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- The Daily Agenda for Saturday, May 25 2013/05/25TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Alkmaar, Netherlands; Birmingham, UK; Cambridge/Kitchener/Waterloo, ON; Chicago, IL (Bear Pride); Eilat, Israel; Eskilstuna, Sweden; Melbourne, FL; Pensacola, FL; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Tralee, Ireland; Washington, DC (Black Pride). Harvey Milk Day Events: Various locations and dates. Other Events This Weeke […]Jim Burroway
- The Daily Agenda for Friday, May 24 2013/05/24TODAY’S AGENDA: Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Alkmaar, Netherlands; Birmingham, UK; Cambridge/Kitchener/Waterloo, ON; Chicago, IL (Bear Pride); Eilat, Israel; Eskilstuna, Sweden; Melbourne, FL; Pensacola, FL; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Tralee, Ireland; Washington, DC (Black Pride). Harvey Milk Day Events: Various locations and dates. Other Events This Weeke […]Jim Burroway
- Boy Scouts of America Votes To Allow Gay Members, Retains Ban On Gay Leaders 2013/05/23The Boy Scouts of America’s National Council this afternoon passed a resolution to allow gay youth to become Boy Scout members. The resolution passed with a 61% to 38% margin. According to a BSA press release: “Based on growing input from within the Scouting family, the BSA leadership chose to conduct an additional review of the [...]Jim Burroway
- Nevada House votes to reverse marriage ban 2013/05/23In 2002, the voters of Nevada voted by a two-thirds majority to amend their constitution to limit marriage to heterosexuals. But attitudes shifted and in 2009 – amidst heavy lobbying from the casinos – the legislature passed an all-but-the-name domestic partnership bill. Last month, the state Senate became the first legislative body to vote for [...]Timothy Kincaid
- The Daily Agenda for Thursday, May 23 2013/05/23TODAY’S AGENDA: Boy Scouts To Vote On Gay Ban: Grapevine, TX. Boy Scout leaders from across the nation are gathering at a resort in the Dallas suburb of Grapevine this week, where today they have schedule a vote on a proposal to lift the ban on gay scout members. According to the proposal, the ban [...]Jim Burroway
- It’s Not the Principle, It’s the Prejudice 2013/05/22Here’s something that baffles me. Our opponents complain that laws banning anti-gay discrimination violate their religious liberty, but they have no qualms about laws against religious discrimination. For instance, Catholic Charities of Boston chose to shut down adoption services rather than place kids with married same-sex parents, and decried it as a viola […]Rob Tisinai
- Congratulations Mitch! 2013/05/22Yesterday were the elections for city council and mayor in Los Angeles. My councilman, Eric Garcetti, won mayor and the new councilman in my district will be Mitch O’Farrell. Mitch was one of a few openly gay candidates for District 13 – which includes Hollywood, Silverlake, and Atwater Village – and came first in the [...]Timothy Kincaid
ACT On Principles Turning Principles into Equality
- EMAIL the Religious Groups Opposing UAFA & LGBT Equality 2013/05/20EMAIL: info@nhclc.org, archbishop.dolan@archny.org, bduke@erlc.com, landerson@nae.net OR CALL: NAE: 202-789-1011 SBC: 202-547-8105 USCCB: 212-371-1000 NHCLC: 916-919-7476 Re: Stop Hurting Gay People Dear Religious Leaders: Rev. Leith Anderson, National Association of Evangelicals Mr. Barrett Duke, Southern Baptist Convention Cardinal Timothy Dolan, United St […]J Todd Fernandez
- More Than 2,000 Days Trying to “Figure This Out” – Eric & Jon’s Story 2013/03/01On June 29, 2006 I boarded a flight to New York’s LaGuardia Airport that would completely change my life. It was not my first trip to New York, but it was my first solo trip. I thought that I may be a little crazy for arranging this trip, but I’m a scientist and a bit of a planner. There is always a Plan B and I will always find a solution A few months earli […]Amos Lim
- An Experiment in International Living 2013/02/26crossposted at Out4Immigration’s Blog July 1987, an “Experiment in International Living”, that’s what they called the homestay trip that I took as a 16-year-old girl from the United States. I stayed with my Irish host family who immediately paired me with their 16-year-old niece, Karen. We became fast friends and found it impossible to say goodbye after my t […]Amos Lim
- Successful U.S. Businesswoman Forced to Commute to Los Angeles While Family Lives in Exile 2013/02/26crossposted from Out4Immigration’s Blog American Rita Boyadjian and her German life partner, Mara, met in Cologne, Germany at a European Gay Pride celebration in 2002 while Rita was touring Europe on vacation. They fell madly in love and began a long-distance relationship. After 18-months of flying back and forth every 3 to 4 weeks while visiting on a touris […]Amos Lim
- Karen and Joy: An Experiment in International Living 2013/02/26crossposted at Out4Immigration’s Blog July 1987, an “Experiment in International Living,” that’s what they called the homestay trip that I took as a 16-year-old girl from the United States. I stayed with my Irish host family who immediately paired me with their 16-year-old niece, Karen. We became fast friends and found it impossible to say goodbye after my t […]Amos Lim
- A New Initiative: Loving Everywhere 2013/02/24For the first time in a decade, on March 26th and 27th, the Supreme Court will hear two cases about LGBT equality. Their rulings on these two cases will likely direct same gender marriage laws for the next decade(s). The cases are ably handled by two civil rights organizations: The ACLU LGBT project and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. But you can d […]Juan Ahonen-Jover
- Kathy And Ana: Four Weddings on Two Continents, But Still No Recognition by U.S. Government 2013/02/08Four Weddings on Two Continents, But Still No Recognition by U.S. Government Ana and I “met” in 2008 while we were both participating in an online book club. Although Ana is a Portuguese national, she currently resides in the United Kingdom. We quickly became friends in the book club and in November of that year, I was fortunate enough to have a business mee […]Amos Lim
Some Blogs To Follow
April 24, 2012 by snoopervizion
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