The local court reportedly said the officials did not have the authority to cancel the rally
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A judge in St Petersburg has ruled that bans on gay events put in place by officials under city’s ‘gay propaganda’ legislation were unlawful, it has been reported.
Coming Out St Petersburg said the Smolninsky district court had handed down a decision yesterday saying the authorities lacked the competence to determine whether the events would amount to propaganda before they took place.
It also denied the officials’ standing to cancel events, saying they only had authority to suggest alternative times and places for rallies.
The two planned events were for the Day of Silence on 7 March and the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia on 17 May.
The group said the reasoning for the decision would be made public on 12 June.
Moscow Police Break Up Gay Protests, Detain 40 -
Police in Moscow detained about 40 people Sunday as a result of two pro-gay demonstrations, both met with Orthodox Christian counterprotests.
Gay activists assembled outside the city council building for a demonstration demanding the right to hold a pride parade, and some fights broke out between them and the counterprotesters, the Associated Press reports. After police ordered the crowds to disperse, the gay group tried to hold a second protest at City Hall. Police broke it up and pushed about 40 people into police buses. Most were gay activists, including the well-known advocate Nikolai Alexeyev, but some were from the Christian group.
Moscow authorities have repeatedly denied permission for gay pride parades. Former mayor Yuri Luzhkov called such events “satanic,” and current mayor Sergei Sobyanin has objected to them on the grounds that they would offend many Russians’ religious beliefs.
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What an uplifting story!
AND Jordan had made an ‘It Gets Better Video’:
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Jordan Pisey Windle is used to being the center of attention.
He has been the focus of his father’s life since the day in 2000 when Jerry Windle retrieved him from a Cambodian orphanage.
He has been turning heads for the past five years as a diving phenom, the youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Olympic diving trials.
• PHOTO GALLERY: 13-year-old Olympics hopeful Jordan Pisey Windle.
And all eyes will be on him June 9 when he serves as grand marshal for the Circle City IN Pride Parade, an annual celebration of Central Indiana’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
The young athlete’s decision to accept the parade invitation — and the fact that he has two fathers — is sure to raise eyebrows. But what other people think isn’t of concern to the 13-year-old. He views the world so unself-consciously that when asked if he ever gets tired of people questioning him about his origins and his family, he simply shrugged. “I’ve never actually thought about it.”
Two gay dads have become the first same-sex couple in New South Wales (NSW), Australia to be recognized as parents on a birth certificate for a child conceived through surrogacy.
Surrogacy supporters have welcomed news that the two unnamed Sydney men have become the first gay couple in NSW to be the legally recognized as the parents of the two-year old child, who was conceived via a surrogate mother.
The Australian Supreme Court ruled the transfer of the child’s guardianship was in the child’s interest after finding the arrangement was legally legitimate.
When handing down the decision, Supreme Court Justice Paul Brereton told the court: ‘I am satisfied that, having regard to the surrogacy arrangement, and the care arrangements for the child since birth, the making of the parentage order would be in the best interests of the child.’
The ruling is thought to be a NSW first under The Surrogacy Act, introduced in 2011.
The child’s birth mother will no longer be listed on the birth certificate after she agreed to have her name removed.
Gay Dads Australia, an organization set up to support gay men who are planning on, or who are already parents, spokesman Rodney Chiang-Cruise commented: ‘It’s a recognition in law in NSW, and in Australia, that they are the legal parents of the child, they’re not considered donors.
‘They are the first to be granted a parentage order in NSW but they won’t be the last.’
Jim Wallace, director of the political group Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), has condemned the judgment, commenting: ‘Love is not the issue here. Of course two men can love a child but they can never be a mother, no matter how hard they try.
‘Babies should not be created to satisfy the lifestyle choices of singles and same-sex couples.
‘This selfish gay agenda knows no reasonable limits and it is time that political leaders began imposing limits on them to protect the most fundamental rights of children to a mother and a father.’
However, Sam Everingham, spokesman for Surrogacy Australia welcomed the decision by saying: ‘It’s great news, but really it’s just following due process once the altruism laws came into place in New South Wales in 2010.
‘They really put in the provision to protect couples who’d gone through altruistic surrogacy so it’s great to see it finally getting to the courts and parents being awarded that recognition.’
Couples found in breech of the Surrogacy Act face penalties of a two years jail sentence or a A$110,000 ($106,000 €86,000) fine if a woman is paid to carry a child on behalf of others unable to sustain their own pregnancy.
Vibrators, douches, and pelvic massages: A brief history of dudes attempting to cure ladies of “hysteria.”
