Monthly Archives: July 2009

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Brazilian LGBT Group Granted UN Status

Over the objections of 19 countries, the United Nations has granted official status to a Brazilian gay group. The Brazilian Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders will now be able to take part in meetings on a broad range of topics, including health and human rights. Last year similar organizations from Spain and Sweden were granted official status.

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Proposed DOMA Repeal Would Force Full Faith And Credit Issue

A proposed repeal of DOMA floated by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) would not include federal rights for couples in domestic partnerships and civil unions, but would force states to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions. The Bay Area Reporter: Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-New York), in an exclusive interview with the B.A.R. while attending the annual Human Rights Campaign gala in …

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Amnesty International: Irish Civil Partnerships Are Second-Class Citizenship

Amnesty International is issuing a stern condemnation of the Ireland’s plan to offer civil partnerships for gay couples, saying the unions are for “second-class people.” Amnesty International Ireland executive director Colm O’Gorman is to describe civil partnerships as “a second-class form of marriage for what the government clearly feels is a second-class group of people” in a speech tonight in …

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Maddow: The Brawliamentary Process

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Birthers On The Hill

Firedoglake blogger Mike Stark tries to pin down GOP Congressmen about their position on Obama’s nationality. Most dodge the question.

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El Paso Backs Gays

The El Paso city council has unanimously approved a resolution reaffirming the city’s dedication to “acceptance, tolerance, and diversity.” The resolution was necessary after a confrontation between five gay men and security guards at a Chico’s Tacos restaurant June 29, City Council members said. Police were called, and an officer initially tried to charge the gay men with “homosexual conduct,” …

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2010 For Prop 8 Attempt? Yes! No!

Members of the “leaderless” marriage equality movement voted this weekend in California to attempt to overturn Prop 8 in 2010. A straw poll of same sex marriage leaders gathered in San Bernardino Saturday just came in: The majority want to return to the ballot in 2010 to try to overturn Proposition 8. Final count of the nonbinding measure: 93 people …

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No Purell For Devout Muslims

In the UK, where an estimated 100,000 cases of swine flu are being diagnosed each week, some Muslim health care workers are refusing to use hand sanitizers due to their alcohol content. Some of those employed by St Albans Council in Hertfordshire have complained about the antibacterial lotion, which is considered a key strategy in containing the virus. Officials were …

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GLAAD: HBO Leads Networks In LGBT Portrayals, NBC & CBS Last

GLAAD has issued its third annual survey of the top 15 television networks and found that HBO leads the pack in the portrayals of LGBT characters. In GLAAD’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, which evaluated the five major networks and 10 cable outlets, HBO — the home to True Blood, Entourage and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — scored the …

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Choreographer Merce Cunningham, 90

Famed choreographer Merce Cunningham, the longtime partner of the late minimalist composer John Cage, has died in NYC at the age of 90. A compelling dancer himself, Cunningham created a body of work that questioned the traditional premises of dancing, providing unique answers that were both baffling and beautiful. “What interests me is movement,” Cunningham said in a 2005 interview …

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August 15th: National Gay Kiss-In

A nationwide kiss-in is planned for 15 cities on August 15th. The Great Nationwide Kiss-In is scheduled for Aug. 15. Events are planned for at least seven cities, including Boston, New York, Houston, Portland, Ore., and three California cities — Irvine, San Diego and San Francisco. A Web page and Facebook page promoting the demonstrations says more events are in …

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At San Diego’s ComicCon

UPDATE: And here’s a sweet moment between openly gay actor John Barrowman and Doctor Who’s David Tennant.

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Sign Language

As we usually do, Chris and I ran into road construction on I-81 in the Pennsylvania mountains on the way to Hillside Campground on Friday. We were creeping along at 5mph when two men in a black Audi pulled up next to us and began making strange hand gestures. Chris said, “Are those gang signs? What the hell are they …

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80’s Flashback

Anne Clark, Our Darkness, 1984. One of few spoken-word dance hits that I can recall. I remember having a really hard time finding this record because the title doesn’t appear in the lyrics. Remember when you and your friends would spend the entire ride home from the club pondering what that song might have been? And then spending half of …

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Gay Man Makes Cover Of UK’s Soldier

An openly gay decorated Iraq veteran is on the cover of the current issue of the official British army title, Soldier Magazine, the first such appearance for a gay man. JUST ten years ago it was illegal to be gay in the UK Armed Forces. But since 2000, following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, homosexual men …

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Senate To Hold DADT Hearing

Jason Bellini reports at the Daily Beast that while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says she doesn’t have the support necessary to force the suspension of the enforcement of DADT, she has obtained a commitment that the Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings on the issue this fall. A statement from the Gillibrand’s office, shared exclusively with The Daily Beast, notes …

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Crazy Eileen

Remember the loony red-shirted birther who made international news when she hijacked Rep. Mike Castle’s town hall meeting? It turns out that she is well-known around Delaware as “Crazy Eileen.” Conservative radio host Jared Morris has posted a YouTube clip of her calls. In a call from a January show, on New Year’s predictions, the woman discusses aliens, angels and …

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Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech

Obfuscation Olympics gold medalist Sarah Palin demonstrates her amazing prowess. To thunderous applause, Palin asks the media, “How about in honor of our soldiers, you quit makin’ things up?”

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Anti-Gay Charlotte Pride Protest Uneventful

Led by Pastors Michael Brown and Lou Engle, about 500 red-shirted Christianists protested at Charlotte Pride this weekend. “We don’t think it’s best for a little boy to go to school dressed as a girl,” Dr. Michael Brown, director of Coalition of Conscience, said. “We don’t think it’s best to have male-male, female-female couples that guarantee a child won’t have …

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