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Dare Is This Generation's Breakfast Club. And Has a Hot Pool Scene

After a whirlwind tour through the festival circuit, with stops at Sundance and Outfest, Dare finally arrives in theaters this weekend. And you should see it. Not only because there's a hot man-on-man pool scene between Friday Nigh Light's Zach Gilford and newcomer Ashley Springer. And not just because Duncan Sheik scored the thing. And [...]

Is Top Model Booting Miss J? … Terrorism Charges for HIV-Positive Assailant

ON OUR GAYDAR â€" News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. → Is America's Next Top Model's J. Alexander getting bounced off the judge's p039;s panel in a move to boost ratings? CONTINUED » Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: 2012, America's Next Top Model, bearforce1, Danesworth Boucher, Daniel Allen, HIV, j. alexander, Jamaica, Mariah [...]

PHOTOS: Shepard Fairey Hosts a Bunch of Gay Marriage Hopefuls

OH SNAP â€" Shepard Fairey on the 1s and 2s last night at the Andaz West Hollywood rooftop, DJing at the Love Unites/Shepard Fairey Equality Project event, where celebrity customized prints of his "Defend Equality, Love Unites" were unveiled. (Which, you should know, are available for you to bid on through CharityBuzz to benefit FAIR.) CONTINUED [...]

Win Free Tickets To Kelly Clarkson This Wednesday!

  That’s right! We got tickets for Kelly’s upcoming tour spot right here in Fresno on December 1st. Come out to this weeks Integration and you will be entered into a raffle drawing for a pair of floor seat tickets. All you have to do is show up before midnight and you’re in for a chance to win! For more info [...]

Eats of the Week: Fresno, CA.

I have been delighted to just travel Fresno this past week and eat at some of the best restaurants this city offers. Here are some places to check out. Key: $= $5.00-$10.00; $$= $10.01-$25.00; $$$=$25.01-? Golden Dynasty $-$$: On the corner of First and Shields Aves. in Fresno, Ca., the Golden Dynasty is in the Target shopping [...]

Hungry?

Doesn’t that look tasty? Just in case you needed more bacon in your diet Fresno’s new foodie blog rolls a recipe for Bacon-Wrapped Cinnamon Rolls! Doesn’t look particularly appetizing to me but I hear bacon’s all the rage the days so you might want to try it out. Looking for other recipe ideas or local restaurant [...]

Good Sportsmanship in Vermont

Just saw this on NECN and had to share this story:

- Most sports teams don't go out of their way to help their opponents improve their game.

But that's just what one Vermont school did- when the athletic director found out another school was in need of soccer equipment.

The Athletic Director at Enosburg Falls had heard some of Winooski's players needed cleats.

It's a team with a large refugee population. Of the 37 varsity and junior varsity players, 33 are from other countries.

They have brought extra talent and diversity to the high school's soccer team but some struggle to get equipment.

So Enosburg held a shoe drive to help out their opponents.

The shoes only helped an already talented and rising team. The Spartans made it to the finals this year for the first time in the program's 13 year history... beating out, along the way, the very team that helped suit them up.

Nice. Very, very nice.

New Poll Confirms Overwhelming Support for T Equality in MA

Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition has the details, including links to the poll and Lake research Partners' analysis of the poll.  But first, Bay Staters need to take action with the help of this email from MassEquality sent out Thursday.  Time is short.

A poll just released by Lake Research Partners shows that 76% of likely voters in Massachusetts, including 81% of women, support H1728--An Act Relative to Gender-Based Discrimination and Hate Crimes. These results prove what we knew all along: ending harmful discrimination against the transgender community is a Massachusetts value that state legislators need to make a priority.

With only five days to go before the state legislature adjourns for the year, now is the time to take action and help us push for passage of this important bill.  Right now, H1728 is being held in the Judiciary Committee, with no set date to be released for a full vote in the legislature.

Please send an email to your State Representative now urging them to contact Speaker DeLeo to make the Transgender Rights Bill a priority.  Although a majority of state legislators have already voiced their own support for transgender equality, we need them to weigh in with Speaker DeLeo to help move the bill in the current legislative session.  

Just CLICK HERE and we'll help you send that email to your legislators.

Thank you,

Scott D. Gortikov
Executive Director

P.S. Feeling heartbroken, angry, and frustrated over the recent loss in Maine?  Taking Action is the biggest antidote we know.  CLICK HERE and get your power back.  We need your help.

