June 2011
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50,000 March In Support Of Gay Rights For Chile
Written by Nathaniel Frandino Monday, 27 June 2011 22:10 With drag queens stomping in their stilettos and adults, teens and children waving rainbow flags, more than 50,000 people paraded through Santiago on Saturday in support of gay rights in the annual March for Sexual Diversity. Video: Gay Marriage Marks The Annual March For Sexual Diversity from Nathan...
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Bullies attack 1 in 5 gay students in state,...
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Tea Party leader says anti-gay bullying is...
By Ashton Elijah • Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Anti-gay bullying is not bullying at all; in fact, it is “peer pressure and is healthy.” That’s according to Rich Swier, an activist with the Tea Party Nation.
Swier was responding to a report from a Florida group that showed that “77% of all bullying victims are picked on due to sexual orientation, gender identity, or the perception of either.” The...
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Call for checks on sex surgeries
Amrita U Kadam, Hindustan Times Indore, June 27, 2011 First Published: 00:10 IST(27/6/2011) Last Updated: 01:37 IST(27/6/2011) As Hindustan Times reported that ...
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Homosexuals demand rights at Istanbul’s Gay Pride...
This marks the ninth year for Turkish LGBT Pride Week, the only Pride celebration in a majority-Muslim country.
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Monday, June 27, 2011 ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires AFP photo
Thousands took to the streets Sunday to express their support for Turkey’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT, community and to protest against hate crimes on the last day of...
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Gay Marriage: Meanwhile In France...
Trailing other Western European countries — and several U.S. States — in gay rights laws, France has again opted against legalizing gay marriage. Still, same-sex French couples are increasingly making sure civil union ceremonies walk and talk like a wedding.
(Guillaume Paumier)
By Anne Chemin LE MONDE/ Worldcrunch
PARIS - On a warm spring day in Paris’ 20th arrondissement,...
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Trans people don’t fare well in latest European...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A new report by Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights for the Council of Europe, examines the legal and social situation for LGBT people.
The report, “Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity” is a whopping 134 pages long. It is the largest study ever made on homophobia, transphobia and discrimination on the ground of sexual...
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WatchRachel Maddow interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Vargas who recently came out as an illegal immigrant. Jose came out as gay when he was still in high school.
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Stigma Can Make Suicidal Thoughts Last A Lifetime
By Zack Ford on Jun 27, 2011 at 11:10 am
A new study about the health of LGBT Nebraskans (PDF) found that the stigma in such conservative areas has a very negative impact on physical and mental health. In fact, 50 percent of respondents had serious suicidal thoughts in their lives, but not just as young people. According to researcher Dr. Jay Irwin, the numbers are high across the entire...
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Russian police arrest 14 gay rights campaigners in...
by James Park 25 June 2011, 1:16pm
Police drag away a gay rights activist who protested in Moscow last month Updated: 14:46 BST
Russian police have arrested and charged up to 14 LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) activists who were attempting to hold a demonstration in St Petersburg.
An AP photographer reports that police arrested several others who were accused of attacking...
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WatchRachel Maddow on Kansas’ anti-abortion legislation.
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WatchRachel Maddow interviews Jason West, Mayor of New Palz, NY on SSM.
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Census 2010: One-Quarter of Gay Couples Raising...
Nice to see (relatively) descent reporting in main stream media.
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Gay couple Jeffrey Parsons and Chris Hietikko pose with their son Henry Hietikko-Parsons in the garden of their house in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES June 23, 2011
An estimated one-quarter of all same-sex households are raising children, according to U.S. Census data,...
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant →
soupsoup:
In April 2008, I was part of a Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings a year earlier. Lolo died a year earlier, so it was Lola who called me the day of the announcement. The first thing she said was, “Anong mangyari kung malaman nang tao?”
What will happen if people find out?
I couldn’t say anything. After we got off the phone,...
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Convenience at What Cost: The Connection Between...
By Nancy Buermeyer and Connie Engel, PhD
This essay is in response to: What are we learning about the relationship between environmental toxicants and cancer? How should our regulatory system respond to this information?
