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Monday, June 09
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Source: Chicago Tribune , Celebrating Diversity blog Lesbian and gay Christians and their supporters talked with members of a suburban Chicago mega-church this weekend in what was described by one participant as a "very gracious dialogue." Members of American Family Outing were welcomed to Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, one of the Midwest's largest churches. The group -- including Jay Bakker, the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker -- met with Willow Creek leadership, including senior pastor Bill Hybels, hoping to begin a cordial dialogue about how the church views...
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Friday, May 23
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer For the first time since 1977, there won't be a pride march or any other organized pride event other than bar parties on Seattle's Capitol Hill in June. Michael Wells, head of Broadway's business association, told the Seattle P-I that he does not know of any events planned for the street this year. Wells said bars on Capitol Hill might suffer from the absence of a pride march on Broadway. But he said gays and lesbians would probably go to Capitol Hill after the downtown parade and Seattle Center festival that Sunday. Anna Bacler, operations manager...
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Saturday, May 17
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Source: Between the Lines The National LGBT Cancer Network is responds to the unique needs of cancer survivors in the US LGBT community. "It is remarkable to me that there are so many more people confronted with cancer today and no national registry collecting data on the LGBT segment of that population," said Liz Margolies, founder and executive director of the organization. According to its website, the group offers "consultations, training, and presentations for healthcare facilities, schools, conferences, and social service organizations on a variety of topics related to LGBT...
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Thursday, May 15
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Source: KING5 TV SEATTLE -- Verbena Health, a non-profit that provides health services focused on lesbians in Seattle, has announced that it will temporarily halt all services while charges of embezzlement are investigated. The head of Verbena Health has been accused of helping herself with the group's donated money. KING5 reports the Seattle non-profit devoted to helping women filed a report of embezzlement with Seattle Police claiming its executive director "has been misusing company accounts." Vebena has posted this notice on its website : It is with great sadness that the Board...
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Sunday, April 27
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Source: Associated Press , BBC , GLAAD press release Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres at last night's GLAAD awards. Degeneres presented the group's Vanguard Award to Janet Jackson. photo via EvilBeetGossip Bravo's Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List won an award last night for outstanding reality program during the 19th annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards at the Kodak Theatre on Saturday night. Griffin accepted the award from "my gays." Earlier, Griffin opened the show by inviting her mother, Maggie Griffin, onstage to quiz her about her knowledge...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: San Diego Union Tribune , GLAAD press release GLAAD -- the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation -- won't participate in a scheduled "Pride Rocks" event at a hotel in San Diego this summer because the hotel's owner is helping fund an initiative to limit marriage rights in California. GLAAD said it will continue to participate in “Pride Rocks” events at other Hyatt hotels nationwide, but not at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego which is owned by developer Doug Manchester. Manchester contributed $125,000 to a drive to put a same-sex-marriage ban before voters...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: E! Online E!'s Marc Malkin interviewed Janet Jackson as she made initial preparations for her Saturday appearance at the latest iteration of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) 19th Annual Media Awards. The ceremony this Saturday will be held at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles where emcee Ellen DeGeneres will present Jackson with GLAAD's Vanguard Award. The gay media group's award gives Malkin a great chance to ask Jackson some juicy (in celeb-interview terms, anyway) questions on gay issues, like why rumors about her own sexual orientation have...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , Between the Lines , Triangle press release GRAND RAPIDS -- As the Triangle Foundation prepares for an open house Tuesday, one local politician says there are two ways of looking at the location of a gay-rights organization in West Michigan. "It's unfortunate to me that an organization like Triangle feels it needs to be here," said East Grand Rapids Mayor Cindy Bartman, noting that Triangle Foundation works to stop violence against gays. The other way of seeing things is more hopeful. "West Michigan is at least willing to open the conversation we need...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Associated Press via Deseret Morning News , Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City -- Associated Press reports that LDS Church officials have agreed to meet with members of Affirmation, a gay Mormon support group that has sought to forge understanding between the faith's leaders and its gay members. In a letter received last week, leaders of Affirmation were invited to meet with Fred M. Riley, commissioner of Family Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Harold C. Brown, the agency's past commissioner. Riley's letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Monsters & Critics , Starpulse Janet Jackson photo by Kenny Rogers via CelebrityGossipz.com Janet Jackson will be honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) during the organization's 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards on April 26th. Gay comedienne and TV personality Ellen DeGeneres will present the pop superstar with the night's Vanguard Award. The Nasty singer says, "I have received a number of awards throughout my career, but I am so proud to be receiving this from GLAAD. I thank them for this honor from the bottom of my heart." Jackson is set...
