A discussion area of fierce advocacy for LGBT people and their allies. Our concerns regard issues of socio-economic justice and equality for LGBT people. http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 21 May 2013 05:40:08 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:40:08 http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/hunt.jpg

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/05/18/2033281/florida-teen-expelled-charged-with-felony-over-lesbian-relationship/

Petition was down as this is blowing up. I am going to try to sign it again tomorrow.

I hope that millions rall... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169908 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:16:26 A Heartbreaking video that needs to be shared to show how with the laws they way they stand prevent partners from legal access to their deceased loved ones belongings and needs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=560756123965319&set=vb.100000928096156&type=2&theater

I am not sure if this wi... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169907 Wed, 15 May 2013 15:31:05 [div class="excerpt"]Gay marriage in Minnesota passed a critical test Thursday, May 9, with the House passing legislation on a 75-59 vote.

The vote sends the debate to the Minnesota Senate, which is expected to vote on same-sex marriage on Monday. Gov. Mark Dayton has said he will the bill should... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169902 Thu, 09 May 2013 16:22:33 Attorney General Greg Abbott, in an ironic twist of timing, has struck down the ability of cities, counties and school districts to offer domestic partner benefits.

By almost any measure, today was a landmark day for the GLBT community, with all eyes focused on basketball player Jason Collins, th... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169897 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:15:37 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/25/john-paulk-ex-gay-therapy-apology_n_3155536.html

Filing in the "Too Little Too Late" Folder. Apologizes are always nice, I suppose, but what about some recognition that you may have enabled psychological abuse of minors, to the point of causing depression... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169896 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:06:25 I saw Marmar posted in GD, but didn't see a post here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/27/bradley-manning-sf-gay-pride... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169893 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:21:37 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/26/washington-state-gay-discrimination/2116231/

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Several Republican lawmakers filed a bill Thursday seeking an exemption to the state's anti-discrimination laws just weeks after legal action was taken against a Richland floris... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169886 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:32:50 A lesbian couple from California who were denied a room at a Hawai‘i bed and breakfast after the owner learned of their sexual orientation have won a discrimination lawsuit they filed against the business four years later.

According to a joint press statement by Lambda Legal, which helped repr... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169875 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:47:22 A California Chick-fil-A did something shocking for same-sex marriage supporters this week: Supported them.

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The move came months after Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy revealed his anti-gay stance in a July interview, saying he is "guilty as charged" when it comes to his franchise's "sup... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169869 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:22:04 This makes me want to say a lot of things, but really, I'm speechless. From a Supreme Court Justice. You want to talk about people being out of touch with the common person. Judges who believe that the battle for gay marriage is newer than cell phones? Politicians that believe that they're so hard d... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169863 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:47:31 http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/land-gay-marriage-polygamy/2013/03/25/id/496264

With the Supreme Court set this week to hear two historic challenges to the traditional definition of marriage, pro-family advocates are charging that legalizing gay marriage would “inevitably” lead to the legalizati... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169847 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:58:48 passed a bill last week which amends the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) “to include gender identity and gender expression as prohibited grounds of discrimination".... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169846 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:00:36 I'm not that well informed, don't read enough in the gay press.

I was wondering if there are places I can go to find out about who is organizing demonstrations for the day the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on the California Prop 8 case next week.

Any media events scheduled? Are they... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169843 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:35:46
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GOP Lawmaker Regrets Voting Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://youtu.be/YNjLHYlnAbs

[blockquote]Lynne Osterman who was elected as a Republican to the Minnesota legislature says regrets casting a "political expedient" vote for Minnesota's "Defense of Marriage" law that outl... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169838 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:46:42 Just now, the Colorado House voted 39-26 to grant final approval to a bill that would offer civil unions to same-sex couples, advancing it to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s (D) desk for his promised signature. Colorado has a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, so civil unions are an impor... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169832 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:15:35 FKCHS faces challenge over alleged homosexual content in play after winning at drama festival

CARIBOU/Fort Kent– There was drama at the Northern Regional Drama Festival this weekend when a director from Washburn lodged a written complaint alleging possible mature content, specifically for its sup... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169829 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:53:23 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zbY5J4HBPG8#!

love the reactions!... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169822 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:16:46 In these modern times, it is funny how we forge interesting and new kinds of relationships through media, social and otherwise.

We gain unique attachments to people we have never met, some of whom we interact with on Twitter or Facebook, and some of whom we have never interacted with at all. I ha... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169819 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:56:08 After President Obama drew a rhetorical line connecting Selma to Stonewall in his inauguration speech, the question of whether gay rights are equivalent to the civil rights movement has resurfaced.

A CNN panel took on the question, with one panelist quick to say that yes gay rights are civil righ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169818 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:32:04 A prominent conservative voice and former presidential candidate, Jon Huntsman, now backs marriage equality, he announced today in an editorial.

