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A Month After Gay Marriage Legal In Mass. Opponents Gear Up For New Battle For a month now, hundreds of gay couples have gotten married in Massachusetts with remarkably little fanfare or protest. But the honeymoon is about to end. Gay-marriage opponents are targeting the Legislature this fall, when all 200 seats are up for election. They want to see passage of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:53pm PDT
HINDU fundis blast "lesbian" film In my queer opinion (IMQO), Hindu fundamentalists resemble those in other religions, by sharing a hatred of love, and a love of hatred....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 9:34pm PDT
1,8 million people at Brazil´s GLBT Pride Parade Brazil´s GLBT (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders) Pride Parade was the biggest of the world, with 1,8 million people in the streets of Sao Paulo....
Posted: Tue, Jun 15, 2004 7:16pm PDT
US Military Underplays Anti-Gay Violence A draft report prepared for the University of California research program shows that despite official Pentagon assertions that the military takes anti-gay harassment as seriously as harassment against women and racial minorities, the military's policies and practices reveal markedly different enforcement and deterrent efforts for these three forms of abuse....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 12:24am PDT
Judge Tosses Case Against Mayor Who Conducted Gay Weddings Criminal charges against New Paltz mayor Jason West, accused of illegally marrying same-sex couples in his tiny village north of New York City, were dismissed Thursday, but his legal battle is far from over....
Posted: Sun, Jun 13, 2004 12:14am PDT
New York court backs gay marriage A New York court has ruled in favour of gay marriages saying that failure to do so would breach the equal rights laws written into the state's constitution....
Posted: Thu, Jun 10, 2004 10:36pm PDT
Legally above all laws? Bush lawyers claim Commander-in-Chief can legally ignore treaties and laws against torture. So what's to stop him from ignoring any other laws?...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2004 10:56pm PDT
Unprecedented Week of Transgender Activism in Nation’s Capital 
A bit of history occurred the end of April and early May. Three national transgender or gender-diverse civil rights organizations lobbied Capitol Hill simultaneously and, for the first time, all lobbied for the same issues. In addition, yet another rejuvenated national group conducted its first organized protest in years, and still another organization conducted a march to the Viet Nam Veterans’ Memorial, and conducted a historic wreath laying ceremony....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:05pm PDT
LEATHERFOLK should publicly denounce "Abuse Ghraib" In Pride and peace events,
leatherfolk should carry banners saying
"YES to consensual play; NO to real abuse"....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:56am PDT
5/20: After Three-Day Wait Mass. Couples Flock To Wed The new round of nuptials came as Gov. Mitt Romney took the first steps toward blocking city and town clerks from issuing marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples, which the Republican governor says is prohibited by state law....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:23pm PDT
LOUISIANA's endangered natal clefts A Louisiana legislator wants to ban low-slung pants which reveal the, ahem, natal cleft......
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 1:21pm PDT
Mass. Senate Votes To Repeal Out-Of-State Gay Marriage Ban The Massachusetts Senate voted Wednesday to repeal a 1913 law that Gov. Mitt Romney is using to stop same-sex couples from outside the state from marrying....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 1:24am PDT
Pentagon Uses Gay Sex as Tool of Humiliation Pentagon Uses Gay Sex as Tool of Humiliation
Military Culture of Homophobia at Heart of Scandal...
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 12:11am PDT
R.I., Conn. may grant recognition of same sex unions The attorneys general of Rhode Island and Connecticut yesterday raised the possibility that Massachusetts same-sex marriages will be honored in their states, a sign that the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark ruling legalizing gay matrimony may soon shift the legal ground in other states....
Posted: Tue, May 18, 2004 12:17am PDT
Gay and lesbian couples make history by marrying in Massachusetts Hundreds of couples obtained marriage licenses, and dozens swiftly exchanged vows at simple city-hall ceremonies and ornate church weddings complete with champagne and fancy cakes....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 9:50pm PDT
Out-Of-State Gays Head To P'Town To Wed Despite threats from Gov. Mitt Romney that they cannot marry in Massachusetts and laws in their own states that prevent their marriages from being recognized dozens of out-of-state same-sex couples are arriving in Provincetown to wed....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 2:17pm PDT
Cambridge is First Mass City to Issue Licenses (Sun night) Cambridge Mayor Michael Sullivan threw open the doors of city hall about 10 p.m. Sunday night and invited dozens of same-sex couples into the building for a celebration to countdown the minutes until midnight. Couples were given numbers as they entered the second floor reception room. At the stroke of midnight, the first number was called....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 8:40am PDT
Boston Celebrates Gay Weddings Annie Goodridge and her partner Hillary Goodridge became the first Boston couple to be processed. The Goodridges were the lead couple in the successful suit to strike down the Massachusetts prohibition to gay marriage. The couple and other who applied today for licenses went immediately to a judge to get a waiver to the three day waiting period to marry in Massachusetts....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 8:27am PDT
US state recognises gay marriages Massachusetts has become the first US state to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 12:41am PDT
Gay Marriages Finally Take Place BOSTON — Massachusetts becomes the nation's first state to marry gay and lesbian couples Monday amid a swirl of court challenges, demonstrations, legal questions and celebration.......
Posted: Sun, May 16, 2004 9:10pm PDT
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