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Express Gay News
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Librarian sues Ohio State, claims Christian discrimination
A former Ohio State University librarian has sued the school, claiming hefaced discrimination for his Christian beliefs. Scott Savage says he wasforced to resign after recommending a conservative book for incomingfreshmen. He says the other picks were too liberal and reflected theschool's promotion of a gay agenda. Two colleagues filed a sexual harassmentcomplaint against Savage and said the recommendation showed he washomophobic. That complaint was dismissed. In his lawsuit, Savage says he waspersonally and professionally harassed by colleagues, forcing him to resign.
He is asking for his job back and for the university to change its sexualharassment policies. An Ohio State spokesman declined to comment.
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National Gay News
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Gay Refugees Have Difficulty Proving They're Gay
The Canadian Refugee Board needs to establish clearer guidelines on sexualorientation to help adjudicators avoid stereotyping gay and lesbian refugeeswho have little proof they are gay, say legal experts. Last week MP ThomasMulcair exploded at hecklers in the Commons and later shed tears at a newsconference after Immigration Minister Diane Finley refused to allow Canada'slatest gay refugee claimant Kulenthiran Amirthalingam stay in the country oncompassionate grounds. He later told the Montreal Gazette that he had seen adisturbing video depicting the kind of brutal punishment gay men receive inMalaysia, including strapping a naked man until raw flesh was exposed.
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Traveling in Our Fabulous World
Association Covers Gay and Lesbian Travelers' Needs
The International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association is committed to growingand enhancing its members' gay and lesbian tourism business througheducation, promotion and networking. Whether you are looking for a gaytravel business nearby or a tour around the world, the group's membersunderstand your travel needs. At www.iglta.com, you can search through thedatabase of gay and straight IGLTA members to find just what you are lookingfor. The site also offers a list of activities and a calendar of eventsaround the world.
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10 Cool Travel Destinations For Gays and Lesbians
Beat the hordes and discover the most exhilarating, up-and-coming cities on2008's travel map before everyone checks them out and checks them off.
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Marriage Equality News
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To our neighbors, my wife, Nancy, and I don't appear in the least unusual.To those in the quiet Oregon community where we live, we are viewed just aswe are -- a happy couple deeply in love. Our desire to work hard, buy ourfirst home, and start a family was nothing out of the ordinary. That is,until we decided that I would carry our child. I am transgender, legallymale, and legally married to Nancy. Unlike those in same-sex marriages,domestic partnerships, or civil unions, Nancy and I are afforded the morethan 1,100 federal rights of marriage. Sterilization is not a requirementfor sex reassignment, so I decided to have chest reconstruction andtestosterone therapy but kept my reproductive rights. Wanting to have abiological child is neither a male nor female desire, but a human desire.
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Last week's meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of the ParliamentaryAssembly of the Council of Europe exposed some members' ignorance about gay,lesbian, bisexual and trans people, according to the International Lesbianand Gay Association (ILGA). The committee was holding its first hearing on areport on LGBT rights in the member states. A panel of four expertsaddressed the committee, including an ILGA-Europe representative. The47-member Council of Europe promotes and protects democracy, educational andsporting co-operation and created the European Court of Human Rights.
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In their typically fumbling fashion, the people's representatives in theMaryland General Assembly have been trying to figure out what to do aboutproposals to legalize gay marriage, set up civil unions, enact some limitedversion of the latter, reaffirm one-man-one-woman marriage, or just repairto the bar and forget about the whole thing. Before the abusive automaticresponses kick in, let me try to be clear about the essentials. I'm notinterested in church so much as state. Religious denominations determinewhether marriages can be performed by their adherents.
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You may never have heard of Pyramus and Thisbe, but I'll bet you've heard ofRomeo and Juliet. You know the story: they were young, and in love, buttheir parents wouldn't let them marry, because their families were enemies.
Well, the story of Pyramus and Thisbe dates back a little further, but thesetwo lovers had a similar problem: they were young, and in love, and theirparents wouldn't let them marry, because. actually the reason isn't part ofthe story: so let's conclude it doesn't matter. What matters is that theyshare a passionate romantic love that means more to them than what theirparents think.
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In the midst of a re-election challenge from the left in the DemocraticPrimary this September, Sen. John Kerry has softened his longstandingopposition to same-sex marriage. In a statement to Bay Windows Kerry saidthat civil marriage rights for same-sex couples are established law inMassachusetts and should remain so. He has also touted his work to swaystate legislators to vote against the anti-gay marriage constitutionalamendment at last June's constitutional convention, as proof of his support.
