Thursday, November 5, 2009

GLBT News Headlines (T4T-6)

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Is homosexuality a choice, or is it part of our biological makeup? In the last few decades the topic has raged around the world from dinner tables to courtrooms. There have been very few scientific studies dedicated to identifying whether there is "gay gene" or attempting to clarify a scientific standard in this debate.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ...For A Cause, Inc. has been combining good times with good causes since 2001, and for the same price or less than a conventional walking or cycling vacation participants can experience Spain or Tuscany, Italy at its best, help children with AIDS or those affected by Breast Cancer, and receive a tax deduction on their 2010 taxes. The fundraising vacations -- "fund-cations" -- are organized like a typical bicycling or walking vacation, but at the end of the week participants leave knowing they made a difference. "Unlike for-profit companies, whose primary focus is their return on the bottom line, our focus is on the return to the beneficiaries," said founder Rob Webber.
This post from HRC Family Project Director Ellen Kahn reflects on the new study showing similarities between same- and opposite-sex couples:  As a teenager, I never imagined my life would resemble that of my parents.  No, as a “baby dyke,” marriage was out of the question, and kids… well I certainly did not think gay people ever [...]
The following guest post: ”Ending Employment Discrimination in America: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics about AmericaAmerica’s LGBT Families” comes from Bob Witeck, CEO, Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., Washington, D.C. “When you say…you [gay Americans] are not a group of people who need special protection. You do well economically. You are an elite. That is precisely the argument that has [...]
New York Governor David Peterson issued a proclimation today calling the legislature into a special session for November 10th.  Among the issues he’s asking them to consider: Providing same-sex couples the same opportunity to enter into civil marriages as opposite-sex couples If you live in New York visit our action center to get involved (and pass along [...]
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is effectively rejecting what they call Chris Jericho's "insincere and worn" apology for using anti-gay and racist slurs at a recent film festival.
Members of several Utah gay and lesbian advocacy groups asked LDS Church leaders to open a dialogue with its gay members but...
Members of several Utah gay and lesbian advocacy groups asked LDS Church leaders to open the dialogue with its gay members...

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