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Sunday, March 30
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Weiland bequest A new record for bequests to LGBT organizations was set earlier this month, when former Microsoft employee Ric Weiland, who died in 2006, left $65 million to the Seattle-based Pride Foundation and several other organizations, said to be the largest gift ever made to the gay community in the United States. While few would be able to match Weiland's generosity, many gay and lesbian donors, who usually don't have children, are likely to consider end-of-life gifts, philanthropy experts say. The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement has...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Southern Voice and AP via CNN Money United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS), the world's largest shipping carrier, said Tuesday it has expanded its supplier diversity program to include businesses owned by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender merchants. The diversity program previously covered small businesses, women, minorities and veterans, according to the company. To be considered for the programming, businesses must be certified by the National Lesbian & Gay Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), an umbrella group that cites 45 state and local affiliates. “Partnering with the NGLCC not only...
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Friday, February 29
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Source: Washington Blade Gay rights activists have been contemplating an unprecedented windfall following Sunday’s announcement that late philanthropist Ric Weiland earmarked $65 million of his vast estate for 11 gay and AIDS organizations. Weiland bequest Weiland was a high school classmate of Microsoft Corp. founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen and one of the first five people to work for the software giant. Weiland stayed with the company from 1975 through 1988 and became a multi-millionaire. Weiland, who was gay, donated millions to various organizations -- both gay and others -- during his lifetime...
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Wednesday, February 27
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Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera has issued a call for right-wing groups to match a donation recently given by the late Ric Weiland to Seattle's Pride Foundation and ten other gay-rights groups. In his fundraising appeal, according to the right-wing news site OneNewsNow , LaBarbara claims that the $65 million endowment given to the groups will be used to "criminalize Christian opposition to their agenda." The Pride Foundation of Seattle announced on Sunday that Ric Weiland -- one of the first five people to work at software giant Microsoft -- has left $19 million of his estate to...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: Austin American-Statesman , Dallas Voice Jay Bakker, son of the scandal-rocked televangelist Jim Bakker and the late Tammy Faye Messner, spoke at Metropolitan Community Church in South Austin Sunday. He preached at both services, capping off a weekend of training for gay and lesbian families who about to embark on a campaign to confront churches that promote anti-homosexual teachings. Soulforce is still looking for local families to help initiate a dialogue on LGBT issues with prominent Christian evangelists including Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House in Dallas. Paige Schilt, a spokeswoman...
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Sunday, February 24
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Source: Seattle Times and PageOneQ Weiland bequest Ric Weiland, who helped his high school friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen launch Microsoft, was a quiet philanthropist. But his final gift has provided one of the most powerful financial boosts ever to the gay-rights movement. Weiland has left $65 million to the Pride Foundation in Seattle and 10 nonprofit organizations, believed to be the largest estate gift ever given to the gay and lesbian community in the U.S. For the Pride Foundation, which has an annual budget of $2.5 million and endowment of $3 million, Weiland's gift of more than $19...
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Friday, February 08
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Source: Vallejo Times Herald When Mary Dwyer retired after 30 years of federal government service, she and her lesbian partner got a rude awakening. Despite different city and state laws for domestic partnership, Dwyer's partner was ineligible for benefits that would have been available for a spouse. "When I retired, things changed drastically," Dwyer said. "Domestic partners don't qualify for anything from the federal government." In addition to not having the same rights as married couples, gay and lesbian seniors are concerned about finding affordable, gay-friendly...
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Saturday, February 02
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer and Seattle Times During a press conference at Gay City offices, King County Prosecutor displays the new hate crimes awareness poster being put up around Capitol Hill. photo: Ken Lambert, Seattle Times Mike Hogan, a deputy King County prosecutor, walked into a pet store on Capitol Hill on Friday and asked to put up a poster in the window. "We're going to make the bad people go away," he said. Hogan and other volunteers began putting up the posters, which were unveiled at a Friday news conference, in the neighborhood in response to a spate of anti...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: by Robin Evans, seaQwa's Qblog with additional material from Seattle Times Ann Levinson, one of four women -- all GSBA members -- bidding to buy the Storm WNBA franchise got a rousing welcome today from the gay business group seaQwa photo: Robin Evans The stars of today's GSBA luncheon were to have been the three powerhouse legislators who arrived to talk about the upcoming session. [see previous Qblog post ] And they eventually got their warm ovations, but before they were introduced, GSBA president Louise Chernin introduced the women of the hour, long-time GSBA member Anne Levinson...
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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: The Age This explicit ad encouraging condom use is part of a series sponsored by Victorian AIDS Council FULL-PAGE images of men having sex will be splashed across gay newspapers in Melbourne today as part of a bold advertising campaign designed to stem rising HIV infections in Victoria. Four advertisements -- which show men having sex, with a dialogue box discussing safe sex issues covering their genitalia -- will appear in Bnews and MCV newspapers as part of the Victorian AIDS Council 's latest campaign to target gay men who have unprotected sex. Executive director Mike Kennedy said...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle A San Francisco motorcycle club gained long-sought legal approval Monday for its trademark of the name "Dykes on Bikes" when the U.S. Supreme Court turned away a challenge from a lawyer who said the term denigrated men. Without comment, the justices denied review of an appeal by Michael McDermott of Dublin, who challenged a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to grant the San Francisco Women's Motorcycle Contingent exclusive rights over the commercial use of Dykes on Bikes. The motorcycle club applied for a trademark in 2003 after using...
