GLBT DIGEST - August 31, 2008

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Sun-Sentinel
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--Mexican politician G. Rincon Gallardo
MEXICO CITY - Gilberto Rincon Gallardo, a former socialist presidentialcandidate who gained respect in Mexico for defending the rights of thedisabled, gays and other marginalized groups, died Saturday. He was 69.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/obituaries/sfl-flogallardo0831sbaug31,0,7943953.story


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Steve Rothaus
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-Jennifer Holliday to perform at White Party AIDS fundraiser
The original "Dreamgirl", Jennifer Holliday has been proclaimed by both
critics and fans alike as one of history's greatest Broadway legends. MissHolliday's show-stopping, heart-wrenching performance of the torch ballad"And I'm Telling You, I'm Not Going" in the smash hit Broadway musical,Dreamgirls, made her a household name and introduced her big soulful voiceto the world.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/


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Marriage Equality News
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-NY: Same-sex marriage cards to arrive at Hallmark store in Staten IslandMall
They're not on the shelf yet -- pictures of interlocking hearts, intertwinedflowers and side-by-side tuxedoes with words of joy, love andcongratulations -- but same-sex marriage cards should soon go on salealongside other wedding wishes at the Hallmark store in the Staten IslandMall, an acknowledgment of truth about the community that sat quite wellwith customers and employees.

-U. Hawaii reaches settlement in gay pair's housing suit
The University of Hawaii has settled a discrimination lawsuit by a gaycouple who said they were denied family housing. Attorney Brian Chase ofLambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., one of the couple's attorneys,said he believes the suit is the first against a public university involvinghousing for same-sex couples.

-Media Matters - AP falsely suggests Palin supports benefits for same-sexpartners of state employees
The Associated Press reported that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "opposes gaymarriage -- constitutionally banned in Alaska before her time -- butexercised a veto that essentially granted benefits to gay state employeesand their partners." However, the AP did not note that Palin stated that shevetoed the bill because the Alaska attorney general had advised her that itwas unconstitutional, not because she believed same-sex partners of publicemployees should receive benefits.


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Pink News - UK
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-Brighton to play host to Euro gay sailing regatta
Gays will be setting sail for the 8th annual Euro Gay Cup next month. Thecompetition returns to Brighton Marina.


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Forwarded from Euro-Queer
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-Anarchism and Gays
Review by Doug Ireland
Book spotlights the pioneering role anti-statists played 100 years ago.
It may come as a surprise even to gay activists well-read in their historythat, more than a half-century before the 1950 founding of the MattachineSociety as the first, lasting modern association of homosexual liberationists, there was a strong and vibrant discourse in America whichunfailingly defended the right to same-sex love. It came not fromhomosexual intellectuals, but from American anarchists. In thejust-published "Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the UnitedStates, 1895-1917," Terence Kissack, the former executive director of SanFrancisco's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, hasgiven us the first book-length study of this little-known phenomenon. Thework is a vital and important addition to gay historiography. It was thanksto American anarchist writers and propagandists that the defense ofhomosexuality developed in Europe by the likes of Karl Ulrichs and MagnusHirschfeld in Germany and Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds inEngland crossed the Atlantic to these shores - at a time when no otherpolitical movement or notable public figure in the US dealt with the issueof same-sex eroticism and love. "The anarchist sex radicals," Kissackwrites, "were interested in the ethical, social, and cultural place ofhomosexuality within society, because that question lies at the nexus ofindividual freedom and state power." The towering figure of Americananarchism, Emma Goldman, was an extremely charismatic public speaker wholectured to large audiences all over the United States, reaching, sheestimated, some 50,000 to 75,000 people a year. And quite frequently shespoke about homosexuality, repeatedly devoting whole lectures to thesubject.
http://gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20096250&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=592782&rfi=6

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