Tag Archives: activism

False Arrests Protest At
Mayor Bloomberg’s House

Today a group of LGBT rights and sexual freedom activists gathered just down the block from Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Upper East Side mansion to protest the false arrests of gay men in NYC’s adult bookshops. Robert Pinter, a victim of this campaign, gave interviews to a number of local and national newsmedia outlets as two dozen gay men marched with …

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Hundreds Turned Away At NYC Hall Marriage Protest

As part of Freedom To Marry day, hundreds of gay couples were turned away from New York City Hall this morning when they arrived to demand marriage certificates. Hundreds of same-sex couples seeking to wed were turned away from the city marriage bureau Thursday, part of a nationwide protest aimed at recent decisions restricting the right to marry to a …

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Gay Partners Immigration Act To Be Reintroduced To Congress Next Week

The Uniting American Families Act will be reintroduced to the House next Friday by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). The act would allow the same-sex partners of legal U.S. residents to enjoy the same immigration rights as heterosexual couples. The unfair current law has stranded thousands of gay couples overseas or forced them to separate to their native countries. Please use …

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Winter Party 2009: Spend Your Money Where It Does Our Community Good

About twenty years ago, gay pride in major cities and the circuit party scene began to explode from single-day events to a stamina-testing series of parties stretched over long weekends, as glinty-eyed promoters swooped in to take advantage of a captive and restless audience. While the unprecedented successes of these events offered attendees a long menu of party destinations on …

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Tell 3 (About Your Gay Life)

Via the ACLU: Join the Impact has partnered with other national LGBT groups to develop a web based public education campaign, www.tell-three.org, to encourage LGBT people and their supporters to have three conversations with friends and family to help build support for LGBT equality. “The passage of Prop 8 in California has motivated LGBT people and their supporters like never …

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Gay Historian Donn Teal Dies At 76

Noted gay historian and pioneering activist Donn Teal (pictured above in a 1971 photo) has died in NYC at the age of 76. From an obituary written by David Carter: G. Donn Teal, of 304 West 75th Street, New York, died February 3, 2009 after a long illness. He was 76 years old. Born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 26, …

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Activists Ask EU To Suspend Funding To Nigeria Over Anti-Gay Marriage Vote

Important note: The following story has been published on several Christianist sites I follow, but I can’t yet find confirmation in the secular press. From the Christianist site One News Now: A division of the European Union that deals with “gay” rights has demanded that all foreign aid to Nigeria be suspended after the government voted not to recognize homosexual …

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GLAAD’s Neil Giuliano Is Quitting

GLAAD president Neil Giuliano is stepping down at the end of the summer to pursue “personal interests”. Kind of interesting, as last fall he renewed his contract for another three years. “It’s a balance of a lot of fun, but the fun is also work,” Giuliano said. “You have to attend a lot of events, and yes you get to …

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AIDS Activist Martin Delaney Dies

Poz.com’s Peter Staley reports that noted AIDS treatment activist Martin Delaney died at his home today. Staley: What a terribly sad day this is. A huge, huge loss for people with HIV, and all those who fight for them. This country’s most accomplished and influential AIDS treatment activist, Martin Delaney, died just minutes ago at his home in San Rafael, …

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Maryland Cops: Gay Activists Are Terrorists

The Washington Post reveals today that the Maryland state police considered the LGBT activism group Equality Maryland to be terrorists. Equality Maryland, the state’s largest gay rights group, was among the peaceful protest groups to be classified as terrorists in a Maryland State Police database. The group was designated a “security threat” by the Homeland Security and Intelligence Division, which …

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Tonight: Task Force Cocktail Reception

The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force holds a cocktail reception tonight in the West Village to kick off the 2009 New York Leadership Awards. The event takes place at Design Within Reach at 408 W.14 Street from 7pm – 9pm. More details here, where you can RSVP. This here website thingy will be a media sponsor of the awards, …

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Eric Leven – Why Are We…

Here’s the latest safer sex PSA from filmmaker/activist Eric Leven. Possibly NSFW, the clip is short and to the point. Leven: “Amongst the hundreds, if not thousands of bareback videos out there, there might as well be one or two of these.”

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Feb. 3rd: New York Marriage Equality Day

Via press release, here’s a great and fun way to do something for marriage equality in New York. Marriage Equality DayFebruary 3, 2009 Join Marriage Equality New York for a day in Albany where we will getthe chance to meet with legislative offices from various senatedistricts to educate them on why marriage equality matters! Register Now HereRegistration with Bus Ride …

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Senegal: Eight Years In Prison For HIV/AIDS Activists

Senegal, which recently hosted a major international AIDS conference, has sentenced nine gay men to eight years in prison for “unnatural and indecent acts.” Most of the men are HIV/AIDS activists. The jailing in Senegal of nine gay men for eight years over “indecent conduct and unnatural acts” has been condemned by an international gay rights group. Homosexual acts are …

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HomoQuotable – Nancy Goldstein

“Bitch, I’ve seen queers more fired up when Bed Bath & Beyond runs out of sale items. Where’s the passion? “Was Van Sant afraid that audiences wouldn’t be sympathetic if 70s-era gay activists were people who suffered, swore, fought back, and fucked like they meant it? If the street kids actually looked like dirty, starving, broke-ass teen hustlers? “Gay history …

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HomoQuotable – Rex Wockner

“Some bloggers and others have suggested that the ‘Stonewall 2.0’ phenomenon is petering out. ‘Join the (diminishing) Impact,’ said Peter Staley. Dan Savage jumped in saying Join The Impact’s followup events to Nov. 15th’s massive national demos have been weak. Everyone involved in the Stonewall 2.0 phenomenon should read both critiques (click the bolded names above). But Stonewall 2.0 isn’t …

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HomoQuotable – Peter Staley

“Momentum is a bitch. It’s probably the hardest thing to maintain in any activist movement. Join The Impact, the new web-based group that organized the remarkable nationwide anti-Prop 8 rallies on November 15th, is learning this hard truth pretty quickly. Their three actions since then – a postcard campaign, “Day Without A Gay”, and Saturday night’s nationwide “Light Up The …

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HRC Responds To Beckett Fund Ad

The Human Rights Campaign has posted a response to today’s ad by the Beckett Fund in the New York Times. It reads in part: Today, members of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion Council responded forcefully to a full-page ad in the New York Times that implies there is an organized attempt to foment mob intimidation and violence toward the Church …

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Full Page Ad From Beckett Fund In NYT Decries “Bigotry” Of Marriage Protests

As I reported here on Tuesday, today the Beckett Fund published a full page ad in the New York Times decrying the recent protests against the Mormon Church (and others) for their support of Proposition 8. You’ll have to embiggen the image above to read it, but the main quote is: “The violence and intimidation directed at the LDS or …

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The Architect Of Stonewall 2.0

Veteran gay reporter Rex Wockner gives us a glimpse into Amy Balliett, whom he calls the “architect of Stonewall 2.0.” Yes, she practices what she preaches. JoinTheImpact co-founder and co-coordinator Amy Balliett, right, and wife Jessica Trejo were legally married in Los Angeles on Oct. 18 following their Aug. 9 wedding in Seattle. It took me a while to get …

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