GLBT DIGEST - July 12, 2009

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New York Times
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Path to Supreme Court: Speak Capably, Say Little
By ADAM LIPTAK
On his first day at the Justice Department in 1981, a 26-year-old lawyer named John G. Roberts Jr. was handed a high-profile assignment: to help prepare Sandra Day O’Connor, then an Arizona judge, for her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12judge.html?scp=9&sq=gay&st=cse

Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?
By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
David Cameron was on his way from London to Croydon in a second-class train car last October when a middle-aged man across the aisle interrupted him and started telling an obscene joke. Cameron, the 42-year-old leader of Britain’s Conservatives, had been discussing his first clear political memory — the May 1979 trial of the head of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe, a closeted homosexual, for conspiring with a nightclub owner to murder his sometime lover, Norman Scott. That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks. The eavesdropper across the aisle said with a smirk that he would vote for Cameron if Cameron could tell him how you fit four Liberals on a bar stool.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12cameron-t.html?scp=4&sq=gay&st=cse

No Stork Involved, but Mom and Dad Had Help
By SARA RIMER
Melissa Brisman and her daughter, Simmie, age 6, were catching a matinee of “Marley and Me” in Tenafly, N.J. It was supposed to be a movie about a dog named Marley. But up on the big screen, Marley’s owner, a glowing Jennifer Aniston, kept getting pregnant — serenely, effortlessly pregnant (after one miscarriage).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12surrogate.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse


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Washington Post
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Spain liberalizing, but teen abortion hits a nerve
By DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID -- Spain's Socialist prime minister has irked his natural enemies on the right and in the Catholic church by legalizing gay marriage and instituting fast-track divorce. Now he has hit a raw nerve even among his supporters with a proposal to let 16-year-olds get abortions without parental consent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200957.html

Allies' stance cited in US gays-in-military debate
By DAVID CRARY
The Associated Press
When it comes to dealing with gay personnel in the ranks, the contrasts are stark among some of the world's proudest, toughest militaries - and these differing approaches are invoked by both sides as Americans renew debate over the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071201025.html


Miami Herald
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Spain liberalizing, but teen abortion hits a nerve
By DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID -- Spain's Socialist prime minister has irked his natural enemies on the right and in the Catholic church by legalizing gay marriage and instituting fast-track divorce. Now he has hit a raw nerve even among his supporters with a proposal to let 16-year-olds get abortions without parental consent.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1138393.html


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Pink News - UK
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Blue star Duncan James comes out as bisexual
Duncan James, of boy band Blue has come out as bisexual as the band prepares for a comeback tour. The singer told tabloid the News of the World that he has had sexual relationships with men as well as women and that he is not ashamed to be coming out of the closet.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-13212.html



Daily Queer News
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OK: Kerns Blames It on the Gays
David Taffet | Staff Writer | Dallas Voice
Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, who made headlines last year when anti-gay comments she made at a Republican fundraiser were secretly taped and then posted online, is back in the news after she issued her “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality” before the July 4 weekend. The proclamation blames the country’s current financial woes on a list of moral failings, including same-sex marriage and divorce along with pornography, sex trafficking, child abuse and “many other forms of debauchery.”
Last year, the Republican from Oklahoma City made national news when she called homosexuality more dangerous than terrorism.
“I honestly think it’s the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat,” Kern said last year. Read more
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/8568/

Gay Legal Groups Not Welcome on Prop 8 Case
CHRIS JOHNSON | Washington Blade
The group that filed a federal Proposition 8 lawsuit is pushing back against LGBT organizations seeking to intervene in the case — much to the consternation of officials who say they’re bringing needed voices and expertise to the table. Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and American Civil Liberties Union, earlier this week sought to intervene in the American Foundation for Equal Rights suit against Prop 8. Read more
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/8566/

Critics Decry Lack of Opposing Viewpoints in Colleges
Alan Scher Zagier
Mallory Taul trains college leaders in ’difficult dialogues’ at the University of Missouri
They call it Speakers’ Circle, a First Amendment gathering spot at the University of Missouri where just about anything goes.
Confrontational evangelists condemn abortion and gay marriage. Conservative students bash President Obama’s bailout plan. The rhetoric is heated, and the discussions not always polite.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/8565/

Another Young Man Kidnapped by Ex-Gay Camp
GenerationQ
facility ran by Exodus, to ‘cure’ him of his homosexuality. Thankfully he emerged as gay as ever and stronger too. Today another young man has been taken. Bryce Faulkner is a bright young pre-med student who, like many in college, was totally dependent upon his parents for survival. His car, his cell phone, his education, even his job was all connected to his parents purse strings. Bryce was making plans to come out to his parents, but before he had the opportunity to carry out these plans, his mother found his email password and discovered communications between he and his lover Travis Of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/8561/

Gay Group Ladlad Seeks Comelec Accreditation
DJ Yap | Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Ladlad, a party-list organization representing homosexual men and women, expressed optimism Wednesday that it would finally be accredited by the Commission on Elections for the 2010 polls.
Ateneo de Manila University professor and Ladlad leader Danton Remoto said the Comelec had assured the group that it would be accredited as a party-list group provided it could prove a national membership.
Remoto said the group now has 22,000 registered members and 10 regional chapters.
In the 2007 elections, the organization was rejected by the poll body on the ground that it did not represent a “marginalized and underprivileged” sector as required by election laws, Remoto said. Read more
http://www.dailyqueernews.com/news/8557/


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