GLBT DIGEST - June 30, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-Anglicans Face Wider Split Over Policy on Gays
Anglican conservatives, frustrated by the continuing stalemate overhomosexuality in the Anglican Communion, declared Sunday that they woulddefy historic lines of authority and create a new power bloc within thecommunion led by a council predominantly of African archbishops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/world/30anglican.html?_r=1&scp=6&sq=gay&st=nyt&oref=slogin

-Celebrating Gay Pride and Its Albany Friend
If there was ever any doubt that gay people form one of Gov. David A.Paterson's most loyal and enthusiastic constituencies, that doubt was erasedon Sunday by the howl of a drag queen on Fifth Avenue. The drag queen,standing at the foot of the steps to the New York Public Library dressed ina green Afro wig, a red miniskirt and candy-cane-striped stockings, had theduty of announcing the notables marching down Fifth Avenue in the gay pridemarch.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/nyregion/30paterson.html?scp=3&sq=gay&st=nyt


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Washington Post
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-Always a Bridesmaid, Never the . . . Groom
The girl I loved married another man last summer. Their picturesque ceremonywas on the lawn of a mansion overlooking the Manhattan skyline. I stood byher, as a bridesman. "Do I have to wear a dress?" I questioned Sara aftershe asked me to be in her bridal party.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901722.html

-In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying
On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four Americanflags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is aretired worker at Cooper Tire, a father of two, an Air Force veteran and aself-described patriot. He took one trip to Washington in 1989 -- bestvacation of his life -- and bought a statue of the Washington Monument thathe still displays in a glass case in his living room.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901871.html

-A Persistent Scourge
HIV-AIDS continues to ensnare young gay men. A SURVEY conducted by theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention of HIV-AIDS data from 33 statesbetween 2001 and 2006 revealed a distressing trend: HIV infection in younggay men rose 12 percent a year. For African Americans in that group of 13-to 24-year-olds, the annual increase was 15 percent. The safe-sex lessonsthat took hold after the loss of a generation of gay men during thisepidemic's two-decade advance appear to be lost on the young. The stunningsuccess of retroviral drugs for those with AIDS and HIV, the virus thatcauses the disease, has diminished people's fear of the disease, though itstill has no cure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901609.html

-Hundreds March in India for Gay Rights
NEW DELHI, June 29 -- Waving rainbow flags and chanting "Gay India doesexist," nearly 1,000 gay activists and their supporters marched incoordinated parades in three Indian cities Sunday, demonstrating theirgrowing confidence and hope for change on a subcontinent where homosexualityis illegal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901879.html


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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-They're gay, just married and proudly on parade
Celebration draws tens of thousands in San Francisco. A lesbian motorcyclegroup dressed in bridal veils, wedding gowns and leather lent a matrimonialtouch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelers celebratedtheir newfound freedom to marry. The riders tossed bouquets as they led thecity's 38th annual gay pride parade down Market Street. Some of themotorcycles were adorned with signs that read "Just Married."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flagaypride0630sbjun30,0,5616886.story

-Anglican conservatives form bloc
JERUSALEM - Anglican conservatives, frustrated by the continuing stalemateover homosexuality in the Anglican Communion, declared Sunday that theywould defy historic lines of authority and create a new power bloc withinthe Communion led by a council predominantly of African archbishops. Theannouncement came at the close of a weeklong meeting in Jerusalem ofAnglican conservatives who contend that they represent a majority of the 77million members of the Anglican Communion.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flabishops0630sbjun30,0,7064421.story

-Phil Donahue has to fight to keep antiwar film 'Body of War' in theatersdespite ovations, acclaim
Nearly four years ago, when Phil Donahue, the onetime king of daytimetelevision, set to make a documentary film about the war in Iraq, he knewhe'd be telling a story of shattered hearts. What he never guessed was thatthe project would break his own. Body of War is the story of 26-year-oldTomas Young, a handsome young Kansan who enlisted in the Army not long after9-11. He wanted to go to Afghanistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden but endedup in Iraq instead. An insurgent's bullet penetrated his spine, and hebecame one of more than 13,000 American soldiers and Marines to return homebadly wounded, many permanently disabled.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/events/sfl-mvbodyofwarsbjun30,0,6354089.story


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365Gay.com
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-Malaysia's Anwar Again Accused Of Raping Male Aide
(Kuala Lumpur) Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filed a defamationlawsuit Monday against a male aide who accused him of sodomy, vowing toclear his name in the second sex scandal of his life to have thrown thecountry's politics into turmoil.

