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 DcTwo-Thirds of GLBT Americans Think Nation Headed in the Right Direction
(Washington, DC) American GLBT adults say they are more optimistic for the future than their heterosexual counterparts.
A new national survey conducted online in mid-August by Witeck-Combs Communications and Harris Interactive shows two–thirds (67%) of GLBT adults say that things in the country are going in the right direction, compared to …
Tags: Adults, Going In The Right Direction, Harris Interactive, Heterosexual Counterparts, New National Survey, Survey Online, Two Thirds, Washington DcSenate to convene first-ever hearing on gay immigration equality
(Washington, DC) On Wednesday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold the first-ever Congressional hearing on obstacles faced by lesbian and gay couples under U.S. immigration law.
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the committee, has scheduled a 10 a.m. hearing on the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). The bill, sponsored …
Tags: American Families, Gay Couples, Gay Dc, Gay Immigration, Immigration Equality, Immigration Law, Lesbian Couples, Lesbian Gay, Obstacles, Patrick Leahy, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy, Washington Dc, Wednesday MorningKirby Dick on Outing Gay Celebrities.
Outrage, Kirby Dick’s fascinating survey of the hypocrisy of closeted conservative politicians, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last weekend. I wrote about the Q&A that followed the screening in this post for The Wrap.
In the clip below, Dick explains why he kept the focus on politicians, rather than exploring all closeted celebrities and the people out them. “I really had my hands full with Washington DC,” he said.
In the film, Dick includes two really funny media guffaws that I have embedded beneath the clip from the premiere.
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Proposals for Games reviewed
Finalist cities for 2014 event are Boston, Cleveland and Washington, DC.
Tags: Boston, Games, Proposals, Washington DcProposals for Games reviewed
Finalist cities for 2014 event are Boston, Cleveland and Washington, DC.
Tags: Boston, Games, Proposals, Washington DcEquality Utah uses the LDS own words in a new campaign for Gay Rights
The day after Proposition 8, a Mormon supported ballot measure that outlawed same-sex marriage, passed in California, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints released a formal statement saying, “the church does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights.”
Last week however, a Utah bill that would have allowed two people who live together and who are mutually dependent and named in a will or trust to a wrongful death court action if a tragedy occurred, was defeated in a state senate committee after opponents of the bill argued that offering any legal recognition to same-sex couples, including the right to sue when a breadwinner suffers a wrongful death, could lead to a court decision legalizing gay marriage.
This week in an effort to sway voters in that state and prevent other of Equality Utah’s legislative initiative’s remaining bills from going down in flames, Equality Utah has come out swinging with a major multimedia ad blitz that turn the tables and proclaims…
“The Church does not object to rights for same-sex couples …”
In a press statement Equality Utah said…
Several polls have indicated that the majority of Utahns support the reasonable and basic protections provided for in the legislation of the Common Ground
Initiative.
Yet lawmakers rebuffed one of the Common Ground Initiative bills last week, recalling tired arguments that the proposals are somehow an attack on traditional marriage.
Far from pessimistic about the ability of Utah legislators see passed the tired arguments that surfaced during last week’s hearing, Equality Utah has launched a media campaign to help raise awareness of the reasonableness and broad public support of the basic ideals of the Common Ground Initiative.
“We’ve modeled our legislative proposals directly from the statements of the LDS Church,” said Mike Thompson, Equality Utah’s Executive Director. “We’re talking about basic rights that have broad public support and have nothing to do with marriage. We hope this media campaign will help Utahns see passed the fear-based arguments used against this legislation.”
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Gay band to march in Presidential inauguration parade
For the first time in American history, a gay group has been asked to march in the Inaugural Parade.
President-elect Obama will take the oath of office on January 20th during an elaborate day of celebrations in Washington DC.
The parade will include the Lesbian and Gay Band Association as a marching contingent.
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