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Thursday, September 04
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune , Minnesota Public Radio With several hundred delegates, media, and LGBT activists in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, we tended to hear about them in groups. There are fewer LGBT folks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. And that makes it easier for media to focus on individuals. Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Tom Horgen tagged along with Steve Majors, 28, a California delegate from Los Angeles, his friends -- all gay and some delegates -- as they hit the town each night after the convention. The Virginia delegation made news...
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Wednesday, September 03
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Source: KSTP TV , ABC News (US), Minneapolis Star Tribune , Rainbow Network The Virginia delegation canceled their order of The Rake magazine's Secrets of the City guide because it includes a section for gays and lesbians. The publication is a guide to various attractions in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The campaign for Virginia's Lt. Governor Bill Bolling ordered 150 of the guides to give to Virginia delegates as gifts when they arrived in the Twin Cities. But after reviewing the guide and finding it had a six-page section for gays and lesbians, a Bolling aide canceled the delegation's...
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Friday, August 29
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune , Jurist For the second time in two years, the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against Osseo Area Schools in its efforts to keep a student-run gay rights group from having the same privileges as other clubs. Friday's ruling affirmed a September 2007 decision by U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen, who ruled that Straights and Gays for Equality (SAGE) should be on equal footing with other student groups at Maple Grove High School. Related in Qnews : Students who filed lawsuit for gay-straight group talk about its goals Two students belonging to SAGE sued the school...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Source: KSAX , Minneapolis Star Tribune , St Paul Pioneer Press , Star Tribune Over 100 people gathered to protest at a Minneapolis Catholic church after its archdiocese barred an annual gay pride prayer service from taking place inside. S aying they don't want to go back in the closet, gay and lesbian Catholics and their supporters took their annual prayer service celebrating gay pride outdoors Wednesday night. Protestors marched around St. Joan of Arc in objection to the ban. Gay and lesbian groups said the service is a tradition that’s several years old. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, City...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: KARE TV , KAAL TV , KSTP TV St.Paul -- Over 1000 people rallied on the Minnesota Capitol lawn Thursday for what organizers are calling the country's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender lobby day. According to KSTP TV, people from more than 110 Minnesota towns and cities attended the rally. Supporters at the OutFront Minnesota's justFair Lobby Day hoped to send a strong message to lawmakers and the governor to support GLBT-friendly legislation. Citizen lobbyists were particularly interested in a bill aimed at giving more rights to domestic partners. The bill would allow...
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Thursday, March 20
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Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune , Associated Press via Pioneer-Press , KARE News MAPLE GROVE, Minn. -- A poster hangs in the hall outside the Forum Room at Maple Grove Senior High School, emblazoned with rainbows and marquee-like dots, and the words, "Questions about SAGE?" Nearby, a sign marked with a red circle and slash proclaims, "Degrading racial, ethnic, sexist or homophobic remarks not welcome here." Both signs mark progress the group Straights and Gays for Equality has claimed since a judge ruled it must have the same access to school communication tools that other...
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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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Friday, December 28
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Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune While drinking never gets old, where we do it changed a bit in 2007. When you look at this year's best new bars, nightclubs didn't dominate as they have in the past. While two newbies stayed busy, the club scene as a whole sagged, according to some club owners. Oversaturation, anyone? But that's where the year's surprises come in -- and there were several. First off, the gay bar scene, which had seen several closings in the past couple years, was rejuvenated with three new spots. PI BAR AND RESTAURANT -- This lesbian bar filled a void left by the...
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Sunday, December 23
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Source: Mankato Free Press MANKATO, Minn. -- “Oscar buzz” is a phrase Phil and Randi Reitan never thought they’d have any kind of personal response to. But after the past months of incredible public response to the documentary they appeared in with their son, Jake Reitan, the recent news wasn’t all that hard to believe. “For the Bible Tells Me So” — a film by Daniel G. Karslake of New York about Christian families who have children who are gay — has been short-listed for the documentary category of the 2008 Academy Awards, to be held Feb. 24. That means of 70 or so documentaries, Karslake’s film...
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Tuesday, December 11
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Source: National Catholic Reporter St. Paul, Minn. -- At least 300 Catholics and supporters braved cold temperatures and gusty winds to gather outside the Cathedral of St. Paul Dec. 2 in a vigil of solidarity with gay and lesbian Catholics and their families. The event included a “die-in” on cathedral steps and brief remarks by speakers including Mary Lynn Murphy, president of Catholic Rainbow Parents, and Mel White of SoulForce, a nonprofit activist organization that confronts homophobia by addressing religious bigotry. White told the group they were the latest in a long line of dissenters such...
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Monday, November 12
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Source: Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN (includes material from two reports ) Rochester, Minn. -- Lawyers for a lesbian couple denied a "family" discount at a local athletic club say they will appeal a judge's decision dismissing their discrimination lawsuit. The Rochester women brought the civil lawsuit against the athletic club in March alleging sexual orientation discrimination. The woman are identified as lesbian women in a committed relationship raising a child. They tried to purchase a family membership at the athletic club in 2006 and were turned down because they are not legally...
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Tuesday, October 30
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Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Minneapolis, Minn -- Proposals some call the most sweeping gay rights protections ever on the national level have divided Minnesota's congressional delegation and fueled debate over free speech, religious liberty and basic tolerance. Two separate bills working their way through Congress would add gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people to the groups that federal law protects from hate crimes and workplace bias. The political sensitivity of the issues surfaced last week, when leaders in the House delayed a vote on the Employee Non-Discrimination Act...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune In the wake of objections by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, two priests agreed not to allow a lesbian Catholic and her father to talk in the priests' Minneapolis churches about a book on their family's experience. Carol Curoe, of Minneapolis, and her father, Robert Curoe, of Bernard, Iowa, were to speak at St. Francis Cabrini Catholic Church on Monday night about the book they wrote, "Are There Closets in Heaven? A Catholic Father and Lesbian Daughter Share Their Story." It's an account of how the devout Catholic farmer underwent...
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