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Gay Musical for Thanksgiving - Oh The Horror!

Submitted by David Hart on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 18:37

FalsettosThe right have their undies in a knot because a high school is performing the award-winning play, Falsettos. Falsettos is a musical set in New York City in 1979. Marvin, his son Jason, his psychiatrist Mendel and his male lover Whizzer are Four Jews In A Room Bitching  Marvin steps forward to explain his situation: He has left his wife, [Read more ...]

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South Korea bar district offers a safe haven for gay servicemembers

Submitted by NewsSystem on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 00:00
It's a Saturday night, and cheers erupt from the all-male crowd as a slender South Korean man wearing a sparkling silver dress and matching headpiece walks through the door of a standing room-only bar.

Policy revisions approved to allow transfer benefit for same-sex teacher couples

Submitted by NewsSystem on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 00:00
Same-sex teaching couples are eligible after all for joint job transfers this year at Department of Defense schools, officials said Wednesday.

New bill in Congress would prohibit states from discriminating against gays in adoption

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 20:45
US Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) has introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act (H.R. 4806). According to the ACLU, the legislation would aim to help reduce the number of children languishing in state-run facilities by restricting federal funding to...

Video shows more alleged BB rifle attacks

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 19:34
A video made by three cousins from Hayward charged with an alleged anti-gay shooting with a BB rifle last month in San Francisco shows 11 other attacks in a single night, authorities said Friday. The men have been charged in San Francisco with a hate crime...

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 18:17
Steve Benen: Looking Longingly At Joseph McCarthy. Media Matters: Right-wing media eagerly spread absurd claim that Obama plans to "ban sport fishing". Think Progress: Conservative Catholic League President Bill Donohue Defends Beck: Many Of His Critics Are ‘Phonies’. Wonk Room: Girl Suing High School Over Canceled Prom: School Is Saying ‘You Can Be Gay, Just Don’t Be Openly Gay’. Alan Colmes: Neal Horsley Arrested For Terrorist Threat Against Elton John.

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 18:08
The AP reports that "a jury has convicted "Harlan Drake of first-degree murder Thursday in the September 2009 shootings of abortion protester James Pouillon and businessman Mike Fuoss in Owosso, rejecting claims that the gunman was mentally ill at the time." Joel Hunter reports that he has left the GOP. The Family Policy Network is attacking VA Gov. Bob McDonnell and warning that he has "made an enemy of the grassroots" by being insufficiently committed to discriminating against gays. Pamela Geller claims that the goal of Rifqa Bary's parent's attorney is to run out the clock until she ...

Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks.

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 18:04
The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, “the board’s far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics”: – To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.” – The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, “replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin.” – The Board ...

US teacher accused of threatening to 'out' straight pupil

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 17:13
A New York teacher has been accused of threatening to 'out' a straight nine-year-old boy. Jared Alessandroni, 29, a teacher at the South Bronx Charter School, allegedly told the pupil he would tell the class he was gay.

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MSNBC's Ratigan Attacks 'Stars on Ice' On Basis of Anonymous Source Cited by GLAAD; Fails to Give Show's Side of Story

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 18:23
"Sponsors of those [sic] Stars on Ice figure skating tour apparently think that Olympian Johnny Weir is too flamboyant for their show.  Weir reportedly prohibited from participating because he is not, quote, 'family friendly,'" MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan complained shortly before 5 p.m. on his MSNBC program today, citing a report by a blog published by GLAAD [the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]. Ratigan griped that despite Weir's athletic credentials and well-known support of his family -- he's financing his brother's college education and supporting his father, who is unable to ...

First Homosexual 'Marriages' Formalized in Mexico City

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 16:45
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America CorrespondentMEXICO CITY, March 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Archdiocese of Mexico City has issued a firm condemnation of Mexico City's first homosexual "marriages," which were conducted Thursday in the nation's capital city.Five...

Lesbian Kiss, Cigarette Hat

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 15:49
SINGER SHOCKER: Lady Gaga set her new 9-minute long video in a women's prison, wears headgear made of Marlboro's, and leaves most of her clothes at home

Did Focus On The Family Board Force Dr. Dobson to Step Down because They Wanted to Take a Softer Approach to Abortion and Homosexuality Issues?

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 15:15
A prominent friend and supporter of James Dobson believes Dobson was pushed aside by the new leadership of Focus on the Family, who want the powerhouse evangelical ministry to project a softer image on issues ranging from abortion to gay marriage to relations with President Obama.

ENGLAND: Evangelicals outraged by Bishop Jones comments

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 14:40
ENGLAND: Evangelicals outraged by Bishop Jones commentsBy Toby Cohen Church of England Newspaper March 11, 2010DISAPPOINTED EVANGELICALS have turned on the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones, after he called for a new policy on homosexuality in his Presidential address to his Diocesan Synod on Saturday.Bishop Jones called for the Church to tolerate a range of attitudes to homosexuality, as it does to pacifism. He said: "Just as the church over the last 2000 years has come to allow a variety of ethical conviction about the taking of life and the application of the sixth Commandment ...

