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Queer Events in SF This Week
Repost of queer events in SF from Larry Bob's email list...
Posted: Wed, Dec 31, 2003 1:06pm PST
GLBT adoption may follow marriage in Belgium
In a move that would make it one of the world's most gay-friendly nations, Belgium appears poised to grant same-sex couples the right to adopt children, only months after becoming the second nation in Europe to legalize gay marriage....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 5:44pm PST
Transgendered community remembers Brandon Teena's murder
Ten years ago, a handsome, brown-haired 21-year-old named Brandon Teena was raped and later murdered by two men after they discovered he wasn't born a man....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 5:37pm PST
Michigan Governor Granholm Issues Order Banning Discrimination Against Lesbians And Gays
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm gave GLBT state employees some holiday cheer Tuesday by issuing an order banning discrimination against lesbians and gays....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 5:35pm PST
Student says gay fraternity should have chapter at Cal
What clinched Matt Royal's decision to attend UC Berkeley went beyond the university's esteemed academic reputation...[he] placed equal weight on whether he would feel comfortable as an openly gay man on campus...It seemed odd, then, that the campus lacked one detail that some local universities have, a gay fraternity....
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2003 12:21pm PST
LGBTI/Queer links
This page is under construction. Please publish additional links as comments, and we will eventually add them to a real links page! Please try to keep them to things that are political- there are plenty of sex websites....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 10:28pm PST
Free Radio Santa Cruz Interviews The Indigo Girls
listen to the report (sound: mp3 @ 26.3 megs)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:59pm PST
Leader slates 'homophobic' church
The leader of the Church of Scotland is to use part of his Christmas sermon to accuse the kirk of reinforcing hatred of gay people....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:41pm PST
Bishop closes church for ignoring LGBT unions
An Anglican church in Canada that defied its bishop by refusing to support same-sex unions has been shut down....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 6:32pm PST
Gay footage will stay in Lincoln Memorial video
Footage of gay rights demonstrations will not be removed from a videotape shown at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, according to spokespeople from the National Park Service and the Human Rights Campaign. Earlier reports in various news outlets said the gay images would be removed....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:40am PST
Pension Fund Bars Gay Discrimination
(New York City) The New York City Employees Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the country has begun targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. The fund manages $78.6 billion in holdings....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:37am PST
Michigan Governor Bans Anti-Gay Bias
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm has issued an order banning discrimination against gays in state employment, a move critics condemned as a first step toward legalizing gay marriage.
The order issued Tuesday covers the executive branch, which has about 55,000 employees _ about 95 percent of all state workers....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:36am PST
President Voices Support for Marriage Amidst Vocal Opposition
President George W. Bush threw his ideological weight into the looming battle over the civil rights of gay, lesbian, intersex, and transgender Americans. The National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC) decries these efforts to destabilize gay and gender-variant families in the hopes of garnering reelection support through religiopolitical bigotry....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 10:39pm PST
AIDS activist listed for Nobel Peace Prize
A gay, HIV-positive activist who refused to take certain AIDS drugs until they were widely available to millions of fellow South Africans has been nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 5:51pm PST
Talk At SF LGBT Community Center On The LGBT Movement in China
December 23, 2003
7:00pm
San Francisco LGBT Community Center...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 10:43am PST
Canada set to embrace gay marriages despite protests
Marriage will soon be a legal option for all gay and lesbian couples across Canada despite the continued opposition of fund amental Christian organisations.
Until recently, gays exchanged vows in “commitment services”, but their union was not legally recognised....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:35am PST
Dr Judd Marmor Has Died; Helped End Classification of Gays as Sick
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Judd Marmor, whose criticism of the belief that homosexuality was a mental disorder made him an important ally of the gay struggle to force American psychiatry to change its views, died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center after a short illness. He was 93....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:33am PST
Injunction Against California Domestic Partnership Law Denied
The law, which will take effect in January 2005, offers same-sex couples many of the state-level rights and protections that married couples enjoy....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:18am PST
conservatives are polling about gay marriage
Go to the site and vote! They want to use this poll to prove to the government that folks are against gay marriage, so show them that we're not!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 3:24pm PST
Living in the Shadow of Death: Gay People Between Fundamentalism and Occupation
The police officer shoved the Palestinian into the patrol car. “This time,” he said, “we are going to take care of you; I will personally make sure that you are sent back to where you came from.”
For Fuad Moussa, a 27-year-old gay man who grew up in Ramallah, these words amounted to a death sentence....
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 2:48am PST