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New York Times
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Gay Voters, Take Note
Andrew Sullivan is dazzled by a statement from Barack Obama in Texas in support of gay rights.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/gay-voters-take-note/index.html?ref=opinion
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The Global AIDS Fight
Congress and the White House are preparing to ramp up spending on programs to combat AIDS and related diseases around the world while removing some of the ideological blinders that have long undermined the effort to slow the spread of the AIDS virus. It will be a welcome strengthening of a foreign aid program that was already one of the shining accomplishments of the Bush administration.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/opinion/29fri1.html?ref=opinion
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Washington Post
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Abortion, Economics Key Issues For Young Voters
A candidate's position on abortion could be the issue that gets young voters into the voting booth this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022902646.html
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ASK AMY
DEAR AMY: A young cousin of mine recently reached out to me with some heavy news. She told me that she is gay. She asked me not to tell anyone in the family, and I am honored that she trusted me with such a secret. I will most definitely honor her secret, and I completely support her.
However, as a man who is certainly more an elder than a peer -- she just started driving; I am pushing 30 -- I am wondering what role I should play in this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022601792.html
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Express Gay News
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Rod Llaneza competed with a point to prove - 'Y'all got beat by a sissy'
Rod Llaneza doesn't shy away from a fight. In fact, he enjoys them, at least inside the ring.
http://www.outsports.com/os/index.php/2008022662/People/2008-People/Kickboxing-his-way-out-of-the-closet.html
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365Gay.com
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McCain Seeks Distance From Anti-Gay Pastor
(Phoenix, Arizona) John McCain is refusing to renounce the endorsement of a prominent Texas televangelist who Democrats say peddles anti-Catholic and other intolerant speech.
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Renewed Effort To Pass Federal Hate Crime Law Following Two Murders
(Washington) There is renewed impetus to enact LGBT federal hate crime legislation in the wake of the killings this month of two young people and the vicious beating of a third person.
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Pope Praises Supporters Of Gay Marriage Bans In Advance Of US Trip
(Vatican City) Pope Benedict XVI told Washington's new ambassador Friday that he appreciates efforts by what he said are the many Americans opposed to abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage.
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Marriage Equality News
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As the battle over a bill banning domestic partner registries continues in the Legislature, the Kansas Equality Coalition is urging people to contact their lawmakers. "Call your representative and senator now and tell them to vote 'no,'" said Thomas Witt, chair of the Equality Coalition. "This awfulbill would make it harder for some LGBT Kansans to get health insurance. It would damage the home rule authority of local cities and counties."
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Four years ago, much of the Santa Cruz area gay and lesbian community brimmed with optimism as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began allowing same-sex marriages, prompting county and city leaders here to pass measures of support. That optimism has been tempered in the intervening years. The California Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday on six consolidated suits related to same-gender marriage in which challengers contend state marriage laws are unconstitutional. But few same-sex marriage supporters are ready to party like it's 2004.
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Arizona: Republicans in the Legislature have introduced a proposal to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Again? Yes, unfortunately. We think the amendment is unnecessary and unworthy of inclusion in our Constitution.
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New York: There's a famous line from a speech Sojourner Truth delivered at a women's rights convention in 1851 that comes to mind as Monroe County fights against recognizing gay marriage. "Ain't I a woman?" said the former slave and early feminist, in response to concerns that women weren't strong enough, smart enough or Christ-like enough to merit equal rights. Those are among the arguments against allowing same-sex marriage. But County Executive Maggie Brooks says she's looking out for taxpayers in appealing a state court decision recognizing gay marriages performed outside of New York state.
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Gay activists have donated thousands of dollars to Iowa politicians in an attempt to derail debate on a legislative proposal that would alter Iowa's Constitution and limit marriage to heterosexual couples, an Iowa group alleged Thursday. Several legislative leaders quickly denounced the group's claims, calling their tactics hateful."I have a problem when people say, 'We are good, they are evil,' House Majority Speaker Pat Murphy, a Dubuque Democrat, said in response to the group. "The bottom line is, I believe that every person should be treated with dignity and respect in this state."
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Public debate about homosexuality is dominated by the question of choice."Clinics" that aim for "cures" presuppose that it is, while the Web sites of groups like the Human Rights Campaign and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays prominently display arguments that sexuality is not a choice. Indeed, it seems that most people take the question to be the key to determining whether discrimination is permissible. Both sides are wrong,but my concern today is with those who defend gay rights on the grounds that sexuality is not a choice. Most importantly, focus on the alleged genetic basis of homosexuality gives the bulk of the game away to the anti-gay position. One turns to an "I can't help it" defense, only when one has agreed that something is inherently wrong - or at least morally problematic.
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Welcome to the March 1, 2008 news letter of www.glbtq.com, the world's largest encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture.
