President Obama to Bestow Presidential Medal of Freedom on Harvey Milk

California Urges Governor to Sign Day Bill into Law

– Today announced that he will honor assassinated leader with the Presidential Medal of , the nation’s highest civilian honor recognizing significant contributions to the nation and the world. The will also honor Senator and legend , an open and longtime for the rights of the , , , and () community, with the Medal of on August 12.
understands that ’s reaches far beyond , and that his story is an to everyone who believes in and ,” said Geoff Kors, California () . “ risked everything to change the course of history and to secure many of the and protections we enjoy today. In light of receiving this incredible honor, we to sign the bill into law as a to ’s to end against the , , and community.”

Last year, sponsored the first bill in the country to officially honor , the nation’s first openly man elected to major political office, but the Governor vetoed it. Senator (D-) introduced the Day bill, sponsored by , again this year. The would require the governor to annually proclaim May 22 as Day, designating it as a “day of special significance,” to recognize ’s work to secure equal protections.

California () is the largest statewide , , , -rights in California. In the past , has strategically moved California from a state with extremely for individuals to a state with some of the most comprehensive civil-rights protections in the nation. has passed over of and continues to advance through legislative , public and . www.eqca.org

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Our Genders, Our Rights

NEW YORK, NY - - - The Issues Magazine launched “Our , Our Rights,” its Summer 2009 edition. A unique combination of articles, poetry, art and videos on a topic that is both utterly fundamental and wildly revolutionary: and .

Top writers discuss -selection , gender , “Intersex” self-identification and a first-hand account of forced roles inside a polygamist compound in Texas.

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief ’s , “Selecting The Same ,” provides philosophical and into the issue of -selection .

“There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary — in the womb. When it comes to sonograms, amniocentesis and standard pre-natal testing, there are no nuances. Here, the pronouncement, ‘It’s a girl,’ can translate into fierce and instant parental . The fact is that when the issue is ’ selection ,’ the same is always being selected — female.” For Hoffman, this issue highlights questions of , and the moral of women.

“It’s about separating the chooser from the choice,” writes Hoffman.

In “Busting Bogus and Beliefs” Mahin Hassibi notes: “For centuries, held that women owed allegiance and obedience to their husbands; children were the property of their fathers, who owned the children’s mothers.” Today, Hassibi says, discoveries in and may soon trump historical and cultural restrictions that wrongly women’s lives.

“My children would have undoubtedly been among the 439 seized in the ,” writes of the sweep through the polygamist compound. In, “American : Controls Women’s Destinies,” Jessop gives an inside view of the abuse, and of women’s bodies that continues today.

Writers also plunge into concerns. “ Pitfalls May Await the Applicant” by Victoria Neilson discusses the difficult process for trans applicants in the U.S. Eleanor Bader’s “Trans Care Is a Life and Death Matter” describes a pioneering program for trans patients in the South.

Photographic performer Tammy Rae Carland visualizes gender fluidity as the featured artist, and art editor Linda Stein conducts an interview with Elizabeth Sackler, whose for art resulted in a new center at the Museum.

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On The Issues Magazine (www.ontheissuesmagazine.com) is a progressive, , quarterly online magazine. Read more at the site — free and with archives from 1983. is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief.

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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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‘Hate crime’ at Danish gay games

A Dane has been charged with committing a for allegedly throwing at athletes during a sporting event in .

He is accused of throwing into the Oesterbro stadium where the competitions were being held.

One US suffered a light injury to his hand.

The attack marks the second suspected at the Outgames after were assaulted in the street.

In the stadium incident, the alleged was apprehended by from the Athletes club as he attempted to escape.

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‘Two-Track’ Church Suggested by Archbishop of Canterbury

— The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the , said among the world’s 77 million over and same- could divide their church into a “two-” yielding “two styles of being .”

The formula could avert a formal breach between and but bring new in the between the global Anglican Communion and American Episcopalians who resolved this month to open the door to ordaining openly gay bishops and to start the process of developing rites for same-sex marriages.

insisted that the issue should not be debated “in apocalyptic terms of and excommunication but plainly as what they are — two styles of being .”

In a lengthy message published Monday on his Web site, the archbishop offered a detailed and nuanced response to at the convention in , Calif., this month when -rights in the chalked up major victories over on . The is the official branch of the in the .

The developments were seen by and as likely turning points in the history of the divided , reflecting the profound rifts over within — the world’s third largest network of Christian after the and Orthodox . The differences have crystallized around the ’s consent in 2003 to the of the church’s first openly bishop, V. Gene Robinson of .

