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Friday, May 16
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Source: Seattle Times , Seattle Post-Intelligencer CA marriage case Seattle -- Activists in Washington cheered Thursday's decision by California's highest court to grant full equality in marriage to all couples in that state, but were also heartened by the slow but steady progress toward equality since this state's highest court ruled that gay and lesbian couples are not entitled to full equality. "This is huge. California is really going to change the landscape," said Joshua Friedes, advocacy director for Equal Rights Washington, a group that lobbies for marriage equality...
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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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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 said Friday. Walt Bayes is described by Wonkette as "a 70-year-old retired Bitter who is running for Idaho's House of Representatives." A local paper is a bit kinder, simply calling him "a 70-year-old retired blue-collar worker and farmer," and letting his policies speak for themselves. Among his other proposals listed by Idaho Press-Tribune : Make the supplying of pornography to juveniles...
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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 read about this city in fawning national publications." Adams is one of the top candidates running to replace Portland's incumbent Mayor Tom Potter. The first step toward election of the out gay commissioner will come two weeks from now when votes in the state's mail-only primary are counted. Adams is today listed at the top of "Races to Watch" by Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund , an advocacy...
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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Xtra West Vancouver's Odyssey nightclub, a gay stomping ground for over two decades, is looking for a new home following surprise announcement that construction on the club's current site will be begin quickly, Xtra West reports. The site of the classic and friendly "dive" club that has recently featured dancing along with drag shows and strippers is set to become supportive housing for people with HIV/AIDS "We were given notice May 1," said Michael Levy, the Howe St club's co-owner, adding he had expected the bar to remain at its current site until 2011...
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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Caribbean Net News GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- A former Seattleite who was taken to a police station last week for kissing his boyfriend at a local bar has been issued an official apology by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism. “I apologise for your upsetting experience and want to assure you that the Cayman Islands is a welcoming jurisdiction to all people,” Pilar Bush, the Caribbean island's director of tourism, wrote to Chandler. “What happened to you was an isolated incident, and is not representative of Cayman. We know that thousands of gay and lesbian visitors travel to...
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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 to allow workers paid time off to care for a sick family member or new child, with the signing of a law more than 10 years in the making. It's the second state after California to extend the benefits to all families, including gay couples. Steven Goldstein, chair of Garden State Equality, told the Washington Blade that his state "arguably leads the way in America amongst state legislatures in advancing...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: Federal Way Mirror Hutch v. Mount Si Federal Way, Wash. -- Sometimes silence speaks quite loudly. Students at Federal Way High School, as well as more than 200 high schools throughout the state, participated in the National Day of Silence event on April 25. Both gay and straight students banded together to raise awareness of the bullying and harassment that gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual students often face. They made their statement by going all day without speaking, instead signing their names to a list of supporters and passing out cards describing their cause. A student leader...
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Saturday, April 26
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Source: Providence Journal , Arizona Republic , Rochester Democrat and Chronicle , Modesto Bee , Seattle Times , Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum The school's namesake peak overlooks the entrance to Mount Si High in Snoqualmie, WA. Only about 100 anti-gay demonstrators showed up at the school Friday, despite a month of promotion of the demonstration by national anti-gay groups. seaQwa photo: Robin Evans Throughout the country yesterday, tens of thousands of students at thousands of schools quietly observed a day dedicated to tolerance and respect. A few of the students who participated in yesterday's...