Tuesday, October 28, 2008

GLBT News Headlines (T5T-6)

Writer Lisa B. Valentino says she's decided to step squarely into the political arena. So take a deep breath or a Xanax if you have to… and let the colored girl tell you what’s on her mind. Did she say 'colored?' Oh yes, she did.
Amid an uproar over a West Hollywood resident’s Halloween inspired hanging of Sarah Palin in effigy on his lawn, the city’s Mayor Jeffrey Prang has strongly admonished the act. The effigy, which has caught the attention of the local news, kicking off news casts, and even becoming a singular political hot topic on which all of The View co-hosts could agree over the display’s offensiveness, is a perfectly legal act.
The latest round of grassroots No on 8 public service announcements started with a simple conversation. Republicans Against 8 campaign director Scott Schmidt ran into Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, who Schmidt says wanted to know if there was anything more than fund-raising he could do to fight Proposition 8.
NOTE FROM CHRIS: With exactly one week until election day, we are excited to publish this post from Tyler Oakley, a 19-year-old Michigan State University student and winner of HRC's Come Out and Vote video contest. HRC staff reviewed the...
By Anthony Hayes, HRC's senior Camp Equality field director: While people on the Las Vegas Strip are at the blackjack tables or plugging nickels into slot machines, HRC's Camp Equality volunteers were out knocking for change in Las Vegas. Dina...
AMERICAblog's John Aravosis really hit the idiot nail on the head with this post: McCain's buddies in the religious right say America won't survive if they lose anti-gay vote in California.

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