GLBTQ: Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

"What it seems like to me is this: Obamaâ€™s religous outreach is not witchhunting or targeting gays in any way. But it also is not looking at us as important religious partners. Newsweek columnist Sally Quinn says that [Josh] DuBois was the person who first floated Rick Warrenâ€™s name as a possible inaugural speaker; DuBois, [...]

"Ryan Pacifico is suing Calyon in the Americas, charging that his one-time boss at the French financial firm presided over a testosterone-fueled trading desk, where he was mocked for avoiding meat and wearing snug-fitting shorts during triathlons. "A trading floor is certainly a manly man's world," Pacifico said. "I just never expected someone to think [...]

Oh, I know we could come up with a more clever line, but what else do you say to his Esquire profile where he equates gay marriage with bestiality? There are only so many times you can put on your nerd glasses and rationally say, "Yo, sheep are not capable of consensual, loving relationship, you [...]

Integration on Thursday nights is going strong.Â If you haven’t gone recently you really should it was great last Thursday.Â The large Dance floor was open and there was a great crowd.Â Integration is 18+ so don’t forget to invite all your friends that couldn’t make it to PINK on Wednesday nights, those of you [...]

Wow. Now that this turd has been unleashed from Headline News and jumped to Faux News, he's really gone over the deep end -- California is polluting the rest of the union with its wayward leftist ways (hey, what about Prop 8!?), so Glenn Beck's ready to boot the U.S. down to 49 states to save the family and the right to destroy the environment. David Neiwert @ Crooks & Liars has the video.

Beck: OK, there's something driving me to the edge of insanity, makes blood shoot right out my eyes, and that is California.
California today, they voted against offshore drilling. Not on their land, or their shore, no. They also voted last week to raise emissions standards because it's too smoggy there and they care about the trees. Also, uh, in the stimulus, we found out today, it appears as though Hollywood can get a, um, bailout, from you and me, because nobody's going to see their movies. Hmmph! You'd think maybe they should just make better movies, and then we'd all go. But no no, let's bail them all out.
The Civil War taught us that, apparently, U.S. states can't secede from the Union. I'd like to test that one again maybe sometime. But what I'd like to know is if the Union has the right to kick out states. Because if so, I'd like to take a star right out of our flag, and California is it.

From eco-warriors running the state and ruining it to Hollywood projecting their family values and politics on the U.S., and illegal immigration driving them into bankruptcy, the Golden State drives me out of my mind, and I don't think I'm alone.

Another update from the Creating Change National LGBT movement conference in Denver. Rae Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force rocked the house in her "state of the movement" speech this afternoon.

[CDATA[ Dolores Huerta: Si se puede! The 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change got off to a rousing start tonight in Denver, Colo., when legendary social justice and labor leader Dolores Huerta gave a powerful call for justice for all in the opening plenary. Huerta, the co-founder of the United Farm Workers [...][...]

We're here in Denver, Colorado at the annual Creating Change conference... posting updates and news from the national LGBT equality movement.