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Monday, April 21
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by Robin Evans Tens of thousands of students at colleges, high schools, and some middle schools are expected to participate this Friday, April 25, in an observance of the National Day of Silence . Now in its twelfth year, the observance is meant to "bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and harassment on campus, " but the goal of day is to make schools safer for all students, not just LGBTQ students. The local observances of Day of Silence are usually organized by students in each school, but are supported and encouraged by Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ( GLSEN...
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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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Tuesday, January 15
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Source: UK Gay News RIGA, January 15, 2008 – An assistant to one of the members of the Latvian Saeima (Parliament) was found guilty today in a criminal case of “hooliganism” during the Riga Gay Pride in 2006 when participants had excrement thrown at them. Janis Dzelme, a 32-years old married man with two young children, was sentenced to 100 hours of “compulsory labour” by the Vidzeme District Court of the city of Riga for “gross public disorderliness as manifested in an obvious lack of respect toward the public by ignoring universally accepted norms of behaviour”. He works in the Saeima for Dainis...
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Tuesday, January 08
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer A conservative Christian pastor plans to launch a high-profile campaign Tuesday urging religious followers to load up on Microsoft Corp. stock, in an attempt to force the company to "stop financing ungodly ventures." The Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who leads Antioch Bible Church in Microsoft's hometown of Redmond, says that he will create a global and powerful group to promote traditional family values, including marriage exclusively between a man and a woman. Hutcherson, joined by some of the country's most influential Christian leaders, has created...
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Thursday, January 03
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Source: Christian Science Monitor Sacramento, Calif. - A hate-crime trial reconvenes Friday in a case that's dividing Sacramento and drawing attention from organizations that monitor extremists. Alex Shevchenko has been arraigned for a hate crime tied to the assault and eventual death of Satender Singh in July. According to prosecutors, Mr. Shevchenko and Andrey Vusik taunted Mr. Singh in a park because they thought he was gay. Mr. Vusik eventually threw a punch that toppled Singh, dashing his head, they charge. Gay leaders in Sacramento say the incident followed several years of escalating...
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Thursday, December 20
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Source: Sacramento Bee The two private attorneys who for weeks shepherded the defense of Aleksandr Shevchenko in a volatile hate crime case stepped down Wednesday after the young man said he no longer could afford their services. Judge David De Alba then ordered a panel of attorneys to assign private counsel for Shevchenko after a representative from the Public Defender's Office said none of its lawyers was available. Shevchenko is scheduled to return to court with his new defense attorney on Jan. 4. In an updated complaint, Shevchenko has been charged with two counts of a hate crime for fighting...
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Saturday, December 15
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Source: SPLC Intelligence Report by Casey Sanchez John Smid has a high school diploma, a minister's license and five acres of land outside Memphis, Tenn., where he "cures" homosexuals. For most of the past two decades, Smid's residential "ex-gay" program was known as Love in Action. The majority of the young men who entered the program came from the kind of conservative religious upbringing where being gay is a sin that will cast a person out of church, family and home. To rid themselves of "unwanted same-sex attractions" they paid $1,000 a month, with some...
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Thursday, November 15
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Source: UK Gay News RIGA -- Watchmen on the Walls is not a hate group, Scott Lively declared during the group’s conference which opened yesterday in the Latvian capital. The anti-gay American author of the notorious The Pink Swastika was introduced to delegates as “the prominent human rights activist and public figure”. Mr. Lively claimed to be speaking on behalf of the vast majority of people on earth. “We do not want to inflict evil on those who choose for themselves an immoral way of life – we do not feel hatred towards [gays],” he said. “We want to save them – we are opposed to homosexual advocacy...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: PinkNews 11th annual ILGA-Europe conference came to a close Sunday. It was held in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius and attended by almost 200 delegates from all over Europe. The conference provided an opportunity to discuss the organisational priorities, strategies and tactics on advancing equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Europe. Fears that anti-gay activists had attempted to sabotage the conference were unfounded - Lithuanian and international media had reported on smoke bombs set off in a gay nightclub adjacent to the conference venue. "It...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: BBC News An annual gay rights conference in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, was attacked with smoke bombs, after a rally in the city was banned. Over 200 gays, lesbians and transsexuals attended the meeting. Delegates inside a local bar found it difficult to breathe after the smoke bombs were thrown, but had to stay inside because of safety concerns. The event was to be part of a week of events organised by ILGA Europe, a gay rights group based in Brussels. A press officer for Mayor Juozas Imbrasas told the BBC the public gathering had been banned because of what she said were "safety...
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Saturday, October 27
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Source: UK Gay News VILNIUS, October 27, 2007 – Last weekend, the Latvia-based Russia-speaking New Generation Church staged a conference near Seattle under the guise of its off-shoot Watchmen on the Walls. This weekend, the New Generation Church’s Lithuanian branch took to the streets to protest the International Lesbian and Gay Association Europe annual conference in Vilnius. Yesterday, the small band of the church’s supporters gathered outside the ILGA-Europe conference venue to protest what they called “propaganda of homosexuality”. “While the participants were brainstorming and conducting discussions...
