Tuesday, April 21, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

Dancing with the Stars season eight updates and recaps. Lawrence Taylor, Shawn Johnson, Gilles Marini, Lil Kim, Melissa Rycroft, Chuck Wicks and Ty Murray. Dancing with the Stars season eight contestants performed their first group dance and seven celebrity finalists remain on stage for the big win. Bachelor star Melissa Rycroft paid a visit to the set of Desperate Housewives.
The Miss USA pageant first runner-up, Miss California Carrie Prejean, defends her anti-gay marriage answer about marriage being between a man and a woman, and also prays for Perez Hilton, the Miss USA judge who posed the question.
This week in television, Tyra Banks' talks Genital Reassignment Surgery with Isis, The Cougar is hot but her wet-behind-the-ears suitors aren't. Premiere lesbian celeb trainer Jackie Warner's kicking asses in Jackie's Gym Takeover. Laurel Holloman 'sits on Jennifer Beals' face,' Stephen Colbert's afraid of 'Arma-GAY-don,' and yes, Lindsay Lohan's still looking for love.
Today the Human Rights Campaign released a new video in conjunction with the campaign to pass federal hate crimes legislation.  The video, “10 Years,” features Judy Shepard, whose son Matthew was murdered in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming because he was gay. Watch it here:   The video profiles the stories of hate crimes victims who were targeted because of who [...]
From Reuters: A majority of New Yorkers support a bill legalizing gay marriage, according to a poll released on Monday, but the measure still faces an uphill battle in the state legislature. By a margin of 53 to 39 percent, New York voters said they backed Governor David Paterson’s proposal enabling same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses, [...]
This afternoon, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee issued an official notice that the federal hate crimes bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913), is scheduled for a full committee markup this week. The markup on the hate crimes bill will begin on Wednesday, April 22 at 10:15 a.m. in 2141 [...]

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