-Anglican Conservatives Launch New Challenge
Conservatives from the world's largest Anglican provinces who are angered byliberal thinking in churches in North America and elsewhere are creating aglobal fellowship that challenges worldwide Anglican unity but stops shortof a formal split.

-Call To Support Anti-Gay Amendment Rankles Some Mormons
Lester Leavitt has made a request of his family: oppose their church'sopposition to gay marriage.

-SF: Gay Wedded Bliss Pride
A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in bridal veils and wedding gowns lent amatrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelerscelebrated their newfound freedom to marry.

-Military Marches For First Time In Toronto Gay Pride
(Toronto, Ontario) For the first time ever, members of the Canadian ArmedForces were among those who danced, shimmied, and strutted their way throughdowntown Toronto today in the Gay Pride parade.

-Indian Cities Celebrate Pride
(New Delhi) Men wore sparkling saris, women wore rainbow boas and hundredsof people chanted for gay rights in three Indian cities Sunday in thelargest display of gay pride in the deeply conservative country wherehomosexual acts are illegal.


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Express Gay News
http://www.expressgaynews.com/
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-Marriage freedom is focus of Pride parade
Mayor Newsom received ovations along route
A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in bridal veils and wedding gowns lent amatrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelerscelebrated their newfound freedom to marry. The Dykes on Bikes tossedbouquets as they led the city's 38th annual gay pride parade down MarketStreet. Some of the motorcycles were adorned with signs that read "JustMarried."
http://www.expressgaynews.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=19384

-Competing images in the fight over same-sex marriage
Backers and foes of California's Proposition 8 will put their own twist onfamily photos in an effort to raise money. Since June 16, Californians havebeen bombarded with images of gay marriage: men kissing men, women embracingwomen, with friends and family celebrating alongside. Now both backers andfoes of Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would amendCalifornia's Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, are employing thoseimages and others in their fundraising strategies.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-money29-2008jun29,0,3670271,full.story

-Pastor arrested at gay pride festival
The parade and festival at Naftzger Park attracted more than 1,000 revelerson Sunday. For the second consecutive year, a gay pride parade and festivalwas marked by the arrest of a Wichita pastor. But for the vast majority ofthose who gathered Sunday afternoon at Naftzger Park for the event, the daywas one of celebration.
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/449525.html

-Competing images in the fight over same-sex marriage
Backers and foes of California's Proposition 8 will put their own twist onfamily photos in an effort to raise money. Since June 16, Californians havebeen bombarded with images of gay marriage: men kissing men, women embracingwomen, with friends and family celebrating alongside. Now both backers andfoes of Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would amendCalifornia's Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, are employing thoseimages and others in their fundraising strategies.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-money29-2008jun29,0,3670271,full.story

-Westboro damns puppet maker
True to form, the crazies at Westboro Baptist Church have faxed a pressrelease (why bother saving trees when the earth will be destroyed in anapocaplyptic blood bath, right?) saying that Kermit Love, whom I bloggedabout last Friday, is for sure in hell.
http://www.expressgaynews.com/blog/index.cfm?type=blog&start=6/24/08&end=7/1/08#19393

-McCain at Funeral of Mark Bingham, Gay Hero of 9/11
I have always thought that the real measure of someone's attitude toward gaypeople was not whether he supports the legislative agenda of the HumanRights Campaign (HRC) or mouths the appropriate political correct slogans ofgay activists, but how he treats individual gay men and lesbians.
http://www.gaypatriot.net/2008/06/29/mccain-at-funeral-of-mark-bingham-gay-hero-of-911/


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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-World Records Set at Gay Swim Meet
Swimmers competing at the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics
Championships last week in College Park, Md., shattered 152 world, national,and IGLA records. Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and former Olympian Glenn Mills tooksix International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) masters world records,according to a press release.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid56739.asp


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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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-Restaurateur, Ex-ballplayer Call it Quits
Efrain Veiga, founder of Yuca restaurant and co-creator of Nuevo Latino cuisine, and partner Billy Bean, a former Major League Baseball player, have split after 13 years. ''Sometimes things don't work out,'' Veiga says. ``There's still love.'' Says Bean: ``It's a very difficult period, and we're both trying to get through it. I care deeply about him.'' Their Miami Beach home on North Bay Road is for sale -- for $1.595 million.
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/