The Episcopalians had agreed to a on the election of , but it was lifted at the convention in .

The is the of the , which is composed of 38 provinces worldwide. The claims about 2.3 million .

In his message, repeated his view that “a blessing for a same- union cannot have the authority” of the full , any more than a blessing for a couple living outside would have.

That, in turn, means that as long as the broader church “as a whole does not bless same- , a person living in such a union cannot without serious incongruity have a representative function in a Church whose public teaching is at with their .”

The issues have confronted the archbishop with not simply between and in the but also across the broader church with its many in , Britain and elsewhere. Four in the and many individual have broken away from the national to forge alliances with such as the Church of .

said: “There is at least the possibility of a twofold ecclesial reality in view in the middle distance: that is, a ‘covenanted’ global body, fully sharing certain aspects of a vision of how the Church should be and behave, able to take part as a body in ecumenical and interfaith ; and, related to this body, but in less formal ways with fewer formal expectations, there may be associated local in various kinds of mutual and with one another and with ‘covenanted’ provinces.”

The archbishop has promoted the idea of — described by some analysts as a kind of good-behavior guide for — to overcome the rift.

“This has been called a ‘two-tier’ model, or, more disparagingly, a first- and second-class structure,” the archbishop’s message said. “But perhaps we are faced with the possibility rather of a ‘two-track’ model, two ways of witnessing to the heritage, one of which had decided that local had to be the prevailing value and so had in good declined a covenantal structure.”

The message continued: “It helps to be clear about these possible futures, however much we think them less than ideal, and to speak about them not in apocalyptic terms of and excommunication but plainly as what they are — two styles of being , whose mutual relation will certainly need working out but which would not exclude in mission and service of the kind now shared in the .”

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Gillibrand wins Senate hearing on military policy on gays

New York’s Sen. href=”/topics/Kirsten_Gillibrand”>Kirsten Gillibrand said Monday she had won the commitment of the to hold its first hearing this fall on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on in the military.

The announcement is unusual because Gillibrand does not on the panel and did not push the issue in the last Congress, when she served on the House .

But the agreement by Armed Services chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) capped a campaign Gillibrand has been waging in the last few weeks to scrap or suspend the that has the Pentagon to discharge thousands of and since 1994.

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Obama to NAACP: “Our Gay Brothers And Sisters, Still Taunted, Still Attacked, Still Denied Their Rights”

on Thursday traced his historic to the and valor of black leaders, telling the that the of others “began the that has me here.” The nation’s first black bluntly warned, though, that persist.” See Obama to NAACP: “Our Gay Brothers And Sisters, Still Taunted, Still Attacked, Still Denied Their Rights”

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A group has filed a complaint against the first openly U.S. mayor, Mayor , for violating the , Ore. City council’s .

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Gay marriage and the date debate

Nearly after banned same- in the state, supporters are ready to ask them to overturn Proposition 8. They’re just not sure when to ask: In November 2010 or November 2012.

Choosing a date involves more than sifting through the polling, and consultants’ reports that have filled the time since last fall’s election with soul-searching and finger-pointing among supporters, culminating in a meeting of the movement’s leaders Saturday in .

Generating enthusiasm for a campaign will also be a -based decision, one that has split same- even in , where 75 percent of voters backed Prop. 8.

Bakersfield resident Jade Haley wants an in 2010. Her Alee thinks that’s too soon. ’s still refers to Haley as “she” and has no contact with them as a couple, who are raising ’s from a previous .

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On Sundays, , 34, goes to church twice. She attends a solo with her in the morning and goes to a with her in the evening. “The have thousands and thousands of ready to go against us,” said . She looked at 70 who came to a Church on Thursday to talk about the movement’s next step. “All we have is what’s in this room.”

Still, was among only a dozen at the Bakersfield meeting called by who supported waiting until 2012. The for a next year echoed one at a similar gathering in , while gatherings in liberal such as Oakland and Berkeley leaned toward 2012.

“The reaction was really mixed,” said Brown, ’s , who compiled information from the ’s “Get Engaged” tour of 40 over the past several weeks. “A of who wanted to wait until 2012 wanted to see what the plan was first before they committed.”

A nonbinding straw of leaders gathered Saturday in to plan the movement’s next step found that 93 voted to go in 2010, 49 in 2012 and 20 were undecided. expect to officially decide when to return to the ballot in a couple of weeks. If they decide on November 2010, the deadline to have submitted to the is Sept. 25.

Faults not addressed

This month, several of same- supporters said not enough has been done to the faults of last year’s campaign in time to mount a winning drive next year.

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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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