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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
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
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
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
Anal Sex Byproduct Named for Senator Santorum
Lube-and-fecal matter mix takes name of anti-gay U.S. Senator....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 9:07pm PST
Queer Muslim struggle
Queer Muslims are struggling against right wing fundamentalist Islam. Many people who wish to live a life of discipline with Allah and also maintain their queer identity.....
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2003 12:35pm PDT
Republicans Relaunch the Antigay Culture Wars
Furthermore, the tens of millions of dollars being raised by the Democrats and labor to register and energize frequently religious black, Hispanic and working-class voters will bring to the polls many who could be swayed by combined antigay and religious appeals (which is why Bush has poured political patronage labeled "faith-based initiatives" into conservative black and Hispanic churches)....
Posted: Fri, Oct 3, 2003 6:23pm PDT
An Aisle Seat - Same Sex Partners' Rights in Ca.
Ca. is leading the way, with AB 205, just passing, to give registered domestic partners many of the same state rights as legally married couples......
Posted: Wed, Sep 24, 2003 7:43am PDT
Jesus Christ against sexual prejudice (by Latuff)
No protestant and catholic sexual prejudice against gay and lesbian....
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2003 5:49pm PDT
Lawrence v. Texas Milestone for Humanity
Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court decision of June 26, 2003, legalizing homosexuality in the United States, is as much a milestone for the gay and lesbian community as Roe v. Wade of 1973, legalizing the right to abortion, was for women, and both are for humanity....
Posted: Thu, Jun 26, 2003 7:59pm PDT