GLBT DIGEST December 01, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-A Breathtaking Aspiration for AIDS
A new study suggests that immediate treatment after testing positive for AIDS could drastically reduce the spread of the virus.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html


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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Is gay the new black? Marriage ban spurs debate
Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all. Gay marriage is not a civil right, opponents counter, insisting that minority status comes from who you are rather than what you do.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113000964.html

-Openly gay marchers debut at Haiti AIDS rally
ST. MARC, Haiti -- A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113001881.html

-Failing the AIDS Test
Other routine blood tests are done without patients' explicit permission; it should be the same with HIV.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113001691.html


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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Ceremony affirms gay partnerships, protests legal barrier to marriage
Gays affirm commitment, vow to battle legal barriers to marriage
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/fort_lauderdale/sfl-flbwedding1201sbdec01,0,772867.story


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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
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-Canada got it right
Today this site ran a story about a Canadian man who is challenging his fine for not performing a gay civil marriage. As he puts it, his Baptist faith does not allow him to complete the union. Fine. But the response of Canadian officials illustrates just how Canada got it right: If you want to refuse gay people for religious reasons then you can hold a civil marriage license. You can, however, perform all the religious marriages you would like. There are so many good answers contained in that sentence. First, both civil and religious unions are called marriage. This means that there is no legal distinction between the rights that come with either and no legal distinction possible in the future because one term, marriage, refers to straight and gay unions.
http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-canada-got-it-right/

-Withers: Are we all victims?
If you strayed from 365 for the Thanksgiving week-end, you missed a political flame war. The conversation ranged from the sublime to the silly. I even got called a racist; I informed a friend, who happens to be black, of that charge. We were both rather drunk and he laughed in my face. "You a racist? Don't they know you are the whitest black man in America," he howled.
http://www.365gay.com/blog/120108-gays-are-not-victims/

-9 most important AIDS stories of 2008
http://www.365gay.com/features/9-most-important-aids-stories-of-2008/


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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-Eyes on Obama this World AIDS Day
Monday, December 1 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day, and on the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, AIDS educators and health professionals the world over are looking forward to a new direction and renewed dedication in fighting the world epidemic.
http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid67466.asp


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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
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-Fight Not Over on 20th
Anniversary of World AIDS Day
It has been 20 years since the first World AIDS Day drew attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Today, with some 33 million people living with HIV, World AIDS Day and events like the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa, taking place in Senegal, December 3-7, remain "extraordinarily important for those who are trying to fight AIDS in this world," says Shanta Devarajan, Chief Economist for the World Bank's Africa region. AIDS is increasingly seen as not only a health problem, but society's problem, says Devarajan. "We need all the resources and all the mechanisms that we have in society to fight AIDS."
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21992840~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html


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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
www.dailyqueernews.com
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-Margaret Cho Sings at California No on 8 Rally
Video: Margaret Cho sings at California No on 8 rally
Margaret Cho singing a protest song she wrote at the Prop 8 rally in Sacramento. (Note: This song is supposed to be funny! Lighten up! I, for one, needed a good laugh that day, and I'm sure many others did too. This song does not reflect the views of all gays or gay rights activists, or of everyone that attended the rally.)
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/


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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-PM "proud" the UK leads the global AIDS fight
The Prime Minister has marked World AIDS Day with a statement of support for the fight against the disease worldwide.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9714.html

-Pride London wins Visit London award for cultural diversity
The UK's largest LGBT event has topped off a year of triumphs with an accolade from London's official tourist organisation. Pride London won the Gold Award for Best Celebration of Cultural Diversity at the Visit London Awards 2008.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-9719.html


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Forwarded from Leon VanDyke

The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/
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Eight Is Enough
Changes California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. -Ballot summary, Proposition 8. [Mormans] You might think that an organization that for most of the first of its not yet two centuries of existence was the world's most notorious proponent of startlingly unconventional forms of wedded bliss would be a little reticent about issuing orders to the rest of humanity specifying exactly who should be legally entitled to marry whom. But no. The Mormon Church-as anyone can attest who has ever answered the doorbell to find a pair of polite, persistent, adolescent "elders" standing on the stoop, tracts in hand-does not count reticence among the cardinal virtues. Nor does its own history of matrimonial excess bring a blush to its cheek. The original Latter-day Saint, Joseph Smith, acquired at least twenty-eight and perhaps sixty wives, some of them in their early teens, before he was lynched, in 1844, at age thirty-eight. Brigham Young, Smith's immediate successor, was a bridegroom twenty times over, and his successors, along with much of the male Mormon élite, kept up the mass marrying until the nineteen-thirties-decades after the Church had officially disavowed polygamy, the price of Utah's admission to the Union, in 1896. As Richard and Joan Ostling write in "Mormon America: The Power and the Promise" (2007), "Smith and his successors in Utah managed American history's only wide-scale experiment in multiple wives, boldly challenging the nation's entrenched family structure and the morality of Western Judeo-Christian culture." [...] Like a polluted swamp, anti-gay bigotry is likely to get thicker and more toxic as it dries up. Viciousness meets viscousness. "Look," Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said the other day (on the air, to Bill O'Reilly), "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence. . . .
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/081201taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true#content


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