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Connecticut: A state General Assembly committee is to revisit the state'scivil unions law Monday, while a decision from the state Supreme Court aboutthe legality of denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples is pending.
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San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom rushes into the room across from hisoffice, apologizing for being late. He explains that he'd been walking downMarket Street, talking to panhandlers about what it would take to get themoff the streets. Fiery idealism like that has come to define Gavin Newsom.
Although he is a bona fide policy wonk, his political passion is whatcaptured the attention of the nation four years ago, when-less than a monthinto his first term-Newsom decided to permit same-sex couples to marry inSan Francisco. As we sit down today, the political fallout from thatdecision continues.
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Maryland: With prospects all but dead for legalizing same-sex marriage oreven civil unions this year, gay rights advocates scored a small victoryyesterday in their piece-by-piece pursuit of legal rights now denied gay andlesbian couples in Maryland. The change to medical decision-making, opposedby most Republican senators, is one of three bills pending in theDemocrat-controlled General Assembly that would create a legal,domestic-partner relationship to give gay couples limited benefits ofmarriage. Rights to joint property ownership and inheritance also have agood shot at passage before the legislature adjourns next month.
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HIS only crime was to be gay. For that he was half-drowned, brutally beatenand then fell into a coma. He survived, escaped from jail, fled his countryand eventually arrived, exhausted and bedraggled, here in Scotland. And nowthe Government wants to send him back. Syrian Jojo Jako Yakob last nightpleaded with the Home Office to reverse a deportation order and spare himthe certain death he believes he will face if he returns to his country. "Iwish to claim asylum and I wish to stay here in Scotland," he said. Gayrights activists demanded that homosexuals, such as Yakob, who were facingclear persecution in their homeland, should be granted asylum. But aspokesman for the Syrian Embassy responded by describing homosexuality as a"disease", which the country sought to "treat".
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The unlikely rebel
Sr Jeannine Gramick, the diminutive Roman Catholic nun from the US, isurging the Vatican to show its compassionate side to gay and lesbianCatholics and shun the evil of prejudice that hounds this community. Thesubject of an acclaimed documentary, Sr Jeannine tells Ariadne Massa theargument that gay sexuality is unnatural, is based solely on 'plumbing'.
Taking a sip of English Breakfast tea, Sr Jeannine Gramick, 65, emits apeaceful aura that veils her steely resolve to pursue her mission to supportgay and lesbian Catholics. Dressed in a mint-coloured shirt, buttoned rightup to her neck, and a blue cardigan, it's hard to imagine this nun, with hergentle demeanour, standing up to the Vatican and sticking to her guns - "ina non-violent way". In Malta last night to address a public talk titled 'OnBecoming Whole: Sexual and Spiritual Integration', organised by Drachma,Malta's gay Catholic group, Sr Jeannine explains her crusade, which inspiredthe documentary In Good Conscience.
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Red Duchess wed lesbian lover to snub children
In her life she was always unconventional, but nothing had quite preparedthe family of the Spanish aristocrat known as the "Red Duchess" for thecontroversy she would create upon her death. As obituaries celebrated herlong record as a defender of the poor, and opponent of the dictator GeneralFranco, the three children of Doña Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 71, weregrappling with the revelation that she had married her lesbian lover on herdeathbed - and made out her will to her.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/16/wduchess116.xml
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Pedophile priest jailed for three years in Germany
The 40-year-old clergyman pleaded guilty to 22 counts of abuse overathree-year period starting when the boy was 10. Regensburg, Germany -- Apriest who sexually molested an altar boy after his bishop reassigned him toa new parish following a previous conviction for pedophilia was jailed forthree years on Thursday. The 40-year-old clergyman pleaded guilty to 22counts of abuse over a three-year period starting when the boy was 10.
He was arrested in August 2007 after the offences came to light in theparish of Riekofen in the southern German state of Bavaria.
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New York Times
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When Girls Will Be Boys
It was late on a rainy fall day, and a college freshman named Rey wasshowing me the new tattoo on his arm. It commemorated his 500-mile hikethrough Europe the previous summer, which happened also to be, he said, thelast time he was happy. We sat together for a while in his room talking, histattoo of a piece with his spiky brown hair, oversize tribal earrings andvery baggy jeans. He showed me a photo of himself and his girlfriendkissing, pointed out his small drum kit, a bass guitar that lay next to hisrumpled clothes and towels and empty bottles of green tea, one full of driedflowers, and the ink self-portraits and drawings of nudes that he had tackedto the walls. Thick jasmine incense competed with his cigarette smoke. Hechanged the music on his laptop with the melancholy, slightly startled airof a college boy on his own for the first time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16students-t.html
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