Evangelicals 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 …
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From NGLTF:
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a leader in building grassroots lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) political power, endorses the National Equality March, which will be held in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10–11. Thousands of people from across the country will march and rally in front of …
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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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(Washington, D.C.) Jon Hoadley announced on Monday that he will be stepping down from his position as Executive Director of the Stonewall Democrats the Advocate reports.
Hoadley will be stepping down in order to help the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based group One Kalamazoo protect the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance. A popular vote determining the …
Tags: Advocate, Executive Director, Hoadley, Kalamazoo, Nondiscrimination, Popular Vote, Stonewall Democrats, Washington D CThree Cities Compete For Gay Games
With just two months left before final voting takes place in Cologne, Germany, decision day is drawing near for three U.S. cities vying to be host city of the 2014 Gay Games.
Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C., are all contenders for the event, which draws an estimated 12,000 athletes from 70 countries.
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Quinn urges Obama, Congress to take action on LGBT rights
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, in remarks at a fundraiser for the upcoming LGBT-rights march in Washington, D.C., recounted an incident during which she urged President Barack Obama to “do more” for LGBT people. “I’m happy there’s something we can organize around in October to send a clear message that we’re thrilled that he’s the president and we’re thrilled that Democrats have control of the House and the Senate, but it’s simply not enough,” Quinn said. PolitickerNY.com
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Anti-Gay Marriage Crusader Marion Barry Arrested for Stalking Queerty
Washington D.C. City Councilman Marion Barry, who’s devoted the last few weeks to rallying against the city’s recognition of same-sex marriage from other jurisdictions, just added to his controversy hash marks. Barry was arrested last night on stalking allegations, made by a woman who says the former mayor was “bothering her.” Barry is expected to deny the charges in typical fashion: He’s calling a press conference tomorrow. See Anti-Gay Marriage Crusader Marion Barry Arrested for Stalking
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Dean drops out of LGBT Democratic Pary Fundraiser
(Washington) According to Ben Smith at Politico, former DNC Chairman Howard Dean has pulled out of tomorrow’s LGBT Democratic Party Fundraiser in Washington, D.C. A Dean spokeswoman, Karen Finney, said that he pulled out due to a scheduling conflict because of a “family commitment.” Dean was listed as one of …
Tags: Conflict, Dean, Democratic Party, Democratic Pary, Dnc Chairman, Family Commitment, Fundraiser, Howard Dean, Karen Finney, Scheduling, Spokeswoman, Washington D CReferendum to D.C.’s recognition of same-sex marriages rejected
(Washington, D.C.) Gay rights activists celebrated yesterday as the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics rejected an attempted referendum on whether Washington should recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, the Chicago Tribune reports.
The board upheld the decision made by the city council last month which allows same-sex marriages performed outside D.C. to …
Tags: Board Of Elections, C Board, Chicago Tribune, Ethics, Gay Rights Activists, Referendum, Same Sex Marriages, Washington D CBoth black and gay: Internal rights fight
It was already challenging enough for Cornelius Jones Jr. to grow up being black in the racially-tense South.
But facing the prejudices of the people outside the African American community wouldn’t be the hardest struggle of his life. Even from the young age of 5, Jones had a sense of the obstacles he would face on the inside.
“I didn’t want to be associated with the weakness and nastiness that gay people were defined by in my neighborhood,” Jones remembers of his time growing up on a predominantly black street in Richmond, Va. “In my neighborhood, church and school, gays were constantly shunned, ridiculed and picked on.”
When he was 15, Jones moved to Washington, D.C. to stay with family friends and attend a performing arts high school — “and also to get away from the constant bullying I received,” he said. But they soon learned that he was gay and he was kicked out of the house. It was then that he had to confront his parents with his real identity.
His mother gave him one piece of advice: “Do what you do behind closed doors.”
It would be a lifetime of pain and struggle that would teach him that his mother’s advice was no way to awaken a black community deeply rooted in religion to the rights of gays. And it would be events like the passage of Proposition 8 — the anti-gay marriage measure in California that 70 percent of blacks voted for — that would be a platform for him to open the doors.
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