A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage New York Times, United States We take very different positions on gay marriage. We have had heated debates on the subject. Nonetheless, we agree that the time is ripe for a deal that could give each side what it most needs in the short run, while moving the debate onto a healthier, ... Gay marriage: Scripture says no Gay marriage: No need for it |
 PinkNews.co.uk | Buttars broke vow of silence, senator claims Deseret News, UT Chris Buttars was stripped of his Senate committee posts not because he went on an anti-gay tirade in an interview with a documentary filmmaker but because the West Jordan Republican broke a deal with Senate leaders not to talk about gay issues. ... Walsh: Chris Buttars, George Wallace - brothers in arms? Utah lawmaker's gay comments cost him chairmanship Utah Senator Buttars Reprimanded Over Anti-Gay Remarks |
 New York Times Blogs | Out of 'Milk,' Perhaps a Little Human Kindness Toward Gay Rights Washington Post, United States Did anyone really see it, outside of people who already knew its material or already approved of its elegiac message of gay rights? Or is it just another one of Oscar night's eat-your-veggies movies -- a biopic heaped with film critics' accolades and ... Milk Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black on Milk, 30 Years Later SF: GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, SCHOLARS TO HOLD ROUNDTABLE ON HARVEY ... Film Evokes Memories for Milk’s Relatives |
 Gay Wired | All 5 LGBT bills die in Utah 365Gay.com It was the fifth defeat for a group of bills called the Common Ground Initiative that would have expanded LGBT civil rights in Utah. Tuesday, legislation to include gays in job and housing protections was defeated and bills to allow for joint support ... Groups debate Common Ground No Common Ground in Utah OUR VIEW: Buttars is the face of fear |
 PinkNews.co.uk | USA joins UN's LGBT equality pact Gay NZ, New Zealand However, the United States' support is a large step forward for on LGBT issues in the UN. Back in December, the United States refused to sign up to a similar statement condemning criminal penalties against people because of their sexual orientation or ... US state moves to grant workplace protection to LGBT people Is Barack Obama making America more gay friendly? |
RI LGBT Networking Bay Windows, MA What should the Pride committee do if Melissa Etheridge, the people’s choice for celebrity Pride marshal, can’t participate? She better do it to avoid a JP Block Party Massacre! Hold out hope she’ll send hottie wife Tammy Lynn Michaels as a substitute. ... |
 Boston Globe | On the road to sexual equality Boston Globe, United States "I wanted to see what kind of discrimination GLBT people face in their states and what progress we've made," he said in a recent interview in his East Cambridge apartment. "I have this love for traveling and my other passion is activism, ... Why is the food so mediocre at gay & lesbian restaurants? |
Cupid’s Back Raises Funds for GLBT Historical Society San Francisco Bay Times, CA By Dennis McMillan The 3rd annual Valentine’s Day Party to benefit the GLBT Historical Society (GLBTHS) was held at Lime bistro in the heart (get it?) of the Castro on Feb. 13 to a sold-out, packed house of pre-V-day celebrants. ... |
Glasgow gets District 18 endorsement from GLBT group The Tennessean, TN by Michael Cass David Glasgow, a candidate for the District 18 Metro Council seat, picked up an endorsement from the Tennessee Equality Project’s political action committee this week. The Tennessee Equality Project’s political action committee endorses ... |
Never a politically shy ceremony, tomorrow evening's Oscar telecast seems poised to make news not just because of who wins and who wears what . . . but because many people will also be tuning in to see who "ties the knot."Sunday's awards show, which is one of television's most watched annual events, will feature the usual line-up of film industry stars, but what is on their lapels will likely make almost as much news as the Monday morning list of who goes home with Oscar gold.
According to Variety's Wilshire & Washington Blog, "When stars parade down the red carpet at Sunday's Oscars, it's anticipated that at least a few of them will be wearing white ribbons."
"While recent displays of such a fashion accessory stir very little controversy -- red ribbons to mark the AIDS crisis, pink to symbolize breast cancer research --- the white ribbons will symbolize support of same-sex marriage," signifying the stars' opposition to anti-equality measures like Proposition 8, and their steadfast support for full marriage equality."
Variety reports that, "According to Frank Voci, who spearheaded the WhiteKnot.org campaign, Anne Hathaway has said she will wear a ribbon, along with some members of the team behind Milk. (Sean Penn has a ribbon, but Voci said he's been told that the star often doesn't decide until the last minute).
