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Tuesday, September 23
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Source: Seattle Times , Seattle Gay News , Seattle Post Intelligencer In an interview with the Seattle Times last week, the Republican candidate for governor said he would veto a bill authorizing...
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Friday, August 29
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Reporters are rushing to fill in biographical and political details after Sen. John McCain surprised just about everyone by picking a political unknown as his running mate, first-term Alaska...
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Friday, August 29
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see Qnews summary: For Sarah Palin anti-gay 'social conservative' trumps 'fiscal conservative' This February 9, 2007 post comes from the original home of this blog, at blog...
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Friday, August 29
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This January 1, 2007 post about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, now John McCain's running mate, comes from the original home of this blog, at blog.ttca.org . Here's some later background...
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Wednesday, August 20
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Source: GayPolitics.com , Everett Herald , Seattle Times , Columbian , Secretary of State election results The unofficial "gay caucus" in the Washington legislature appears...
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Saturday, July 26
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Source: Surrey Now , Xtra West Martin Rooney of Surrey was turned back at the U.S. border for being HIV-positive. photo by Brian Howell via Surrey News An HIV-positive man from Surrey, BC who...
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Tuesday, July 22
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Source: Xtra West , Victoria Times Colonist Vancouver city councilor Tim Stevenson wants city hall to invest $25,000 into a Tourism Vancouver marketing campaign specifically aimed at attracting...
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: Oregonian , PolitickerOR.com Oregon's Sen. Gordon Smith issued a strong apology today in two forums for confusing remarks he made last week that some interpreted as a defense of...
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Wednesday, June 11
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Source: Just Out blog Portland's gay newspaper, Just Out , reports on its blog that an anti-gay group has abandoned its effort to collect signatures for three initiatives that would have...
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Wednesday, May 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , Oregonian Portland's mayor-elect Sam Adams talks to cheering crowds Tuesday night at Jupiter Hotel photo: Oregonian Sam Adams will be Portland's next...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: Idaho Press-Tribune Walt Bayes TREASURE VALLEY, Idaho -- Gay and straight students should have separate bathrooms and showers in Idaho schools, a Republican running for the Idaho House...
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Sunday, May 11
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Source: Oregonian , Victory Fund A local columnist today described City Commissioner Sam Adams as "the kind of mayor you might imagine Portland to have, if you lived elsewhere and only...
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Saturday, May 03
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Source: (Salem) Today's Sunbeam , (Newark) Star-Ledger , Associated Press via USA Today , Washington Blade , Crosscut (Seattle) TRENTON, NJ -- New Jersey on Friday became the third state...
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Sunday, April 27
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An article in the Kitsap Sun reminds us that we still have a local primary coming up in August when the state will try out its new "top-two" primary system for the first time. Under the new system, the top two vote-getters in a primary will face each other in the general election no matter what party they belong to. The top-two system was selected by voters as an alternative to the former blanket primary that was declared invalid by the courts. Democrats have speculated that the governor's race in 2004 might not have been so close had Libertarian Ruth Bennett not been on the ballot...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Oregonian Following on a Washington Post report about the notorious McCain temper, Oregonian columnist Jeff Mapes reflects today on a display of he saw over a decade ago when the Arizona...
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Monday, April 14
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Source: Willamette Week , Advocate Yes, Chelsea Clinton made it to Portland's infamous "Red Dress" Party. Not to be confused with that other annual "Red Dress" fundraiser...
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Monday, April 14
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer The log cabin is a tricky place -- gay Republicans often must temper their party allegiance or risk self-ostracizing. Thanks to Washington's civil union...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: Salem Statesman-Journal by Todd Simmons Oregon voters may well face two issues this fall that many people probably think were resolved some time ago: the state's new anti-discrimination...
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Sunday, March 16
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Times Olympia, Wash. (AP) Call it the Seinfeld session: 60 days about nothing. With a few of the usual exceptions, such as budget battles and dealing with...
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Sunday, March 16
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King shooting Kern's anti-gay rant Proof that we don't have to go as far as Oklahoma, home to YouTube phenom bigot Sally Kern , to find a ferociously anti-gay state legislator comes in the form of what Portland's gay paper, Just Out , rightly calls an "explosive interview" with the state senator sponsoring an anti-gay initiative. Senator Gary George and State Representative Kim Thatcher have filed an initiative to reverse the recently enacted Oregon Equality Act -- an anti-discrimination law for sexual minorities -- and allow discrimination against gay people. The measure...
