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Apparently, the economic downturn has affected Focus on the Family just like the rest of us. According to this article in The Advocate, Focus on the Family faced a $6 million budget shortfall this year and has cut it's ex-gay Love Won Out conferences.
Orlando-based group Exodus International -- known for its "reparative" therapies for gay Christians -- will now be taking the lead on Love Won Out, slated for November, as the ministries merge to boost their promotion of the "traditional" view of the American family.
Focus on the Family also announced a $28 million cut from last year's budget, to $138 million for 2009, and elimination of 18% of its workforce, or about 200 jobs.
Last week the American Psychological Association challenged the mission of both organizations, releasing a 100-plus-page report condemning "ex-gay" conversion therapies, stating there is insufficient scientific evidence that "reparative" and conversion therapies are effective -- and that their practice is potentially harmful.
While we are sad to hear that the Love Won Out conferences will continue, we can only hope that the budget shortfall will mean less money for Focus on the Family to fight marriage equality and similar ballot initiatives across the country.
Orlando-based group Exodus International -- known for its "reparative" therapies for gay Christians -- will now be taking the lead on Love Won Out, slated for November, as the ministries merge to boost their promotion of the "traditional" view of the American family.
Focus on the Family also announced a $28 million cut from last year's budget, to $138 million for 2009, and elimination of 18% of its workforce, or about 200 jobs.
Last week the American Psychological Association challenged the mission of both organizations, releasing a 100-plus-page report condemning "ex-gay" conversion therapies, stating there is insufficient scientific evidence that "reparative" and conversion therapies are effective -- and that their practice is potentially harmful.
While we are sad to hear that the Love Won Out conferences will continue, we can only hope that the budget shortfall will mean less money for Focus on the Family to fight marriage equality and similar ballot initiatives across the country.
Campus Pride and Wolfe Video have announced a partnership to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and ally students at colleges and universities across the country, including the release of a LGBT Youth DVD Guide.
"Seeing ourselves represented on the silver screen can be one of the most empowering experiences for LGBT people coming of age," said Wolfe Video president Maria Lynn. "We're so happy to have Campus Pride helping us reach the LGBT students who want and need to see these images of themselves."
Wolfe Video is the oldest and largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films. In 2009, the company released more than thirty films and is well known for releasing classics such as Desert Hearts.
Campus Pride was founded in 2001 and is the leading national nonprofit organization serving LGBT and ally college students and campus groups. Both organizations partnered to provide a new LGBT DVD Guide specifically for colleges and universities.
The guide provides suggested videos and resources to bring quality LGBT films and videos to campus.
For more information on the youth DVD guide, click here or visit www.campuspride.org/dvdguide.asp.
"Seeing ourselves represented on the silver screen can be one of the most empowering experiences for LGBT people coming of age," said Wolfe Video president Maria Lynn. "We're so happy to have Campus Pride helping us reach the LGBT students who want and need to see these images of themselves."
Wolfe Video is the oldest and largest exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films. In 2009, the company released more than thirty films and is well known for releasing classics such as Desert Hearts.
Campus Pride was founded in 2001 and is the leading national nonprofit organization serving LGBT and ally college students and campus groups. Both organizations partnered to provide a new LGBT DVD Guide specifically for colleges and universities.
The guide provides suggested videos and resources to bring quality LGBT films and videos to campus.
For more information on the youth DVD guide, click here or visit www.campuspride.org/dvdguide.asp.
Today President Obama will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest honor for a civilian, to 16 people. One of those is Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official from a major city (San Francisco). Milk encouraged lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens to live their lives openly and believed coming out was the only way they could change society and achieve social equality. Milk, alongside San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, was shot and killed in 1978 by Dan White, a former city supervisor.His award will be accepted by his nephew, Stuart Milk. Acording to this article by Chuck Wolfe from The Huffington Post, "When Stuart Milk stands before the president and the country to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of his late, slain uncle Harvey Milk, it'll be a moment of incredible pride for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Yet this is a moment that will transcend identity politics because Harvey Milk represents the aspirations of all Americans. More than 200 years ago Washington, Jefferson and Adams fought to create a more perfect union. They probably had no idea that their vision would be embodied in the late 20th century by a gay, Jewish camera shop owner in San Francisco.
Milk's murder could have had a chilling effect on the then burgeoning gay rights movement. Many forces were already actively at work to put gays back in the closest including crusader Anita Bryant. Instead it's a testament to American idealism that in the 30 years since Milk's assassination, we have continued to appreciate and honor his political work.
In fact, there are now more than 440 openly LGBT public officials in our country who serve in states as diverse as Alabama, Idaho and Kentucky. That's real progress, but even that number seems small when you realize there are more than one half million elected offices in the U.S.
When Stuart Milk accepts the Medal of Freedom this Wednesday we will beam with pride, but it will be tinged with the thought of what might have been -- for Harvey, for our movement, and for our country. And then we will remember what he taught us about perseverance, pride and telling the truth about who we really are, and we will press on."
Alleged anti-gay harassment at the hands of teachers at a north metro school district cost taxpayers $25,000, the Star Tribune reports. The settlement addresses exactly the kind of hostile school environment an anti-bullying bill vetoed by Gov. Tim Pawlenty was supposed to address. Two Anoka-Hennepin School District teachers, Diane Cleveland and Walter Filson, were accused of [...]
Contributed by - Californian’s Against Hate: Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger sent a letter today warning top Maine election officials of possible money laundering by opponents of same-sex marriage. The organization trying to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law, Stand for Marriage PAC recently turned in 100,000 signatures to place the question on the November ballot. [...]
Oh the irony of it all. Doug Manchester, owner of the Manchester Hyatt, the same guy who donated $125,000 towards the passage of Proposition 8 in California because of his firm “Catholic” beliefs that marriage is only between one man and one woman, has found himself in the middle of a rather messy divorce after [...]
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