Friday, January 16, 2009

Gay News Magazine Headlines (T24T-2)

Religious group attempts to halt leather 'play party'
Americans for Truth urges members to bombard DC's Doubletree
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade | Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM
A religious group that believes homosexuality is “evil” is trying to keep a leather S&M party from happening this weekend at Doubletree Hotel near Washington in Arlington, Va.

Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group “dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda,” sent an action alert to its members today urging them to call the Doubletree and its owner Hilton to halt the event. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said a gay man forwarded his group an invitation to the event, supposedly hosted by a group called Fort Troff which dubbed it, according to Truth, a “pig sex” event called “MAL Maneuvers — ...

Suspects in alleged gang rape of Richmond lesbian plead not guilty
Enter pleas to charges including gang rape, sodomy, kidnapping and carjacking
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) | Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM
Three suspects in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond pleaded not guilty Thursday and were likely to remain jailed until a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to put them on trial.

Lawyers for Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Darrell Hodges, 16, entered the pleas to charges that included kidnapping, carjacking, gang rape and sodomy in the Dec. 13 attack.

Salvador also was charged with committing a hate crime, to which his lawyer said he would also plead not guilty.

A 15-year-old boy also accused in the attack has been charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors were revie ...

Boy George sentenced to 15 months
Guilty of 'gratuitous violence'
LONDON (AP) | Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM
Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.

British Judge David Radford said the 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was guilty of "gratuitous violence."

O'Dowd's lawyer said his client and the escort had both behaved like "drug-crazed idiots" and that O'Dowd's substance ...

An interactive map that allows one to locate where people who contributed money to pass Proposition 8 live and work is causing a stir. One of Andrew Sullivan's gay Atlantic readers who was raised Mormon wrote that finding out one of his aunts in California donated to the cause was like "a gut punch."
The Obama transition website posted a video Wednesday of a meeting that took place December 10 between LGBT leaders and members of the transition team.
Protest set for Sat. Jan. 17. Members of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) are speaking out in support of two gay men fired from a Brentwood hotel last week and are encouraging others to join in a peacefull rally..
The new Nashville Pride hosted an encore performance of Barb Neligan's comedy show titled "Kudzu, Cotillions, and Kissing Girls" at Mad Donna's in East Nashville. Nashville Pride raises funds for the annual LGBT Pride Festival held in June to affirm...
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) announced today its honorees for the 14th annual Equality Dinner. On March 14, HRC will honor Brad Beasley, Suzanne Bradford and Judy Lojek for their contributions to Nashville's GLBT community. "This year's dinner theme...
Religious group attempts to halt leather 'play party'
Americans for Truth urges members to bombard DC's Doubletree
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade | Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM
A religious group that believes homosexuality is “evil” is trying to keep a leather S&M party from happening this weekend at Doubletree Hotel near Washington in Arlington, Va.

Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group “dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda,” sent an action alert to its members today urging them to call the Doubletree and its owner Hilton to halt the event. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said a gay man forwarded his group an invitation to the event, supposedly hosted by a group called Fort Troff which dubbed it, according to Truth, a “pig sex” event called “MAL Maneuvers — ...

Suspects in alleged gang rape of Richmond lesbian plead not guilty
Enter pleas to charges including gang rape, sodomy, kidnapping and carjacking
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) | Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM
Three suspects in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond pleaded not guilty Thursday and were likely to remain jailed until a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to put them on trial.

Lawyers for Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Darrell Hodges, 16, entered the pleas to charges that included kidnapping, carjacking, gang rape and sodomy in the Dec. 13 attack.

Salvador also was charged with committing a hate crime, to which his lawyer said he would also plead not guilty.

A 15-year-old boy also accused in the attack has been charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors were revie ...

Boy George sentenced to 15 months
Guilty of 'gratuitous violence'
LONDON (AP) | Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM
Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.

British Judge David Radford said the 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was guilty of "gratuitous violence."

O'Dowd's lawyer said his client and the escort had both behaved like "drug-crazed idiots" and that O'Dowd's substance ...

Rick Warren supports Episcopal parishes breaking away over the controversy surrounding Bishop Robinson
The violent killing of a third transgender woman has shocked the Honduran trans community
Singer Boy George sentenced to 15 months in jail for false imprisonment of male escort
Religious group attempts to halt leather 'play party'
Americans for Truth urges members to bombard DC's Doubletree
By JOEY DiGUGLIELMO, Washington Blade | Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM Jan. 16 at 1:26 PM
A religious group that believes homosexuality is “evil” is trying to keep a leather S&M party from happening this weekend at Doubletree Hotel near Washington in Arlington, Va.

Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, a group “dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda,” sent an action alert to its members today urging them to call the Doubletree and its owner Hilton to halt the event. Americans for Truth President Peter LaBarbera said a gay man forwarded his group an invitation to the event, supposedly hosted by a group called Fort Troff which dubbed it, according to Truth, a “pig sex” event called “MAL Maneuvers — ...

Suspects in alleged gang rape of Richmond lesbian plead not guilty
Enter pleas to charges including gang rape, sodomy, kidnapping and carjacking
MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) | Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM Jan. 16 at 11:18 AM
Three suspects in the alleged gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond pleaded not guilty Thursday and were likely to remain jailed until a judge decides whether there's enough evidence to put them on trial.

Lawyers for Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21, and Darrell Hodges, 16, entered the pleas to charges that included kidnapping, carjacking, gang rape and sodomy in the Dec. 13 attack.

Salvador also was charged with committing a hate crime, to which his lawyer said he would also plead not guilty.

A 15-year-old boy also accused in the attack has been charged as a juvenile, but prosecutors were revie ...

Boy George sentenced to 15 months
Guilty of 'gratuitous violence'
LONDON (AP) | Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM Jan. 16 at 10:59 AM
Singer Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in jail on Friday after being convicted of falsely imprisoning a male escort by handcuffing him to a wall in a London apartment.

British Judge David Radford said the 47-year-old former Culture Club frontman, whose real name is George O'Dowd, was guilty of "gratuitous violence."

O'Dowd's lawyer said his client and the escort had both behaved like "drug-crazed idiots" and that O'Dowd's substance ...

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