Combined Gay News Headlines (T5T-1)

Meet Argentina's First Legally Married Gay Couple: Jose Maria Di Bello + Alex Freyre

Congratulations to Jose Maria Di Bello, the gay rights, activist, and Alex Freyre, who just became Argentina's first gay couple to legally wed. Oh, they're also Latin America's first as well. CONTINUED » Permalink | Post a comment | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Alex Freyre, Argentina, Jose Maria di Bello, Marriage, weddings

Here's Barack Obama's Statement on Iran's Protesters. Huh, Where's Barack Obama's Statement on Uganda's Gays?

SOUNDBITES â€" "The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent Iranian citizens. What is talking place within Iran is not about the United States or any other country. It is about the Iranian people and their aspirations for justice." —President Barack Obama, in comments just [...]

Why Are D.C.'s Gays Just Fine With The 'Vote on Marriage' Bus Ads?

Several high profile gays from the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance have signed onto a letter urging the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority "to reject the misguided censorship advocated by Full Equality Now DC" to pull anti-gay advertising from their buses. The ads, purchased by the religiously motivated anti-gay group Stand For Marriage DC, reads [...]

Helping LGBT Youth

Geoff Kors of EQCA recently had an op-ed in the Bay Area Reporter announcing EQCA 5a8 217;s new student internship program. It’s worth a read: Originally appeared in the Bay Area Reporter Jim Nickoff, my best friend of more than 20 years, came out at age 15 in 1978, a time when very few teenagers came out and even [...]

Together As One: LA’s 2010 New Years Eve Party

Together As One (TAO) for years has been LA’s party of the year, filled with world-renowned DJs, bangin’ sound systems ,and fun party goers.  This year will be no different, even with a bith a bad ass 9 hour live set by Armin Van Buuren last year, DJs David Guetta, Sander Kleinenberg, John Digweed, Markus Shultz, Dubfire, and DJ Reza will [...]

Tower Dog!

Tower Dog opened up next to the Tower Theater a few months ago and I had some reservations when first going in. I was greeted nicely, and Queen was playing. So their first impression is pretty good, but do they have hot dogs to match? The answer folks is yes! I had the Californian. That [...]

Poison Water’s Notorious Noel (12/07)

 

Tickets are $10 all pre-event ticket buyers will be entered to win a Marriott/The Original New Year’s Eve package!

Tickets will be available at these locationsocations:

Funny Bone

Just Out

The Original

Basic Rights Oregon office

 

From Maine with Love

We are 11 days away from the November Election. The Portland, Maine office is humming with volunteer activity. Every day, volunteers drop off food provisions for all the other volunteers. The first day we had homemade chili, yesterday egg salad sandwiches, and this morning someone brought in some carrots from their own yard. Mainers are chipping in any way they can. My time has been spent in the office working in the communications department while Travis Prinslow and Meleanie Altaras have been adopted into the Data and Campus Outreach departments. We work 9 to 9, when we're lucky and have been working on a variety of projects. From confirming volunteers, to getting people to vote early and in person volunteer recruitment. The amount of work that goes into a campaign is astounding. You walk into any office and you hear typing, people on the phone, stapling, paper shuffling and people being directed. It's a small preview of what Oregon will be dealing with soon enough. However, Oregon's fight will be much larger-- Maine's population is a third the size of Oregon's. I'm grateful that Basic Rights Oregon is starting early and getting all our ducks in a row before we enter our own fight. Maine's latest YouTube celebrity goes by the name of Phillip Spooner. Mr. Spooner is 85 years old, a WWII vet, and a lifelong republicanâ€"he is also in favor of marriage equality. Click here to watch his testimony in April during the Marriage hearings. His video has officially gone viral, with close to 500,000 views. Mainers are excited to have someone like Mr. Spooner speaking up for equality, so much so that he has unofficially become the face of the campaign. Click here to watch a segment of Mr. Spooner being interviewed about his views on Marriage Equality. The opposition is using children to scare voters into voting against equality. They are running ads claiming that "gay sex education" will be taught in schools. Fortunately, the Maine campaign has been very diligent about countering their ads and has caused a stir by featuring a French catholic woman who man who supports her son's right to get married. Yolande Dumont is also a Maine celebrity and has inspired Catholics and other religious denominations to come out and support the No on 1 campaign. Of course the Catholic DIoces is bankrolling the opposition's campaign along with National Organization marriage and Shubert Flint of prop 8 fame. When Yolande first came on the airwaves the Catholic Diocese was up in arms and started to spend resources countering Yolande's message. This is exciting because the opposition is now on the defensive. Not only do they have to counter multiple legislators, and educators on the whole "Teaching gay in Schools" issue, now they have to make sure that other fair minded Catholics reject Yolande's message. If the No on 1 Campaign wins on Election Day it will be a model on how to defeat the oppositions' vitriol and lies. Although, Maine is literally the farthest place from Oregon in the country, their efforts will have a huge impact on our work. They need all the help they can get. If you have not donated to the NO on 1 campaign you can do so by clicking here. If you cannot afford a donation but have some extra time on your hands you can phone bank from Oregon with their Call for Equality Program sign up here. I'm going to get back to work now but feel free to shoot me an email if you have any questions about getting involved in the Maine campaign. In solidarity, Alejandro Juarez Communications Coordinator Basic Rights Oregon (503) 222-6151 x 105 alejandro@basicrights.org

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