Monday, October 27, 2008

GLBT News Headlines (T5T-6)

The Republican National Committee spent more than $150,000 on wardrobe, hair and makeup for VP pick Sarah Palin, which brings us back to lipstick, pigs, hockey moms and, oh right, the recession.
A political action committee that is fighting Florida’s proposed gay marriage ban, Amendment 2, filed a complaint with the Florida Election Committee Tuesday alleging that proponents of the amendment are violating state election law. Leaders of Florida Red and Blue say the chairman of the campaign to pass Amendment 2, John Stemberger, has illegally paid for ads supporting the measure through an entity that’s funded by anonymous donors.
This was to have been a guide to gay Beijing, but for all the rampant change in the Chinese capital, the city’s gay scene is far from ready for its close-up. Some 1,200 miles to the south, however, the grand old lady of Hong Kong is experiencing a quiet renaissance of her own, and with none of the conflicting attitudes toward sexuality you find on the Chinese mainland.
During the same month that the country remembered the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, the FBI reported a six percent increase in hate crimes based on sexual orientation in 2007. Hate crimes based on sexual orientation remain the third...
Special thanks to Sarah Warbelow, a member of our legal department, for this post: America Ferrera, Tony Plana and Ana Ortiz, leading stars of the hit television show “Ugly Betty”, are speaking out against Prop 8, the ballot initiative to...

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