November 14th proclaimed "Victory, Referendum 71 Approved Day"

City of Seattle * City Council

PROCLAMATION

IN RECOGNITION OF THE APPROVAL OF REFERENDUM 71 GRANTING EQUAL RIGHTS TO DOMESTIC PARTNERS

Whereas, civil rights and liberties have long been values of the City of Seattle; and

Whereas, the Seattle City Council recognized the importance of extended domestic partnership laws by endorsing the Approve Referendum 71 Campaign; and

Whereas, equality for all Seattle families has a lasting, powerful effect on the city; and

Whereas, the LGBT community is an important and integral part of what makes the City of Seattle a vibrant place to live, work, and play; and

Whereas, the historic vote to approve Referendum 71 sends a message to the rest of the country that the rights and responsibilities afforded to heterosexual married couples are now available to same-sex domestic partnersartners registered with Washington State, and provides important protections to all Washington families; and

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT PROCLAIMED THAT THE SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL DECLARES NOVEMBER 14, 2009 TO BE VICTORY, REFERENDUM 71 APPROVED DAY IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE.

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Approve 71 Thank You Rally Saturday, November 14, from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, at Westlake Center Park in Seattle.  Details after the flip.

Approve 71 Thank You Rally, Saturday at Westlake Center

A group of students, volunteers, and community members have organized an Approve 71 Thank You Rally in celebration of  the November 3 victory for all Washington families. The event is on Saturday, November 14, from 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, at Westlake Center Park in Seattle.

Anne Levison and Josh Friedes will speak on behalf of the Approve 71 Campaign. Lt. Dan Choi will give a keynote address, followed by other respected members of the community.

The community is eager to thank fair minded Washington voters and volunteers for their outpouring of support during the unusually short six week campaign.

Hundreds of volunteers called hundreds of thousands of voters at phone banks. They organized fundraisers, sign waving visibility events, house parties and more.

Because of this dedication to equality, Washington State made history on November 3. It was the first state  to ever approve an expansion of LGBT equality at the ballot.

The domestic partnership expansion bill will go into effect on December 3, 2009. Once it does, same-sex couples will have access to all the same state rights and responsibilities as married couples.

Maine’s super-volunteers and passionate student allies

In the days leading up to my departure for Maine, I wasn't sure what to expect from the people I'd meet here. I'm no stranger to ballot campaigns; we've had our share of those in Oregon. I rode on Tuesday to a suburb outside of Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their interest to get involved with the No On 1 campaign. Our goal was to start a “Friends and Family” Volunteer Recruitment Phone Bank with them on the spot, and to organize a few times when they and their friends could volunteer together, canvassing door-to-door the weekend before Election Day. We rolled up to their neighborhood Starbucks at about 3 o'clock and met the students inside. They'd come straight after school, and had heard about the campaign at an all-ages concert,about the campaign at an all-ages concert, where they'd been watching their favorite local band. Three of the youth were band members! A few of them had worn their No On 1 buttons to school that day, and mentioned that they'd started conversations with other students about the issue, and what it meant to them. After introducing ourselves and briefly describing the state of the campaign, we read through a script and role-played it, making sure to arm the students with the facts needed to express to their friends and family members how much this means to them and why we need their help in the last two weeks of the campaign. When we asked the students to get out their mobile phones and start calling to sign their friends up for volunteer shifts with the campaign, they excelled at the task! After about a half hour, the students made a plan to gather together with their newly signed up volunteers for a morning canvass on Halloween, knocking on doors to get out the vote. None of the nine students were affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance at their school, (and none mentioned that they identified as LGBT,) but all shared a sense that whoever you are and whomever you love, couples deserve to be recognized equally under the law.

From Maine with Love

“You Have Always Been Welcome Here”, a play about the lives of four transgender people as they explore their relationships to family, gender, Christianity and spirituality is coming to Pendleton thanks to Pendleton PFLAG!

“You Have Always Been Welcome Here” here Presented by PFLAG Pendleton in cooperation with Communities of Welcoming Congregations & The Drama Queens    -   “You Have Always Been Welcome Here” portrays the lives of four tran Welcoming Congregations & The Drama Queens    -   “You Have Always Been Welcome Here” portrays the lives of four transgender people as they explore their relationships to family, gender, Christianity and spirituality.   Rev. Tara Wilkins, executive director of Community of Welcoming [...]

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