t’s mid summer, so the 2010 Winter Olympics are just a few months away. Already in the host city of Vancouver, the GLBT community is making sure that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender athletes – and their families, friends and supporters – won’t be left out in the cold.
Gay Whistler – a group that works year-round promoting the
Whistler ski resort (where skiing,
bobsled and luge
events will be held) to the
GLBT community – is doing more than just welcoming
gay competitors and
fans. It’s opening
Pride House, a meeting place in
Pan Pacific Whistler Centre – located right in the thick of the Olympic
hubbub.
Pride House will feature a lounge with TV
screens. Information about upcoming
Gay Games, Outgames and the
Gay and
Lesbian International
Sports Association will be available. Athletes, coaches, families and
friends who live in
gay-intolerant
countries can also obtain legal information about seeking
refugee status in
Canada.
See Pride House: A home for gay Olympians
Gay and Lesbian Times
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Rick Warren, who has been out of the news for, oh, about 10 minutes, since the controversial California pastor was picked to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, is back.
Recapping here: After sticking a fork in the eye of gay rights advocates by actively supporting Proposition 8 — which overturned the legalization of gay marriage in California — Warren compounded their outrage by equating gay marriage with incest in an interview with Beliefnet.
The hubbub lulled down a little over the holidays but today, he’s back, with an open invitation to any group displaced by their denomination. This is code for Episcopal congregations that oppose that church’s acceptance of a gay bishop in 2003. Earlier this week, a California judge ruled that a breakaway congregation, St. James in Newport Beach, cannot keep its property now that they have left the Episcopal Church.
The Southern Baptist Warren shared his letter with Christianity Today which says, in part:
We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans. I offer the campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County.
See Rev. Rick Warren takes another jab
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