House subcommittee approves benefits for same-sex partners

A House today advanced a bill to provide and to the same- of and .
The bill, HR 2517, passed the House and Government Reform on the , Postal Service and the District of on a party-line .
said the bill is needed to eliminate an that drives some away from the government. and employees currently cannot cover their under their or provide an annuity for their partners after they die, even if they are legally married in states that recognize . Supporters of the new bill say the policy places an undue on as many as 34,000 and in domestic , who have to maintain separate plans to keep both partners covered.
Many states and companies offer same- partners such benefits. See House subcommittee approves benefits for same-sex partners
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Obama names Medal of Freedom recipients, including Harvey Milk …

, attempting to those who have acted as “agents of change,” he will bestow the Presidential Medal of , the country’s highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures widely known in , the arts and sciences, and .

The 16 named by the today include , the city who an early movement for rights in public life and was assassinated. They include the late , a as well, and the ailing Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of .

The ’s , who will be honored at a ceremony Aug. 12, include American civil-rights the Rev. Joseph Lowery and South African fighter . They include a in for women, star , and the first on the , retired Justice Day O’Connor.

They include actor and singer .
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Daniel Radcliffe slams ’stupid’ homophobes

hates .

The ‘’ actor – who is Laura O’Toole – was raised to treat everyone equally and he thinks singling someone out because of their is wrong.

He said: “I just loathe . It’s just disgusting and animal and and it’s just thick who can’t get their heads around it and are just scared.

“I grew up around entirely. I was the only child in my class who had any experience of or anything like that.

“I hate any type of .”

The 20-year-old also spoke of his and called on to follow his decision to Liberal in the next election.

He added to Britain’s magazine: “At the next election I will almost certainly Liberal . See Daniel Radcliffe slams ’stupid’ homophobes

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Homosexuals dispel myth of “progressive”

Each year in , from the end of June through August, and rights’ celebrate the “ - named after a bar on Christopher Street in New York, where fought back against police in 1969.

in the German known as “Christopher Street Day” join other around the world who take to the streets to demonstrate and demand greater .

Some of those would include expanded . In , civil , for instance, have been permitted among same- since 2001, but full marriages are not. therefore do not enjoy the same rights as married when it comes to taxes, retirement, benefits, or law.

For more on and rights and the community in , click on the links below, or listen to this week’s “Living in ” program to hear a more personal account of a .

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Daniel Radcliffe graces the August 2009 cover of the UK’s biggest gay magazine

himself, newly 20 year old the August 2009 cover of Magazine, the UK’s biggest magazine. Aside from lending his magical good looks to the cover, Daniel down for an interview, where he talked a of with the mag.

He said that he’s not a fan of the or parties. At only , Daniel is not yet old enough to , but says that next year he will cast his ballot for of the Liberal party. On , he said: see Daniel Radcliffe Attitude Magazine

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DC Law Helps Lesbian Couples Become Moms

A new D.C. law is making it a easier for a newborn to have two mommies from birth. According to the law, on July 18, the District of will confer “the status of legal parent on both mothers who plan a child using ,” Polikoff reports.

In the past, the ’s would have to go through an process to become a legal parent of the child; now, the second just needs to fill out some to demonstrate her “written consent” of . Polikoff notes that the new law is “-neutral and gender-neutral,” so it will change policy in a couple of other situations as well:

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Gay marriage will be issue in Iowa House special election Daily Kos

Iowans in House district 90 will a new in a special election on September 1, and the candidate appears to be planning to make same- a major .

The seat opened up when , a , accepted a position with the U.S. . didn’t even run a candidate against Whitaker in 2008, but 90 has been competitive in the recent past. The southeastern contains all of and parts of and , including the (home to and the so-called “Silicorn Valley”).

The Democratic candidate for the special election is Curt Hanson, a retired driver’s teacher who has won various teaching awards. Hanson plans to campaign on bread-and-butter issues: jobs, health care, education, and balancing the budget.

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Polis becomes first openly gay advisor to Air Force Academy

— A sign may be inching closer to acceptance in the military: the U.S. is welcoming its first openly member of its board.

. Jared of Colorado was appointed earlier this month to the Academy’ of Visitors, which meets Friday and Saturday in .

The is made up mostly of of who review the nation’s and suggest changes to the and .

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Gay incident reopens Salt Lake City’s Main Street plaza wounds

It’s the wound that won’t heal. The rift that won’t close. And earlier this month, two lovers’ purportedly innocuous late-night — though LDS Church officials insist it was far more amorous than that — ripped it wide open.

Utah’s simmering religious divide boiled over — once again — at the geographical and philosophical of church and state: the Main Street Plaza in downtown Salt Lake City.

“It is a that will continue to be peeled away — and may never heal,” says Dani Eyer, the former director who fought to preserve First Amendment rights on the plaza.

Matt and say they held hands, kissed and then squabbled with on the LDS Church-owned square. police issued a ticket for trespassing. In , supporters of the couple staged a “-in” outside the plaza and plan another such today.

The Church — a to which 60 percent of belong — defended its right to regulate “” on the plaza.

“What we’re seeing now is a of what should have been obvious from the very beginning,” says former Mayor Anderson. “This block of Main Street never should have been conveyed to the Church. It was a recipe for ongoing between the Church and those who are not .”

The church bought the strip of Main — from to — in 1999 after then- and the City Council, with the only two non- dissenting, signed off on the $8. deal. But the burned for five more years as were asked to settle the prickly issue of whether the church could govern on the plaza and whether the city could retain a public right of way (as outlined in the original deal).

“It was meant to be for everybody,” Eyer says. “Where come and go their go with them.”

After a 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2002, activities returned to the plaza. But by anti- — including cries of “” and “harlot” hurled at newlywed — “sustained divisions” that “reached to the point of ” between and non-, Anderson says.

In the end, he agreed to trade the public easement for cash and land to build a west-side community center.

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