As a gay media era ends, former staffers work to rebuild from the ashes

Source: Gay City News, Washington City Paper, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal Constitution, New York Times, Miami Herald 

Media professionals and LGBT activists were shocked Monday morning by news that the major gay publications in four cities, including the nation’s oldest gay newspaper, had shut down after the companies that published the papers, Window Media and Unite Media, were forced to close by the Small Business Administration—the federal agency that oversaw the companies in bankruptcy proceedings.
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Item: Drop gay adoption ban, says Florida governor hopeful

   ::: The leading candidate for Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial nomination said Saturday that Florida’s draconian ban on adoption by prospective gay or lesbian parents should be dropped, Miami Herald reports.
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LGBT Resistance to the Coup in Honduras

On Saturday I attended a talk by Indyra Mendoza, an activist with the LGTB Coalition Against the Coup in Honduras, who was in LA for a speaking tour.
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LGBT News Digest 11/16/09

Hope you like the new format we are going to use for sharing new stories. If you know of a site you think we should add to our list on the right-hand column of the blog, please let us know.
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DC Catholic church says it won’t help poor if it can’t discriminate against LGBT people

St. Mathhew’s Cathedral, Washington, DC Flickr photo by MVI

The Roman Catholic church threatened Wednesday to shut down the social service programs it runs for the District of Columbia if the DC city council adopts a marriage equality law in its current form.
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Report: Kiss-in protests led to LDS support for Salt Lake gay-friendly law

Source: Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, KSL, Fox13Now

The powerful Salt Lake City-based LDS (Mormon) church announced Tuesday that it will support a proposed pair of Salt Lake City ordinances that would make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT in housing and employment.
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Monday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.The Catholic Bishops, who covered up all those horrible sex abuses cases, are now dictating legislative policy in Washington DC.
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A New LGBT Advocate Is Emerging in the US Senate

From New York's Gay City News:"For himself, I think, he’s going to take all the time he believes he needs in order to be successful, because it’s all about being successful.
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Down To the Wire

Last month, Bil asked you to chip in to send me to Maine to write at my home blog, OpenLeft, about the campaign to protect marriage equality, and to build a broader movement of non-LGBT activists.
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Kalamazoo vote is Tuesday’s other important LGBT issue

Source: 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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So who was on the LGBT guest list at the hate crimes enactment ceremony?

I'm glad that I'm not the only one wondering why there's something top-secret about the attendees invited to the White House gathering yesterday.
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LGBT March at White House Tomorrow 

LGBT activists and allies will be marching Wednesday in front of the White House prior to the president signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
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Rinse, repeat: Obama admin aggressively defending DADT in court

WTF? Didn't we hear during the HRC dinner that the President was working on repeal as we speak?

In a move consistent with other contradictory behavior on LGBT issues, the Obama administration has directed its Justice Department to file an extraordinary motion to get Log Cabin Republicans' lawsuit against the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law thrown out of court, despite a federal judge's ruling that it can proceed.
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'Queer the Census' campaign launched

The U.S. Census Bureau will make an official count of same-sex couples next spring while LGBT activists will attempt to "queer the census" with a grassroots write-in campaign.
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‘Queer the Census’ campaign launched

The U.S. Census Bureau will make an official count of same-sex couples next spring while LGBT activists will attempt to “queer the census” with a grassroots write-in campaign.
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Friday: LGBT Activists To Protest Obama Speech In Boston

LGBT activists and allies plan to protest President Obama's appearance this Friday at a fundraiser in Boston.
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Rhode Island Gov. Carcieri Is "Aggravated" By Marriage Equality Activists

Angered at their governor's appearance at a fundraiser for anti-gay hate group the Massachusetts Family Institute, where he said that "marriage is not a civil right" and that he was "aggravated" by the issue, marriage equality activists rallied at the Rhode Island state house this weekend.
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Queens gay-bashing victim speaks, as hundreds rally in support

The Daily News published this undated photo of Jack Price, who is now hospitalized after a brutal attack

About 300 LGBT activists and supporters gathered yesterday in Queens, New York for a march and rally to support a gay man who was beaten almost to death by two young men who punched, kicked, and stomped the victim, Jack Price, 49, in a late-night Oct.
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Buju Banton redeclares his war against 'faggots'

After meeting with LGBT activists in San Diego, Buju Banton shook hands with them and proceeded to say he's not only not down with the gays, he's ready to rumble.
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Jack Price March & Rally In Queens

This afternoon the Farmboyz and I traveled to the working-class neighborhood of College Point, Queens, far past the end of subway service, to attend the march and rally in support of gay bashing victim Jack Price.
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