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: MyNorthwest.com KIRO Newsradio , Qblog , Seattle Times , KING5 News SNOQUALMIE, Wash. -- Ken Hutcherson called last week for 1,000 to join him for a protest outside Mount Si High School this morning. He objects to a student-led observance called " Day of Silence " that's designed to raise awareness of anti-gay bullying. The numbers that heeded his call were far lower according to all estimates. Associated Press put the count at "about 250 protesters and counter-protesters," but it's number appears to be generous by more than two times. AP's story emphasizes...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Seattle Times , KIRO Newsradio Seattle Times catches up with the controversy that a Redmond pastor has worked to create at Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie by interviewing former student Neil Lequia. As a gay-rights activist, he's helping to organize a news conference in support of students participating in the national Day of Silence, an event meant to highlight the silence gay students say they often must maintain at school, the Times reports. As a gay teenager growing up in the Snoqualmie Valley, he remembers "the bullies," popular, athletic boys vamping in the hall and...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Qblog , Snoqualmie Valley Record Hutch: Qblog , Qnews As some parents prepare to protest outside Mount Si High School on the Day of Silence, school administrators are assuring the community that the event, scheduled for Friday, April 25, will not endanger the school's learning environment. School administrators have said the Day of Silence falls within students' right to free speech, and learning will not be interrupted. According to the event website, the National Day of Silence , to be observed tomorrow at Mount Si and thousands of other schools around the country, " brings...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sheryl Swoopes Seattle Storm photo For a long time, too long, Sheryl Swoopes kept her secret, and then it got to be overwhelming," writes Seattle Post-Intelligencer sports columnist Jim Moore. But then he gets to tell an inspiring story about an athlete -- something that sports writers do every day, but this the kind of story that too few sports writers have the opportunity to pen. "In late October of 2005, the WNBA's best player broke the news to ESPN The Magazine , admitting she was gay." As Moore points out, that's hardly the most significant...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - A South American Anglican archbishop who adamantly opposes homosexual relationships is coming to Vancouver on Friday despite being told to stay away by Canada's top Anglican. Archbishop Gregory Venables, who claims to represent 15 breakaway Anglican congregations in Canada, will speak Friday at a gathering in Delta of the conservative Anglican Network in Canada. Venables, who has been criticized as a rogue archbishop by Anglican colleagues in South America and elsewhere, is recruiting Anglican congregations in Canada and the U.S. that have...
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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 senator was invited to speak to one of Oregon's most notorious anti-gay groups. The columnist also includes a clip from a story he wrote about the appearance in 1993 that includes this: The Republican senator, under fire from gay activists back home for aiding the OCA, never directly addressed the group's sponsorship of several anti-gay-rights ballot measures. But McCain made it clear that, while...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Canadian Press VANCOUVER — They've been bombed three times, received death threats and stood before the red-robed justices of the Supreme Court of Canada. No, Jim Deva and Bruce Smyth are not killers or terrorists. The soft-spoken Vancouver men sell books. And in some peoples' eyes, Deva says, that made the gay owners of Little Sister's Book & Art Emporium dangerous. "Because we were (openly gay) and we were very, very blatant about being open . . . we were threatening to homophobes," Deva says. Only two years after the store opened in 1983, the owners took on...
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Tuesday, April 15
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Source: CBC News , NBC News via WBIR TV , Scripps News Service A retirement condo for gay seniors proposed for the East Vancouver neighborhood of Mount Pleasant is still just a proposal, but has already attracted more than 30 people have plunked down a $1,000 deposit since it was first advertised two weeks ago, according to the U.S. developer. The plan is for a condo development featuring living units, a communal dining room, a fitness centre, a lounge and cabaret. Dean Malone, the president of Plum Living Properties, said the proposal for Vancouver will fill a community need. His company has already...
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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, this is the " Red Dress Party ," a mondo-alcohol-fueled dance party where nearly 2,000 gay men in various states of red dress undress (and several nearly naked straight men as well as one very colorfully decorated naked woman) invade a warehouse in Northeast Portland and dance their collective asses off to pounding disco music and the incredible Storm Large and her Balls. Between giving speeches...
