JIM ABRAMS | 10/22/09 06:00 PM | AP
WASHINGTON — Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama.
A priority of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., that had been on the congressional agenda for a decade, the measure expands current law to include crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. The…
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The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami
First Posted: 10-21-09 08:56 PM | Updated: 10-21-09 09:31 PM
Philip Spooner is a lifetime Republican, World War II veteran and, to everyone's surprise, a gay marriage supporter. The 86-year-old gave a heartfelt speech in support of gay marriage to Maine's Judiciary Committee back in April, and the video has just now become an internet hit.
Spooner's voice wavers often as he weaves his own life story into the speech, using his experience as a soldier as his m…
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The Washington Post
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see article here)
I Didn't Tell. It Didn't Matter.
Trying to serve his country, a young man faced bigotry and abuse
By Joseph Rocha
Sunday, October 11, 2009
I was 18 years old when I landed in the kingdom of Bahrain, off the coast of Saudi Arabia, in the winter of 2005. It was the first time I'd ever left the continental United…
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I have been here in Berkeley for over a month now and it does not feel like I actually live here yet. I thought that once classes started after Labor Day, it would no longer feel like a vacation but it hasn't. I've made numerous ventures out into Berkeley and the surrounding East Bay and am making friends here but it still feels transitory to me. I've gone into the city to meet some old friends and some new ones and I thought that would help me to feel more connected to the SF Bay Area as my new…
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MEDIA RELEASE: September 22, 2009
GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL UNION STUDENTS
MEDIA CONTACT: Paul Arensmeyer paularensmeyer@gmail.com
Seminarians Challenge Bishop on Marriage Equality
Seminarians, faith leaders and one of the seminary presidents of the Graduate Theological Union stood outside a convocation at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley on Tuesday to publically challenge one of the presenters, Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, because of his work against marriage equality for same-…
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Pray for Marriage Equality
The GTU Student Movement
We are people of faith.
We are faculty, staff, students, and friends of the diverse religious community that is the Graduate Theological Union. We are here to welcome the Catholic Bishop of Oakland, Salvatore Cordileone, and to challenge his views on Civil Marriage Equality. Bp. Cordileone was leading proponent of Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex ma…
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I wish this administration would make up it's mind!!! Either it is for same-sex marriage or it is against it. Pick a side, will ya?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/17/obama-administration-doma_n_260969.html
AP -- The Obama administration filed court papers Monday claiming a federal marriage law discriminates against gays, even as government lawyers continued to defend it.…
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THIS IS RATHER CRAZY! - DAN
http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/08/homosexuality-masturbation-causes-swine-flu/
Gay sex can lead to swine flu, Malaysian media says
Malaysia's state-run news agency is urging its readers to avoid homosexual sex and masturbation if they want to remain free of swine flu.
An article published Sunday by Bernama, the Malaysian government news agency, singles…
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LOS ANGELES — An openly gay priest and an openly lesbian priest are among six nominees for assistant bishop positions in the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Los Angeles.
The church announced Sunday that Rev. John L. Kirkley of San Francisco and Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool of Maryland, along with four others, will be up for election in December by lay members and clergy.
The vote will be a test of new church legislation passed at July's general convention in Anaheim that repeals a de facto…
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Email I sent to San Diego Pride about AGE DISCRIMINATION
I sent this email to: festival@sdPride.org, director@sdpride.org, history@sdpride.org and cc'd it to the publisher (michaelp@uptownpub.com) and a reporter (rickb@uptownpub.com) of
The Gay & Lesbian Times.
Greetings,
I wish to file a complaint with the San Diego Pride Committee…
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Starting on page 4...
In regards to their friendship, Speed was quoted sometime later that “no two men were ever more intimate [and] Lincoln disclosed his heart to me” (Katz 2001: 5). In the following pages, Katz goes on to discuss that while they may not have had a language to describe what they were feeling other than ‘intimate’ but telltale signs would remain of impassioned and entangled longings that could have also included “erotic feelings and acts” (Katz 2001: 6). While the…
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Excerpt from page 3:
No Two Men Were Ever More Intimate
In 1837, Abraham Lincoln was not yet considering to run for President of the United States. This was a time when men and women did not socialize together as they do today. Men associated with other men and women associated with other women. During the time men spent together, their conversations were not always of the state of affairs of the nation or of the more intellectual discourse; they discussed sex and sometimes did it throu…
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