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Friday, July 04
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Thursday, July 03
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The American Family Association is calling for another of their futile boycotts, this time of all McDonalds restaurants.
The AFA claims that McDonalds is giving “the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including...
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Wednesday, July 02
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Benkof thinks so. Internationally, one could make such an argument. But it’s easy to support AIDS work in Africa where its a mostly heterosexual disease.
But domestically, President Bush’s proposals for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention...
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Sunday, June 29
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Gay pride made its presence known in Calcutta, Bangalore and New Delhi today (AP).
While small groups have marched in the eastern city of Calcutta in recent years, Sunday’s events were the first gay pride parades in Bangalore and New Delhi...
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Saturday, June 28
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This weekend is the pride celebration for several cities in Europe. And while pride events are a celebration of rights acheived, they did not all go off without a hitch.
At the first pride parade in Brno, Czech Republic
At least 20 persons were...
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Saturday, June 28
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According to the LA Times, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has taken a step towards full inclusion of gays and lesbians into the church.
Leaders of the Presbyterian Church (USA) overturned a long-standing ban on the ordination of gays and lesbians...
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Saturday, June 28
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Jason Cianciotto, Wingspan’s Executive Director, reacted to yesterday’s shameful Senate vote with this statement:
In 2006, Arizona voters became the first in the nation to defeat an anti-marriage ballot measure. Today, our State Senate...
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Saturday, June 28
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HIV-1, the prevelant strain of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infecting people around the world was first thought to have entered the human bloodstream at around 1931. Now a second human tissue sample stored at a hospital in Kinshasa in 1960 has pushed...
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Friday, June 27
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We just received word that late this evening that the Arizona Senate was able to scare up the sixteen votes needed to put a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage onto the ballot.
Tucson’s District 30 Senator and Senate...
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Friday, June 27
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Google’s celebrating along with the rest of us. To see what I mean, just go to Google and search for something gay. It should look something like this: Do you see the rainbow stripe between the sponsored ads and the search results? And it’s...
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Friday, June 27
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I mentioned earlier this morning that another anti-marriage amendment was introduced in the Senate. What I didn’t know was that these two upright paradigms of traditional “monogamous” heterosexual marriages were co-sponsors: Larry...
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Friday, June 27
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What does the US have in comment with Sudan, Russia, Libya and Saudi Arabia? We are among the twelve countries that prohibit HIV-positive non-citizens from traveling to those countries. What’s more, HIV is the only condition that is designated...
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Friday, June 27
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We’re still not sure what McCain might have told the Log Cabin Republicans during his still-unacknowledged meeting with them, the LCRs are sure to be disapointed by this news. ”Protect Marriage,” the California group that is sponsoring...
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Friday, June 27
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Pink News is reporting that a gay bar in Budapest was fire-bombed last night after its address appeared on a hate group’s website. It’s unclear how heavily the bar, called Action, was damaged.
Gay rights groups have voiced concerns about...
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Friday, June 27
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Must be. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the so-called “Marriage Protection Act” to amend the U.S. Constitution to deny marriages to gays and lesbians. This is a companion measure to Rep. Paul Broun’s (R-GA) bill in the...
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Friday, June 27
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Army Sergeant Darren Manzella, who appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes to talk about serving openly as a gay man in the Iraq war, has been discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” effective June 10.
According to his interview...
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Thursday, June 26
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Driver error led me to prematurely celebrate the five year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling which struck down anti-sodomy laws across the nation. Dr. Gregory Herek apparently is in better control of his blogging software than I am of mine...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Remember Justin Nichols, the Plano, Texas Teen Court officer who was almost fired by the Collin County Commissioners when they learned that he’s gay? Well, they apparently decided that they didn’t want to look like a bunch of backwoods...
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Wednesday, June 25
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Gay Patriot has the scoop:
GayPatriot has exclusively learned that presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Senator John McCain held a personal meeting with the head of the national gay Republicans organization, the Log Cabin Republicans. Log...
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Wednesday, June 25
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This just in:
The Arizona Senate has rejected a proposal that would have asked voters to amend the state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. The 14-11 vote fell two votes shy of what was required to send the proposal to the November ballot...
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Tuesday, June 24
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California’s “Save Our Kids” Campaign have announced that they have given up on their efforts to overturn California’s Senate Bill 777. Signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last October, SB-777 provides an array...
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Monday, June 23
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In a rather disturbing report, Ekklesia tells us about Anglicans at the breakaway conference in Jerusalem, GAFCON, electing to condemn gay persons and not those engaged in inhumanities towards them.
When given the example of a lesbian women from...
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Monday, June 23
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Flagstaff, Arizona police arrested four suspects following an assault on two people leaving a Flagstaff, Arizona Pride event early Sunday morning. The victims were in a crowd waiting for taxis along with staff and volunteers from Equality Arizona...
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Monday, June 23
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It’s been only five years since the United States Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws with its 6-3 ruling in Lawrence vs. Texas. Writing for the majority, Anthony Kennedy said, “the intimate, adult consensual conduct at issue...
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Sunday, June 22
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The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) sent a letter on Friday to all Mormon churches in California with instructions to read the leader during Sunday services on June 29. This letter (PDF: 1085KB/2 pages)...
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Friday, June 20
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From the Chicago Tribune:
The nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination will tackle the question of gay and lesbian clergy at its biennial General Assembly next week (June 20-28) in San Jose, Calif.
From Deutche Welle
German Lutherans in...
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Friday, June 20
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A mistrial has been declared in the misdemeanor hate crimes trial of Aleksandr Shevchenko, who was charged with disturbing the peace and simple assault for throwing a bottle in a fight that led to Satendar Singh’s death in Sacramento. Satendar...
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Friday, June 20
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In the Australian state of Tasmania, Green Party member Nick Mckim will introduce a bill to legalize gay marriage. “This is about tolerance and it’s about respect and those are values that I believe most Tasmanians would share and if...
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Thursday, June 19
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OK, this is WAY outside what we usually post. But I saw a pre-release movie last night that so bad that i have to warn you.
Mike Myers’ The Love Guru is painfully awful.
If you think that puns are the height of wit and the name “Guru...
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Thursday, June 19
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Well knock me down with a feather. Some good news out of the Baltic States.
Pink News is reporting
Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation has been included in a new Law on Equal Treatment passed by the Lithuanian parliament.
The new...
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