Archive for July 22nd, 2009

Community Sound Off – Marriage Equality

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Hello everyone,
My name is Brian. I’m writing to all of you about past and present thoughts of my feelings on Marriage Equality.
At one point in my life I always thought that same sex marriage was blah blah blah. I always just wanted to have a good time with all my friends and family. I never [...]

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Update on the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Via MatthewShepard.org
Amendments added Monday by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) require new Justice Department rules on the use of the prosecution authority; add military personnel, their families and their property to the bill’s protected classes; and most controversially, authorize federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in some hate-crimes cases, a move opposed by many of [...]

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Parents of ‘ex-gay’ student threaten lawsuits

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Via Pink News
The parents of a US student who is thought to be in ‘ex-gay’ therapy have threatened legal action over a website set up to find him, his boyfriend has said.
Bryce Faulkner, 23, is believed to be at an Exodus International ministry in Florida after his parents discovered he was gay.
His friends have said [...]

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Lesbian Couple Takes On Russian State In Fight For Same-Sex Marriage

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Via Radio Free Europe
MOSCOW — It was love at first sight.
Irina Fedotova-Fet met Irina Shepitko met during a vacation in Sochi five years ago. Soon after, Shepitko moved to Moscow to be with Fedotova-Fet, who now describes their partnership as a “family.”
“We’re a couple of girls who have been together for a long time, who [...]

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Fort Worth City Council asks for federal investigation into raid at Rainbow Lounge

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Via Dallas News
The Fort Worth City Council took the unusual step Tuesday of requesting a federal investigation into a police raid at a gay bar last month that sent one man to intensive care for several days with a brain injury.
If the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas agrees to conduct the inquiry, it will be [...]

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California bill would recognize same-sex marriages from other states

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Via Sacramento Bee
A proposed law to recognize a growing number of same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries is winding its way through California’s Legislature.
Opponents of gay marriage say Senate Bill 54 violates Proposition 8, a voter initiative approved last November that amended the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and [...]

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Chastity Bono is Undergoing a Sex Change to Become a Man

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

More Sonny, less Cher.
Celebrity daughter Chastity Bono is undergoing a sex change to become a man, her publicist announced Thursday.
The gender-swap process began shortly after Bono’s 40th birthday in March and more than a decade after she came out as a lesbian.
“Chaz, after many years of consideration, has made the courageous decision to honor his [...]

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Kymber Veautour Reviews Chestnut Street Cafe Gay, Owned and Operated Cafe in Rhode Island.

It took me a few weeks to get to Rhode Island to see what the fuss was about, but I finally made it down.  With a street name and a website address Chestnut Street Cafe to go on, I was off to the hot new place to be in Rhode Island.
I first had to look [...]