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Saturday, January 05
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle Jim Nickoff, who was key in the financial success of gay civil rights organizations and several political campaigns, died at his ranch in Woodside on Dec. 16. He was 44 years old. Mr. Nickoff was a founding board member of Equality California, one of the most successful state gay rights organizations in the country, and worked hundreds of hours to set up and oversee the group's accounting system, said Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California. In the five years that Mr. Nickoff worked with the organization, its budget grew from about $180,000 to just...
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Monday, December 31
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Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- After weighing all options, Hope Metropolitan Community Church decided Sunday to begin the two-month process of severing ties with its national organization. Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Churches, which formed in 1968 as an alliance for alienated homosexuals seeking places of worship, earlier this year stripped Hope's Rev. Beau McDaniels of her license to preach. The national organization made it clear McDaniels would have to go if Hope wanted to keep its affiliation. Instead, the 12 church members in attendance...
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Wednesday, December 26
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Source: Trenton Star-Ledger When the House of Jourdan's gala fundraiser showed up on the 6 o'clock news seven years ago, anchormen smirked at footage of strutting drag queens and gay men "voguing," a dance popularized by Madonna. There were voter registration tables and an array of HIV-prevention information at the ball. But the cameras ignored those things. "They just showed us as wild freaks dancing," recalls Bernard McAllister, CEO of the house. These days, the House of Jourdan and seven other gay "houses" in Newark are finally getting respect. The city's...
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Saturday, December 08
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Source: Seattle Gay News Seattle's LGBT Community Center will likely close its doors at its current 5,000-6,000 square foot location at 1115 East Pike St. by the end of the year. The current location has been a popular meeting place for the region's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community and a lifeline for newcomers seeking information as well as community access, gallery space and meeting areas. In an exclusive interview with SGN staff, Board Co-President Breanna Anderson said the Center's financial situation, including debts over $30,000, have required the small nonprofit...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Seattle Times A Capitol Hill institution important to Seattle's lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community is in financial trouble and likely will close by year's end at its current location. The Seattle LGBT Community Center , which last year stepped forward to keep a gay Pride march and festival on Capitol Hill after the traditional sponsors moved the annual event downtown, is struggling to pay its suppliers. The revelations cap a year that witnessed the financial troubles of Seattle Out and Proud, another gay-focused nonprofit group and the traditional sponsor of Seattle's...
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Thursday, November 29
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Source: Associated Press via Google WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican gay rights advocacy group accuses Mitt Romney of "Mitt-flops" in a new radio ad that criticizes the former Massachusetts governor on his tax record. The ad by the Log Cabin Republicans notes that Romney signed legislation in 2003 that increased taxes on New Hampshire residents who worked in Massachusetts. It also says Romney raised taxes on businesses, a point Romney disputes by saying he was merely closing tax loopholes. "Mitt Flops — sounds like something you'd wear to the beach, but they could cost you,"...
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Friday, November 23
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Source: Written Rebellion (blog), New West calendar Missoula, Mont. -- Several activist groups in Missoula will hold a community rally, entitled " WE are Missoula. Speak Up. Stand OUT ". The event, scheduled for Monday, November 26, is the latest response to recent incidents anti-gay violence in Missoula. [ see previous Qnews articles ] It will be held at The Badlander (208 Ryman downtown) [ get directions ] from 5-7pm during the time usually devoted to Forward Montana 's "Progressive Happy Hour" at the club. Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center will host along...
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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: Seattle Times The only thing worse than a woman scorned? A drag queen told to clean up her act. But that's one thing David Richart did in his first week as executive director of the Lifelong AIDS Alliance in Seattle. He got the job one day, went to the National Conference on AIDS the next, then came back to Seattle last Tuesday to begin contract negotiations with Glamazonia, the reigning queen of Lifelong's signature fundraiser, Gay Bingo. It wasn't pretty. Staffers were asked to undergo anti-harassment training, and Glammie (aka Thom Hubert) was included. Richart asked Glammie...
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Thursday, November 08
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Philip Johnson's design for Cathedral of Hope campus in Dallas -- his last major project before his death in 2005. Parts of the campus -- including the bell tower commemorating those who have died of AIDS -- have been built, but the mostly-gay Dallas congregation continues an extended fund-raising effort for the overall campus. Source: The Advocate (with additional material from Cathedral of Hope) The Cathedral of Hope and the grassroots organization Hope for Peace & Justice will break ground on the Philip Johnson–designed Interfaith Peace Chapel this coming Sunday in a special service...
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