Sunday, February 22, 2009

Gay News Magazine Headlines (T24T-2)

Dustin Lance Black wins Oscar for 'Milk' screenplay
Speaks of equal rights for gays in acceptance
From Washington Blade staff reports | Feb. 22 at 9:04 PM Feb. 22 at 9:04 PM
Dustin Lance Black has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk."

"Milk," about openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, is nominated for eight awards, including Best Actor for Sean Penn and Best Picture.

Stay tuned to the Blade for further details. ...

Mich. court recognizes marriage by Ill. couple
Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships
LANSING, Mich. (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM
Michigan courts can oversee a custody dispute between lesbian parents who adopted in Illinois even though Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships, the state Court of Appeals said Friday.

The court ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Constitution requires state courts to recognize Diane Giancaspro and Lisa Congleton as adoptive parents. It reversed a trial judge who said Michigan's 2004 voter-approved gay marriage ban kept her from enforcing the women's parental rights.

"The only relevant consideration in this matter is each individual party's established relationship as an adoptive parent with the children, not their relationship with each other," Judges Alton Davis and Stephen ...

Utah lawmaker's gay comments cost him chairmanship
Buttars compared gay activists to 'radical Muslims'
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM
A Utah state senator on Friday was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview aired this week.

Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are "probably the greatest threat to America going down."

The comments drew calls for Buttars' resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, said that by Friday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to ...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, are expecting their first child, the mayor’s office confirmed Wednesday, February 18. Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo: Rick Gerharter “We are pleased to confirm that Mayor Gavin Newsom and first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom are starting a family,” Newsom spokesman Nathan Ballard said in a [...]
The feature story in the March issue of the Advocate about out black comedian Wanda Sykes makes note that African Americans declaring their homosexuality have been “conspicuously absent” from magazine covers. One would think then that the nation’s leading LGBT newsmagazine would put Sykes, who gave it an exclusive interview, on its cover. Instead, a barely [...]
The health department is sponsoring a pub crawl tonight to thank the city’s gay bar owners and their staffers for helping researchers track an outbreak of tuberculosis cases among young gay men. As the Bay Area Reporter disclosed last month, the health department’s TB control section requested more than 140 people who work at Castro area [...]
Gay rights foes cite the economy as reason to oppose gay rights legislation
A `Slumdog' evening? Oscar front-runner enters home stretch of unlikely success story
`Wrestler' wins top indie honors at Spirit Awards, earns best-actor prize for Rourke

Dustin Lance Black wins Oscar for 'Milk' screenplay
Speaks of equal rights for gays in acceptance
From Washington Blade staff reports | Feb. 22 at 9:04 PM Feb. 22 at 9:04 PM
Dustin Lance Black has won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk."

"Milk," about openly gay San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, is nominated for eight awards, including Best Actor for Sean Penn and Best Picture.

Stay tuned to the Blade for further details. ...

Mich. court recognizes marriage by Ill. couple
Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships
LANSING, Mich. (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM Feb. 21 at 5:31 PM
Michigan courts can oversee a custody dispute between lesbian parents who adopted in Illinois even though Michigan doesn't formally recognize gay relationships, the state Court of Appeals said Friday.

The court ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Constitution requires state courts to recognize Diane Giancaspro and Lisa Congleton as adoptive parents. It reversed a trial judge who said Michigan's 2004 voter-approved gay marriage ban kept her from enforcing the women's parental rights.

"The only relevant consideration in this matter is each individual party's established relationship as an adoptive parent with the children, not their relationship with each other," Judges Alton Davis and Stephen ...

Utah lawmaker's gay comments cost him chairmanship
Buttars compared gay activists to 'radical Muslims'
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) | Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM Feb. 21 at 5:23 PM
A Utah state senator on Friday was kicked off a judicial committee he chaired after he drew criticism for comparing gay activists to radical Muslims in an interview aired this week.

Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, also told former local television reporter Reed Cowan, an openly gay documentary producer who now works at a Miami station, that gay activists are "probably the greatest threat to America going down.down."

The comments drew calls for Buttars' resignation in Utah and elsewhere. The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, said that by Friday more than 15,000 e-mails had been sent to ...

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