Canada will let HIV-positive foreigners enter the country, but when it comes to longer-term immigration and citizenship, there's usually a blanket "no," because carriers of HIV would supposedly impose an unreasonable burden on the country's healthcare system, which, in a novel approach to treating humankind, is available to all. But an American couple trying to [...]
Ya know, the White House should start pointing to the fact that it even accepts questions from lesbian reporter Kerry Eleveld as another COURAGEOUS WAY it's defending LGBT rights. The White House should also start reading the newspapers about Uganda's Kill The Gays bill, and have a strategy in place about whether it's going to [...]
So many folks are live-tweeting the Perry trial, which is great news, because SCOTUS just blocked its broadcast. Among them is @TheAdvocate, cluing us into such minutiae as "Courtroom opening, Ted Boutrous, other attys beginning to file in. 20 mins and counting." But the magazine is also there to bring us the celeb spottings, which [...]
What could be more inherently Fresno-ish then changing the name of something while keeping everything else exactly the same. Restaurants, bars and businesses do it all the time in this damn city. Coincidentally this is what a local businessman, Case Lawrence, suggests Fresno do to itself in an op-ed in the Fresno Bee. To wee. To wit: Fresno [...]
In the days leading up to my departure for Maine, I wasn't sure what to expect from the people I'd meet here. I'm no stranger to ballot campaigns; we've had our share of those in Oregon. I rode on Tuesday to a suburb outside of Portland, Maine with another volunteer staff to meet with nine high school students about their interest to get involvednvolved with the No On 1 campaign. Our goal was to start a “Friends and Family†Volunteer Recruitment Phone Bank with them on the spot, and to organize a few times when they and their friends could volunteer together, canvassing door-to-door the weekend before Election Day. We rolled up to their neighborhood Starbucks at about 3 o'clock and met the students inside. They'd come straight after school, and had heard about the campaign at an all-ages concert, where they'd been watching their favorite local band. Three of the youth were band members! A few of them had worn their No On 1 buttons to school that day, and mentioned that they'd started conversations with other students about the issue, and what it meant to them. After introducing ourselves and briefly describing the state of the campaign, we read through a script and role-played it, making sure to arm the students with the facts needed to express to their friends and family members how much this means to them and why we need their help in the last two weeks of the campaign. When we asked the students to get out their mobile phones and start calling to sign their friends up for volunteer shifts with the campaign, they excelled at the task! After about a half hour, the students made a plan to gather together with their newly signed up volunteers for a morning canvass on Halloween, knocking on doors to get out the vote. None of the nine students were affiliated with the Gay Straight Alliance at their school, (and none mentioned that they identified as LGBT,) but all shared a sense that whoever you are and whomever you love, couples deserve to be recognized equally under the law.
Last week, The Washington Post ran an editorial condemning the anti-homosexuality law being considered in Uganda. Laura Flanders, the host of GRITtv takes a closer look at it in this video report: The F Word: Civilization and its Homophobes Related News: Washington Post: Uganda’s bill to imprison gays for life is an outrage that should be [...]
Last week, Clemens Ruland of Holland became one of the first known HIV-positive people to legally visit the United States since the travel ban was lifted. In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, Clemens Ruland along with his partner, Hugo Bausch, and Boris Dittrich, the LGBT advocacy director at Human Rights Watch joins Amy Goodman and [...]
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