Candace Gingrich (b. 1966), the half-sister of former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, serves as a spokesperson and Senior Youth Outreach Manager for the Human Rights Campaign.
http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/gingrich_c.html
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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin Daily Queer News
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Photographer Challenged for Denying Services to Lesbian Couple
According to various anti-gay media including the Washington Times, ElaineHuguenin, a photographer in Albequerque was brought before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission due to her denial of services to a lesbian couple. She is defended by Alliance Defense Fund, an anti-gay legal ministry.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/02/28/1493
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Dutch Crown Princess To Attend Gay Rights Conference
(Amsterdam, Netherlands) The future Queen of The Netherlands will attend an LGBT rights conference organized by the Dutch Gay Federation (COC), becomingthe first royal in the world to personally appear at such a session.
http://365gay.com/Newscon08/02/022808neth.htm
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Turkey's Anti-War Diva
Better known for her tabloid love affairs, plastic surgery and husky voice, transsexual Turkish diva Bulent Ersoy makes the unlikeliest political activist. Yet she has caused a storm of outrage by becoming the only public personality to speak out against Turkey's invasion of northern Iraq. So pervasive is the nationalist climate that Ersoy has been vilified for declaring - on a national TV equivalent of American Idol, where she is a judge - that if she had a son, she would not have sent him to fight this war. She is now under investigation for being "anti-military".
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1718039,00.html
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Pedophilia, Hedonism & Impending Confusion: Revisiting the Anti-Gay Rhetoric of Michael Brown
Pentecostal leader Michael Brown continues to throw homosexuality into the mix with an array of exotic sexual fetishes, including pedophilia, zoophilia and coprophilia, sexual arousal from human feces.
http://www.exgaywatch.com/wp/2008/02/pedophilia-hedonism-impending-confusion-revisiting-the-anti-gay-rhetoric-of-michael-brown/
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Unmasking The "Gay" Agenda
Americans who self-identify as "gay" or lesbian comprise roughly one to three percent of the population. Yet the homosexual movement - led by extremist homosexual pressure groups like the so-called Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - represent, per capita, one of America's most powerful and well-funded political lobbies. Consider that HRC and the HRC foundation alone have an annual budget in excess of 50 million.
http://oregonmag.com/BarberAgenda308.html
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NC: homobigots launch attack against openly gay judge
The GOP in North Carolina is exceptionally homophobic, populated and run by bigots with fossilized thinking. It's not surprising, then, that the firs topenly gay judge on the NC Court of Appeals, John Arrowood, is facing an anti-gay attack by his opponent Bob Hunter's supporters. Arrowood was appointed by outgoing governor Mike Easley back in August of 2007, to fill an unexpired term, and is up for election this year. http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=7403C8A03D081C8EA2D9B25C078F79AA?diaryId=4629
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Obama's Open Letter To Gay Americans
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/02/obamas-open-let.html
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Hate speech divides Moroccan press
In Morocco, articles published by the Arabic-language Al Massae daily have led to a strong division of the press. According to Said Essoulami, director of the Casablanca-based Centre for Media Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, this controversy shows the difficulties of Moroccan media to cover sexual, cultural, political and ideological diversities.
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1133&p=report&a=4
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Plight of Gays in Belarus, Iraq and Uganda to be Highlighted at IDAHO 2008 Launch LONDON, February 27, 2008 - Government ministers, mayoral candidates, students and academics, national and international LGBT campaigners, a lesbian singer/songwriter, who according to one reviewer performs like "Mary Poppins on acid" are all gearing up for the IDAHO-UK 2008 launch event at the London College of Fashion, which will take place, on the evening of March 13.
http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/08/Feb/2701.htm
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Boy Scouts wrong on gay exclusions
I have chosen not to renew my membership in the National Eagle Scout Association because of the Boy Scouts' official policy of discrimination against gay people. I am ashamed an organization to which I owe so much has chosen to take such a myopic stance on this issue and hides behind a legal veil to exclude gay Scouts.
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802280612
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Gays invite Christians
Gay activists are outraged over comments made by the head of the Australian Christian Lobby on the ABC current events program Lateline last week.
http://mcv.e-p.net.au/news/gays-invite-christians-2664.html
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Welsh police force flies Pride flag
A second UK police force has marked LGBT History Month by flying the gay Pride flag at its headquarters.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-6968.html
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Mental note: Don't let the AFA write our obituary when we die
Speaking about the late Ric Weiland, a founding Microsoft employee and gay rights activist who recently made news for the $65 million endowment that he left behind to gay rights and HIV/ AIDS organizations, the American Family Association's One News Now site today says the following about his death:
Weiland, who retired in 1988, committed suicide in 2006 at age 53 after a long struggle with depression and homosexuality.
http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2008/02/mental-note-don.html
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Exodus Speaker to Gays and Ex-Gays: God Hates You
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/exodus-speaker-to-gays-and-ex-gays-god-hates-you/
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Two Gay Youths Killed in 10 Days: Ex-Gay Youth Leaders Give Nod to Oppression
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/two-gay-youths-killed-in-10-days/
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Presbyterian minister to face trial again for same-sex union
A Presbyterian minister whose 2006 church trial for conducting a lesbian marriage ceremony ended with dismissal on a technicality says she has again been brought up on the same charges.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08058/860636-100.stm?cmpid=latest.xml
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k.d. lang: "I'm a nomad"
The first minute of k.d. lang's new disc "Watershed" feels like a quick trip through her musical life.
http://www.gay.com/news/article.html?2008/02/26/1
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