Reps. Jim Moran (D-VA) and Patrick Murphy (D-PA) are among those signing an open letter to Defense Sec. Robert Gates, demanding he send over all of 2009's data on Don't Ask Don't Tell dismissals, which will help them either support or punt on a 2010 effort to repeal the law. Palm Center director Aaron Belkin [...]
We asked, and you delivered. Pets galore! Ex-wives-cum-best-friends! Your kids! As we head into the holiday break, a few greetings from your fellow Queerty readers! Like Matt Armendariz and Adam Pearson who, posing with pets Birdie, Bindi, Cho, Moxie — hopefully it's the bear on the floor that goes without a name? — say their holiday [...]
Michael Davis Sapir, who earlier this decade claimed to have a video tape showing Tom Cruise had "engaged in a homosexual relationship" (before Cruise sued for $100 million and they settled out of court), is now suing the actor claiming he and his cronies, including jailed P.I. Anthony Pellicano, illegally wiretapped his phone during their [...]
I was sitting in Starbucks today and heard this song. It’s an oldie but a goody. Oh, Ben Folds whatever happened to you? Also in other news: did you know that Fresno’s City Council finally decided that having a night life wasn’t such a bad thing after all? It’s like Fresno’s almost a real city. Now we [...]
It comes to my mind often when I’m editing the party pictures from Integration. I’m expecting similar results with our once a month Evolution party, which will happen this Saturday. Stay fierce, everyone. 
Tickets are $10 all pre-event ticket buyers will be entered to win a Marriott/The Original New Year’s Eve package!
Tickets will be available at these locations:
Funny Bone
Just Out
The Original
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, 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 s 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.
A Collection of Gay Christmas Related Posts Rounded Up From Around the Web: – Santas, Babies, and Bomber Jackets by Kathryn Martini - The right’s bogus war on Christmas by Rev. Irene Monroe - instantTEA: Christmas music by Jews … you’re welcome - ‘Home for the Holidays’ hits 20 — Join the SF Gay Men’s Chorus at the [...]
Entertainment News & Gossip for Tuesday Includes: Avatar mix-up; Tom Cruise ; Dustin Lance Black; Filmmaker tackles homophobia; Gareth Thomas Interview; Gay media drama. Film Related: - Filmmaker tackles homophobia in the Bahamas - MILK Screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black Battles a Gay-Bashing College. - Avatar star in gay porn mix-up — Avatar star Sam Worthington mistaken for gay porn [...]
Tuesday’s Gay News Includes: P.E.I. gets with the times; Mexico City Says “I Do”; The Next Fight in D.C.; Fear In Uganda; Gay Rights & Natural Law; And an Anti-gay Human Rights appointee. Human Rights: NZ Human rights appointee criticised as anti-gay Marriage News: - P.E.I. proclaims same-sex marriage amendments — Changes giving same-sex couples on P.E.I. all I. all [...]
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