gay-themedradio show on Melbourne's Nova 100 hosted by said homosexual, Dan Watson. Asthe only gay-themed show on commercial airwaves, The Stick Shift is in aunique position.Watson is a self-confessed "big personality" and successfully launched the show after several years of self-promotion. That's not a criticism, more thestandard fare of radio word progression.
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Top Colleges Come Out to Recruit Gay and Lesbian High School Youth
What do Princeton University, Emory University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California and University of Utah have in common?
Well, they all want to recruit out lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender(LGBT) youth and are a few of the colleges to be in attendance at theupcoming Campus Pride College Admission Fair on Friday, April 11 in SanDiego, California.
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New York's New Governor is Gay Rights Advocate
The resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York today, after he waslinked to a prostitution ring, has pushed David Paterson into the limelight.
From Monday Mr Paterson will become the first African-American to beGovernor of the state and the first blind Governor in US history.
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Australia: Victoria to Recognise Gay Couples
Gay and de facto couples will be able to formally register theirrelationships in Victoria after the Legislative Assembly last night passedhistoric legislation that split the Coalition. Liberal leader Ted Baillieusupported the Government bill, which will allow couples to record theirrelationships with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriage.
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Gay Hate Crime Bill Moves Forward in Lords
An amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would make itan offence to link homosexuality to paedophilia was discussed in the Houseof Lords last week. The bill seeks to create a new offence of incitement tohatred on the grounds of sexual orientation.
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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Ferraro Leaves Clinton Campaign Post
Geraldine Ferraro stepped down Wednesday from an honorary post in HillaryRodham Clinton's presidential campaign amid a controversy regarding hercomments that Barack Obama wouldn't be succeeding in the race for the WhiteHouse if he weren't black.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid52670.asp
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Open for Business
While the initial generation of gay activism was ignited in the streets, theup-and-coming set of business students are sharpening the skills needed topropel the movement further In 1994, Kevin Jennings left his teaching career to establish the Gay,Lesbian and Straight Education Network and become its executive director.
Two and a half years into his tenure, the president of GLSEN's board ofdirectors asked the Harvard graduate if he would be willing to go back toschool for his master of business administration, better known as an MBA. Heenrolled at New York University and graduated in 1999.
http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid52613.asp
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Marriage Equality News
http://samesexmarriage.typepad.com/weblog/
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Unable to overcome a key roadblock, gay activists are pessimistic aboutwinning marriage rights from Maryland lawmakers this year. Carrie Evans,policy director at Equality Maryland, said same-sex marriage supporters willstill push a bill to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, butshe doesn't envision it passing this session. "We're going to get marriage," she said during a March 7 interview. "Are we going to get itthis year? No."
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Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who Monday will assume the responsibilities ofgovernor of New York, is viewed by gay and trans activists alike as thestaunchest of supporters for the LGBT community. Bumped to the top spot bythe resignation of Gov. Eliot Spitzer over a prostitution scandal, Patersonwill be the first African-American and first legally blind governor of thestate. "He has been there in every critical fight over the last twodecades," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay andLesbian Task Force, naming hate-crimes legislation, the Sexual OrientationNondiscrimination Act, passed in 2002, and the ongoing fight for same-sexmarriage.
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The California Supreme Court is the most influential state court in thenation.
That's not just talk. The numbers back it up. A new study counted up thenumber of times the decisions of state high courts were followed in otherstates - in other words, how often one state's decision played a direct rolein shaping a decision elsewhere. That sort of citation analysis is a commonmeasure of influence, and there is a cottage industry of rankings forjudges, law professors, law reviews, law faculties and the like.
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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Charity calls for HPV vaccines for boys
The UK's leading dental charity is appealing to the government to includemales in a planned vaccination programme to guard against the sexuallytransmitted HPV virus.The British Dental Health Foundation's appeal was inresponse to a new large scale US study of 46,000 mouth cancer cases.It foundthat the number of deaths caused by the sexually transmitted HPV virus hasincreased by a third over the last 30 years and is now the highest it hasever been.
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Bishop says gays use Holocaust memorials for "sympathy"
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Motherwell has claimed that the "gay lobby"attends Holocaust memorials "to create for themselves the image of a groupof people under persecution." The Right Reverend Joseph Devine was giving alecture entitled Sectarianism and Secularism: Bugbears for the CatholicChurch in Scotland on Tuesday night when he made his comments. The bishopsaid there is a "giant conspiracy" going on and claimed he is taking on theforces of secularism.
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Clinton pushes for Florida and Michigan votes to be counted
New York Senator Hillary Clinton is calling on the Democratic NationalCommittee to either seat delegates from Florida and Michigan or hold newprimaries in the states. Both states were stripped of delegates for movingtheir primaries up on this year's election calendar. DNC chairman HowardDean is in favour of holding new primaries, but says the party will not payfor them. Barack Obama's campaign has concerns, however, about proposedmail-in caucuses.
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Obama faces tough questions from the press pack
Despite pulling off a handy win in Wyoming and running well ahead inMississippi, the Obama campaign is still dogged by the kind of questions theSenator is said to be growing increasingly weary of answering. According tothe Jack McCormick's The Swamp column in the Baltimore-Sun, Barack Obama hasbeen testy ever since suffering stinging defeats in Ohio, Texas and RhodeIsland. In recent days he has reportedly avoided talking with the presscorps on his plane, ducked answering questions when pressed and scoldedreporters who badgered him.
