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TAKE ACTION NOW: Urge Congress To Stop Uganda From Persecuting Gays
Truth Wins Out Nov 02 09TAKE ACTION NOW
Truth Wins Out today urged Congress to deny financial aid to Uganda if the country passes a draconian bill that would trample the fundamental rights of the nation’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population.
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Kalamazoo vote is Tuesday’s other important LGBT issue
Qnews Oct 30 09Source: WOOD TV, Kalamazoo Gazette, Michigan Messenger, WWMT TV Kalamazoo, MI
When votes are counted starting Tuesday evening, the eyes of most LGBT activists will be on the results from Maine where voters will decide in a ballot measure called Question 1 whether or not to overturn the law recognizing marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples in the state.
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Maine: No on 1 Taking Lead & The Opposition Is Now Throwing Everything INCLUDING the Kitchen Sink a
Pams House blend Oct 26 09(Also at Nevada Progressive)
Well, we have some good news and some bad news to report in Maine today.
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Judge allows federal challenge to Prop. 8 to continue
Qnews Oct 16 09
After nearly two hours of legal arguments, a federal judge in San Francisco refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8 and ordered a trial on whether the measure denies fundamental rights to gays and lesbians.
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Gay bar bombed in Rome
Bilerico Sep 03 09
Two small bombs were thrown from motorcycles at a bar in a gayborhood in Rome last night. Several people were injured, fortunately no one died.
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Iowa Civil Rights Commissioner says Same-Sex Marriage Ban would be Unconstitutional
Topix Gay News Aug 23 09
An Iowa state civil rights commissioner said last week that any amendment to the Iowa Constitution banning gay marriage would clash with the fundamental rights of Iowans as spelled out in the state constitution's bill of rights.
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Panel backs gay marriage ruling
Yahoo Gay News / The Des Moines Register Aug 21 09A state civil rights commissioner said Thursday that an amendment to the Iowa Constitution banning gay marriage would clash with the fundamental rights of Iowans spelled out in the same document.
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Iowa official says gay-marriage amendment would ’clash’ with state bill of rights
Yahoo Gay News / The Des Moines Register Aug 20 09A state civil rights commissioner said today that an amendment to the Iowa Constitution banning gay marriage would “clash” with the fundamental rights of Iowans spelled out in the same document.
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CA Same-Sex Marriage in 2010 or 2012? Tennis Anyone?
The Gaytheist Agenda Jul 16 09Sean Chapin nails it. Civil rights should never be put to “the will of the people”. We shouldn’t have to repeatedly beg people to allow us the rights they take for granted, and we should already have as our birthright.
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Delhi High Court legalises consensual gay sex
Yahoo Gay News / Hindustan Times Jul 04 09COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! In a pathbreaking judgement, the Delhi High Court on Thursday legalised gay sex among consenting adults holding that the law making it a criminal offence violates fundamental rights.
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New Delhi Lifts Colonial-Era Ban on Gay Sex
Gay News Blog Jul 02 09
A top court in the Indian capital of New Delhi yesterday overturned a colonial-era law banning gay sex between consenting adults as the world's biggest democracy struggles to balance tradition and modernity.
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HOMOSEXUALITY DECRIMINALIZED IN INDIA
OhLaLaMag Jul 02 09I still have an hard time knowing that being who I am will make me a criminal in some countries. But today our friends from India can celebrate since a court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ruled that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act [source] The ruling overturns a 148-year-old colonial law which describes a same-sex relationship as an "unnatural offence".
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Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sex
365 Gay News Jul 02 09(New Delhi) A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply conservative country.
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Jubilation greets Indian court ruling that strikes out anti-gay law
Qnews Jul 02 09Source: AFP, Reuters, Times of India, Associated Press, Hindustan Times, Day After India’s Victorian-era law against gay sex is discriminatory and therefore a "violation of fundamental rights" accorded under the constitution, a court in New Delhi has ruled in a long-awaited landmark ruling.
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DUMP DOMA
Pams House blend Jun 18 09
Among the steps we have not yet taken is to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. I believe it's discriminatory, I think it interferes with states' rights, and we will work with Congress to overturn it.
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More on fair-weather progressive 'friends' selectively defending DOMA
Pams House blend Jun 13 09My pal Joe Sudbay has written a thoughtful and spot-on piece about the sad reality that many in the progressive straight community, particularly those who are lawyers, are defending this administration's decision to defend DOMA in a manner that is completely soulless, devoid of humanity and it's not all that surprising to me (check out this DKos post for a prime example).
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Urgent Petition: Save Roodabeh and Ali, Iranian Homosexual Refugees
Gay News Blog Jun 13 09
Roodabeh is a 30-year-old lesbian woman who left Iran in February 2008 to flee from the persecution that the regime of President Ahmadinejad reserves for homosexuals; persecution that foresees in many cases – according to a ruthless interpretation of Islamic law – prison sentences, torture and even death.
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‘Symbolic’ marriage equality bill introduced in Penn. legislature
Qnews Jun 04 09
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Gay News, WFMZ TV, Your4State.com
Pennsylvania capitol, Harrisburg Even though he gives it no chance to pass in the current Pennsylvania legislature, state Sen.More from Qnews
A Suit Too Soon?
Independent Gay Forum Jun 01 09
by John CorvinoFirst published at 365gay.com on May 29, 2009
President Truman's quip about wanting a one-handed economist—so that he would cease being told, "On the one hand…on the other hand…"—pretty well sums up my reaction to the news that Ted Olson and David Boies are spearheading a federal lawsuit challenging California's Prop.
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The complex questions about the marriage equality movement and the Olson/Boies federal lawsuit
Pams House blend May 28 09(There are Qs of the Day in this post as well.)
Bush v. Gore adversaries Ted Olson and David Boies appeared on Larry King last night to make their case why it's the right time to pursue a federal decision on marriage equality arguing that Prop 8 violates the U.
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