 Houston Chronicle | California voters will have say on gay marriage Houston Chronicle, United States - If passed, the proposition will amend the state constitution to ban gay marriages. Voters will sound off on the measure Nov. 4 at ballot boxes across the ... Video: Gay Couples Rush to Marry Before Election Prop. 8 ads' invisible gays Gay Marriage Watch: October 19th-October 25th |
 Boston Globe | Celebrities come out in support of gay marriage Chicago Sun-Times, United States - ‘‘Maybe they think their children will be influenced [by gay marriage], but I’ve got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. ... Bakersfield gay marriage ban supporter punches protestor Apple donates $100000 to save gay marriage Marcos Bretón: Prop. 8's savvy strategist makes kids the focus |
 On Top Magazine | Churches take sides over gay-marriage ban San Jose Mercury News, USA - Catholic, Mormon and evangelical leaders such as Pegram have been influential supporters of efforts to ban gay marriage in California. ... LDS wards feeling toll of conflict Gay marriage advocates to petition Mormon leader UTAH MORMONS GAVE $159000 TO GAY MARRIAGE BAN CAIFORNIA PROPOSITION 8 |
Metlife Recognized for Commitment to LGBT Community WELT ONLINE, Germany - For the sixth year in a row, MetLife has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) 2009 Corporate Equality ... |
Senior housing for LGBT community opens in Oakland Oakland Tribune, CA - By Lucinda Ryan The East Bay Symphony Trio, with Musical Director Michael Morgan, right, on the piano, performs during an open house at the former Lake ... |
LGBT community comes out for activism The Yale Herald, CT - Anna Wipfler, BR ’09, member of Yale’s LGBT Cooperative, serves as a peer counselor at Yale’s Queer Resources Center, which provides an environment of ... |
Metlife Recognized for Commitment to LGBT Community WELT ONLINE, Germany - "We are so honored that the HRC and SAGE have recognized MetLife’s commitment to the GLBT community,†said Denise Singleton, vice president of the Office of ... |
GLBT Expert Ochs to Present Lecture Carleton College News, MN - Ochs has taught courses on topics including gay, lesbia n, bisexual and transgender/transsexual (GLBT) history and politics in the United States, ... |
History Department’s Sharon Ullman Chairs Equality Forum’s GLBT ... Bryn Mawr Now, United States - Professor of History Sharon Ullman recently appeared on 98.5 Ben FM’s “Woman of the Week†show to talk about GLBT History Month (streaming audio is ... Groups educate campus during LGBTQA month |
On November 8, 2008, the Museum of Broadcast Communications plans to induct James Dobson’s anti-gay Focus on the Family radio program into its Radio Hall of Fame.Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Truth Wins Out are getting the word out about the Radio Halls of Fame's intent to honor and induct a man who has a long track record of defaming LGBT people on topics ranging from gay parenting, marriage equality and so-called "repairtive therapy."
Dobson runs Colorado Springs-based "Focus on the Family," and GLAADBlog reports that:
Dobson has said being gay “has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember it†and that gay people “have as many as 300 to 1,000 partners in a lifetime.†He has also falsely claimed that committed gay couples “cannot be a family†and that allowing them to get married would “destroy the family.â€
Be sure to check out this video, and read more on the GLAADBlog about how to speak up for our LGBT loved ones. A first step you can take is to contact the Museum of Broadcast Communications and tell them that a man who has spent his career demonizing LGBT people does not deserve to be the the Radio Hall of Fame.
Call: (312) 822-0512
Email: Bruce Dumont (CEO) - brucedumont@museum.tv
Email: Gina Doyle - gdoyle@museum.tv
On Sunday, Kathy Gilleran will fly from her home in New York to Vienna, Austria in search of her son. Last night, ahead of her European trip, she sat down with WTVH, her local CBS affiliate, to talk about her continued quest to learn the truth about what happened to her openly gay son, Aeryn, one year ago this month.From the WTVH report:
This is Kathy Gilleran's second overseas mission to find clues about what happened to her son who vanished one year ago. She has begged and pleaded with Austrian authorities to help her find her son, Aeryn. The 34 year old Groton High School graduate worked for the United Nations in Vienna, and she's made it her vow to travel to the city every single October until she finds out what happened.
