Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune , Minnesota Public Radio With several hundred delegates, media, and LGBT activists in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, we tended to hear about them in groups. There are fewer LGBT folks at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. And that makes it easier for media to focus on individuals. Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Tom Horgen tagged along with Steve Majors, 28, a California delegate from Los Angeles, his friends -- all gay and some delegates -- as they hit the town each night after the convention. The Virginia delegation made news. Full story...
Source: Deseret News , Salt Lake Tribune , Leonard Link Salt Lake police are investigating a possible hate crime after a man was attacked while waiting for a cab outside of a gym that caters mainly to gay men.
Source: Christian Science Monitor , New York Times , BBC , Wall Street Journal Quincy, Ill. -- The long-running but slow rending to the "Anglican Communion" -- a loose confederation of national churches that trace their heritage to the Church of England -- got another tug today, when conservatives in the US and Canada formed a rival Anglican province in North America.
:: An executive at Cincinnati Christian University is the latest in a long string of victims of morals stings that found the man in a position that compromises his stated beliefs.
Source: Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle Sacramento -- The gay and lesbian caucus of California's legislature and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg Tuesday introduced a resolutions in both the Senate and Assembly opposing Proposition 8.
Source: BBC , Voice of America International media watchdog groups are calling for the release of an Iraqi journalist was jailed for writing a story about homosexuality which prosecutors said violated a public decency law.
Source: Playbill , Los Angeles Times Proposition 8 gets star-studded treatment in a web video conceived and written by Hairspray Tony winner Marc Shaiman who also plays the piano in the three-minute satire staged as though it were an awkward community theater production.
Source: Thaindian News , Daily News & Analysis , Indian Express NEW DELHI -- An extended legal debate over an Indian statute that makes gay sex illegal took a new twist this week as lawyers for the government's ruling coalition argued that Delhi High Court, which has been hearing a challenge to the statute, has no authority to overturn it.
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer , Toledo Blade A former University of Toledo employment administrator who was fired after writing a column about employment rules for a local publication is suing the university.
Source: Reuters , Times (London) , Catholic News Service Gay rights groups and newspaper editorials on Tuesday condemned the Vatican for its decision to oppose a proposed U.
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette , Blogging for Michigan , Pride Source KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- City commissioners are scheduled to vote tonight whether to implement an ordinance that would ban discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
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