GLBT DIGEST - October 06, 2008

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New York Times
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-Persecuted in Africa, Finding Refuge in New York
Pape Mbaye gets a lot of attention. Even in jaded New York, people watch the way he walks (his style defines the word sashay) and scrutinize his outfits, which on a recent afternoon featured white, low-slung capris, a black purse, eyeliner and diamond-studded jewelry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion/06pape.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse

-After Theological Split, a Clash Over Church Assets
After an overwhelming vote here over the weekend by the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh that created the second schism with the national church since the 2003 election and consecration of an openly gay Episcopal bishop, both sides were hoping for a simple resolution. "If the national church would stay out of it, we could work it out," said the Rev. Jonathan Millard, who favored secession and led the convention on Saturday. "And I think 90 percent of the churches here would agree with me."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/us/06church.html


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Washington Post
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-US-POLITICS Summary
Obama accuses McCain of smear campaign
Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy. The Obama campaign unveiled an ad hitting McCain as one of the "Keating Five" senators who met federal regulators on behalf of a California savings and loan institution that collapsed in 1989. The ad faults McCain as unwilling to regulate the financial industry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500490.html

-Illuminating Our Choices
Candidates Obama, McCain, Biden and Palin, take a bow. And you in the huge television audiences, bask in the reflected glory. You all have established in two national political debates that a lot is going right in America, despite our enormous problems. The value of these debates comes not from any particular information they convey. Voters know they get spit-polished views confected by campaign consultants from polling data. So they greet Barack Obama's endorsement of an immediate NATO membership plan for Ukraine, or Sarah Palin's pledge to work on peace in the Middle East, with appropriate skepticism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303307.html

-Hollywood goes political as election nears
Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax. From religion to patriotism, gay rights and the presidency of George W. Bush, directors are wearing their political colors on their sleeves, using comedy, true stories and fantasy to send not-so-subtle messages to Americans preparing to choose between Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on November 4.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500594.html

-US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary
Hollywood goes political as election nears
Hollywood is coming out this fall with a slew of political movies that hit all the hot-button topics as the tight U.S. presidential campaign nears its climax. From religion to patriotism, gay rights and the presidency of George W. Bush, directors are wearing their political colors on their sleeves, using comedy, true stories and fantasy to send not-so-subtle messages to Americans preparing to choose between Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on November 4.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500596.html

-Gay elders' distinctive challenges get closer look
Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500361.html


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Sun-Sentinel
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-Generic options can cut pill bill
In addition to cooling temperatures, for many of us, fall means we're handed a packet of materials and asked to ponder our medical benefits as part of open enrollment season. So as you review your health care budget, remember that you may be able to save big on prescription drugs. At two pharmacies just a mile apart, for example, the price of the same medication can differ dramatically.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzbudgetdrugs1006sboct06,0,873022.story


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Miami Herald
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-Odd couple: Rachel Maddow and Pat Buchanan
At 19, Rachel Maddow shared a house with friends in Philadelphia and wasn't paying much attention to the 1992 Republican National Convention on television until Pat Buchanan took to the podium. She was transfixed. Buchanan's combative conservative speech, which denounced gay rights, was a milestone for people on two sides of a political divide. Either a call to arms or intolerant, depending on your point of view, it couldn't be ignored.
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/714617.html


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Steve Rothaus
http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
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-Palin: An apparent flip-flop on gay rights
Newsweek compares Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's position on rights for gay couples during last week's vice presidential debate and an interview in August 2007: Watching the vice presidential debate, you might have gotten the impression that Sarah Palin supports civil rights for same-sex couples. During an exchange on the topic, both she and Joe Biden said they oppose gay marriage. But Biden added that he and Barack Obama favor granting gay couples many of the same benefits-hospital visitation rights, health benefits-that married couples enjoy. Palin was tougher to pin down. She clearly didn't want to appear intolerant, but neither did she want to seem to embrace gay rights. "[N]o one would ever propose, not in a McCain-Palin administration, to do anything to prohibit, say, visitations in a hospital or contracts being signed ." she said.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/


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The Florida Blade
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-GLBT organizations boycott Bolthouse Farms
Benefactors of juice and veggie company fund anti-gay initiative
Unbeknownst to South Florida residents, trips to a local Whole Foods, Publix or Winn-Dixie may be funding the anti-gay, ultra-conservative Christian right. Grass-roots activist organization Californians Against Hate is calling for a nationwide boycott of Bolthouse Farms products for its affiliation with the anti-gay movement, after shareholders donated to the anti-gay Proposition 8 in the state, which will repeal gay marriage if enacted. California legalized gay marriage earlier this year.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#21433

