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WORLD
Albania passes model law against LGBT discrimination
Albania’s Parliament banned discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation and gender identity Feb. 4.
The law covers employment, housing, provision of goods and services, education and access to public places. It also specifically mentions health care, banking, transportation, ente...
09 Feb 2010 14:02:37
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Euro Assembly plan to pass pro-gay measures thwarted
Anti-gay MPs delayed a plan at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to pass two important pro-LGBT measures Jan. 27.One measure contains recommendations to the 47 member nations of the Council of Europe on combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...
06 Feb 2010 12:55:35
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Latin American, Caribbean LGBTs gather in Brazil
Some 400 LGBT leaders from 35 countries attended the fifth Latin America and Caribbean regional ILGA conference Jan. 26-31 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Now known as the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, ILGA is composed of some 670 organizations from 110 nations. It was f...
05 Feb 2010 12:55:16
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PEOPLE
SF gay chorus visits Prop 8 territory
The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus went on tour into Prop 8 territory in late January, to the California cities of Redding and Chico.Additional forays will take the group to Bakersfield, Fresno and Tracy. The counties the five cities are in voted to re-ban same-sex marriage at levels of 57 per...
09 Feb 2010 14:20:30
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Interview: Tegan and Sara on tour, Lilith Fair and Margaret Cho
The Quin Q&A
Tegan and Sara talk about Lilith Fair, their comedian collabo and that tizzy-causing tune
Tegan and Sara made a lot of noise last year – first on the most amped-up album of their crossover career and then indirectly via a juvenile dis song about the tune-making twins. From a stop on...
08 Feb 2010 11:00:04
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Mariah and Me
How the diva changed a life – and her own
So Mariah Carey isn’t just that vocally inimitable pop goddess who belts the hell out of “Hero,” like she said during a press conference recently. I know that now, and am constantly reminded by some of her loopy antics (ice cream, anyone?), very public break...
01 Feb 2010 13:15:38
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EVENTS
Telluride Gay Ski Week Braces for Twins, Cucci and a Frenchman
The producer of Telluride Gay Ski Week announced today the entertainment line-up and schedule of events for Telluride Gay Ski Week 2010 presented by The Matthew Shepard Foundation*, which will be held February 20 through February 27, 2010. Now in its seventh year, Telluride Gay Ski Week promises to ...
29 Jan 2010 19:04:44
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Winter Party Festival
More than 6,000 people dancing on the sands of South Beach is among the many highlights that draw thousands worldwide to one of the country’s premier lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) fund-raising events. The annual Winter Party Festival features art and culture, shopping, cocktail recep...
29 Jan 2010 18:18:47
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NaviGAYtion 2010
The biggest gay party on and by the water prepares itself for a seventh edition. Thousands of gay visitors and their friends will enjoy this unique concept full of surprises. They board one of the many party boats with top dj’s. Two open air stages, 22 of the best dj’s, artists and performers, a fes...
29 Jan 2010 17:53:33
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TECHNOLOGY
Tips for choosing the right aid for your hearing loss
More than 31 million Americans of all ages live with some level of hearing loss, according to the Better Hearing Institute. Our increasingly noisy society has, unfortunately, ensured hearing problems are no longer an exclusive affliction of age; while people 55 to 64 make up the largest group with h...
06 Feb 2010 16:55:36
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Microscopy Plays Big Role in PassmoreLab’s New 3D Nature Film
PassmoreLab, the San Diego-based multi-media production studio that specializes in 3D production and 2D to 3D content conversion, announced today the release of MicroWorlds — their latest 3D film about the incredibly complex wonders of nature.MicroWorlds is a live-action 3D educational science...
01 Feb 2010 20:55:47
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Simple tips to protect and organize your precious data
The old joke goes “death and taxes are the only things you can count on 100 percent.” Add a new item to that list – disk and tape drive failure.A survey by The Diffusion Group found that the overall average rate of failure is 100 percent for disk and tape drives – like the ha...
23 Jan 2010 16:55:06
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HEADLINES
National ACT UP-like network forming
Around 45 LGBT activists of varying national stature met at the Highlander Research and Education Center in rural Tennessee in late January to create a new national LGBT direct-action movement.“We had one thing on our agenda: Discuss ways to build a national network of activists to demand full...
09 Feb 2010 14:14:48
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Obama denounces Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill
President Barack Obama denounced the Ugandan “kill the gays” bill in an address to the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 4.“We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are — whether itR...
08 Feb 2010 19:35:49
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Hawaii House kills civil-union bill that passed Senate
Hawaii’s House of Representatives killed a civil-union bill in an unrecorded voice vote Jan. 29.The measure, which extends all state-level rights and obligations of marriage to gay and straight civil-union couples, had passed the Senate 18-7 on Jan. 22.
Last year, the House had passed the bill...
03 Feb 2010 12:55:52
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Hawaii Legislators Kill Civil Unions Bill Again
Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai’i Foundation (ACLU) today announced they are planning legal action against the state of Hawai’i following last Friday’s failure by the Hawai’i Legislature to enact a law providing broad legal rights and duties to th...
