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OREGON Republican Party leading anti-equality campaign
Oregon's Republican Party takes leading role in movement against equal rights for same-sex couples.
+ info on Mass. and California. + comment....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 8:45am PDT
Oklahoma Backs Down, Issues Birth Certificate To Baby With Two Dads
"The Health Department does not have authority to decide who gets a birth certificate or who is a legal parent," said Brian Chase, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal.
Within hours the department said it had begun issuing the birth certificates to same-gender couples in other states who adopt children in Oklahoma....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 12:12am PDT
Church Leaders Denounce Mass Gay Marriage Amendment
In an open letter to coincide with the beginning of Easter Week and Passover 600 church leaders have called on Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to distance himself from attacks on same-sex marriage....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 11:54pm PDT
SF Anti-Sex Crusade?
In San Francisco, anti-sex prudes want to prevent same-sex marriages, re-criminalize abortion, and outlaw nude dancing. Should we return to the 19th century?...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 6:19pm PDT
Transgenders, Families Gear Up to Lobby on Capitol Hill
Transgender activists from all over America will converge on Capitol Hill, April 29-30 to lobby Congress for transgender inclusion in, and passage of hate crimes and employment rights legislation. Lobby Days 2004 is sponsored by the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition (NTAC), the country's largest and most active organization advocating for the rights of transgender Americans at federal, state, and local levels....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 9:54pm PDT
No taxation without equal rights!
Tax Day lets you express your views on war, civil liberties, equal marriage rights. Plus more April events....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 9:03pm PST
Oakland to Have Its Own Queer District?
Oakland, with the third highest per-capita population of same-sex couples and the nation's largest population of lesbian couples, does not have a specific neighborhood the gay community can call its own....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 8:13pm PST
Administration Targets Federal Employees, Removes Protections for Sexual Orientation
Recently, one of Scott Bloch’s first acts as newly appointed Special Counsel to the White House was to instill fear in ‘homosexual’ employees of the federal government. In an increasingly common curtailment of individual rights, the Bush Administration has removed decades-long protections from employment discrimination against those who serve our nation....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 9:27am PST
Aphrodite returning to Spain?
Spain's new leader says: "The time has come for extreme respect for the sexual opinions of every individual, a time for a secular vision."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 6:22am PST
Marriage Equality California & Equality California Commend Boxer
Marriage Equality California and Equality California Commend U.S.
Senator Barbara Boxer for Endorsing full Equality for Same-Sex Couples...
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 11:29pm PST
Viva España ! (sex versus fascism)
Spain's new leader calls for "extreme respect for the sexual opinions of every individual..." Photo shows fascists demonstrating in SF, CA, against same-sex marriages....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 10:03pm PST
WEAR BROWN to protest inequality & Bush's B.S.
Please WEAR BROWN to protest Bush's bullshit,
including his anti-queer Hate Amendment, at public events, for the rest of 2004....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 5:31pm PST
In France, what's the "definition" of marriage?
Fundamentalists like to think their narrow "definition of marriage" is timeless and universal. But it's neither....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 12:28pm PST
MAssachusetts: Heil Mittler?
Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney tells state Supreme Judicial Court to ignore state constitution until November 2006.
Heil Mittler?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 7:46am PST
Banned in Boston? Gay Marriage...
Same-sex marriage would be banned but civil unions permitted in Massachusetts under a proposed constitutional amendment approved by the legislature Monday night....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 12:32am PST
Marriage Equality Calendar 3/30-4/9
Tuesday, March 30th: SAN FRANCISCO 2:30PM - SF City Hall. Come
celebrate the wedding ceremony of Ray and Charles at their scheduled
appointment time. They intend to go forward with their wedding as
planned on the steps of San Francisco City Hall as a reminder of the
2,588 couples who had appointments to be legally married before the court stepped in....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 12:17am PST
MARRY-INs: Canada, MA, OR
To learn about ongoing struggle for marriage equality in Canada, please visit CANADIANS FOR EQUAL MARRIAGE
http://www.equal-marriage.CA...
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 6:58pm PST
MARRY-IN: Mass. Con-Con Leads 2 St. Stupid's Day in SF
Events in Boston & San Francisco where you can demonstrate for equal rights, mock Bush, enjoy spring.......
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 1:21pm PST
Conduct Unbecoming: The 10th Annual Report on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
As the United States military continues to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan, discharges of lesbian and gay military personnel plummeted 17% in FY2003, according to a new report from Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 9:36am PST
4/21: Day of Silence
The Day of Silence, a project of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in collaboration with the United States Student Association (USSA), is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of silence to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment -- in effect, the silencing -- experienced by LGBT students and their allies....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 9:33am PST