Sunday, January 4, 2009

International Gay News Headlines (T24T-3)

The US city of Portland, Oregon, swore in its openly gay mayor Sam Adams on New Year's Day.


Study: Family behavior key to health of gay youth
Quad City Times, IA - 14 hours ago
Sten Vermund, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician who became interested in Ryan's work this summer when she presented her research at the international ...

The Queer Year in Sports: From Kisses in the Stands to a Dive to ...
EDGE Boston, MA - Jan 2, 2009
More than 150 world, national or meet records are bettered at the International Gay & Lesbian Aquatics championships in Washington, DC, but under new ...
The Queer Year in Sports: From Kisses in the Stands to a Dive to ... EDGE Boston
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Gay Wired

Left To Right: David Axelrod, Larry Craig, Barack Obama
Gay Wired, CA - Jan 2, 2009
Same-sex marriage may well be on its way lesbian and gay couples in the Empire State, but it will not be due to any assistance from Sen. ...
VIEWS An Obama wish list Windy City Times
Controversy, Controversy Huffington Post
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(Russia) Gay and Lesbian Film Festival “Bok o Bok” which was supposed to take place in Saint Petersburg from today and last until Sunday finally did not open after Fire Department Inspectors closed the place due to problems with fire security. In a phone interview to Project GayRussia.Ru, Organiser of the festival Irina Sergeeva said that the clubs “The Place” and “Sochi” where the screenings of the films were supposed to take place, were closed due to fire security reasons.
(USA) - As part of Bibi's outreach to our communities, Bibi|SF will be hosting talks on various issues affecting queer South West Asian, North Africans (aka Middle-Easterners). Its first engagement is with Arsham Parsi of the IRanian Queer Organization on Thursday, June 26 at the SF LGBT Center.
(USA) - Gay human rights activists in San Francisco staged a speak out at the Russian consulate on May 16, in conjunction with IDAHO events around the planet. Before showing up at the consulate, the group sent emails to the staff explaining their reason for coming -- to press the government to grant parade permits to Moscow's Gay pride event.
New Zealand has become a signatory to a United Nations statement condemning criminal penalties against people because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, however a bloc of Islamic nations and the United States have refused to sign up.
The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights ruled today in favor of a same-sex couple who sued the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association for banning civil union ceremonies at the town’s public boardwalk pavilion. The Division ruled that the couple, Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster, have “probable cause” to claim that the ban violates New Jersey’s [...]
Two New England states have already legalized same-sex marriage, and a Boston-based advocacy group wants to see the other four join them. Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, known as GLAD, has launched a first-of-its-kind regional campaign aimed at winning approval for same-sex marriage in the six-state New England region by 2012. Same-sex marriage is [...]
Two months ago, Sam Adams, a Portland city commissioner and the mayor-elect, rallied a crowd of gay rights activists as part of a national series of protests against California’s new ban on same-sex marriage. Speaking into a bullhorn, he urged the protesters to continue pushing for legal same-sex marriage in all 50 states, but he urged [...]

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