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Friday, January 11
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Source: from an article in Ottowa Citizen Snowmobilers during WinterPride 2007 The Ottowa Citizen's Daniel Drolet, who made it to one place on the list in 2007, picks the " 10 best gay destinations for 2008 " in today's issue of the paper. His choices: Copenhagen; Manchester, England ("...increasingly on the GLBT traveller's gaydar. Their pride festival (Aug. 15 to 25 in 2008) is one of the biggest of its kind in Britain") ; Spain (You can get married there "and the weather is a lot warmer") ; Buenos Aires; Guerrilla Gay Fare (" On the second Friday...
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Sunday, December 02
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In a column called "Alaska Ear" in Anchorage Daily News , there's this item about the complaints lodged in some right-wing media about a special Alaska Airlines discount offered on a web page targeted to LGBT travelers: Did you get one of those e-mail screeches from some anti-gay group about a 10 percent discount on Alaska Airlines fares to NYC during the holiday season? It's available to everyone, but the airline did some target marketing to gays that set talk radio on fire Outside. Claims that you have to tell the airline you're gay to get the discount would be funny if...
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Saturday, November 17
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A fellow Florida state legislator said of Rep. Bob Allen who resigned after being convicted last week of a sex-solicitation charge in a restroom sting: When things started sliding in that deep dark hole, I would have been more concerned for my family and getting off the front page. Which "deep, dark, hole" would that be? The court was told that an undercover police officer encountered an unkempt Allen in the men's room at a small riverfront park. The officer claimed that Allen peered over the door of a stall where the officer was washing his hands and then joined the officer inside...
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Sunday, November 11
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Bellevue native and Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth is a competitive swimmer , seen here with fellow contestant Lisa Gilson after the 2006 Park to Park Swim in New York. photo From seaQwa 's Qnews : nw:gaynews feed: November 11, 2007 Missoula's latest anti-gay assault part of a disturbing pattern Source: Missoulian and Missoula Independent Commentary: Washington should apologize for eugenics law Source: Knute Berger in Crosscut Bellevue-native hunk to compete in Project Runway Source: Seattle Times November 10, 2007 Washington priest elected bishop of Chicago diocese on a ballot...
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Wednesday, October 03
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Here's a tale of steroid use that might -- as it's designed to do -- give pause to anyone considering the juice. Their sex life really slumped, however, when Bonds started taking steroids, driven by jealousy after Mark McGwire began receiving piles of press for his pursuit of Roger Maris' single-season home run record. ... Bonds was always moody - "I always figured he had PMS, like a woman," Bell said – but the drugs radically changed his behavior as well as his body. He became a different person, controlling, threatening and finally violent. ... His body had grown thicker...
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Wednesday, September 26
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During an address at Columbia University Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued the truly bizarre assertion that there aren't any lesbian or gay folk in Iran. From the New York Times live-blog of the address: In response to a question about...
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Monday, September 24
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After a week of intense meetings in New Orleans, US Episcopal bishops are expected to release a response tomorrow to demands from some fellow bishops in the Anglican communion that the American church abandon its support for lesbian and gay church members...
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Wednesday, August 22
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One of two suspects in the hate-crime death of a Sacramento man entered a plea today of not guilty. Aleksandr Shevchenko, 21, faces a single felony count of intimidating and interfering with a person's rights, a charge that falls under the state's...
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Tuesday, August 21
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As we said in a previous update , Oklahoma wisely decided last week against appealing a court decision directing the state to treat adoptions equally. Widely syndicated Detroit News columnist Deb Price reflects on the decision in this week's installment...
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Saturday, August 18
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A couple of legal issue bloggers expected the ruling to be appealed when the 10th Circuit Court ruled against the Oklahoma legislature's bizarre decision to deny birth certificates to children born in OK who had been adopted by same-sex couples (in...
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Wednesday, August 15
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We posted some of the flurry of news stories on our news feed , but we might be the only gay-related blog that didn't do at least one post last week about Logo's forum for Democratic presidential candidates. But if you missed it, it's not...
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