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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
Remembering Brandon Teena, Ten Years After His Death
On 26 December 1993 a young transsexual was shot and stabbed to death in the United States in a crime which later became the subject of the Oscar-winning movie Boys Don't Cry. Ten years on, his family is still seeking justice and dozens of transsexuals continue to be murdered every year...
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 10:05am 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
Free John Waters Exhibition At Rena Bransten Gallery
Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left. "What are you getting me for Christmas?" I carp to fellow bathers who haven't even decided what to do for Labour Day. As each month follows, I grow more and more obsessed. Around October I startle complete strangers by bursting into my off-key rendition of "Joy to the World." I'm always The Little Drummer Boy for Halloween, a grouchy one at that...
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 11:38am 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
A kiss by two Michaels changed the meaning of marriage in Canada in 2003
Michael Stark, left, and Michael Leshner kiss after their marriage in Superior Court in Toronto on June 10. (CP/Frank Gunn)...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:38am 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
Fri Dec 19th: Guerrilla Queer Bar escapes from rehab to bring you...
Guerrilla Queer Bar escapes from rehab to bring you...
I'm Dreaming of a White Necklace
A Festive, Throbbing Slander to the Season
Friday, December 19 at Club 220 (nee Campus Theater)
with
John Cameron Mitchell: Special Guest DJ
Peaches Christ: Brave Emcee...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 12:28pm 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