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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 bill signed March 12, however, conservative gay partners not only have a host of new rights but a new lease on their vote come November. Rudy Giuliani began as the obvious favorite among Log Cabin Republicans, a gay wing of the Republican Party. He signed a 1997 bill granting rights to domestic partners in New York, but came out last year against New Hampshire's law allowing same-sex civil unions. Log...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: Olympian Olympia, Wash. -- The Olympian reports that an assault in the capital city that included anti-gay slurs is not being investigated by Olympia police as a hate crime. Carl Wittenbrink, 22, said he was attacked outside the downtown Olympia YMCA last week. The attacker swung a plastic grocery bag filled with something heavy at Wittenbrink and called him an anti-gay slur while yelling and cursing at him, the victim said. Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said that the attacker would have to indicate that he was motivated to attack Wittenbrink based on his perceptions of Wittenbrink’s sexuality before...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Globe and Mail , Associated Press via Cleveland Leader VANCOUVER -- A harrowing encounter between an HIV-positive Canadian traveling to the United States and a U.S. border guard at the Peach Arch crossing near Blaine, Wash. has helped thrust a long-standing but little-known law back into the political ring. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote next month on a bill proposed by Massachusetts Senator John Kerry that would lift what he calls a Draconian travel ban that has caused thousands of Canadians and other foreigners to be refused entry to the United States because they have the virus...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: Associated Press EAGLE, Idaho (AP) -- A cross-country move from New Jersey to this Boise suburb has cost a gay couple the company-sponsored health benefits they shared on the east coast, Associated Press reports. The 2,400-mile move west that once seemed like a chance at a fresh start, has instead delivered some hard lessons, especially about moving from a state that recognizes same-sex unions to one of the 21 states that don't. The couple was stunned when Ryan was dropped from the Konica Minolta insurance plan the two shared in New Jersey, where they were able to register as domestic...
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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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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 to take on the group’s cause. Despite the closure of the organization, several other groups including the Human Rights Network continue to pursue LGBT rights in the state. Planning continues for a 2008 Montana Pride Celebration to be held this year in Billings from June 20 to 22. It is being organized by PrideInBillings [MySpace page] and a coalition of other Montana LGBT groups operating as the "Montana...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Times The Very Rev. Robert Taylor resigned Friday as dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, amidst acclaim for his accomplishments but following months of controversy over staff shakeups and parish leadership. Taylor came to "The Holy Box," as the cathedral is often nicknamed, in 1999 with a background that put him instantly in the news. He had been an anti-apartheid student leader in South Africa, became a protege of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and is a partnered gay man. Taylor said in a letter to church members that he was resigning because...
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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 and domestic-partner laws. Although some are trying to characterize those potential ballot measures as solely "moral issues," both undoubtedly have economic implications that voters would be well advised to consider. First, a little background. During its 2007 session, the Oregon Legislature passed both pieces of legislation with relative ease and Gov. Ted Kulongoski quickly signed both into...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Variety , Seattle Times SEATTLE -- This past week at Seattle's ACT Theater, Uzbekistan's Ilkhom Theater company presented a production of "White White Black Stork." The play involves murder, mystery and the redemptive power of art -- much like the remarkable story behind Ilkhom's current five-city U.S. tour. The idea for the tour was hatched three years ago, when ACT artistic director Kurt Beattie traveled to the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, one of Seattle's sister cities. "I was there for about two weeks," says Beattie. "And one thing that struck...
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Friday, March 21
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Source: Oregonian Years after Bill Stein came out to friends and colleagues, he moved near family in Portland and went back into hiding. If a resident of his westside retirement home makes an anti-gay slur, Stein, 86, says nothing. "I'm, by nature, chicken," the retired anthropology professor said. " If you don't say, 'I'm gay,' you pass. I'm pretty well closeted." On Valentine's Day, Stein drove to the conservative side of Multnomah County to visit Rainbow Vista in Gresham, one of the first retirement homes in the nation marketed to gay seniors....
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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 genuine emergencies like the December floods, lawmakers spent the winter fine-tuning the ambitious and expensive 2007 session -- and getting ready for the fall campaigns. Above all, it seemed the majority Democrats and Gov. Chris Gregoire were practicing the Olympia version of the docs' Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. House Republican Leader Richard DeBolt borrowed a bit of Shakespeare to gripe that...
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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, which posted them on its website. "If you walk around talking about what you do in the bedroom, you should be on the pervert channel," Senator Gary George told Just Out . George and State Representative Kim Thatcher, both of Newberg, have filed an initiative to reverse the recently enacted Oregon Equality Act -- an anti-discrimination law for sexual minorities -- and allow discrimination against...
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