Tuesday, January 13, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T24T-3)

Stonewall, the gay equality organisation, has said that a video that shows Prince Harry calling fellow soldiers "queer" is an insult to lesbians and gay men serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

An openly gay minister has been appointed to a Church of Scotland congregation, but sources suggest an appeal to block the move is imminent.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a 72-year old transsexual will be reimbursed after her country’s health insurance refused to pay the cost of her gender reassignment treatment.

That ol' hand of the global clubbing scene, and arguably one of the figures responsible for pushing dance culture out into the mainstream, Paul Oakenfold is on his way back to Australia to headline Mardi Gras Party.
Sydney Festival fever has hit our city, with Grace Jones the name on everyone's lips. Another event causing ripples of excitement is Christopher Wheeldon's Morphoses.
A charity performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues hits Melbourne for one night only on Saturday 21 February at 8pm at the National Theatre in St Kilda.

Times Online

Bush denies image of US damaged during his presidency
Irish Times, Ireland - 5 hours ago
Mr Obama’s inauguration committee yesterday moved to mollify supporters who were angered by his choice of anti-gay evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver ...
Video: Bush Defends Presidency in Final News Conference AssociatedPress
Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few, Bush Says at Final News Conference New York Times
all 6,573 news articles

Canada.com

Gay bishop invited to give Inaugural prayer
PageOneQ.com - 13 hours ago
Certain sects within the Anglican Church, international parent to the Episcopalians, have threatened to secede should the church not specifically bar gays ...
Obama asks gay bishop Gene Robinson to deliver inauguration prayer PinkNews.co.uk
Apostate Prayers at Obama Inauguration Dakota Voice
all 622 news articles

£25000 prize - International Lesbian & Gay 'Short film prize open ...
AfterEllen.com - 21 hours ago
The prize is the world’s largest gay and lesbian short film prize and is open to any short film which is by, for, about or of interest to gay, lesbian, ...

Times Online

Bush denies image of US damaged during his presidency
Irish Times, Ireland - 5 hours ago
Mr Obama’s inauguration committee yesterday moved to mollify supporters who were angered by his choice of anti-gay evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver ...
Video: Bush Defends Presidency in Final News Conference AssociatedPress
Mistakes, I’ve Made a Few, Bush Says at Final News Conference New York Times
all 6,573 news articles

Canada.com

Gay bishop invited to give Inaugural prayer
PageOneQ.com - 13 hours ago
Certain sects within the Anglican Church, international parent to the Episcopalians, have threatened to secede should the church not specifically bar gays ...
Obama asks gay bishop Gene Robinson to deliver inauguration prayer PinkNews.co.uk
Apostate Prayers at Obama Inauguration Dakota Voice
all 622 news articles

£25000 prize - International Lesbian & Gay 'Short film prize open ...
AfterEllen.com - 21 hours ago
The prize is the world’s largest gay and lesbian short film prize and is open to any short film which is by, for, about or of interest to gay, lesbian, ...
  I’ve always felt connected to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. As a child, my family shared with me their stories of growing up in rural South Carolina during a time when being spat at or being called the N-word was more than just a common occurrence–it was applauded. And I, as a 23-year-old [...]
New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, a vocal gay rights leader, will open President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration with a prayer on Sunday’s kick-off event at the Lincoln Memorial. “I am writing to tell you that President-Elect Obama and the Inaugural Committee have invited me to give the invocation at the opening event of the Inaugural [...]
The Reverend J. Edwin Bacon, Jr., rector of All Saints Church, Pasadena will make an encore appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, Monday, January 12, to respond to the controversy around his statement in a January 8th segment on the Oprah Show that “being gay is a gift from God.”  It was no surprise [...]

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