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Thursday, October 25
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Source: The Stranger The Stranger's Eli Sanders reports from the Watchmen on the Walls conference in Lynnwood The Transformations Band—"All the way from Federal Way"—is praising God with electric guitars. Their audience is hundreds of hands-raised, Russian-speaking Christian conservatives, many of them teenagers, assembled in Lynnwood's small convention hall. The young men wear fashionably tight jeans with leather jackets. The young women favor fishnet stockings and fishnet tops, along with high-heeled leather boots. There are parents in the room, too, more conservatively dressed...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: Box Turtle Bulletin It looks like this past weekend’s Watchmen On the Walls conference turned out to be a bust. Organizers of the conference had expected 600 to 700 people to show up to the convention center in Lynnwood, Washington, but according to news reports the conference drew only a little over a hundred. It would appear that there were nearly as many protesters outside the convention center as there were conference attendees inside. Seattle television station KING was there with a video report on the conference . Box Turtle Bulletin was credited for relaying the video of the Scott...
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Sunday, October 21
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Source: Everett Herald LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- About 120 protesters greeted an anti-gay religious group with signs, chants, cheers and jeers Saturday morning outside the Lynnwood Convention Center. The colorfully dressed group made it clear that the message from the Watchmen on the Walls, monitored by national civil rights organizations as a potential hate group, was not welcome. Officials with Watchmen, meeting all weekend in Lynnwood, said the group is not a hate group and is being mischaracterized by the media. They said they are Christian and conservative and promote the natural family, traditional...
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Saturday, October 20
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Source: Seattle Times It wasn't all peace, love and understanding, but there were no clashes Saturday between Christian conservatives meeting in Lynnwood and protesters who accused them of promoting hate against gay people. About 150 protesters gathered outside the Lynnwood Convention Center and waved signs such as "More love, less hate" and "Real men find Jesus sexy." Inside the convention center, about 100 men, women and children, many Russian-speaking evangelical Christians, listened to leaders of the Watchmen on the Walls movement insist they did not hate gays -- or...
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Saturday, October 20
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Source: Everett Herald LYNNWOOD -- The weekend-long meeting of the Watchmen on the Walls, an anti-gay Christian group, kicked off Friday night at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Watchmen on the Walls officials said through song, prayer, networking and organization they are working to promote the natural family, traditional marriage and recovery for homosexuals who want it. "We're not trying to create a theocracy," said co-founder Scott Lively, a California attorney, author and president of Defend the Family. "But if people who believe the way we believe were running the TV stations...
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Friday, October 19
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Source: The Stranger An international coalition of fiercely homophobic religious leaders, calling themselves Watchmen on the Walls—whose followers are largely Eastern European conservative evangelicals—will converge on the Lynnwood Convention Center on October 19 through 21. The occasional mobilization of anti-gay groups isn't unheard of in the Seattle area. In 2005, Kirkland pastor Ken Hutcherson organized the "Mayday for Marriage" rally, which drew 20,000 to Safeco Field. Unsurprisingly, Hutcherson will play a large role in this weekend's Watchmen conference -- which the group...
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Thursday, October 18
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Source: Sacramento Bee Before a courthouse hearing Wednesday, a young Sacramento man charged in the hate-crime killing of Satender Singh last summer found himself seated squarely among rows of the Fijian man's supporters and community groups who want to see that justice is served. Aleksandr Shevchenko, 21, examined his fingernails, kept his hands folded in his lap and politely deflected questions in those moments before he was called by Sacramento Superior Court Judge David De Alba and allowed to stand by his attorney, David Henderson. Shevchenko, who had earlier pleaded not guilty to a felony...
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Wednesday, October 17
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LYNNWOOD -- An anti-gay religious group planning a three-day meeting at the Lynnwood Convention Center beginning Friday likely will be met by protests. People from churches and gay and lesbian groups are speaking out against the proposed meeting of Watchmen...
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Tuesday, October 16
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Source: Everett Herald LYNNWOOD -- An anti-gay religious group is planning a three-day conference beginning Friday at the Lynnwood Convention Center. Watchmen on the Walls expects as many as 700 people to attend the prayer gathering, including religious leaders and an anti-gay activist who claims the Holocaust was perpetrated by gays. Convention center officials said there's little they can do to stop an organization from renting the publicly owned convention center. The venue is owned by the Lynnwood Public Facilities District, a public taxing district that operates the convention center but...
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Sunday, October 14
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The international anti-gay extremist group Watchmen on the Walls will hold a conference in Lynnwood, Washington October 19 through 21. Founded by Redmond, Washington by preacher Kenneth Hutcherson, holocaust revisionist Scott Lively, and Latvian megachurch...
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Friday, October 05
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On the first day of July, Satender Singh was gay-bashed to death. The 26-year-old Fijian of Indian descent was enjoying a holiday weekend outing at Lake Natoma with three married Indian couples around his age. Singh was delicate and dateless -- two facts...
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