02 Feb 2010 19:26:29
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Congress asks Boy Scouts to end Gay discrimination
Today, 26 Members of Congress urged the Boy Scouts of America to end its discriminatory policy of not accepting gays and lesbians in a letter sent to the Chief Scout Executive of the organization.The correspondence, initiated by U.S. Representatives Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), was...
02 Feb 2010 18:40:17
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HEALTH
10 reasons to fall in love with potatoes
Want to do something good for your heart? Find new ways to increase your intake of potassium. This nutrient may help reduce the risk of high blood pressure and promote heart health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports that diets containing foods that are a good source of potassium and that...
05 Feb 2010 15:55:23
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Institute of Medicine Examines Health Concerns of LGBT Community
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Presents Testimony about the Importance of the Study and Outlining Recommending Research PrioritiesThe Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) today presented testimony to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender ...
02 Feb 2010 20:55:11
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Enjoy life pain free
Millions of people live with pain every day. Whether the pain is the result of exercising, playing sports, picking up children or just living busy lives, it can affect your day-to-day lifestyle and become a burden.
Many individuals are under the impression that certain types of common spinal and ort...
29 Jan 2010 15:55:08
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Kort's Korner
I am out everywhere, except at work.
Being in the medical field, I work among physicians, mostly male and mostly homophobic. If I were out to them, I’m sure I’d get fired or at least, not offered advancement. I feel confined to be less than honest at work, yet I don’t want to jeopardize my job security. Does this mean I’m ashamed of be...
11 Aug 2009 14:29:38
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My partner always talks about how hot other men are!
My partner and I have been together for over five years. We have a happy, satisfying relationship. But whenever we go out, he’s always commenting about other guys who are hot, with comments like “What a cute ass!” He never says things like that to me.No related posts....
11 Aug 2009 14:27:24
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Jesse's Journal
Gay Pulp Fiction
One of the most important gay books of the 20th century was Richard Amory’s Song of the Loon: A Gay Pastoral in Five Books and an Interlude (Greenleaf Classics). While of doubtful literary value, Song of the Loon made gay literary history with its explicit depictions of gay male sex, its posit...
26 Jan 2010 19:04:25
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Gay Bookstores: A Dying Breed
Like many lesbians, gay men, bisexuals or transgender people, I came out of the closet with the help of gay books and gay bookstores. Though we didn’t have a gay bookstore in Miami when I came out in the early 1970s, I took advantage of the mail order services provided by the newly-established book...
22 Dec 2009 14:12:48
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Living Life to the Fullest
The most memorable person I ever met was my cousin by marriage, Roger Alan Weinstein. Roger never had much money, was never elected to public office, never won a major award, never appeared on People magazine or reality TV and never had any children (a mark of success in our society). And he [...]...
01 Dec 2009 00:53:19
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VIEWPOINT
Creep of the Week – Hak-Shing William Tam
You know what? If Gay marriage is just a ploy to get child rape legalized then to hell with it. Can I get an Amen? No? OK, how about a WTF?This is one of the lunacy-based claims made by Hak-Shing William Tam, a defendant in the Prop. 8 lawsuit going on in California (the trial [...]No related posts....
03 Feb 2010 19:16:45
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Creep of the Week – Lisa Miller
When Lisa Miller left her partner Janet Jenkins and took their daughter Isabella with her, it was the Christian thing to do. Quite literally, since Miller denounced her former lesbianism and became a Christian – in Jerry Falwell’s church, no less.
Miller doesn’t want anything to do with Jenkin...
27 Jan 2010 17:55:45
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Creep of the Week: Karl Rove
How long does a marriage have to last before it’s considered “traditional” to Karl Rove? Well, three years if you’re talking about his first marriage. Twenty-four if you’re talking about his second.Karl “ban gay marriage for political gain” Rove and his second wife have called it quits via the no-fa...
19 Jan 2010 21:11:57
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QUOTES & QUIPS
Don’t ever say that to another man
“Yesterday at LAX, on the way up here, I was going through security. I removed my sunglasses and said, ‘I want you to be able to see my beautiful eyes.’ The guard said, ‘Don’t ever say that to another man.’”–Courage Campaign Chair Rick Jacobs live-blog...
27 Jan 2010 19:55:28
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Prejudice against GLBT is Soooo last century
“As a straight man I really have nothing to gain by standing up for equal rights for Gays, Lesbians, Bisexual, and/or my Transgender friends.Except for the fact that I have many friends who are still subjected to hurtful comments by a society that hasn’t yet embraced fully the nature of&...
17 Jan 2010 09:55:22
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We are all the HRC
“Our (gay) leaders are no longer ‘the community.’ With the advent of the Internet and modern communications, we are all (the Human Rights Campaign). Pam Spaulding is HRC. Mike Signorile is HRC. Dan Savage is HRC. Joe Jervis is HRC. Jeremy Hooper is HRC. Andy Towle is HRC. The ̵...
14 Jan 2010 21:55:38
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