Tuesday, March 3, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T25T-3)

Politicians in California have announced they are to introduce a bill to mark the life of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected in the state.

Xbox Live policy manager Stephen Toulouse has given further explanation of why gamers cannot use the word 'gay' in their profiles or gamertags.

Brighton & Hove City Council has voted against spending money on improving services for LGBT homeless people.

25 year old Jake Della-Vedova, of Hawthorn East in Victoria, has been sentenced to four months imprisonment for secretly filming his sexual encounter with a married man, and then using it for blackmail, asking for thousands in cash.
Former One Nation leader, prisoner and Dancing With The Stars loser Pauline Hanson is vying for the QLD seat of Beaudesert against ex-AFL player, porn star and self-confessed media whore Warwick Capper. Which one would you vote for?
From Metal To Maternal is word and music smashed together into an autobiographical cabaret show which confronts the transition of an ex-male metal head who, at 30, finally had the courage to live life as a woman.

sudan and the international criminal court
Huffington Post, NY
At a British Embassy reception I had an interesting conversation with a gay (illegal here) Sudanese man. "The Sudanese," he tells me, "are the most racist people in the world." His family comes from one of the ruling northern tribes. ...

1010 Wins

Gay Montclair University Student Protests Ban on Donating Blood
1010 Wins, NY
In 2007, the Red Cross, America's Blood Centers and the international donation group AABB suggested that, instead of the lifetime ban, the FDA allow donations from men who have not had sexual contact with another man for more than one year. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Diamond League gives two US meets status upgrade in 2010
USA Today
Bolt help put the young Reebok GP on the map last year when he set the first of his world records in the 100 meters in a matchup against 2007 world champ Tyson Gay of the USA. "What we're stressing here is matchups," Wetmore said of the Diamond League ...
Mon Mar 02, 2009 By Joe Battaglia / Universal Sports Universal Sports
Britain given key role in new Diamond League of athletics Daily Mail
Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 International Herald Tribune
Reuters South Africa
all 271 news articles

sudan and the international criminal court
Huffington Post, NY
At a British Embassy reception I had an interesting conversation with a gay (illegal here) Sudanese man. "The Sudanese," he tells me, "are the most racist people in the world." His family comes from one of the ruling northern tribes. ...

1010 Wins

Gay Montclair University Student Protests Ban on Donating Blood
1010 Wins, NY
In 2007, the Red Cross, America's Blood Centers and the international donation group AABB suggested that, instead of the lifetime ban, the FDA allow donations from men who have not had sexual contact with another man for more than one year. ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Diamond League gives two US meets status upgrade in 2010
USA Today
Bolt help put the young Reebok GP on the map last year when he set the first of his world records in the 100 meters in a matchup against 2007 world champ Tyson Gay of the USA. "What we're stressing here is matchups," Wetmore said of the Diamond League ...
Mon Mar 02, 2009 By Joe Battaglia / Universal Sports Universal Sports
Britain given key role in new Diamond League of athletics Daily Mail
Diamond League athletics series to launch in 2010 International Herald Tribune
Reuters South Africa
all 271 news articles
Governor disappointed in Senate’s vote; opponents called it ‘marriage in disguise.’ Also, VIDEO. Read more….
Couple threatened to sue health authority after being denied help conceiving, spending thousands. Read more….
State Dept. airs human rights grievances over several nations’ treatment of LGBT people. Read more….
Auckland's second annual Westie lesbian day of entertainers and musicians is now lined up for this Sunday afternoon.
The sun shone on Wellington's Civic Square yesterday afternoon, as over 8,000 people passed through the annual Out in the Square day of LGBT community entertainment.
A critically-acclaimed collection of 'gender fluid' photography – including several nude images – are on the walls of a Palmerston North gallery from this weekend, in what is being described as a "bold move" in the conservative town.

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