Wednesday, February 4, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

On Wednesday, Alaska governor Sarah Palin returned fire at Ashley Judd and the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund in what is fast becoming a war of words over the state of Alaska's wolf control program,which includes provisions that allow and encourage the aerial killing of wolves in the 'Last Frontier State'.

Fired for being gay, attorney Leslie Hagen has now been rehired. In a strange turn of events, Hagen was actually rehired because the Justice Department placed an ad to fill her position and Hagen herself replied to the ad and got the job.

A 23-year-old woman from Valparaiso, Indiana, showed up to her sister’s wedding and physically attacked her. The groom and two guests in their 60s had to pull Bricker off the bride, according to witnesses.
WHAT A PITY: America's first gay bookstore, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop in New York's Greenwich Village, is closing its doors after more than 40 years in operation and five different owners: Only a few doors down from the Stonewall Inn...
From the Advocate: New Hampshire legislators are mulling two very different bills -- one that would build upon the state's civil union bill to legalize gay marriage, and one that would define marriage as a union between a man and...
Sacramento State University professors Edward L. Lascher Jr. and Tim Hodson and UC Davis School of Law professor Floyd F. Feeney draw upon the experience of Prop 8 to argue in an LA Times op-ed today that the process to...

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