-Beware the 'monster' of crystal meth
'The Rise and Fall' of Michael Brandon, adult superstar and addicted felon We don't usually promote stories about drug addicts, and how "tragic" their lives are, but in the case of adult entertainment superstar Michael Brandon, there is something to be learned: Brandon recently found himself in court (again) charged with selling crystal, for which he will most likely spend several years in jail. Brandon has been battling the addiction for many years, and even achieved sobriety at several points in the saga, but he always fell back into using again. Life, even for a porn star, doesn't always have easy answers. It should also be noted that crystal meth use is one of the main risk factors in HIV transmission-and it can also cause permanent brain damage.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#21432


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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-Clinton Redefines McCain As A 'Mimic' of George W. Bush
Senator Hillary Clinton addressed guests via satellite at the Human Rights Campaign annual fund-raiser in Washington D.C. in place of vice presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden, who cancelled all his weekend campaign events due to his mother-in-law becoming critically ill. Clinton told the room of nearly 3,000 people it was a "privilege" to fill in for Sen. Biden because of the work she had proudly done with HRC is previous battles. "Together with the Human Rights Campaign on the front lines, we took back the Congress in 2006 and together we're going to take back the White House," she said.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid63081.asp


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Marriage Equality News
http://samesexmarriage.typepad.com/weblog/
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-My New Father-in-Law
Link: Slog | The Stranger | Seattle's Only Newspaper
by David Schmader
I've written about him before, and now he's written something about Jake and me. From today's Salt Lake Tribune:
Last Friday was one of the best days of my life. My second son, Jake, was married, and I was there. Five of my six children are now married. Each wedding day has been wonderful for me-one in the Salt Lake Temple in 1993, one in the Bountiful Temple in 2001, one in the First Presbyterian Church in 2006, and another in the Salt Lake Temple in 2007. But Jake's wedding last week, at an Italian restaurant in Beverly Hills, stands out. For a long time, I wasn't sure Jake would ever marry. You see, Jake is gay, and though he and Dave have been together for seven years, here in the land of the free, gay people have only recently been afforded the right to formalize their love and commitment in marriage.
On Friday night, Jake said, "I didn't think I'd ever be happy, and now I am." Can a father ask for more? Maybe so, but not this week.
Michael G. Nelson
Murray, Utah

-Evangelical Leader: Fundies Grumbling About Palin's Gay Remarks; Possible
"Split" Developing on LGBT Rights
Link: The Gist
by Michelangelo Signorile
Evangelical leader and gay rights foe Bishop Harry Jackson Jr. came on the show on Friday (two video clips below) to respond to the now widely known fact that Mark Buse, John McCain's chief of staff, is gay, something Jackson believes compels McCain to speak more forcefully on the marriage amendments on the ballot in three states. Jackson, pastor of the Hope Christian Church in Maryland and founder of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, is on the board of the National Association of Evangelicals, Ted Haggard's old stomping ground. Jackson isn't among the most high-profile Christian right leaders on the national level, but he does travel in their circles, was a participant in infamous Justice Sunday, and talks to them all, including Focus on the Family's James Dobson, Family Research Council's Tony Perkins and the rest. So, while the big honchos are being curiously quiet, when Jackson says evangelicals weren't happy with Palin's performance at the vice presidential debate when it came to gay issues -- and that there is a "split" among them about how Sarah Palin should have addressed the topic, as well as about John McCain's chief of staff -- it certainly is interesting:"A lot of folks were upset that she didn't say there is a marriage amendment on the ballot in Florida, California and Arizona...She missed an opportunity to say I'm for marriage...She could have defined that thing clearly and she would have a lot more people enthusiastic about her campaign. There have been people [grumbling]...I do think she seemed a little wishy-washy and unclear on the marriage issue. She left making it sound like she and Mccain and Biden and Obama were exactly the same and they're not."


