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President Obama to Bestow Presidential Medal of Freedom on Harvey Milk

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

Equality California Urges Governor to Sign Harvey Milk Day Bill into LawSan Francisco – Today President Obama announced that he will honor assassinated civil rights leader Harvey Milk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor recognizing significant contributions to the nation and the world.

Our Genders, Our Rights

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

NEW YORK, NY - - -  The Issues Magazine launched "Our Genders, Our Rights," its Summer 2009 edition.

House subcommittee approves benefits for same-sex partners

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

A House subcommittee today advanced a bill to provide health and retirement benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of gay and lesbian federal employees.

Obama names Medal of Freedom recipients, including Harvey Milk ...

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

President Obama, attempting to spotlight those who have acted as "agents of change," today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures widely known in politics, the arts and sciences, sports and social movements.

Human Rights Campaign Calls on the LGBT Community and Allies to Participate in National, Grassroots Push to Lobby Congress Face-to-Face

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today launched a national, grassroots campaign called "No Excuses" to demand action from Congress on key issues of equality.

Gay professor Simon Karlinsky dies

Gay News Blog  Jul 30 09

Simon Karlinsky, an openly gay distinguished professor in the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on the history of homosexuality in Russia, died July 5 due to congestive heart failure.

States with more Catholics more favor gay rights

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

Want to predict which state might move next to legalize same-sex marriage? You might count Catholics.

Kid Rock: Twitter is gay

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

Quote of the day, from Kid Rock, to Rolling Stone, via Page Six, about Twitter:

"It's gay.

Militias target some Iraqis for being gay

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

BAGHDAD — The young man turns to the camera and pleads with his tormentors.

"I'm not a terrorist," he tells the Iraqi police who surround him.

'Hate crime' at Danish gay games

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

A Dane has been charged with committing a hate crime for allegedly throwing fireworks at athletes during a gay sporting event in Copenhagen.

IDs of gay partnership foes could be released next week

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

Order: Gay partnership foe names don't have to be released

The names of people who signed petitions seeking to overturn Washington's "everything but marriage" same-sex domestic partner law won't be released publicly following a federal judge's temporary restraining order.

Prosecutors drop case against gay couple accused of trespassing on LDS property

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

Prosecutors won't pursue a case against two men accused of trespassing on LDS Church property earlier this month.

Wash. gay partnership foes try to shield signers

Gay News Blog  Jul 29 09

State officials won't resist a temporary restraining order that would block public release of petition signatures for a gay-partnership referendum.

E. Lynn Harris Made Sexuality A Bestseller

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

Author E. Lynn Harris, best known for his novels portraying black male characters conflicted with their sexuality, died Friday in Los Angeles at age 54.

Chicago HIV report sparks reaction

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

The Chicago Public Health Department's alarming report, released Friday, that suggests the HIV infection rate among gay men in Chicago is nearly 20% has drawn varied responses from Chicago's gay and lesbian community.

Pro-gay marriage group spent big in Vermont

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

Vermont Freedom to Marry says it spent more than $293,000 lobbying lawmakers and the public on the same-sex marriage bill that was approved by the Legislature, far outspending its opponents.

Too Gay in Amsterdam?

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

It’s no secret that Amsterdam is gay-friendly, but in case that slipped under anyone’s radar, Dutch tourism officials have launched a micro Web site this month proclaiming that “Everyone’s Gay in Amsterdam.

'Two-Track' Church Suggested by Archbishop of Canterbury

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

PARIS — The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said profound differences among the world’s 77 million Anglicans over gay clergy and same-sex unions could divide their church into a “two-track model” yielding “two styles of being Anglican.

Brits showing the way for American repeal of military ban?

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

The cover photo of an out soldier on the British army's official magazine is a symbol of the success of the military's nearly decade-long policy to allow openly gay personnel, according to this article.

Should Proposition 8 recall be put to voters in 2010?

Gay News Blog  Jul 28 09

Marriage-equality advocates are split about the timing of a ballot question to overturn the California's Proposition 8 constitutional marriage ban.

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