-Thunderstorms Can't Dampen Gay Pride Parade
The 39th annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pride parade steppedoff at noon Sunday on Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street. The march, which is NewYork City's largest, then followed the Lavender Line to its conclusion atthe intersection of Christopher Street and Greenwich Street. More than 300organizations and 500,000 marchers were expected to participate in themarch, and more than 1 million were expected to watch them go by.
http://www.wnbc.com/news/16740616/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news

-Spirit of camaraderie prevails at festival
Wearing matching red "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" T-shirts that they got whilevacationing together in Florida, the couple of 16 years say they are whatgay pride is all about. "People tend to focus on the drag queens and theextreme," said Glen Zahn, 40, sporting Thing 2. "They are an important partof the gay community, but it's more than that."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/44FA9402929EA7BC8625747800120730?OpenDocument

-New Delhi: Behind masks or out and loud: gay marchers break new ground
Delhi holds first parade as campaigners seek to overturn 19th-century law.Yesterday was the biggest day in the life of one 26-year-old insurance agentin Delhi, yet he came to the city's long-awaited first gay parade hidingbehind a mask. "I have to remain invisible," he said. "If my parents see meon TV, I won't be able to go home. And if my colleagues recognise me,there'll be hell to pay in the office."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/30/india.gayrights

-Pink Choice Launches $1,500 Weekend Getaway Competition
Pink Choice (www.pinkchoice.com), a trusted website for gay and lesbiantravelers seeking information about accommodations worldwide, todayannounced the launch of the $1,500 Weekend Getaway Competition. Visitors tothe site who leave a quality review of a gay or gay friendly hotel areautomatically entered to win. Visitors receive additional entries for eachreview they leave.
http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/3888/173/

-Let My People Go, AIDS Profiteers
KAMPALA, Uganda -- The President's Emergency Plan for HIV-AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR) has been mired in the Senate for months. Last week finally broughtsigns that a vote, and passage, could be near. The program would cost $50billion -- that's $165 from each American to fight AIDS, or $1.3 billionfrom New York City alone. But will the money allocated for AIDS stop thespread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, where 76 percent of the world'sHIV-AIDS deaths occurred last year?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901477.html

-Money pours into Calif. gay marriage campaigns
Ballot initiative could see $30m
Backers of Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would amendCalifornia's constitution to ban same-sex marriage, had, as of last week,raised nearly $2.3 million while foes had raised about $1.3 million.Fund-raising for the campaigns is only now beginning in earnest, andconsultants predict that by the time voters go to the polls, each side willhave raised as much as $15 million.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/30/money_pours_into_calif_gay_marriage_campaigns/


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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Homophobia questions may be added to British Crime Survey
A Home Office minister has said the department is considering adding newquestions to the British Crime Survey after a Stonewall report indicatedthat many homophobic incidents go unreported. Speaking at the launch ofHomophobic Hate Crime: The Gay British Crime Survey 2008, Vernon Coaker saidhe would raise the issue with officials.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8160.html

-Gay blood ban is lawful, says Finnish official
The Finnish Red Cross policy of banning men who have sex with men fromdonating blood should not be considered unlawful. The country'sparliamentary ombudsman announced today that she had based her decision onexpert opinions.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8167.html

-Former minister facing another sodomy accusation
A leading opposition politician in Malaysia temporarily took refuge in theTurkish embassy in Kuala Lumpur yesterday after his assistant accused him ofsodomy. Former Malaysian Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he wanted thegovernment to guarantee his safety after his 23-year-old aide made theallegations.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8165.html

-Indian activists march in Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata
More than a thousand people took to the streets of three major Indian citiesto celebrate Pride this weekend. The largest turnout was in Bangalore,where 600 people marched.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8161.html

-Urban Outfitters denies chairman has homophobic views
The chairman of high street retailer Urban Outfitters has donated thousandsof dollars to a homophobic US Senator. Speaking in 2003, company chairmanRichard Hayne told The Philadelphia Weekly: "As a company, we don'tcontribute to any cause except non-controversial things like a breast cancerwalk. I don't know anyone who is for breast cancer."
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8158.html

