GLBT DIGEST - August 04, 2008

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New York Times
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-Anglicans to Seek Pact to Prevent a Schism
CANTERBURY, England - Nearly three weeks of discussion aimed at preventing abreakup of the worldwide Anglican Communion over homosexuality ended Sundayat a conference here with 650 bishops and archbishops agreeing to seek a newpact among all parties to the ecclesiastical controversy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/world/europe/04anglican.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=gay&st=cse&oref=slogin


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Washington Post
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-Gay Bishop Dispute Dominates Conference
Anglican Event Ends With Leader's Plea
LONDON, Aug. 3 -- In the end, the 2008 Lambeth Conference will probably beremembered most for the bishop who was not in attendance but who nonethelessthreatened to break apart the world's third-largest church.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080301542.html


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Express Gay News
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-New Jersey Gay leaders don't expect mass exodus for weddingsInstead, they'll wait for change to come to Jersey
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1217738155123640.xml&coll=1


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Marriage Equality News
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-NY/VT: Lesbian bigamy battle unfolds; lack of legal clarity leads to muddle
Link: Lesbian bigamy battle unfolds | burlingtonfreepress.com
TheBurlington Free Press
The two women married in Canada, obtained identical tattoos and picked outadjoining burial plots with the expectation that they would be together tilldeath and beyond. Then one of them fell for someone else, and withoutgetting a divorce, entered into a Vermont civil union in Stowe with the newwoman. Now the woman who says she was left behind -- Laureen Wells-Weiss --is alleging that her estranged spouse committed bigamy and that Vermontauthorities are neglecting their duty by declining to press charges. Shealso contends that authorities would be more aggressive if the complaintwere being made by a person in a heterosexual marriage.

-CA: Fight marriage ban, San Leandro school trustee proposes
Link: Inside Bay Area
The San Leandro school board may go where very few, if any, [see article onthe Southern California district board that came out in favor of themarriage ban] ]school districts have gone before. Trustee Stephen Cassidyhas suggested a resolution for the board to oppose Proposition 8, which ifpassed by voters in November would ban gay marriage in California. Theboard has not acted on the proposal, except to pass the matter on to anadvisory committee for further discussion. Proposition 8 might seem to haveno direct impact on education. But Cassidy said his reasons have to do withthe board's duty to defend the state constitution, and to protect theintegrity of the board's efforts to promote inclusiveness on its campuses.If the proposition passes in November, Cassidy said, he could not agree with"discriminatory language in the California constitution."

-"The even-handedness in Professor Obama's law exams"
Link: Seattle P-I
How would candidate Obama answer professor Obama's exams? During his yearsteaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago, Barack Obamafavored take-home tests touching on some of the scorchingly hot-button legalissues of the day: gay rights, reproductive freedom, affirmative action andracial profiling. These exams, unearthed by The New York Times' resourcefulJodi Kantor, are edgy versions of the classic law school "issue spotter."Can a state university's law review expand its affirmative action program toinclude special treatment for gay students as well as racial minorities?Does a man have any right to stop his ex-wife from using their frozenembryos to try to get pregnant? Can parents whose daughter is in avegetative state be prohibited from trying to clone her? To read Obama'sexams is to get a glimpse of the supple intelligence he would bring to thepresidency and to be impressed by his lawyerly capacity - perhaps evencompulsion - to see the other side's argument and mine the weaknesses of hisown case.