All of the major nominees have been sent the ribbons, along with "publicists and agents and studios and production companies, all with an extremely warm reception," Voci said.
And you can get your white knot, too. Just send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
White Knot for Equality
PO Box 691517
West Hollywood, CA 90069
And for more information on the campaign, visit www.WhiteKnot.org online . . . then tune in on Sunday to see who wears their heart - and their knot - on the sleeve (and lapel).
Here's news that should surprise absolutely no one: Children raised by loving lesbian and gay parents fare just as well as children brought up by heterosexual couples.In a widely circulated article from Tuesday's Chicago Tribune, reporter Bonnie Miller Rubin talks to sociologists, researchers, statisticians and others who have reached the unmistakable conclusion that, despite the controversy that still surrounds same-sex families in some parts of America, what's in the best interest of the child is a loving household . . . regardless of the gender of the parents involved.
"Sociologists Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz published an analysis in 2001 in the American Sociological Review of 21 studies of children raised by homosexual parents and found that, overall, they were no more likely to suffer from psychological problems than kids raised in conventional homes," Rubin reports.
"There was a very strong consensus that kids turned out about the same," Stacey said.
The study and other research, the Tribune points out, undermine the rhetoric of campaigns in states like Arkansas, where voters approved a ban on adoption during the November elections. And the consequences, they report, are far-reaching.
"At least 4 million U.S. children have one or both parents who identify themselves as homosexual, said Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law," the paper reports.
"The bottom line is that within the research community there are no empirical studies demonstrating adverse effects, said Stacey, who is now at New York University."
"We know that a parent's sexual orientation is not a significant factor. A good parent is a good parent, . . . and parents who get along and are consistent in their child-rearing . . . have better outcomes than those who don't."
And common sense prevails . . . at least in the pages of the Tribune.
To read Rubin's full report, including interviews with the children of lesbian and gay parents, visit The Chicago Tribune online.
Check out the audio clip posted over at Pam's House Blend featuring the rants of Utah's anti-gay Senator Chris Buttars...It seems like such a shame, especially in light of Utah's Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr's recent coming out in support of civil unions for LGBT people.
Here are some choice excerpts from the audio clips:
To me, homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion. And you say that around here now and everybody goes nuts! But I don't care.
They say, I'm born that way. There's some truth to that, in that some people are born with an attraction to alcohol. One drink and you're gone.
Their number one goal is just to proselyte youth. That's why I threw them out of the schools, I said it's not a friendship club, that's a recruiting station.
They're mean! They want to talk about being nice - they're the meanest buggers I ever seen. It's just like the Muslims. Muslims are good people and their religion is anti-war. But it's been taken over by the radical side. And the gays are totally taken over by the radical side. You don't see the gay out there saying, Let's not do this. Let's not do this, gang. You seem 'em marching around with signs and everything else.
I believe the whole thing is immoral. And I believe you're moving towards - you see, if you say to me, quit shoving your morals down my throat, Butters, my answer back is you know my morals, what's yours? What is the morals of a gay person? You can't answer that. Because anything goes! So now you're moving towards a society that has no morals. There's never been a nation survived that's done that.
I believe that you will destroy the foundation of American society, because I believe the cornerstone of it is a man and a woman, the family. In my mind, it's the beginning of the end. Oh it's worse than that. Sure, Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide. You can't tell me that something that was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah's not going on wholesale right now, and to a large degree by [? unintelligible] the gay community. ... The underbelly is they do not want equality, they want superiority. ... They say we want to be treated just equal. They don't. And I believe that they're internally they're probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of. Yep, the radical gay movement.
It is such an unacceptable shame to hear words like this spoken in the halls of legislation in 2009. Following in the steps of Sally Kern, Utah's Sen. Buttars also claimed that the gay-rights movement is "probably the greatest threat to America... It's the beginning of the end. Oh, it's worse than that. Sure. Sodom and Gomorrah was localized. This is worldwide."
Read more about Sen. Buttar's anti-gay rants at Pam's House Blend.
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A Idaho state Senate committee rejected a proposal to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity on Friday. 50 or so supporters of the proposal that would have provided Idaho’s LGBT citizens with the same protections other citizens of the state are entitled to through the Idaho Human Rights were in attendance, but quietly [...]
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