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Sunday, March 16
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Source: Just Out , Salem-News , McMinnville News-Register Gay rights activists are seething over remarks made by a legislator to a reporter for Just Out , Oregon's flagship gay newspaper...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Governor Christine Gregoire is scheduled to sign the Domestic Partnership Expansion Bill [see Qnews summary ] in Olympia tomorrow ( Wednesday March 12th ). The signing ceremony, which is open to the public, will take place in the State Reception Room, on the third floor of the Legislative Building. Connie Watts, executive director of Equal Rights Washington called the bill "an incredible victory for Washingtonians." She explained, "This bill will provide over 160 new rights and responsibilities for domestic partners in Washington State. It is an important step in our work towards...
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Saturday, February 09
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Just got back from making my preference heard in the only bizarre way we're allowed to do it in this state -- at a party caucus. I've been to a few of these things before -- often just out of curiosity, but occasionally because I really wanted to cast that vote-like thing. Usually, you see, I've dissatisfied with the likely Democratic nominee and have gone to the caucus hoping to at least be able to register that dissatisfaction even if its a forlorn hope. Four years ago, I went to what turned out to be an enjoyable caucus to vote for anybody but Kerry -- even though it was clear by...
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Monday, January 14
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The national Log Cabin Republicans group today sent an email to their list urging members to send messages of support to Eastside Congressman Dave Reichert who was one of the few Republicans in the House to vote in favor of ENDA -- the Employment Non Discrimination Act that finally passed late last year after decades of futile effort. The gay GOP group writes: Rep. Reichert (R-WA) voted in favor of the Employment Non Discrimination Act (ENDA). As we know, no good deed goes unpunished and he no doubt heard from some unhappy voters in his district. Please take the time to call or send an e-mail to...
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Tuesday, November 27
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Jess Keith, right, watched the rally that she had inspired from the sidelines with her partner Melissa Darnell who had flown in from Palm Springs to be with Jess. seaQwa photo by Robin Evans Missoula Mayor John Engen can give a rousing stump speech. And he had for the crowd ready to hear a good one Monday night in Missoula. Well over 200 people had gathered at a downtown club in the early evening by the time Engen was introduced. The crowd had become dense enough in what is usually the Badlander's dance floor that the mayor couldn't make it to the stage. He started shouting from his place...
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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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Thursday, November 08
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Matt Foreman of NGLTF -- The Task Force -- quoted in LA Times: "The last five weeks have been divisive and ugly and utterly unnecessarily." Exactly. Too bad it took him five weeks to figure it out.
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Wednesday, November 07
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Congressman Doc Hastings (R-Pasco) tries to avoid the spotlight according to most reports. His most notable national achievement was to do virtually nothing while he was chairman of the House Ethics Committee while the GOP controlled Congress. He did, however, find himself on national TV when the committee was charged with investigating Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned for sending sexually explicit e-mails to at least one underage male after the teenager had served as a congressional page. The Foley investigation was one of the few occasions when Hastings found himself on national television...
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Monday, November 05
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Gay City News (NYC) broke the story a few hours ago: House leadership apparently believes that they have the votes to pass the stripped down (what I've been calling LGB-No-T) version of ENDA in a floor vote tomorrow (Tuesday). According to GCN, Rep. Tammy Baldwin will introduce her amendment for an inclusive LGBT ENDA, but it is widely expected to fail: Baldwin has apparently made limited headway in wooing colleagues to support the inclusion of transgender protections, and ironically her measure, if put to a vote, would create precisely the framework that Frank warned against when he advised...
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Tuesday, October 30
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According to KXLY TV , the man that State Rep. Richard Curtis (R – La Center) had sex with in Spokane last week is named Cody Castigna. Now, please keep in mind that we're not certain that the collection of deliciously explicit photos of a "Cody Castigna" available at gaypicsportal.com [not safe for work] shows the same guy. But, if they do, it shows that Curtis (allegedly, of course) has good taste -- as you can see from these thumbnails. Good taste, at least, for the visuals, if not for the character of his (alleged) MSM contact. Sorry. We didn't go for the subscription for...
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