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365Gay.com
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-Corvino: Blaming Larry King
A recent Newsweek article on Lawrence King - ­the cross-dressing gay 14-year-old fatally shot by a classmate last February - has prompted many accusations of "blaming the victim." "The obvious: The murder of Larry King was wrong." In it, author Ramin Setoodeh asks, "How do you protect legitimate, personal expression while preventing inappropriate, sometimes harmful, behavior? Larry King was, admittedly, a problematical test case: he was a troubled child who flaunted his sexuality and wielded it like a weapon - ­it was often his first line of defense. But his story sheds light on the difficulty of defining the limits of tolerance."
http://www.365gay.com/features/080408-corvino-king/

-Abbott Faces More Litigation Over AIDS Drug Pricing
When Abbott Laboratories Inc. hiked up the price of a popular AIDS drug by400 percent in 2003, executives prepared for the inevitable public relationshit, but assured themselves the backlash would be brief.
http://www.365gay.com/news/080408-abbot-aids/

-HIV+ 12 Year Old Opens World AIDS Conf.
(Mexico City) Keren Dunaway was 5 when her parents used drawings to explainto her that they both had the HIV virus - and so did she.
http://www.365gay.com/news/080408-aids-children/


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Daily Queer News
www.dailyqueernews.com
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-Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover Up?
There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defenserefused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual AssaultPrevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing onsexual assault in the military. Rep. John Tierney, chair of the HouseSubcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, angrily dismissedPrincipal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Michael Dominguez from thehearing when Dominguez said that he, the DoD chief of legislative affairsand the chief of public affairs, had ordered Dr. Kaye Whitley, chief ofSAPRO, to refuse to honor the subpoena issued by the subcommittee for herappearance. Full committee Chairman Henry Waxman called the DoD'sdecision to prevent Whitley from testifying "ridiculous and indicating DoDis covering something up." It could also place Whitley in contempt ofCongress. Rep. Christopher Shays said the DoD's decision was "foolish."


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Pink News - UK
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-Teenager dies after 'homophobic' attack in Liverpool
An 18-year-old who suffered serious injuries last month in an attackdescribed by police as homophobic has died.

-Rowan Williams claims resolution on homosexuality is possible
Despite no agreement on how to tackle the issue of homosexuality in theChurch of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury said the "pieces are on theboard" for a settlement.

-Briton killed in Saudi accused of gay sexual assault
An Egyptian man has confessed to stabbing to death 46-year-old BritonStephen John Havering, a Bahrain resident in Saudi Arabia.

-Hillary will not seek nomination at Democratic convention
According to the New York Daily News Senator Hillary Clinton will not ask tobe nominated for President when the Democrats gather in Denver to officiallynominate Barack Obama later this month.


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Forwarded from Euro-Queer
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-Hurdles Still High for Gays in Eastern Europe
Gays and lesbians in western Europe enjoy legal rights and levels oftolerance that would have been almost unthinkable 15 years ago. But ineastern Europe, hostility and discrimination against homosexuals still rundeep. Gay pride festivals dot the summer calendar all across Europe --from Berlin to Eskilstuna, Sweden, from London to Zaragoza, Spain. Thesedays, the events raise few eyebrows and families often bring their childrenalong to admire men in stiletto heels and boas, or in almost nothing at all.This weekend, 17,000 people are expected in Stockholm for EuroPride 2008, 10days of film screenings, exhibitions and seminars and parties. About 100,000are expected to take part in a parade on Sunday, Aug. 3.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3529008,00.html

-Gay 'Indian prince' charms Sweden - and vice versa!
He has become Sweden's charming "Indian prince" in just a few days. Anderstwhile royal Manvendra Singh Gohil, who is unabashedly gay, returns hecompliment, thrilled as he is by the openness of Swedish society. Manvendra,the scion of the erstwhile royal family of Rajpipla in Gujarat, is here asa guest of honour of Sweden's annual gay parade, StockholmPride, which thisyear hosted the annually rotating EuroPride. Believed to be the onlyerstwhile Indian royal who is openly homosexual, Manvendra has worked magicon gay as well as straight Swedish audiences, a la Hollywood celebrity.
http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=87279

-The German Constitutional Court just declared the provision in the GermanTranssexual Law (Transsexuellengesetz TSG) which demands forced divorce oftranssexuals unconstitutional. The TSG demands that transsexuals who legallywant to change their gender marker on their birth certificates have to beunmarried (though a registered partnership was no hindrance). This part ofthe law has just been declared unconstitutional and may not be used untilthe German government proposes a new solution.

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