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Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
LBGTQ* Quotes and Quips
Alex Sanchez, author
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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York, has received major gifts in excess of $10 million (€8 million).
This constitutes the largest donation ever received by any LGBT arts organization.
A gift of $8.8 million was made by Charles W. Leslie, in memory of his long-time partner of 48 years, Fredric D (Fritz) Lohman who died in 2009.
This is joined by other substantial donations, including $1.5 million from the Estate of Marion Pinto, an artist and long-time friend and supporter of Leslie and Lohman.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum is the first and only dedicated gay and lesbian art museum in the world, whose mission is to ‘exhibit and preserve gay and lesbian art and foster the artists who create it.’
Jonathan D. Katz, President of the Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Board of Directors said: ‘Charles Leslie is one of the few individuals in New York with both the capacity, and the political will, to rectify the silence around gay/lesbian art and artists in New York’s major museums, by setting up our own gay and lesbian art museum.’
‘We’re excited to be presenting exhibitions that finally acknowledge important artists like Paul Thek fully in the round, and this major gift will enable us to continue to exhibit high quality shows for a long time to come.’
The money will also go towards expanding staff, operations and enabling free admission to the museum.
Lohman and Leslie had been collecting art for several years, and mounted their first exhibition of gay art in their loft on Prince Street in New York City in 1969.
They opened a commercial art gallery shortly thereafter, but this venue closed in the early 1980s at the advent of the AIDS pandemic.
In 1989, they established a foundation to preserve their collection of gay art and continue exhibition efforts.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) objected to the word ‘gay’ in the title of the foundation, and held up the non-profit application for nearly a decade.However, the foundation was finally granted non-profit status in 1990.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has a permanent collection of more than 6,000 objects spanning more than three centuries of gay and lesbian art.
Their program includes between 6-8 major exhibitions a year, film screenings, play performances, poetry readings, artist and curator talks and panel discussions.
For further information on the Leslie-Lohman Museum, visit their official website.
-saturated fat is a necessary part of your diet and is not unhealthy. read about fats and the cholestrol scam and the proliferation of unhealthy processed foods that build on these two myths and make corporations wealthy. — naturallybent
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By Dr. Mercola
May 31 2012
A little over 100 years ago a German scientist wrote a letter to a company that made soap, and in so doing changed the way the world cooks its food. The soap company, Procter & Gamble, bought the scientist’s idea—and Crisco was born.
At this time in history, people used animal fats for cooking in the form of lard and butter. And while Crisco was purposely formulated to resemble lard and cook like lard, it was nothing like lard. The rest of the story, as related in The Atlantic, is a tale of marketing successi.
When Marketing Alters Dietary Recommendations…
Recipe in hand, Procter & Gamble launched a massive sales strategy for Crisco that rivals even some of the biggest sales pitches today, and won over the cooks of the world. According to The Atlantic:
“Never before had Procter & Gamble — or any company for that matter — put so much marketing support or advertising dollars behind a product. They hired the J. Walter Thompson Agency, America’s first full service advertising agency staffed by real artists and professional writers.
Samples of Crisco were mailed to grocers, restaurants, nutritionists, and home economists. Eight alternative marketing strategies were tested in different cities and their impacts calculated and compared. Doughnuts were fried in Crisco and handed out in the streets. Women who purchased the new industrial fat got a free cookbook of Crisco recipes. It opened with the line, “The culinary world is revising its entire cookbook on account of the advent of Crisco, a new and altogether different cooking fat.” Recipes for asparagus soup, baked salmon with Colbert sauce, stuffed beets, curried cauliflower, and tomato sandwiches all called for three to four tablespoons of Crisco.”
Since advertising claims back then were unregulated, Procter and Gamble sold this plant-based product (known today as hydrogenated vegetable oil) as being healthier than animal fats, and consumers believed it. It took 90 years before researchers finally discovered that this new, “better-for-you” compound, which we call trans fat today, actually increases your risk of getting heart disease. As stated in the featured Atlantic article:
“It is estimated that for every two percent increase in consumption of trans fat (still found in many processed and fast foods) the risk of heart disease increases by 23 percent. As surprising as it might be to hear, the fact that animal fats pose this same risk is not supported by science.”
Not only that; research has also found that trans fats contribute to cancer, bone problems, hormonal imbalance and skin disease; infertility, difficulties in pregnancy and problems with lactation; low birth weight, growth problems, and learning disabilities in children. It’s so bad for your health that one U.S. government panel of scientists determined that man-made trans fats are unsafe atany level…