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Jodie Foster stalked linked to bomb threat
More than two decades ago, a crazed fan of Oscar winner Jodie Foster allegedhe shot president Ronald Reagan on behalf of his favourite actress. Now,another "fan" of Foster has mailed a bomb threat to a Los Angeles airport,and mentioned her by name in the letter. Michael Smegal was busted yesterdayfor mailing a bomb threat to Van Nuys Airport back in December, according toE! Online. This is after he promised postal inspectors he'd kick a year-longhabit of mailing anonymous letters to Foster back in 2005.
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Tory MP hostile to gay rights is sacked from party
A Conservative MP who has attempted to fight gay rights laws is at thecentre of a bizarre series of events in the Commons today. Bob Spink has hadthe whip withdrawn after threatening the Chief Whip with resignation. Heaccused the party of not doing enough to stop him from being deselected fromhis Castle Point seat. Since entering the Commons in 1992 Mr Spink hasconsistently opposed gay rights.
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New York's new Governor is gay rights advocate
The resignation of Eliot Spitzer as Governor of New York today, after he waslinked to a prostitution ring, has pushed David Paterson into the limelight.
From Monday Mr Paterson will become the first African-American to beGovernor of the state and the first blind Governor in US history. He hasbeen actively fighting for gay rights for more than two decades. "DavidPaterson is a terrific, progressive guy, extremely LGBT-friendly," EthanGeto, a Democratic analyst and LGBT activist, told The Advocate.
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Darling hits bars and cars in first budget
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling delivered his budgetearlier today. Among other measures, he announced an increase in duty on alcohol and high polluting cars. Like the rest of the drinking industry, the gay scene will be hit by a sixper cent increa se in alcohol tax with a two percent rise each year until2012.
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US ban on HIV+ travellers challenged by MEPs and Senators
The Lib Dems are calling on EU members states to raise the current Americanpolicy on HIV+ visitors to the United States at tomorrow's meeting ofjustice and security ministers. On Friday the same issue will be raised inthe US Senate. The Committee on Foreign Relations is due to discuss the banafter Senators John Kerry and Republican Gordon Smith added a provision torepeal the ban to Senate legislation to reauthorising PEPFAR, thePresident's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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G-A-Y venue cannot be saved says Ken
A report from the Mayor of London released today has confirmed that Londonvenue The Astoria will close as part of a redevelopment of the TottenhamCourt Road area. The Astoria is best known as a live music venue and thehome of popular club night G-A-Y. Despite protests from famous musicians andpetitions signed by tens of thousands of people, the building will be pulleddown as part of the construction of the new Crossrail project.
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EU criticised over 'pass the parcel' asylum policy
A London MEP has called for an end to the "shameful shuffling" of gay andother asylum-seekers between EU member states. Tomorrow the EuropeanParliament will vote on an emergency resolution calling for an Iranianteenager currently in Holland not to be sent back to the UK. 19-year-oldMehdi Kazemi had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the United Kingdom,following the execution of his partner by Iranian authorities after beingfound guilty of sodomy.
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Gay hate crime bill moves forward in Lords
An amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill that would make itan offence to link homosexuality to paedophilia was discussed in the Houseof Lords last week. The bill seeks to create a new offence of incitement tohatred on the grounds of sexual orientation. Liberal Democrat peer LordThomas of Gresford told the House: "We are concerned about the suggestionvery frequently made by the British National Party and others thathomosexuality and paedophilia are directly connected and that a person whois homosexual has a propensity to be a paedophile."
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Candidates looking forward to gay hustings
Two men vying to become the next Mayor of London have said they are lookingforward to the Stonewall hustings event next month. The hustings, onSaturday 19th April, will give the capital's gay and lesbian community anopportunity to question the candidates ahead of polling day on May 1st.
PinkNews.co.uk is proud to be the media partner for the Stonewall hustings,which will be held at the BFI Southbank.
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Gay bishop rejects restricted invite to Lambeth
Bishop V. Gene Robinson has announced he will not officially participate ina planned summer conference of world Anglican leaders. He declined aninvitation to events at the once-a-decade Lambeth conference this summerbecause of restrictions organisers placed on him if he were to appear.
Robinson said the limited offer caused him "considerable pain" and he wouldreject the "non-offer" to be part of the conference.
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Daily Queer News
dailyqueernews@yahoo.com
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Son of Oklahoma City bombing addresses Kern
http://www.gaypolitics.com/?p=342
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Where are all the gays going?
A look into the diminishing GLBT scene in Nashville.
http://outandaboutnewspaper.com/article.php?id=2465
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Colorado lawmakers consider broader ban on anti-gay discrimination
http://seaqwa.com/blogs/qnews/archive/2008/03/12/colorado-lawmakers-consider-broader-ban-on-anti-gay-discrimination.aspx
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Legislators unveil bill to protect gay rights
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/11/ddn031108gayweb.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=16
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Dems Don't Fake It
http://jasmynecannick.typepad.com/jasmynecannickcom/2008/03/dems-dont-fake.html
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We're Here, We're Queer...We're Moral!
http://www.indegayforum.org/news/show/31473.html
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Pink Pistols: Can Guns Protect Gays?
http://pajamasmedia.com/2008/03/gun_laws_and_gay_rights.php
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David S. Broder: Hillary-Obama ticket unlikely
http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/781323.html
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Upcoming gay and lesbian cruises through February 2010
http://www.gay.com/travel/article.html?sernum=9500&navpath=/channels/travel/cruises
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