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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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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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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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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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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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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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Friday, March 14
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Source: Snoqualmie Valley Record The Snoqualmie Valley School District Board of Directors heard more about the perception of bias at Mount Si High School at its March 6 regular meeting. Mount Si librarian Elaine Harger said she had received an e-mail from Rev. Ken Hutcherson that referred to Mount Si's Gay-Straight Alliance as a "sex club" and asked if Harger wanted to be added to the list of Mount Si teachers he was pushing to have fired. "What had I done to justify that he would try to get me fired from my job? This is intimidation, pure and simple," said Harger. Hutcherson...
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Thursday, March 13
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Source: Daily World (Aberdeen/Gray's Harbor) King shooting Aberdeen, Wash. -- An Aberdeen High School senior who threatened a classmate on a MySpace web site will serve seven days in jail for harassment. “You are young,” the judge told Brandon Peterman, “but you’re old enough to know better.” Peterman, 19, pleaded guilty Tuesday to harassment -- a reduced charge from felony malicious harassment -- for an online "joke" threatening to hang a 17-year-old black student. The message included profanity and a racial slur. [see Qnews summary ] District Court Judge Stephen Brown ordered the...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: Spokesman Review , Seattle Post Intelligencer , legislative press release Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation today expanding domestic partnership rights and responsibilities in Washington. “This bill strengthens Washington by strengthening families,” Gregoire said in prepared remarks. “It strengthens families by providing domestic partners with rights and responsibilities they need to maintain stable, loving relationships for them and their children.” The measure signed by Gregoire during a ceremony in Olympia adds rights and responsibilities to the state's existing domestic partnership...
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Friday, March 07
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Source: Seattle Times and Seattle PI Big Blog Hutch: Qblog , Qnews Snoqualmie, Wash. -- A group of parents in the Snoqualmie Valley doesn't want Mount Si High School to hold its annual Day of Silence in support of gay and lesbian students. The parents say they aren't anti-gay but are concerned about teachers expressing personal views on controversial subjects. About 80 people filled a Snoqualmie Valley School Board meeting Thursday night to voice concerns over the national event that is meant to call attention to the silence in which many gay students say they must lead their lives. Students...
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: Oregonian , Seattle Post Intelligencer OLYMPIA -- For the third consecutive year, lawmakers have pushed a gay-rights bill through the Washington Legislature. The Senate passed House Bill 3104, proposed by Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, by 29-20 along a mostly party-line vote. The bill grants same-sex couples additional rights -- including the ability to share bank accounts, the right to hold common property and immunity from testifying against one's partner in court. Divorce rights -- including child-custody provisions -- were also granted. The measure now goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire...
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Sunday, March 02
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Source: Everett Herald Expanding privileges for same-sex couples is not a partisan issue but one of civil rights, says the newest member of the Legislature's unofficial gay caucus. Rep. Marko Liias, D-Mukilteo, who was appointed to his position in January, is backing a bill working its way through the Legislature that would expand rights for domestic partners. "It really shouldn't matter where you come from on a political spectrum; it's about making sure that everybody has an equal opportunity in our society to succeed. Rights and responsibilities of our families shouldn't...
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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: Daily News (Longview) The state House of Representatives approved legislation a week ago Friday to greatly expand Washington's domestic partnership law, which went into effect just seven months ago. The vote, 62-32, was taken after very little debate, according to Associated Press writer Rachel La Corte. The measure now is in the Senate, where a public hearing as been scheduled for Monday in the Committee on Government Operations and Elections. It would surprise us if this once hot-button issue produces many fireworks during Monday's Senate hearing. There's still some resistance...
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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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Sunday, February 24
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer by Anthony B. Robinson In recent years, some conservative Christian churches have been having a "men's movement" -- putting new emphasis on men and faith. The guy emphasis has been prompted in part by the perception that too often churches work better for women than for men. As evidence they note that women often outnumber men in church, sometimes by as much as 2 to 1. (Note to single men: Check out church!) Personally, I have no problem with the effort to make church work better for men or challenging men to step up and do something with their lives...
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Saturday, February 16
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Source: Associated Press via Seattle Times and 365gay.com OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The House on Friday passed a measure to expand the state's domestic-partnership law by granting same-sex couples more than 170 of the benefits and responsibilities given to married couples. The bill passed 62-32 after very little debate and now goes to the Senate. The measure adds domestic partners to sections of laws where previously only spouses were mentioned, including areas referring to probate and trusts, community-property and homestead exemptions, and guardianship and powers of attorney. The underlying domestic...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Associated Press via Google Collections of amateur porn shots of alleged hustler, Cody Castagna, like these (edited) images, were widely posted after news of the Curtis affair broke. photos: Fleshbot (not safe for work) SPOKANE, Wash. -- A spotlight is once again shined on what is called the "seamy underside of this ostensibly staid city" in a story by reporter Nicholas K. Geranios published this week by the Associated Press. The AP story recounts the resignation of a conservative politician from southwest Washington who claims he was shaken down by a gay hustler in Spokane. ...
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Monday, February 04
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Source: KIRO 7 News SEATTLE -- Two men were attacked on Capitol Hill early Saturday morning nearly the corner of Denny Way and Olive Way, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The men said they believe they were targeted because they are gay. Link: KIRO7 video of report The attack comes just two days after King County prosecutors and neighborhood activists announced a publicity campaign to raise awareness of possible hate crimes in the neighborhood. [ see seaQwa Qnews summary ] Thomas Colonna and Brad Crelia told KIRO that they were about a block from home when a car nearly ran them over. They said...
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