Saturday, May 30, 2009

Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

It's sort of hard to say Adam Lambert — who's never really hidden his sexuality (and Idol judge Kara DioGuardi already told The View Lambert wasn't closeted) — will "come out," but that's the big plan for next week's Rolling Stone. The event will be significant, if only because celebrities usually come out on the [...]
They're calling it a "compromise," but the same-sex marriage bill New Hampshire's House and Senate agreed on today changes just one word and adds one sentence to the bill they previously passed and sent to Gov. John Lynch. (The Senate previously approved Lynch's changes to make religious protections more explicit, but the House managed to [...]
This weekend, we fight for the right to marry. But the right to party has always been ours, and some would say we do it better than anyone. Here’s a list of the post-rally events sponsored by Meet In The Middle … (Click on the flyers to enlarge them) Friday Night The North Tower Circle will be featuring a [...]
Today is a day of firsts for me. This is my first official post for Queer Fresno. This is my very first true-blue blog post anywhere. This is also the first day of the most important battle I’ve ever been involved in. The battle for the civil rights of every gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual [...]
Pride In The Park 2009 Join Queer Visalia and this years sponsors and contributers, PLAG and Rainbow Produktionz in celebrating Visalia’s 2nd Pride in the Park. The event runs from 11am-3pm at Plaza Park just off  Hwy198. Donations are requested for entrance. $5 in advance, $10 day of and children are free! You can purchase advance tickets [...]

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Okay, it's a weekend post...What can I tell you? I love all of my trans community, and this is a lighthearted look at crossdressing with a crossdressing superhero. The cartoon is funny, thoughtful, and surprisingly respectful -- both to women and crossdressers.

And after this week, I need the kind of break this 9 minute 20 second-ish video provides.

I just stumbled over a very interesting around Sotomayor's nomination: Top Republican calls Limbaugh, Gingrich comments 'terrible'. It's mainly about some GOP senate politicians getting somewhat freaked out by the comments angry old white men (Gingrich and Limbaugh) are making about Sotomayor and try to distance themselves from those comments.

Senate politician Cornyn - after distancing himself from Gingrich and Limbaugh - concludes with the following quote:

"We are all a product of our upbringing and who we are and I think it's a fact people do have different backgrounds, but I don't think those background ought to determine what the law is."

Now wait a second: "law should not be determined by upbringing". This is interesting! Isn't the whole anti-gay marriage industry sometimes explicitly and the rest of the times implicitly based on 'christian beliefs' and 'christian upbringing'? But why am I surprised, it's just another piece in the big bigotry puzzle ...


Consider this: Oregonian Gary Randall and his Washington operative Larry Stickney know from the outset that they're destined to FAIL their referenDUMB effort to repeal the new WA domestic partnership law.  And their natural allies know too, because they've said so many times, quite embarrassingly and publicly.

But they put up a brave front and forge on, sneakily asking donors almost daily to donate to funds that aren't dedicated to the referendum effort.

Then Larry waits until the last possible hour of the last possible day to challenge the ballot language of his own referendum.

And then today, without explanation, he cancels his own challenge to the language of his own referendum.  And it gets better.  Guess who Larry's lawyer was for the ballot language challenge disaster?  Stephen Pidgeon, the guy who thinks men in smokey-windowed SUVs are after him.  Well, good to know that Larry is wasting donor funds giving billable work to this outlier from the Crumbling Coalition of Fanatical Fringe.  And all for the glory of God nothing.

If I were in support of the referendum, I'd seriously wonder if these gentlemen were leading me down the garden path.  The kindest word for it is INCOMPETENT.

I'm curious to see if this campaign continues beyond the weekend.
    ---Brad Shannon, The Olympian

h/t Erick
I think it might be worth repeating The Words of Brother Pidgeon so that Washingtonians understand just how fringe the backers of this referendum are.

A right to be a right must have supernatural authority.
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You introduce the concept of same-sex marriage or secular marriage, or any of the other rituals that have been formed by the state - and what you do is disestablish the godly order in favor of an order of death.
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Government was created to kill.
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Government is at war with the family, it always hays has been.  It sees the family, the unit of the family as a direct threat to its ultimate sovereignty.
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...the perverted research of Alfred Kinsey, which was promoted in 1948, and given legs to pornography in 1953...
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The health care that's going to be available for people who otherwise tax the Social Security system, is going to be a pair of cyanide pills.
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Mr. Obama is the only Senator to have ever voted to allow children to have survived abortion to die on the table.
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The federal government will outlaw homeschooling.  It will outlaw private curriculum in private schools, and is going to up the truancy laws to make sure that every child, if they have any opportunity for success in this country, they will go to a public institution.
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You'll either participate in the Communist Party, or you will not be in college, you will not have the right to a job.
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When I say that government is about death, you need to understand that this is their stated goals.
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Homosexual rights are about population control.
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I think there are going to be millions of people fleeing California once the starvation program begins down there.
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I come here under the authority of Jesus Christ.
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And this sanctuary of worship to the demons of Olympus [the state capitol] is stained with the blood of the casualties of this war, most of whom are children.
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Same-sex marriage as a political policy is moral fascism.
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The recognition of the "right" for same-sex couples to marry...is quickly followed by...criminal sanctions for those who are unwilling to renounce their relationship with god in order to embrace the deviant edicts of the state.
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Same-sex divorce...is 8 times higher among homosexual men, and 300 times higher among homosexual women.
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Employment Non-Discrimination Act...will be imposed on churches, who will be required to hire people who are of homosexual, bisexual, sexual transgendered, identity expression, in the churche s, and if they don't they will lose their tax-exempt status.


Cross-posted at Washblog.
This year's line up for the Queer Documentary Film Fest is once again looking great. It's an opportunity to see some of the best and most inspiring documentary films around. The Festival runs Thursday, May 28 through Sunday, May 31. All films show at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland (2522 SE Clinton Street) Check out their main webpage. Or go directly to this page to check out the details on the films and purchase tickets. There's a snazzy quick-guide here. This year Basic Rights Oregon is a community partner for the film Georgie Girl, which tells the story of New Zealander Georgina Beyer, the world's first openly transgender person elected to national office. It's playing on Saturday, May 30 at 1:30pm

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