After World War II, the United States experienced a chemical revolution. Stockpiles of chemicals developed to fight the war made their way into everyday commerce. Pesticides...
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Nigerian women’s football team ‘eradicates...
by Jessica Geen 22 June 2011, 2:32pm The coach of the Nigerian women’s team says she has eradicated lesbianism The Nigerian women’s football team says it has successfully banned homosexuality among players.
Coach Eucharia Uche claims that since she was hired in 2009, she has eradicated homosexuality from the squad.
Speaking to the New York Times, Uche, who is married with two ...
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Canadian Political Party Votes to Oppose Ex-Gay...
June 22nd, 2011 Dave Rattigan
Canada’s official party of opposition has voted unanimously to oppose tax-exempt charity status for ex-gay groups such as Exodus Global Alliance.
The federal New Democratic Party, better known simply as the NDP, adopted the resolution at its convention in Vancouver, BC, last weekend. Delegate Michael McLaughlin introduced it thus:
Delegates, an investigation...
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Gay tolerance teaching mandatory in Toronto...
By Kris Sims ,Parliamentary Bureau
First posted: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:47:49 EDT PM
Revellers take part in the 30th Annual Gay Pride Parade in Toronto July 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Chris Roussakis)
Christian parents wanting to opt-out of the Toronto Public...
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Trans Pride? It's dreamy: Kate Bornstein
Kate Bornstein will be speaking at the first Trans Pride March in Toronto on July 1st (Canada Day!) as part of TO’s pride week. If you are in the area, I’m sure it will be an event worth attending!
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THINKING & DOING / Veteran activist chats with Xtra in advance of Toronto Pride S Bear Bergman / Toronto / Monday, June 20, 2011 ...
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The indignity of industrial tomatoes
by Barry Estabrook
20 Jun 2011 6:00 AM
The following is an excerpt from Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. This story originally appeared on Gilt Taste.
My obituary’s headline would have read “Food writer killed by flying tomato.”
On a visit to my parents in Naples, Fla., I was driving I-75 when I came up...
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Amnesty report condemns Turkey's gay rights laws
Published: 3:02PM Tuesday June 21, 2011 Source: Reuters
Turkey - Source: ONE News
Gay, bisexual and transgender Turks face widespread discrimination and homophobia, often suffering beatings by the police which leave them too frightened to report hate crimes, Amnesty International said in a report.
The rights group urged Turkey’s new government to draw up laws preventing...
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Women in blue jeans
A very disturbing story. A stark reminder of how far the west has come and how much further the world has to go.
***WARNING there is a very graphic photo in this article***
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INTERNATIONAL / A lesbian refugee on life in Ghana Paula Stromberg / National / Thursday, June 16, 2011 My days in West Africa are a blend of mystery, hilarity, horror and awe. I’m dialling the telephone number...
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Coming Out Makes LGBT People Feel Happier (If They...
Hardly surprising but interesting to note the importance of Gay/Straight Alliances (GSA’s) in schools in creating a positive environment.
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By Zack Ford on Jun 20, 2011 at 3:00 pm
A new study from the University of Rochester finds that the process of “coming out” has significant emotional benefits for people who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual. While previous studies have documented...
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Liechtenstein 'yes' vote for civil partnerships
NY next?
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(AFP) – 18 hours ago
GENEVA — Liechtenstein will officially recognise same-sex couples with a civil partnership law after residents of the tiny principality voted in favour of the move on Sunday, media reported.
Gay and lesbian couples will receive the same tax, inheritance and welfare rights as come with marriage following a referendum in which 68 percent supported the law,...
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Appeals Court Nixes 'Gay Panic' Defense
Posted on Advocate.com June 20, 2011 08:50:00 AM ET
By Andrew Harmon
A Michigan state appeals court has upheld the conviction of a man who attempted a “gay panic” defense in a 2009 assault for which he was later convicted.
Dale Cutler was sentenced to a minimum 11-year prison sentence for the assault of Ryan Young, who was choked and beaten unconscious. Cutler had maintained that...