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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Report claims trans men and lesbian women face rape and abuse in Kyrgyzstan
A leading human rights group has claimed that lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men face violent abuse, including rape, in Kyrgyzstan, both in family settings and from strangers on the street. Based on interviews, the Human Rights Watch report found evidence of beatings, forced marriages, and physical and psychological abuse.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9215.html

-UK's first Muslim minister promoted to Justice
Shahid Malik has been promoted to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice. The MP for Dewsbury said he was relishing the new role.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9209.html

-Gay MP Chris Bryant tipped for Deputy Leader of the House
Chris Bryant, the openly gay MP for Rhonda, is reportedly to be appointed Deputy Leader of the House of Commons in the final stages of Prime minister Gordon Brown's reshuffle. Mr Bryant was one of the MPs behind a plot to oust Tony Blair in 2006 but was not rewarded with a ministerial post by Mr Brown. He was named by PinkNews.co.uk as 26th most powerful LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) person in Britain.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9207.html


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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Ban may go beyond gays
The fate of the most emotionally charged issue on Florida's November ballot could hinge on a question of economics. Would constitutionally banning gay marriage threaten benefits for thousands of Floridians - gay, straight or even siblings living together - who depend on their domestic partnership to pay for health care?
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article839447.ece


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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
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-Cardinal Newman - nature thwarts Vatican plot
Catholic minister approved Pope's request
Government collusion with attempt to violate Newman's wishes
"Nature has thwarted the Vatican's heartless plot to violate Cardinal Newman's request to be buried with the man he loved, Father Ambrose St. John," said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. He was commenting on the revelation that Newman's body has decomposed to nothing, leaving an empty grave and frustrating plans by the Catholic Church to dismember his body and display his bones as holy relics. "The Vatican wanted to rebury the Cardinal's remains in a marble tomb, separate from St John, to dampen speculation that he might have been gay.
For additional background about Cardinal Newman see:
..Was Cardinal Newman gay?
http://www.petertatchell.net/religion/wascardinalnewmangay.htm
..Violating Cardinal Newman's wishes
http://www.petertatchell.net/religion/cardinalnewmanslove.htm
..Cardinal's body to be dismembered
http://www.petertatchell.net/religion/cardinalnewmanscorpse.htm


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Forwarded from Euro-Queer
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-Elham is 24 years-old Iranian refugee in Turkey. She left Iran to Turkey about 19 months ago. She recognized as refugee on base of her sexual orientation by office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee in Ankara. They referred her case to the Canadian Embassy for resettlement. Now her immigration process is finished and International Organization for Migration (IOM) booked her flight for October 15, 2008. But she needs to pay 720$ for her exit permit. She dose not have any money because of her special situation. If she can not pay this money, Turkish authority dose not allow her to leave the country. It is out of hand of UNHRC and Canadian Embassy.
She has to pay this amount of money to Turkish government. Also she needs to pay an internal flight charge to Istanbul.
We are asking from all IRQO's alliances to support her by their donations.
She has to pay 720$ by Thursday October 9, 2008.
You can use our secure Paypal through www.irqo.net
We should thank you in advance for all your support and help in last few years.

-He wears it well
'Seventy per cent straight' David Walliams talks intimacy, cross-dressing and children's books with Rachel Cooke [...] He began by playing Frankie Howerd, mostly to good reviews, in a film for BBC4, and then went off to the United States to make the American version of Little Britain for HBO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/oct/05/celebrity.fashion


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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
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-Persecuted in Senegal, Finding Refuge in New York
Pape Mbaye gets a lot of attention. Even in jaded New York, people watch the way he walks (his style defines the word sashay) and scrutinize his outfits, which on a recent afternoon featured white, low-slung capris, a black purse, eyeliner and diamond-studded jewelry. And he likes it. "I'm fabulous," he said. "I feel good." Mr. Mbaye, 24, is an entertainer from Dakar, Senegal, known there for his dancing, singing and storytelling. But while his flamboyance may be celebrated in New York, he attracted the wrong kind of attention in West Africa this year, nearly costing him his life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/nyregion/06pape.html?hp=&pagewanted=all


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From Transgender Equality
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-"Change Capital of the World" - About The Show
Based in Trinidad, Colorado, this six-part series follows patients as they arrive in this Old West mining town-dubbed the 'Sex Change Capital of the World'-to see Dr. Marci Bowers, formerly Mark Bowers, who'll provide them with the ultimate life-changing operation. From retired grandfathers to construction workers, businessman to office managers, each shares their unique story of how they came to terms with their sexuality.
http://www.wetv.com/sex-change-hospital/

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