Higgins Has Questions about Prof. Throckmorton’s ‘Nuanced’ Position on Homosexuality

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 13:37
How can a serious follower of Christ “envision” a homosexual identity? “Nuance” — yet another manifestation of rhetoric serving the cause of sin. Where oh where is C.S. Lewis when we need him to poke holes in the fancy façade of sophistication that we sinners don to conceal our acquiescence to a fallen world? Grove City College Professor Warren Throckmorton’s feet have been put to the fire recently regarding the Sexual Identity Therapy guidelines that he and Mark Yarhouse of Regent University have developed. Their guidelines state the following: The emergence of a gay identity for persons ...

Eric Massa, Barney Frank, and Courting Transsexual Perversion

Submitted by NewsSystem on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 13:15
The Boston Herald reported that “disgraced” Congressman Eric Massa had a dinner date with Diego Sanchez, a staffer in Congressman Barney Frank’s office. What’s not now being reported is that Sanchez is a female-to-male transsexual.Frank’s office confirmed the dinner-date staffer’s name as Diego Sanchez. The Boston Herald reported (in a separate story) that the staffer’s name was Diego Sanchez -- but then later this morning retracted that identification. (See Herald online stories below.) What’s going on here?Sanchez, who used to work for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, ...

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NY Times on NJ Marriage Equality

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 17:46

RingsDoing the right thing — promptly enacting legislation discarding inadequate civil unions in favor of full marriage equality for same-sex couples — requires no gargantuan amount of courage or risk-taking on the part of rank-and-file New Jersey legislators or their leaders. … The chance that approving marriage equality would provoke a mass voter revolt seems remote. [Read more ...]

C Street "Family" Linked to Ugandan Oppression of Gays

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 16:16

C St HouseThe Family is the secretive fundamentalist Christian group with a house on C Street where conservative Christian lawmakers live and pray. The group has attempted to shield Mark Sanford and John Ensign from scrutiny. The C Street house is actually owned by a Family front group, "Youth With a Mission." YWAM is a global Christian evangelical organization founded in 1960 which, declares YWAM, is "currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 149 countries, with a staff of nearly 16,000." [Read more ...]

The "War on Thanksgiving?"

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:54

TurkeyThis gem is from Christian Newswire: [Read more ...]

Archbishop Wuerl Continues His Shakedown [Video]

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:36

Archbishop WuerlThere has to come a point when Wuerl (the Archbishop of Washington) realizes that he keeps contradicting himself. It wasn't terribly bright to threaten the DC City Council to begin with. Now, about all that he is accomplishing is to make himself even more irrelevant as he tries, in vain, to kill marriage equality or, in the alternative, to get the Council to sanction the church's employment discrimination. [Read more ...]

Liberty Counsel Can Kiss My Ass

Submitted by David Hart on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 00:15

Adam LambertIt seems that the prudes as Liberty Counsel have filed a complaint with the FCC (PDF) against ABC over the performance of Adam Lambert. In their letter, signed by Anita Staver, they use the word "homosexual" four times. The implication is that gay sexual innuendo is sufficient to warrant a complaint. Actually, the basis of the complaint is the gay suggestiveness of the act.

In point of fact, Lambert did nothing more erotic than countless performers – male and female – have done with their dancers and musicians of the opposite sex. Nevertheless, the holier-than-thou schmucks [Read more ...]

Have a "Courageous Conversation" With Friends and Family this Thanksgiving

Submitted by GayNewsService.com on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 15:00

Courage Conversations Via Marta Evry, Courage Campaign — I want to tell you about a heartfelt conversation I recently had with a family member who opposed marriage equality. I hope it will motivate you to have one of your own with someone you care about this holiday season.

I'm a straight ally, a community organizer, and a volunteer photographer for Camp Courage. As I learned at Camp Courage, the best way to build momentum for marriage equality is by having personal conversations. [Read more ...]

For $67.43 Randall Terry Delivers Convulsions

Submitted by David Hart on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 00:26

Randall TerryIt seems that every irrational right wing whack job has a scam scheme these days to FedEx, fax or phone every member of congress. Usually, these things are priced at several times the cost of providing the "service." Any congressional staffer will tell you that duplicate letters, emails or faxes are treated as one. [Read more ...]

Top God Tube Video Questions Christian Vitriol

Submitted by David Hart on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 15:51

This is one of the most watched videos on GodTube (now Tangle). I am serving this video stream locally to avoid some of the bandwidth and other issues associated with Tangle. Floodgate Productions informs me that they are uploading this to YouTube shortly.

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