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Wednesday, June 04
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Source: Twin Falls Times-News , KIVI-TV , Deseret News , KTVB Twin Falls, Idaho -- After weeks of controversy about it, including dozens of letters to the local paper, a float sponsored the Southern Idaho Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center in the local "Western Days" parade caused barely a ripple in the crowds who gathered to watch the event, the Twin Falls Times-News reports. The Western Days parade in Twin Falls is one of the biggest community events of the year, and in recent years, a center of controversy. Tens of thousands of people line the streets to see high...
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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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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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Friday, February 15
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Source: Idaho Statesman and Spokesman Review BOISE, Idaho -- The state attorney general's office has issued a nonbinding opinion that the decision by the Moscow City Council in north-central Idaho to extend domestic partner benefits to city employees violates the Idaho Constitution. Sen. Russ Fulcher, R-Meridian, requested the opinion soon after Moscow approved extending the benefits in December. "I would just like to see them follow what the voters of the state of Idaho said when they passed the marriage amendment," Fulcher told the Idaho Statesman. A conservative group, Idaho Values...
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Wednesday, January 16
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Blade and New York Times People who have sex in public bathrooms have an expectation of privacy, the American Civil Liberties Union argues in a brief filed Tuesday on behalf of Sen. Larry Craig. Craig, of Idaho, is asking the Minnesota Court of Appeals to let him withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct stemming from a bathroom sex sting at the Minneapolis airport. The Republican senator was arrested June 11 by an undercover officer who said Craig tapped his feet and swiped his hand under a stall divider in a way that signaled he wanted sex. Craig has...
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Thursday, January 10
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Source: St. Paul Pioneer-Press The undercover police officer who busted U.S. Sen. Larry Craig in a gay-sex sting in an airport bathroom stall couldn't have been offended by the senator's notorious foot-tapping -- after all, the officer invited the action by tapping his own foot, lawyers for the congressman said in a brief filed Tuesday. Those lawyers also contend the Idaho Republican should have his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge thrown out because what he did last June wasn't a crime. The reason: The state's disorderly conduct statute says the conduct in question has...
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Sunday, December 23
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Source: Associated Press via Twin Falls Times-News , 2news.tv (Boise) , Moscow-Pullman Daily News via blog MOSCOW, Idaho -- Six Republican state legislators have asked the Idaho attorney general's office to examine the legality of this northern Idaho city's decision to extend health insurance benefits to the domestic partners of city employees, citing its possible incompatibility with the state's marriage amendment. The lawmakers said the resolution the City Council approved on Monday conflicts with the state's marriage amendment, passed in 2006, which says "a marriage between...
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Wednesday, December 19
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Post Intelligencer MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) The Moscow City Council has approved a resolution that provides insurance benefits to domestic partners of city employees. The council approved the resolution 4-2 Monday at its final meeting of the year. Regence Blue Shield of Idaho, the city's insurance company, recently began offering a plan that covers same- and opposite-sex domestic partners. Employees who meet the insurance company's requirements must also sign an affidavit to be eligible for the health insurance benefits. The benefits take effect early next...
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Monday, December 03
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Source: ABC News and Salon.com Craig's list of accusers is lengthening. Two men, including a former male escort, have confirmed to ABC News allegations that they had sexual encounters with Idaho's embattled Sen. Larry Craig. Mike Jones, 50, told ABC News, Craig paid him $200 for sex during the winter of 2004-2005. A second man, a 50-year old former Army captain, also told ABC News, that Craig made sexual advances towards him in the men's room of a Republican gathering in Washington state in 1981. The men were two of eight new people who claimed encounters with Craig in an article published...
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Sunday, December 02
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Source: Idaho Statesman by Dan Popkey David Phillips. Mike Jones. Greg Ruth. Tom Russell. Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention. They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized...
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Thursday, November 22
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Source: The Daily (U Washington) by Chris Kaasa The American public has a new hobby -- cheering the downfall of gay Republican politicians. I’ve heard some people call it ironic. Really, it’s just disgusting. The “sex scandals” are those surrounding Republican lawmakers Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho, famous after 33 years in public service for his restroom foot-tapping, and state Rep. Richard Curtis of Washington, who resigned Oct. 31 after being caught paying off a gay prostitute. Just a little more than a year ago on the HBO program Real Time with Bill Maher, I heard the openly gay Democratic Rep...
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Tuesday, November 13
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Source: Idaho Statesman WASHINGTON -- The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to drop its investigation into Sen. Larry Craig, saying the committee is applying an unfair double standard to the Idaho Republican and his Louisiana colleague, Sen. David Vitter. Senate Republicans asked the Ethics Committee to investigate Craig's conduct within days of learning that he had been arrested in a sex sting this summer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Craig was charged with soliciting sex from an undercover police officer who was staking out the bathroom after...
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Wednesday, October 31
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Source: KXLY TV SPOKANE -- Several days before he met a state lawmaker at his downtown hotel room which led to claims of cross-dressing, solicitation and blackmail, Cody Castagna appeared in a Kootenai County, Idaho courtroom where he pled guilty to stealing a woman's gambling winnings from the Coeur d'Alene Casino in March. Castagna, 26, pled guilty to a charge of petty theft stemming from an incident at the Coeur d'Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho in March. Castagna stole a woman's $1,700 in gambling winnings from her and then was seen on casino surveillance video cashing out her...
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