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100,000 Took The Streets Of Vienna For Gay Pride...
By GUS – June 18, 2011Posted in: FEATURED, GAY PRIDE
Thousands turned out in Vienna for the city’s 16th annual gay pride parade.
AFP reports:
Tens of thousands marched in the 16th edition of Vienna’s colourful Gay Pride parade Saturday braving rain to call for an end discrimination.
“We are nearly 100,000, we’re pleasantly surprised,” Christian Hoegl of the Homosexual Initiative, the...
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Bulgaria's Sofia Pride Gay Parade Goes Smoothly,...
Society | June 18, 2011, Saturday
The 4th Sofia Pride gay parade has gone without incidents or provocations. Photo by BGNES
The 4th annual edition of the Sofia Pride LGBT parade in the Bulgarian capital has not been marred by any incidents, assaults, or provocations, as the several hundred participants reached the destination of the procession.
After far-right extremists marred the...
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Tenth Zagreb Pride parade held
Thankfully, no violence!
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Page last updated at: 18.06.2011 20:03
Author: Radio.net
The 10th Zagreb Pride parade was held in the Croatian capital on Saturday and no incidents were reported.
The tenth parade of LGTBIQ people, Zagreb Pride 2011, started with its participants gathering in the city’s Trg Zrtava Fasizma square at 2 pm, from where they went on a walk through...
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Pink Dot Day 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Over 10,000 supporters of the Freedom to Love turn Hong Lim Park Pink, for Pink Dot 2011
Singapore, June 18, 2011 – Over 10,000 pink-attired Singaporeans turned Hong Lim Park into a sea of pink, where they gathered – for the third year running - to form a giant pink dot in a show of support for inclusiveness, diversity and the freedom to love. This breaks Pink Dot ...
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Fishes' sex changing linked to 'workplace' tiffs
Just another example of how ‘unnatural’ the ‘natural’ world truly is.
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CBC News
Posted: Jun 17, 2011 12:33 PM ET
Last Updated: Jun 17, 2011 12:33 PM ET
The full article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B The researchers were surprised to find that pairs actually provide far superior service compared to individual cleaner fish. Nick Hobgood/WikiMedia Commons
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Hong Kong government hires ‘gay cure expert’
Sad news but expect more of the same as the Christian colonization of Asia continues.
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by Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk 17 June 2011, 4:15pm Hong Kong’s Social Welfare Department has hired a gay cure expert
Psychiatrist Hong Kwai-wah has been taken on as a trainer for the government’s social welfare staff, AFP reports.
Mr Hong is chairman of the New Creation Association, which...
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‘Saudi women, start your engines:’ Campaign to...
In this image made from video released by Change.org, a Saudi Arabian woman drives a car as part of a campaign to defy Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Friday, June 17, 2011.
HO/AP Brian Murphy Associated Press
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Several Saudi women boldly got behind the wheel Friday, including one who managed a 45-minute trip through the...
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UN passes gay rights resolution
by Jessica Geen
17 June 2011, 2:03pm The UN passed a ‘historic’ resolution on LGBT rights
The UN Human Rights Council has passed a historic resolution calling for universal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
This is the first time the body has passed a resolution which focuses specifically on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The resolution, which...
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Comment: What life is really like for gay Syrians
by Sami Hamwi 16 June 2011, 5:01pm Sami Hamwi*, the Syria editor of GayMiddleEast.com, offers a glimpse of what LGBT life is really like in the country.
When the ‘Gay Girl from Damascus’ blog started to attract media interest, I thought of a friend of mine who is a lesbian. She once told me: “No matter how you think it is hard for gays, it is even harder for lesbians, be sure of it.”
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North Carolina GOP Overrides Veto, Axes Planned...
Laura Bassett lbassett@huffingtonpost.com
First Posted: 06/15/11 12:52 PM ET Updated: 06/15/11 02:19 PM ET
Republican state representatives in North Carolina voted to override Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the state budget Wednesday morning, ensuring that a provision to strip all federal and state money from Planned Parenthood will take effect on July 1. North...
