OTTAWA — Gay and lesbian activists say Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s refusal to refer to gay rights and same-sex marriage in the Canadian Citizenship Guide was an effort to rewrite Canadian history.
Openly gay NDP MP Bill Siksay called it “an unbelievable insult for gay and lesbian Canadians” and said Kenney should apologize.
Helen Kennedy, [...]
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2 sides file pile of paperwork in Prop 8 court case
Opposing sides in the legal battle over same-sex marriage in California have laid out their cases in writing to a federal judge, disputing the status of gays and lesbians in society, the nature [...]
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Drew Barrymore To Be Honored By Gay And Lesbian Alliance
From: Look To The Stars
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has announced that Golden Globe Award-winning actress and producer Drew Barrymore will receive the Vanguard Award, and Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian Wanda Sykes will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award at the 21st [...]
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Dick Cheney was most recently the vice president of the United States. Before that, he was secretary of defense. Which gives him a vantage point few people — whether civilians or military officers — will ever enjoy. We’d be saying that even if Cheney, on This Week this morning, did not say [...]
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As read on The Advocate.com:
Gay military rights advocate Lt. Dan Choi has been called back into drill duty, he told The Advocate in a phone interview Tuesday. Photographer Jeff Sheng, who recently turned his lens on active gay and lesbian service members for a book about “don’t ask, don’t tell,” [...]
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SHOCKING article from Change.org
When Public Schools Peddle Ex-Gay Propaganda
BY MICHAEL A. JONES
You expect your kids to come home from school with homework, maybe a report card, or a note from the teacher. But would you expect your [...]
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Obama, military push to lift gay ban
News update, Feb. 2, 2010
by Tracy Baim
Military leaders testified before the U.S. Senate Feb. 2 about “how” not “when” the military’s gay ban will be lifted.
“The question before us is not whether the military prepares [...]
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Today’s print edition of the New York Times features a tremendous article on TLDEF’s Name Change Project. It’s tremendous not just in that it features lengthy interviews with four Name Change Project participants – Em, Katherine, Kit & Roberta. It’s that the article makes clear that the movement for transgender rights is experiencing tremendous growth. [...]
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by Matthew S. Bajko and Cynthia Laird
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Plaintiffs’ attorneys David Boies and Theodore Olson are wrapping up their case in the Prop 8 trial.
As lawyers for the plaintiffs put their last witness on the stand Friday morning, the judge in the case delayed closing arguments for several weeks so that he and the attorneys can go [...]
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This is interesting. Freelance journalist and filmmaker John Ireland wasn’t going to let a little something like the Supreme Court block him from telling the story of the Prop 8 Trial. No way. The courts may have banned video broadcasting of this federal trial but we will still see the drama that is unfolding in [...]
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