GLBT DIGEST May 10, 2008

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New York Times
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-Letters: Young Gay Rites
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/magazine/11letters-t-001.html?scp=6&sq=gay&st=nyt

-'Mad Pride' Fights a Stigma
IN the YouTube video, Liz Spikol is smiling and animated, the light glintingoff her large hoop earrings. Deadpan, she holds up a diaper. It is not, sheexplains, a hygienic item for a giantess, but rather a prop to illustratehow much control people lose when they undergo electroconvulsive therapy, orECT, as she did 12 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/fashion/11madpride.html?scp=3&sq=gay&st=nyt

-The Island: Partners, in Pursuit of a Marriage License
NO sooner does Daniel R. Pinello extricate himself from the driver's seat ofhis kiwi green Volkswagen Bug - you won't find anything like it among theMercedeses and Beamers prowling the serpentine streets of this verdantsuburban enclave - than he points with pride to his vanity license plate.
It's an eight-letter puzzler: MARJEQLT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/11colli.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=gay&st=nyt&oref=login




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Washington Post
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-VH1's Pale Effort to Explore the Sexual Revolution
This is compelling television to be sure -- after all, we're talking aboutsex: hippies cavorting in the altogether. Women's libbers brandishing theirbras. Playboy bunnies and Hugh Hefner. Helen Gurley Brown and BurtReynolds's naked centerfold. Suburban swingers. Jaybird-naked couplesshedding what remains of their inhibitions at the infamous Plato's Retreat.
Drag queens and porn stars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050900146.html


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Steve Rothaus
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/steve_rothaus/
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-Photo gallery | Aqua Foundation For Women 2008 VIP cocktail reception
Dozens of South Florida LGBT community leaders gathered Saturday night forthe Aqua Foundation For Women 2008 VIP cocktail reception, celebrating AquaGirl 2008, which runs Wednesday, May 14 through Sunday, May 18.
The VIP party was held at the Belle Meade Island home of Olive Watson &Joanna Grover/Watson. Highlights included food by Bravo Top Chefs SandeeBirdsong, Tiffani Faison and Josie Smith-Malave and presentation of awardsand scholarships.
Here are dozens of pictures I took at the party. Scroll past the photos toread details about Aqua Foundation.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/



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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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-Uproar Turns Straight Bar Into Gay Hot Spot
On a recent Saturday night at the Scottsdale club Forbidden, well-dressed,sweaty men are three-deep at the bar and fill the red, glittery dance floor.
Outside, the line snakes up the block and the wait can run more than anhour. For 25 years, this was Anderson's Fifth Estate, a rock and new wavedance club. But a year after resolving a highly publicized battle with thetransgender community, owner Tom Anderson has transformed Forbidden into theValley's premier club for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendercommunity.

-Gay Couple in Netherlands Helps Raise 100 Children
Despite increasing public acceptance, gay couples often face opposition whentrying to adopt, and debate continues. 25 years ago, Aad and Ron Dissel deBoo, a gay couple living in Holland, became foster parents to two abusedboys "almost as a gesture of ill will" by the Welfare agency. They havesince fostered more than 100 children.

-Back To Gay Porn For 'Janice' Model
The Hills girls may be incomprehensibly famous, but not all reality starslive their caviar dreams. For example, Rodrigo De Carli left his gay pornstar life at Rascal videos to join the ranks of Janice Dickinson's ModelingAgency. Well, things didn't turn out quite the way he wanted, because the DeCarli's gone back to his dick sticking ways:

-Oakland Forum Calls For HIV Prevention Funds
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Julie Gerberdingsaid Friday that more money is needed for HIV prevention efforts in theAfrican American community, particularly for gay black men, who aredisproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic. "You have to scale themoney to the scope of the problem," Gerberding said during a forum hosted byRep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, at a West Oakland community center.


