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Saturday, September 06
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:: The American Civil Liberties Union reported donating $1.2 million to defeat Proposition 8 , the California ban on marriage equality , on the November ballot. Sacramento Bee reports that it's the single largest check written to the campaign, though Equality California, a gay-rights group, and the Human Rights Campaign, a similar group, have bundled more total donations. :: Their neighbors to the south rejected an ad campaign that proclaimed "South Carolina is so gay" but several communities in North Carolina's Triangle are trying to attract...
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Thursday, September 04
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Source: Belfast Telegraph , BBC News Less than a year after the team was formed, Ulster Titans headed to the Bingham Cup, the world championship for gay-friendly rugby teams. photo: BBC A sports team fighting adversity and striving to be the best in their field is a regular weapon in Hollywood's blockbuster arsenal. Audiences mark these down as morality tales and a flights of cinematic fantasy, but now Northern Ireland has a real version of this formulaic story. And their inspiring story will be told in a documentary that airs on BBC Northern Ireland this weekend. This team has faced adversity...
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Monday, September 01
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-- World OutGames 2009 will be held from July 25 to August 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Organizers are offering a limited time deal on fees for both participants and visitors. Those who register before October 1, 2008 will get a 20% discount . Participants can register for the games in any of the 38 sports, for the conference, or for a cultural package (including the Queer Tango Festival and Out Choir Festival ). Visitors can also register for tourist packages or book a hotel according to the OutGames website . -- In what's believed to be South Africa's first divorce of a lesbian couple...
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Sunday, August 31
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-- Brits took the top trophy in annual gay men's world football (soccer)championship. The Stonewall Lions from England beat Seleccion Argentina de Futbol Gay 5-0 in the final at Matchroom Stadium in London. Teams from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, Sweden, and the United States registered to take part in the tourney sponsored by International Gay and Lesbian Football Association. Porn star Bobbie Blake -- The big Black Gay Pride celebration in Atlanta kicked off a busy Labor Day weekend schedule with a candlelight vigil Friday...
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Monday, August 25
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer , Seattle Times , Windy City Times , Southern Voice Thousands of gay softball players and fans began to arrive in Seattle over the weekend for the 2008 Northwest Quest Gay Softball World Series. 175 teams and 4,000 athletes and fans from 41 cities in Canada and the U.S. will participate in the week-long event. Opening ceremonies are 4 p.m. today at Seattle Center. Games are scheduled Tuesday through Saturday at five different ballparks in South King County. Championship games and closing ceremonies are Saturday at Russell Road Park in Kent. The series is jointly...
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Thursday, July 24
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Source: AFP , Eurogames press release , Pink News Barcelona -- More than 5,000 athletes, gay and straight, from across Europe are converging on Barcelona for the Eurogames which get underway on Thursday in the Spanish port city, organizers said. The Olympics-style games are expected to attract more than 30,000 tourists to this port city. The event could pump €30-million into the local economy, according to Barcelona gay sports group Panteras Grogues (Yellow Panthers) which is organizing the event. The four-day event will kick off with a colorful opening ceremony on Thursday at the Palau Sant Jordi...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: PR Newswire (press release) , Sydney Star Observer , Bay Area Reporter Rugby players from the world's gay rugby teams are landing in Ireland this week for the the 2008 Bingham Cup, commonly known as the 'Gay Rugby World Cup'. The tournament starts Friday, June 13, in Dublin. The tournament is the second largest biennial amateur rugby tournament in the world, according to organizers. The 2006 cup, which took place in New York, was the biggest yet. The tournament is named for San Franciscan Mark Bingham, one of the September 11 Flight 93 heroes. Thirty teams drawn from clubs around...
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Tuesday, February 19
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Source: BBC News and Daily Telegraph Northern Ireland's only gay rugby team is promoting a form of sporting apartheid, Sports Minister Edwin Poots has claimed. The Ulster Titans Rugby Football Club, founded last year, specifically welcomes gay rugby players. But Poots, an evangelical Protestant in the Northern Ireland government, accused the team of being bigoted. "I just cannot fathom why people see the necessity to develop an apartheid in sport," Poots told the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast. "It would be unacceptable to produce an all-black rugby team or an all-white...
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Friday, January 04
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Source: Times (London) Margaret from Seattle just couldn't contain herself. The valley was deep, the mountain high, the sky blue and the powder deep. And the run was called Rhapsody. She lifted her poles and yelled “God loves gays” into the void. Her joy was so ridiculously infectious that even nearby atheists and heterosexuals giggled wildly. The brilliant sunshine and perfect snow was a gift for everyone. But the fact that it came on the last day of gay ski week after some patchy conditions did seem like our special bonus. Margaret led us hurtling down the glorious bowl, slicing through the...
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Wednesday, December 12
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Source: Windy City Times The Federation of Gay Games has published its request for proposal ( RFP ) , which details the requirements for potential organizers and host cities of Gay Games IX, according to a press release. The ninth edition of the Games will be held in 2014 and will include more than 30 sports and cultural events—as well as over 12,000 participants and tens of thousands of family, friends, fans and spectators. Past Gay Games have brought significant economic impact to host cities, with estimates ranging from USD$60 to USD$80 million, and have enabled increased collaboration between...
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Saturday, November 10
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Source: OutSports photo: Gotham Knights New York City’s gay rugby club, Gotham Knights RFC , made it all the way to the finals of the Met New York Rugby Football Union (Met NYFRU) Oct. 27 before losing to the eventual champions, Montclair. It was the first time a predominantly gay and bisexual club made it to a championship final of the regional Met NYFRU which includes clubs from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Despite the finals loss, The Knights' second-place finish in their division gives the club a spot in the Northeast Rugby Union championship tournament which begins next April...
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Wednesday, October 24
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Source: The Dartmouth Students hurrying through the Collis Student Center a little slower than most may have noticed the recent addition of around 20 photographs of athletes on display. Titled "Fearless," the exhibition documents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered athletes in colleges and high schools across the nation, including Dartmouth: sprinter Jamal Brown '08, lacrosse goalie Andrew Goldstein '05 and Acting Dean of the College Dan Nelson's son, Jack, a skiier and 2007 graduate of Williams College. "Fearless" is the brainchild of photographer Jeff Sheng...
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Sunday, September 30
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BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Argentina's Los Dogos captured the gay football world cup Saturday, defeating British title-holders Stonewall 1-0 in Buenos Aires in the first final held in Latin America. The two teams were among 28 squads from Europe, the Americas...
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Friday, September 21
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Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The 23 members of London's Stonewall FC all-gay soccer team will defend their world club title at a championship in Buenos Aires next week. They're also boosting the city's efforts to supplant Rio de Janeiro as Latin...
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