Behind the news: Washington Blade was almost saved
A publisher was in negotiations to buy and run the Washington Blade before it was shut down on Monday.
From a press release:
(Washington DC) In response to media inquiries and an apparent information blackout by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Nicholas F. Benton, owner of the Falls Church News-Press, a …
Tags: Blackout, Church News, Media Inquiries, Negotiations, News Press, Press Release, Publisher, Sba, Small Business Administration, Washington Blade, Washington DcFewer vets support ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
From a press release:
A new study about the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy questions the assumption that allowing openly gay and lesbian military personnel to serve in the U.S. armed forces could harm military readiness.
The study surveyed military personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan and found …
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From a press release:
(Washington, D.C.) Proponents and supporters, including D.C. religious leaders, will attend the scheduled mark-up of the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, chaired by Councilmember Phil Mendelson, will review the text of …
Tags: Addresses, Amendment Act, Civil Marriage, Domestic Partnerships, gay marriage, Judiciary, marriage, Marriage Bill, Marriage Equality, Phil Mendelson, Press Release, Proponents, Public Safety, Religious Freedom, Religious Leaders, Washington D CWithers: Newsom drops out of the race
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has ended his campaign to be governor of California. In a press release, Newsom pointed to his family as the reason.
“With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way …
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press release from SAVE Dade:
Despite the recent United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruling that Jackson Memorial Hospital had no obligation to allow visitors to see patients, and that that there was no obligation to provide patients’ families, healthcare surrogates, or visitors with access to patients …
Tags: gay rights, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Obligation, Patient Rights, Patient Visitation, Press Release, Southern District Of Florida, States District Court, Surrogates, United States District, United States District Court, United States District Court For The Southern District, Visitation RightsEvangelicals step up for marriage equality
From a press release from American Progress:
Brent Childers used to call himself a “Jesse Helms Republican” who justified his homophobic beliefs through biblical interpretation. But last weekend, as he marched in the Equality March in Washington, D.C., he stood alongside his lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender friends in support of …
Tags: American Progress, Biblical Interpretation, Jesse Helms, marriage, Marriage Equality, Press Release, Republican, Transgender, Washington D CHouse passes defense authorization report, including hate crimes
From an HRC press release:
(Washington) The U.S. House of Representatives passed the conference report for the FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill by a vote of 281 to 146, bringing critical hate crimes protections closer to becoming law than ever before.
Earlier this week, the House voted down a last-ditch effort to …
Tags: Defense Authorization Bill, Hate Crimes, House Of Representatives, Hrc, Last Ditch Effort, Press Release, VoteSenate Majority Leader Reid announces support for National Equality March
From a press release:
(Las Vegas) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is supporting the National Equality March (NEM) saying in a letter addressed to steering committee members, “I write to join in your commitment to ensure equality under the law.” The letter was delivered on September 30.
“We are honored that …
Vanasco: Are you going to the National Equality March?
I returned from the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival yesterday on a high about gay gatherings - to find a press release in my inbox about the National Equality March, to be held Oct. 11 in Washington, D.C.
From the release:
Equality Across America, the new grassroots network calling for Federal action to …
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BEIJING–When China’s homosexual moviemakers decided to hold their fourth-ever film festival this year, they took pains to avoid confrontation with the cops.
They’d had confrontations before.
So this year, they didn’t issue any press releases. They picked a venue where they didn’t have to apply for a government permit. And they insisted on calling the event The Beijing Queer Film Festival.
“The translation of queer in Chinese is `ku er,’” explains film director Cui Zi’en. “In the Chinese language, it’s actually a less well-known word – a less provocative word than `gay.’”
The idea, Cui says, is not to wave flags in the authorities’ faces.
Yesterday, the five-day film festival opened in a village on the outskirts of Beijing without incident.
It’s no longer illegal to be gay in China: that ended in 1997.
In 2001, the Chinese Psychiatric Association delisted homosexuality as a disease. But gay books and films remained banned here in China and the gay community continues to test the limits.
Cui and other organizers hope this week’s festival goes smoothly – and doesn’t get busted. Gay film fests in the capital were shut down in 2001 and 2005, while a festival in 2007 squeaked by under the radar.
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