Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Gay News Magazine Headlines (T24T-2)

Obama selects gay man for White House role
Brad Kiley to oversee salaries, budgeting
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Jan. 5 at 4:30 PM Jan. 5 at 4:30 PM
President-elect Barack Obama announced today that an openly gay man will serve as director of the White House Office of Management & Administration.

Brad Kiley, the new appointee, currently serves as director of operations for the Obama transition team and as an official for the Center for American Progress think tank.

The head of the White House Office of Management & Administration is charged with overseeing the operations of the White House in matters such as salaries, office space and budgeting.

Kiley served as deputy assistant to the president for management and administration under President Clinton, according to the Center for Ameri ...

Sean Penn takes Critics award for 'Milk'
'Waltz With Bashir' takes top prize
NEW YORK (AP) | Jan. 5 at 3:47 PM Jan. 5 at 3:47 PM
"Waltz With Bashir," a groundbreaking animated documentary about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, won the National Society of Film Critics’ 2008 best picture award Saturday.

But "Happy-Go-Lucky," Mike Leigh’s tale of a die-hard optimist whose worldview is put to the test, came away with four of the 10 awards for 2008 films. It won best director and best screenplay for Leigh, best actress for Sally Hawkins and best supporting actor for Eddie Marsan.

The critics’ group also named Sean Penn as best actor for his performance in the biopic "Milk," about pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk.

Hanna Schygulla won best su ...

Calif. court sides with church over property
3 parishes split from Episcopal Church over ordination of gay ministers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) | Jan. 5 at 2:25 PM Jan. 5 at 2:25 PM
The state's high court has prohibited three Southern California parishes who left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers from retaining ownership of their church buildings and property.

In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the property belongs to the Episcopal church because the parishes agreed to abide by the mother church's rules, which includes specific language about property ownership.

St. James Church in Newport Beach, All Saints Church in Long Beach and St. David's Church in North Hollywood pulled out of the 2.1 million member national Episcopal Church in 2004 and sought to retain property owner ...

Democrats are declaring Al Franken the U.S. Senate race winner in Minnesota -- but the GOP isn't ready to concede just yet.
A pair of gay men may have been beheaded by the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry last month, according to French magazine Têtu. The men, from Riyadh, were accused of raping another man, according to a translation of the report by activist and blogger Michael Petrelis.
President-elect Barack Obama on Monday named Bradley Kiley, who is gay, as director of the Office of Management and Administration.
By Alexandra Gury Contributor In 2005, New Jersey resident Eric McKinley took his frustration with Eharmony.com up with the courts. The website, which boasts more successful matches than anyn any other dating website, refused to match same-sex couples and...
Obama selects gay man for White House role
Brad Kiley to oversee salaries, budgeting
By CHRIS JOHNSON, Washington Blade | Jan. 5 at 4:30 PM Jan. 5 at 4:30 PM
President-elect Barack Obama announced today that an openly gay man will serve as director of the White House Office of Management & Administration.

Brad Kiley, the new appointee, currently serves as director of operations for the Obama transition team and as an official for the Center for American Progress think tank.

The head of the White House Office of Management & Administration is charged with overseeing the operations of the White House in matters such as salaries, office space and budgeting.

Kiley served as deputy assistant to the president for management and administration under President Clinton, according to the Center for Ameri ...

Sean Penn takes Critics award for 'Milk'
'Waltz With Bashir' takes top prize
NEW YORK (AP) | Jan. 5 at 3:47 PM Jan. 5 at 3:47 PM
"Waltz With Bashir," a groundbreaking animated documentary about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, won the National Society of Film Critics’ 2008 best picture award Saturday.

But "Happy-Go-Lucky," Mike Leigh’s tale of a die-hard optimist whose worldview is put to the test, came away with four of the 10 awards for 2008 films. It won best director and best screenplay for Leigh, best actress for Sally Hawkins and best supporting actor for Eddie Marsan.

The critics’ group also named Sean Penn as best actor for his performance in the biopic "Milk," about pioneering gay politician Harvey Milk.

Hanna Schygulla won best su ...

Calif. court sides with church over property
3 parishes split from Episcopal Church over ordination of gay ministers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) | Jan. 5 at 2:25 PM Jan. 5 at 2:25 PM
The state's high court has prohibited three Southern California parishes who left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers from retaining ownership of their church buildings and property.

In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the property belongs to the Episcopal church because the parishes agreed to abide by the mother church's rules, which includes specific language about property ownership.

St. James Church in Newport Beach, All Saints Church in Long Beach and St. David's Church in North Hollywood pulled out of the 2.1 million member national Episcopal Church in 2004 and sought to retain property owner ...

I was hoping that, putting aside Obama’s terminal, incurable social conservatism, we’d at least see a difference economy-wise. But I sure don’t see any difference in this tax-cut lunacy. Via email from Congress.org: President-elect Barack Obama proposed a stimulus package of $800 billion. The proposed package consists of $300 billion in tax cuts and $500 billion [...]
Inside The Actors Studio: Season 15
Remember the furor over Google AdSense ads for the Yes On Proposition 8 campaign showing up on (presumably) liberal blogs, message boards, and other Web sites? Last month, Bruce Hahne, in his must-read what-No-On-8-did-wrong postmortem, explained why Yes On 8 ads (which we’d noticed, and immediately filtered out, long before Election Day) appeared en masse across [...]

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