As mentioned in Good Morning News, Magic Underpants, Inc., came out in support—support—of a gay rights law. Salt Lake City has become the first Utah city to offer housing and employment protections for gays and lesbians—an action supported by the Mormon church. The City Council, in a unanimous vote Tuesday, passed a pair of nondiscrimination […]
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Catholic Bishop: Gays Are Not Welcome At Vatican City
The presence of gays and lesbians—even as tourists—represents “a provocation and an abuse,” and is “offense to our religion.” Um… has this guy met the light-in-his-Prada-loafers pope? And good thing there wasn’t a ban on gay people hanging out at the Vatican when that cocksucker was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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Only 45% of Oregon Supports Same Sex Marriage
A new public opinion study published in the American Political Science Review ranks Oregon 13th nationwide in support for same sex marriage rights, with about 45 percent of Oregonians supporting the cause. The study backs up the assertion that support for gay marriage splits by age, with people ages 18-29 more than 30 percent more […]
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What He Said
Ted Gideonse: As Jesse Ventura said last night, “You can’t put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we’d have slavery, depending on how you worded it.” […]
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What He Said
Wayne Besen writing about last night’s heartbreaking defeat in Maine… It is time we wake up and acknowledge that the GLBT fight for equality is the world’s first “Civil Likes” movement. Each year, a popularity contest is held somewhere on the map and if the locals find us likeable our families are protected. If the […]
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Maine Vote Underscores Need For Conversations
As mentioned earlier, Maine voters overturned a state law in Tuesday’s election that granted the right to marry to same-sex couples. Meanwhile across the Columbia, Washington voters took up Referendum 71—an ‘anything-but-marriage’ law that would grant civil unions to gay and lesbian couples. The referendum looks like it will pass by a narrow margin of […]
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Marriage Equality in Washington D.C.
The District of Columbia is debating the legalization of same-sex marriage. The loudest voices being raised in opposition belong to African American religious leaders and it makes for pretty depressing YouTube viewing. But Lurleen at Pam’s House Blend points out that more black clergy in D.C. support marriage equality than oppose it. And they’re making […]
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Same-Sex Marriage Advocate Speaks Tonight
freedomtomarry.org Evan Wolfson Evan Wolfson, the executive director of the nationwide organization Freedom To Marry, will speak tonight at Portland State University about the evolving nation-wide attitudes about same-sex couples. Time Magazine named Wolfson “one of the 100 most influential people in the world” in 2004. He is the author of Why Marriage Matters: America, […]
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New Head of HRC Opposes Interracial Marriage, Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act
I’m trying to imagine a large and historically significant gay civil rights group appointing an avowed racist as its director. I’m trying to imagine the board of HRC or GLAAD or NGLTF or GLSEN or Lambda Legal appointing a director who opposed interracial marriage or was against the renewal of the Voting Rights Act or […]
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Win Tickets to Invincible Shaolin!
Hot damn! The 1978 Shaw Brothers flick Invincible Shaolin screens next week! Dan Halsted of the Grindhouse Film Festival sums it up: The Venom Mob star as a group of fighters who are pitted against each other in a North Shaolin vs. South Shaolin kung fu showdown! Three South Shaolin students start intensive (and extremely […]
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“Gay Eradication Day”
Lefty? Progressive? Got gay friends? Support gay rights? Don’t spend your tourist dollars in Jamaica. When THE STAR visited the area, a small group of residents pointed out an old community centre which is said to be the main ‘hang out’ spot for the lesbians. According to the residents the lesbians gather there almost nightly […]
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Obama Signs Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act Into Law
And here’s the quote for the day: “I just hope the community can appreciate the meaning and magnitude for this legislation—first federal LGBT rights law as I understand it. And the start of more good things to come.”—Steve Hildebrand, Obama’s deputy national campaign manager and an advisor to the president on gay issues (in an […]