Monday, May 11, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

FREE AT LAST! Only four months into a fifteen month sentence, George O and rsquo;Dowd has been released from Edmunds Hill Prison in Suffolk, England.
FUNNY AS IN 'HA HA' OR FUNNY AS IN...: President Barack Obama made a gay-themed joke over the weekend. How did that sit with you? Were you offended or not?
PREJEAN IN 'BREACH OF CONTRACT': Miss California Pageant officials claim anti-gay Miss California Carrie Prejean is causing 'brand confusion' and entered the contest under 'false pretenses.' An alternate Miss California is appointed, but Prejean's crown is saved...if only for a day...
Last week the HRC Field Team and volunteers celebrated Cinco De Mayo by sharing burritos and dialing for marriage equality in New Hampshire at our weekly phone bank. The calls helped us cross an important threshold for our spring season of Dialing for Equality: volunteers have now had over 3,000 conversations about equality in six different [...]
(and yes, she talks about her time on “The L Word” ;)
Members of the New York State Assembly in Albany are scheduled to vote tomorrow on marriage equality legislation (A7732).  The Assembly passed similar legislation in 2007, but leaders in the State Senate refused to take up the bill that year.  Senate leadership changed following the 2008 elections in which Democrats took control of the chamber. The [...]

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