Next Wednesday is the one year anniversary of Aeryn's disappearance, and as Kathy packs her own suitcase, she feels nervous, scared, at times hopeful, but there's one suitcase that she just can't bear to open... Aeryn's. The State Department has arranged a meeting for Kathy with Austrian police. While Kathy has chosen to make this journey on her own, she'll be joined by Aeryn's closest friends from Vienna for a candlelight vigil across the street from the sauna where he was last seen. "I need to do this for Aeryn," said Gilleran. "I need to let him know that I will never ever give up on trying to find him and that my love will never ever ever go away."
She's stuck in limbo she says, terrified she might stay that way for the rest of her life. This trip could change that. "I'm really hopeful that after this trip to Vienna that I am able to do a little bit more, that I'm able to open suitcases that I haven't been able to," said Gilleran. At the vigil, Kathy will be holding a single candle, just like the candle she's had lit in her window since last October, a light that she hopes will lead her son home. If anyone wishes to contact Kathy with information or simply kind words of support you can e-mail her at FindAeryn@gmail.com.
As you know we recently sent out the newest edition of the PFLAGpole newsletter. We have several newsletters left over and instead of recycling them we wanted to offer them to you! If your chapter has paid 2007-2008 dues and have either already paid 2008-2009 dues or you get them in by November 15, we would like to offer the extra copies to you in bundles of 100.These would be great to hand out to newcomers at your meetings. You could also include them in part of any resource table that you offer, or keep a few copies in your chapter library. If you end up doing something else with them, let us know. We love to hear the creative ways that PFLAGers use the resources they’re given.
-Erin Williams
If you’re interested in the free (in bundles of 100) extra copies of the most recent PFLAGpole, please email Erin Cranford Williams at ewilliams@pflag.org.
Here is Janet Porter, or Folger, or whatever she wants to call herself. I commonly refer to her as Satan. I know there is a great deal of hate in the world, but this…well, I honestly feel she should be arrested and tried for a hate crime. Watch the ignorant rant of [...]
From Right Wing Nut House: Sarah Palin is refusing to call people who would bomb abortion clinics terrorists. Yests. Yes, she condemns their actions. But she is parsing the definition of terrorism so as not to offend that small, but vocal part of the conservative base who may not see clinic bombers as heroes, but refuse to [...]
From the Southwest LGBT Press:Please join Southern New Mexico Pride for An 80’s Halloween Ball from 8:00-11:00 p.m. on Halloween night, Friday, October 31, 2008 at the Las Cruces Country Club. The Ball will feature a costume contest, door prizes, a cash bar and all the 80’s music you can shake a broomstick at! Admissionsion is [...]
Veteran comedian Jerry Lewis has again for made an anti-gay slur, this time on Australian television. The comment reportedly is similar to one he apologized for using on his annual U.S. telethon a year ago. The 82-year-old comedian made the comment after a press conference in Sydney on Friday when he was asked his opinion [...]
he students of American River College backed bigotry by rejecting recall of nine student council members who used their position to endorse Prop. 8, a measure that would write discrimination into California’s State Constitution. All of the student council members targeted survived the recall by a narrow margin. Student council member Viktor Choban, mouthed the Knights-of-Columbus lie that  ”If Proposition [...]
From the Chicago Tribune: An activist who opposes gay marriage and same-sex benefits for public employees is trying to raise sexual orientation as an issue in a state House race. Gary Glenn sent an e-mail Friday to supporters and the media targeting openly gay Democrat Garnet Lewis. Glenn wrote that Lewis is a “homosexual activist with an [...]
For the sixth year in a row, MetLife has received a perfect score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s (HRC) 2009 Corporate Equality Index, a rating system for how major U.S. corporations treat their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) employees and consumers. The HRC Corporate Equality Index rated companies on a scale [...]
From InsideBayArea.comrea.com: The refurbished apartments at the former Lake Merritt Hotel in Oakland are now open for retirement living, though residents need not be retired to settle in. Nor do they need to be lesbian, gay, straight or transgender. They need only to want to live in a diverse community within one building, a community modeled on [...]
From blogs.uww.edu: Libraries strive to serve the needs of ALL of their constituencies, including the LGBT community. One of the ways that libraries and organizations in general gather information is through surveys. Dr. John Pruitt, a professor at UW-Rock County, has received research money to investigate how public libraries can better serve LGBT individuals. He included [...]
From the University of Georgia News, Red and Black: What is it like to be a homosexual at the University? This question and more were raised in an interactive Q and A session hosted by Lambda Alliance on Monday. More than 40 students attended the discussion, which allowed them to interact with and ask questions of Lambda [...]
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