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Senior housing for LGBT community opens in Oakland Oakland Tribune, CA - By Lucinda Ryan The East Bay Symphony Trio, with Musical Director Michael Morgan, right, on the piano, performs during an open house at the former Lake ... |
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Metlife Recognized for Commitment to LGBT Community WELT ONLINE, Germany - "We are so honored that the HRC and SAGE have recognized MetLife’s commitment to the GLBT community,†said Denise Singleton, vice president of the Office of ... |
GLBT Expert Ochs to Present Lecture Carleton College News, MN - Ochs has taught courses on topics including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender/transsexual (GLBT) history and politics in the United States, ... |
History Department’s Sharon Ullman Chairs Equality Forum’s GLBT ... Bryn Mawr Now, United States - Professor of History Sharon Ullman recently appeared on 98.5 Ben FM’s “Woman of the Week†show to talk about GLBT History Month (streaming audio is ... Groups educate campus during LGBTQA month |
On November 8, 2008, the Museum of Broadcast Communications plans to induct James Dobson’s anti-gay Focus on the Family radio program into its Radio Hall of Fame.Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and Truth Wins Out are getting the word out about the Radio Halls of Fame's intent to honor and induct a man who has a long track record of defaming LGBT people on topics ranging from gay parenting, marriage equality and so-called "repairtive therapy."
Dobson runs Colorado Springs-based "Focus on the Family," and GLAADBlog reports that:
Dobson has said being gay “has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember it†and that gay people “have as many as 300 to 1,000 partners in a lifetime.†He has also falsely claimed that committed gay couples “cannot be a family†and that allowing them to get married would “destroy the family.â€
Be sure to check out this video, and read more on the GLAADBlog about how to speak up for our LGBT loved ones. A first step you can take is to contact the Museum of Broadcast Communications and tell them that a man who has spent his career demonizing LGBT people does not deserve to be the the Radio Hall of Fame.
Call: (312) 822-0512
Email: Bruce Dumont (CEO) - brucedumont@museum.tv
Email: Gina Doyle - gdoyle@museum.tv
On Sunday, Kathy Gilleran will fly from her home in New York to Vienna, Austria in search of her son. Last night, ahead of her European trip, she sat down with WTVH, her local CBS affiliate, to talk about her continued quest to learn the truth about what happened to her openly gay son, Aeryn, one year ago this month.From the WTVH report:
This is Kathy Gilleran's second overseas mission to find clues about what happened to her son who vanished one year ago. She has begged and pleaded with Austrian authorities to help her find her son, Aeryn. The 34 year old Groton High School graduate worked for the United Nations in Vienna, and she's made it her vow to travel to the city every single October until she finds out what happened.
Next Wednesday is the one year anniversary of Aeryn's disappearance, and as Kathy packs her own suitcase, she feels nervous, scared, at times hopeful, but there's one suitcase that she just can't bear to open... Aeryn's. The State Department has arranged a meeting for Kathy with Austrian police. While Kathy has chosen to make this journey on her own, she'll be joined by Aeryn's closest friends from Vienna for a candlelight vigil across the street from the sauna where he was last seen. "I need to do this for Aeryn," said Gilleran. "I need to let him know that I will never ever give up on trying to find him and that my love will never ever ever go away."
She's stuck in limbo she says, terrified she might stay that way for the rest of her life. This trip could change that. "I'm really hopeful that after this trip to Vienna that I am able to do a little bit more, that I'm able to open suitcases that I haven't been able to," said Gilleran. At the vigil, Kathy will be holding a single candle, just like the candle she's had lit in her window since last October, a light that she hopes will lead her son home. If anyone wishes to contact Kathy with information or simply kind words of support you can e-mail her at FindAeryn@gmail.com.
As you know we recently sent out the newest edition of the PFLAGpole newsletter. We have several newsletters left over and instead of recycling them we wanted to offer them to you! If your chapter has paid 2007-2008 dues and have either already paid 2008-2009 dues or you get them in by November 15, we would like to offer the extra copies to you in bundles of 100.These would be great to hand out to newcomers at your meetings. You could also include them in part of any resource table that you offer, or keep a few copies in your chapter library. If you end up doing something else with them, let us know. We love to hear the creative ways that PFLAGers use the resources they’re given.
-Erin Williams
If you’re interested in the free (in bundles of 100) extra copies of the most recent PFLAGpole, please email Erin Cranford Williams at ewilliams@pflag.org.
Bloggers around the country will participate in “Write to Marry Day” on October 29, 2008, posting on their blogs in support of marriage equality for same-sex couples and against California’s Proposition 8. Prop 8 is a measure on California’s November ballot that would take away the right of same-sex couples to marry. The event will give [...]
From RightWingWatch.org. That is the title of this good piece by NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty on how John McCain managed to go from reviled enemy of the Religious Right to panderer extraordinaire in just eight years. Hagerty recounts who McCain openly attacked the Right with his “agents of intolerance” remark back in 2000 and how despite Gary [...]
Darnelle Donerson, the 57 year-old mother of Jennifer Hudson was found dead earlier today in her home on the South Side of Chicago. Officer John Mirabelli of the Chicago Police Department stated officers were called to the 7000 block of Yale Avenue in the neighborhood of Englewood, where just before 3 p.m. they discovered two unresponsive [...]
From Pam’s House Blend: It’s like Susan Smith and Charles Stuart all over again — a disturbed person blaming a non-existent black man for a crime, fomenting the fear of “the Other” based on our country’s inability to acknowledge and deal with race, difference, and stereotypes. That this perpetrator of a hoax was a McCain campaign [...]
In a press release from apple corp: Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our emplo to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights â€" including the right [...]
From the SLTrib.com: The thought of going to church in her southern California LDS ward makes Carol Oldham cry. She can’t face one more sermon against same-sex marriage. She can’t tolerate the glares at the rainbow pin on her lapel. Oldham, a lifelong Mormon, is troubled by her church’s zeal in supporting a California ballot initiative that [...]
Leaders of Proposition 8, the campaign to once again outlaw same-sex marriage in California has made threats to businesses that have given money to the state’s largest gay-rights group: Give us money or we’ll publicly identify you as opponents of traditional unions. Those opposed to the November ballot measure which will strip tax paying citizens of [...]
As I’ve reported, millions are being raised in support of and opposition to Proposition 8. The gay marriage ban clearly has inflamed passions. (Don’t believe me? Check out our comments lately.) But I’ll be honest here, I don’t see the point. I’ve written about gay politics on and off for several years now, ever since I worked [...]
AS THE NEW MASON-DIXON POLL SHOWS, MOST FLORIDIANS SUPPORT AMENDMENT 2. WE CAN STILL STOP THIS FROM BECOMING LAW BY KEEPING OUR OPPONENTS UNDER THE 60% REQUIRED TO AMEND FLORIDA’S CONSTITUTION. NOTHING CAN BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED. PLEASE URGE EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO VOTE “NO” ON AMENDMENT 2 For more information visit: Palm Beach County Human Rights Council
From xtra.ca: In 1981 young tennis superstar Martina Navratilova secured American citizenship and announced to the world that she is gay. Today she’s a legend both on and off the courts. One of only three women to complete the Grand Slam “box set,” Navratilova is also one of the co-founders of The Rainbow Foundation which has [...]
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