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Forwarded from Euro-Queer
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-Just read a new item in Russian on a Belarusian gay portal that participants on Moldovan Pride who were in a bus were stopped by hundreds of rotesters (nationalists, religious fundamentalists, former Soviet soldiers who served in Afghanistan). The protesters were threatening those on the bus, trying to dismantle the engine, shake the bus. According to the Belarusian LGBT portal there were no police. Police refused to come to the place of this incident. The portal also says that after the participants gave all their rainbow flag, poster and balloons to the protesters they were allowed to leave the place. The portal also states that the hooligans are all around city trying to identify LGBT people. Link to this news item (in Russian with pictures of the bus surrounded by theprotesters) at
http://news.gay.by/news/2008-05-11-1062



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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
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-Today at noon urgent message came from Moldova. According to the belarusianparticipant Sergey Androsenko call to Minsk and told to us that hundreds ofhomophobi? threaten physical gay parade participants, office organization,which conducted Pride scores bottles and stones. Hotel, in whichparticipants live surrounded by hundreds of people. The bus in whichparticipants were riding on a parade (it was gathering place near theNational Library of Moldova) was surrounded by hundreds of homophobia:
Afghans, neo-Nazis and religious fanatics with stones, empty bottles,flowers (both at the funeral). In the bus were beaten with fists. olice didnot protect participants who were not. "They began to hear from drivingthe bus, so we were unable to leave. In the cabin of the panic started. Ugirls started hysterics. The atmosphere was nakalena: we understand that thesituation is not fully accountable to us and nobody protects us, absolutely.
But, the glory of God, half an hour after the bus driver managed to agreewith the rally that we give all the symbolism, all the flags, all thecolored balls. We lost. We have started to release the road in front of thebus, but began his swings and severely beat in glass "- Sergei reported.
"Nevertheless, we managed to leave the bus groups. I now at the hotel andprobably safe. Now, people gather outside the organization GenderDoc-M ",which is the organizer of Pride and street Meetings". As of 12 hours alarge group of people gathered at the office of the organization"GenderDoc-M", people abandoned office bottles and stones. Also, about100-150 people gathered at the hotel in which the participants of MoldavianPride.


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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org
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-American Family Association [AFA]
Following its support for the h-mos-xual agenda, Procter & Gambleestablished a toll-free number for people to register their opinions for oragainst P&G's promotion of the g-y agenda, including open mouth kissingbetween g-ys. It gave a toll-free number which was heavily promoted on g-yWeb sites for a week to give those favoring the promotion of h-mos-xualityan opportunity to call. Monday, after AFA had put out the word that P&Gwanted to hear from AFA supporters, P&G abruptly ended it.
AFA is encouraging supporters to call P&G and ask the company why it ispromoting the g-y lifestyle and why it quit using the toll-free number toreceive opinions only after AFA notified AFA supporters about it. We urgeyou to spend a few cents to register your complaint with P&G. Here is P&G'scorporate number to call: 513-983-1100. (Please get others to call P&G atthis number!)

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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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-Gay Couple in Netherlands Helps Raise 100 Children
Despite increasing public acceptance, gay couples often face opposition when trying to adopt, and debate continues. 25 years ago, Aad and Ron Dissel de Boo, a gay couple living in Holland, became foster parents to two abused boys "almost as a gesture of ill will" by the Welfare agency. They have since fostered more than 100 children. Read More...

-PFLAG Tri-Cities to Hold Meeting May 15th
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays for the Tri-Cities Area(PFLAG Tri-Cities) will hold its second meeting Thursday May 15th in Room#315 of Warf-Pickel Hall on the campus of East Tennessee State University.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.
Over fifty people attended its inaugural meeting in April. Currently 80people are on its mailing list with more added each day. PFLAG Tri-Citiesserves East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina.

-Back To Gay Porn For 'Janice' Model
The Hills girls may be incomprehensibly famous, but not all reality starslive their caviar dreams. For example, Rodrigo De Carli left his gay pornstar life at Rascal videos to join the ranks of Janice Dickinson's Modeling Agency. Well, things didn't turn out quite the way he wanted, because the De Carli's gone back to his dick sticking ways:

-HIV/Health: Oakland Forum Calls For
HIV Prevention Funds
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Julie Gerberdingsaid Friday that more money is needed for HIV prevention efforts in theAfrican American community, particularly for gay black men, who aredisproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic.
"You have to scale the money to the scope of the problem," Gerberding saidduring a forum hosted by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, at a West Oaklandcommunity center.

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