By LOU CHIBBARO JR, Washington Blade
Two gay D.C. City Council members joined their colleagues in a unanimous vote Friday to eliminate millions of dollars in non-competitive earmark grants for dozens of non-profit organizations, including $1.01 million in grants to four LGBT groups.
The action by David Catania (I-At Large), Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) and other Council members comes one week after Mayor Adrian Fenty proposed cutting the grants by 60 percent as part of a revised city budget aimed at reversing a projected $453 million shortfall in the current fiscal year and a projected $150 million deficit in 2010.
Officials with the D.C. Center and its acclaimed Crystal ...
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade
Gay rights activists in D.C. are lobbying a Wisconsin lawmaker to introduce in the Senate legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Allison Herwitt, HRC's legislative director, told the Blade o n Friday that her organization has been communicating with Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) to introduce DOMA repeal legislation that would complement a similar bill expected in the House.
"Right now, I think Sen. Feingold is the senator that has been ? liaising most with us and the House people," she said.
Feingold is an attractive ally to introduce a DOMA repeal bill because he c ...
LISBON, Portugal (AP)
Portugal's Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the country's ban on gay marriage, rejecting a challenge by two lesbians who are seeking to wed.
The court said its five judges ruled 3-2 against an appeal lodged by the women two years ago.
Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, divorced mothers in their 30s who have been together as a couple since 2003, were tur ...
Three gay clergy have been nominated for bishop in the Episcopal Church
Sandler's 'Funny People' wins weekend with $23.4M; 'Potter' places second with $17.7M
Buffy touched on the death of August Provost earlier this month; now, reports OnTop: Suspect In Gay Sailor’s Death Commits Suicide The seaman being held in the brig of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton charged with the death of a gay sailor was found unresponsive Friday, the ‘Houston Chronicle’ reported. Petty Officer Jonathan Campos was charged last [...]
Video & more after the jump. In short: McMackin described Notre Dame’s chant before last year’s Hawaii Bowl as a “faggot dance”: “It made me sick after that game. It made me sick. But I screwed up. And I’ll never do this again. He had his guys, ‘we do something special at Notre Dame’ he said, and [...]
Hutchison site is loaded with hidden phrasesâ€"including two “Perry gay†references, which the campaign says it’s removing This morning, I came across a Web site for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s gubernatorial campaign. A provocative twist: The site may have been juiced with the intent of drawing visitors with the help of more than 2,200 hidden phrasesâ€"including [...]
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