Headlined "Marriage Equality Is a Conservative Cause," the former Utah governor and failed Republican presidential candidate wrote in The American Conse... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169814 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:46:08 for Future Papal Dialogue

http://ncronline.org/node/45761/

INDEPENDENT media: The National Catholic Reporter has been on the frontlines within the Catholic Church for social and economic justice and peace activism ever since the build up to the Invasion & Occupation of Iraq.

[blockquote][di... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169813 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:46:05 A controversy involving novelist Orson Scott Card and DC Comics could foreshadow problems for the big-budget adaptation of his classic 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game, which is scheduled for release Nov. 1.

Card’s long record of opposition to same-sex marriage and gay rights came into sharp focus ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169810 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:33:14 The Massachussets Department of Education on Friday issued an 11-page directive for educators dealing with transgender students, reports the Associated Press. The new directive instructs teachers and administrators to allow transgender and gender non-conforming students to use the bathrooms and play... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169808 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:55:10 On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister's robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.

Perry's Metropolitan Community Churches was then a lone spiritual refuge for openly gay Christians, an idea so far from the mainstream that the... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169803 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:30:50 Bradlee Dean apparently has a new lawyer, the Liberty Counsel, and they’re demanding a Florida high school allow Dean and his anti-gay hate group be allowed to speak to a student club. Dean, and his “youth ministry group,” You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International — which has been deemed a hate ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169797 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:36:53 http://www.crewmagazine.com/article/so-god-made-a-gay-man/... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169793 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:11:05 As more state legislatures around the country consider whether to legalize same-sex weddings, an analysis of gay marriage votes in eight states shows that Republican lawmakers who backed it often faced consequences — including loss of their seats.

According to roll call votes analyzed by The Ass... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169792 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:07:16 Last night’s Valentine’s Day episode of Glee entitled “I Do” was supposed to be the long awaited wedding day of teachers Will (Matthew Morrison) and Emma (Jayma Mays), but as the episode progresses it becomes less about their nuptials and more about drunken random hookups and the long awaited reunio... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169791 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:55:12 In what appears to be a first for a U.S. president, Barack Obama has given his support to Orlando, Fla.’s bid to host the Gay Games in 2018.

Obama wrote a letter of support to the organizing committee for Orlando, the only U.S. city seeking to host the 2018 games, according to website Watermark. ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169786 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:13:04 LGBT activists held a lengthy wish list of policy changes they hoped the president would support in his State of the Union address. The 2013 agenda that Barack Obama outlined on Tuesday included only some of them, and without clear requests to Congress.

Activists including the Human Rights Campai... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169785 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:11:20 Please contact Representative Paul Davis & thank him for ringing the bells for freedom from religious oppression: http://www.kshousedems.com/page/paul-davis-biography

From Facebook, just now:
http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad278/sweetpeace_photo/KsTargetPrayer_zps56423fb7.jpg

[blockquote]... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169784 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:49:15 https://www.allout.org/en/actions/dccomics-osc... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169779 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:42:01 http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/our-eagle-scout-badges-helped-prepare-us-for-same-sex-marriage/272987/

Two years ago this summer, we took a vow of marriage. And when we did, we not only pledged to love one another forever, we also recited the Scout Law: to be trustworthy, loya... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169776 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:58:43 The mayor of a southeastern Ohio village who was accused earlier this week of degrading a gay police officer and refusing to allow his partner to visit the police station has resigned.

Pomeroy Mayor Mary McAngus hand-delivered a resignation letter to a village council member today, said Council P... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169775 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:51:03 Leaders at an LGBT center in Van Buren, Ark., say a local restaurant owner discriminated against them and compared them to the Ku Klux Klan when he cancelled a reservation the group made to hold a fundraiser there.

Representatives from the River Valley Equality Center told ABC affiliate 40/29TV ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169766 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 22:05:16 DC Comics just announced a digital-first series called the Adventures of Superman this week, which is launching in April, Comics Alliance reports:

Among those contributing are ComicsAlliance favorites Jeff Parker (Bucko, Red She-Hulk) and Chris Samnee (Daredevil, The Rocketeer: Cargo of Doom), wh... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169763 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:19:01 http://www.democraticunderground.com/113724191
I don't know how to get the photo onto du... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169761 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:34:31 [div class="excerpt"]Dayton also endorsed legal same-sex marriage in his speech, in remarks likely to echo through the Capitol if lawmakers take up the issue this spring as widely expected.

While acknowledging the issue is "controversial," Dayton said he believes "every Minnesotan should have the... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169758 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:36:24 Who Is NOM RI and Why Do They Hate Marriage Equality?

A picture of Brian Camenker and Chris Plante from the MassResistance! Website
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was formed in 2007 for the purpose of passing California’s Prop 8 prohibiting same-sex marriage. NOM RI was formed some... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169756 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:26:36 I really enjoy them keep it up... http://www.democraticunderground.com/1169753 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:09:50