Tag Archives: LGBT History

Fantastic news from SAGE! New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA) announced today that Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE) was awarded an Innovative Senior Center (ISC) contract to open the nation’s first full-time center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. SAGE the country’s oldest and largest …

Donations are being sought for the funeral costs of Frank Kameny, the legendary LGBT rights pioneer who passed away last year at the age of 86. Longtime Kameny friend and gay rights advocate Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications, said friends and activists who have known Kameny for many years are developing plans for a Kameny funeral that they hope …

Save California says that since the effort to repeal SB48 has failed, Christian parents must now remove their children from public schools. Or else they will be “mentally molested.” While some parents may initially find this solution uncomfortable or difficult, my question is this: How much worse does it have to get before you intervene? If a speeding car was …

Today the official blog of the Smithsonian remembers late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny and provides a link farm to his donated items and his papers on file at the Library of Congress.

This just hit my inbox: We Fought the Law and the Law Won Unfortunately we did not collect enough signatures to qualify the referendum to overturn SB48. That law will be in place in our schools at the first of next year. We thank all of you that worked so hard to provide the hundreds of thousands of signatures received. …

If openly gay NYC Councilman Daniel Dromm gets his way, public schools in Gotham may see their own version of California’s LGBT history bill. Queens City Council Member Daniel Dromm, who is openly gay, introduced a resolution asking the Department of Education to implement such a curriculum and acquire the textbooks needed to teach it. The announcement came on National …

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force “The death of Frank Kameny is a profound loss and he will be greatly missed. No Washington LGBT event or White House meeting was complete without Frank. Yet, he never slowed down in demanding what should be, showing us what was possible and pushing for the very equality and liberation we are still fighting …

The Washington Blade is reporting on Twitter that gay rights pioneer and Mattachine Society co-founder Frank Kameny has passed away at the age of 86. I’ll have more details when they become available. In the meantime, please read Kameny’s Wikipedia entry. We all owe Kameny our deepest gratitude for a life lived well. UPDATE: Some details from the Blade. Franklin …

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! From a Stop SB 48 email blast: “The News is Not Good … it is doubtful we will get the number of signatures we need to qualify. Unfortunately the last several deliveries of mail have not been what was expected and a large number of petitions have been pulled out because of errors. From all …

Is there anybody left to safely tell? Tomorrow you’ve got an excuse to mention it.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has just signed a bill restricting all public referendums to a November vote in even-numbered years. This means that even if those attempting to repeal SB 48 manage to get enough petition signatures in these remaining few days, the bill will not appear until November 2012. Republicans, of course, are furious at Brown. “The idea of …

Five year-olds will be trained to be gay! Or something!

(Via – Good As You)

Please consider signing the Courage Campaign’s complaint about the lying ways that our enemies are gathering signatures to repeal California’s SB 48.

Openly gay Sen. David Norris has won the nomination for the presidency of Ireland, a largely ceremonial post. The independent politician won the support of Dublin city council last night and will run against six other candidates next month. He said he was “absolutely thrilled” at the news. Mr Norris 67, pulled out of the race in August over controversy …

Via Los Angeles Weekly: “Stop SB 48,” the group that wants to repeal a state law that allows California students to learn about important people in history who were gay, claimed in an email to supporters yesterday afternoon that its petition drive for a ballot measure will be successful. “The signed petitions are coming in at an incredible rate — …

As this clip demonstrates, anti-gay groups in California are tricking people into thinking they are signing a petition to increase the penalties for child molestation. In fact, they are signing a petition to repeal SB 48, the state’s just-approved LGBT education bill. And here we’ve been told that lying makes the baby Jesus cry.

JMG reader Marc reports that anti-gay groups are collecting SB 48 repeal signatures at the Los Angeles County Fair, which hosts its first-ever Gay Day today. Skip the fancy brunch in WeHo and go have some corn dogs, Bachmann-style!