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Saturday, March 29
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Source: Montana Standard and seaQwa reports HELENA -- Pride Inc., one of Montana’s most outspoken gay and lesbian equality groups, has closed its doors, prompting the Montana Human Rights Network...
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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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Saturday, October 27
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Have you noticed the deafening activist silence about ENDA for the past few days? Blogger Chris Crane noticed and expresses a touch of tongue-in-cheek surprise that the activist aren't congratulating themselves for a job well done. It looks like congratulations may be in order, to both the "United" ENDA coalition led by Matt Foreman and the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force , and Peter LaBarbera of the anti-gay Americans for Truth . They say politics make strange bedfellows, but who would have believed these two would hop in the sack for a quick lay? ... Thanks be to Foreman,...
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Monday, October 22
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Equal Rights Washington (ERW) has issued what they're calling an "urgent" notice for Washingtonians to their representaves about ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) legislation in the House. In this particular case, even calls to Seattle's Rep. Jim McDermott would be useful, according to ERW. Like most ( but not quite all ) LGBT activist groups, ERW is opposed to the version of the bill that was passed last week by a House committee. That version (what we've been calling LGB-No-T ENDA) includes job protections for "sexual orientation", but not for "gender...
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Saturday, October 13
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Yes, we're too late mentioning this (as we have been with just about everything) for you to get to the rally, but it's still worth noting that...
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