-One million commemorate Stonewall Riots in New York
The largest of the pride celebrations in the United States, more than onemillion people attended yesterday's gay pride parade in New York, whichcommemorates the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The 39thanniversary of the New York Pride Parade, the celebration held its firstparade in 1970 to commemorate the one year anniversary of the riots,credited as the kick off of the gay rights movement.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8157.html


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Daily Queer News
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-WA: Pride Parade Draws a Crowd
The 34th annual Seattle Pride Parade roared back to heart of downtown
Sunday, as thousands of spectators turned out for a three-hour spectacle ofoutré and the ordinary. Organizers of Seattle's showcase gay and lesbianevent almost pulled the plug on it last year after racking up more than$100,000 in debt after they moved the parade and an accompanying festivalout of Capitol Hill, the epicenter of Seattle's gay community, in 2006.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/872/

-San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade Message: 'Inclusion' Not 'Tolerance'
All eyes yesterday were on this very town that shin-kicked California intolegalizing same-sex marriage, a town where LGBT joy and pride Sunday burstunabashed. Unabashed. A day to roar with joy for love of life, of knowingno second-class lie, and living the comfy fit of being on the safe inside.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/865/

-Michelle Obama Stronger on Gay Rights than Associated Press Reported
Words matter, and Michelle Obama is a woman of powerful words. Last night,in a passionate address to the Democratic National Committee's Gay andLesbian Leadership Council, Mrs. Obama delivered a rousing call-to-equalityand put her husband on record as a fighter for the full equality of lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. "Barack believes," she said, "thatwe must fight for the world as it should be, a world where we work togetherto reverse discriminatory laws."
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/864/

-The Court's Gay Rights Legacy
Five years ago this week, the United State Supreme Court delivered its mostsweeping gay rights decision ever, striking down laws in Texas and otherstates that had criminalized sex between gays. The court erected a shield ofprivacy around sexual behavior for all consenting adults, and in doing sopaved the way for other milestones in the gay rights legal movement,including judicial victories for gay marriage in Nov. 2003 in Massachusettsand this year in California.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/863/

-One Can Never Be Too Old or Too Gay
Gays have long enjoyed good branding: cute, buff and young. But, shocking asthis may seem, the reality is that even gays get old. Who'd have thought itwould happen to those beautiful, almost-naked boys frolicking on floatsduring the Pride Parade? Ageing is a terrible word in the gay community,raising as it does the spectre of turning into an old queen. Imagine QuentinCrisp, not as entertainment but as the reflection in your mirror.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/859/

-UT: Call for Political Displays Rankles Some Mormons
Lester Leavitt has made a request of his family: oppose their church'sopposition to gay marriage. Leavitt, from Pompano Beach, Fla., is askinghis siblings and children on the West Coast to choose family over a callfrom Mormon church leaders to support a November ballot initiative to definetraditional marriage in California's constitution.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/857/

-The Most Historic Gay Places in the US
Some are obvious, some a little less so. But trying to pin down a list ofthe places where the most influential events of American LGBT History wentdown is tricky. History is personal; we all interpret it differently. Butassembled here is a quick list of some of the places where the LGBTcommunity made history. Some are jubilant and revolutionary, some arepainful. But they're all places that, as you travel around the U.S. thissummer, they're worth stopping to pay tribute. The Stonewall Inn,Christopher Street, NYC
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/856/

-CA: Juvenile Court Sought in Larry King Murder Case
The state law allowing a 14-year-old defendant to be sentenced to life inprison without the possibility of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, adefense attorney contends in a new legal document filed on behalf of teenslaying suspect Brandon McInerney. The Oxnard youth is charged with killingclassmate Larry King, 15, who also was from Oxnard.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/855/


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The Detroit News
by Deb Price

-Protect transgenders against discrimination
When David Schroer applied to be a specialist on terrorism at theCongressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, his stellarresume led to a job offer. The highly decorated, retired Army colonel hadserved 16 years in Special Forces with combat experience in Panama andHaiti. Following Sept. 11, Schroer directed a classified 120-person Pentagongroup involved in the war on terror. But after telling his prospective bossover lunch that he was gender transitioning to Diane, Schroer recalls beingtold, "I was not a good fit for the library." To transgender Americans,Diane Schroer's story is all too familiar. No federal law prohibits firingor not hiring someone who bravely decides to transition away from theirbirth gender.
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080630/OPINION03/806300335

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