GOP seeks more homophobes

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REPUBLICAN PARTY rejects moderates:

" GOP uncompromising on far-right platform

No moderate outreach:
Key Republicans say party can expand its political base
and still hold fast to a hard-line agenda "

Marc Sandalow,
Washington Bureau Chief
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Sunday, August 7, 2005

"Pittsburgh -- [PA]
The theme of the Republican Party's summer meeting this weekend
was expanding its base.
The keynote speaker was a GOP senator who blames radical feminism for wrecking the home,
equates same-sex marriage with bestiality,
finds public schools suspect and
believes that abortion is worse than slavery. [....] "

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/07/MNG9TE4DO91.DTL



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+ more news + opinion links:

OAKLAND: Roman diocese settles 56 lawsuits for $56 million:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2005/08/05/diocese05.DTL

[Comment by SUN:
If Latin Rite priests had been allowed to have sex with adults,
maybe there would have been fewer priests seeking sex from juveniles? ]

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SF Entertainment Commission hears complaints about racism at Badlands gaybar

http://sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=3954

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NURSE-IN by Alameda County LACTIVISTS:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/05/BAGJIE3HF11.DTL

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MARRIAGE on fast track to California state supremes??

http://sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=3955

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GREEN farming and consuming:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/08/03/gree.DTL

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SF QUEER NEWS, each Thursday:

http://sfbaytimes.com/

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SF QUEER HISTORY,
circa 1971 - 2005:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/06/1749365.php

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SF's possible future, in 2028:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1757768.php

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"CITY OF LOVE" as SF Pride's theme for 2007

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1758043.php

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STRANGE news, updated each Friday:

http://sfgate.com/news/bondage/

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NUDES in the news:

http://www.bayareanaturists.org/news

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FESTIVALS, summer 2005,
northern California:


http://www.sfbg.com/39/32/cover_summer_festivals.html

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AUSTRALIA-based sexworker site:

http://libertarias.ebloggy.com/

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"CULTURAL CREATIVES" (2001):

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=399


     



+ FREEDOM-SEEKERS' CALENDAR


"DOING GOOD" in the parks
Sunday, Aug. 7,
enjoy an afternoon of sharp and funny entertainment at an outdoor performance of
the San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest play,
DOING GOOD,
based on John Perkins's best-selling
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
[ No, they don't really mime... ]
Original music begins a half hour before the show.

Sat/6, 2 p.m., Glen Park
(Bosworth and O'Shaughnessy);

Sun/7, 2 p.m., Washington Square Park
[ in North Beach ]
(Columbus and Union), SF.
Free.
(415) 285-1717
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SF, 9 August, Tuesday,
7:30pm:
POTATO QUEEN
at Books Inc,
2275 Market Street (near Noe St).
Free.
http://www.booksinc.net
or see Bay Area Reporter

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PALO ALTO picket for AIDS drugs
Wednesday, Aug. 10,
picket in front of the office of George Shultz,
former US secretary of state and a major investor in Gilead Pharmaceuticals,
the company that refuses to allow the
Brazilian government to make generic (and affordable) copies
of AIDS-treatment drugs.
Noon-1 p.m.,
Stanford University, Hoover Institution, Palo Alto.
(510) 684-2972
priorityafrica [at] yahoo.com
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11 August, Thursday:
WRONG BATHROOM:
please see

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1757133.php

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12 August, Friday:
SF Citadel:
open play party ?:

http://www.sfcitadel.org/calendar.php

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*CAL-SF: 14 August,
Sunday: :
buy or sell at BIZARRE FLEA
(SM Community Exchange),
2 to 5pm:
942 Mission St., between 5th & 6th Streets;
$5 admission to fleamarket.
2005: April 10,
August 14,
December 11.
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Lady Thorn/ SMCE: (415).753.0703.
POB 16284, SF, CA 94116
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( Fandango follows:
http://www.sfcitadel.org/calendar.php )
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CALIFORNIA state legislature:
circa August 15, Monday:
Assemblyman Mark Leno's
(re-numbered) same-sex marriage bill goes next to
Senate Appropriations Committee.
If the appropriations committee does nothing, the bill dies.
If the bill passes the committee,
then it goes to the full Senate.
If it passes the Senate,
then it goes back to the Assembly.
If it passes the Assembly,
it goes to the Governator.

[ For situation as of mid-July, please see:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1752586.php ]



[ Question by TBL:
Anti-gay state constitutional amendment(s)
will probably appear on June 2006 California ballot.
Will this issue be "settled", for California voters,
before the November 2006 election ??? ]


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circa Aug. 15:
IRAQ:
deadline for drafting a proposed constitution.
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17 August, Wednesday, 7pm:
Periel Aschenbrand, 28,
reads from her new memoir,
THE ONLY BUSH I TRUST IS MY OWN,
on sexuality,
pop culture,
and how best to inspire the youth of America.
FREE.
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books,
601 Van Ness, SF 94102.
http://www.bookstore.com
(415) 441-6670

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For more "queer things to do"

please visit Larrybob at HTC:

[ http://www.holytitclamps.com/ ]

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