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• House Passes Health Reform Bill with Key LGBT Provisions

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Late this evening, the House passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, by a vote of 220 to 215. While this is a historic step toward improving health care for all Americans, it is also a tremendous advance for the health needs of LGBT people. HRC lobbied the three committees involved in drafting ...
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• MotoGP: Pedrosa Wins at Home While Stoner Crashes During Warm-Up

  
  2WheelTuesday — Authority: 137
  Dani Pedrosa doubled his race-victory tally for the season in the final race of the year with a win at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit on Sunday, as Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo completed the podium. It was a victory on home soil for Dani Pedrosa at the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana, as the Repsol ...
  1 day ago

• House Passes Health Reform Bill with Key LGBT Provisions

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Late this evening, the House passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962, by a vote of 220 to 215. While this is a historic step toward improving health care for all Americans, it is also a tremendous advance for the health needs of LGBT people. HRC lobbied the three committees involved in drafting ...
  1 day ago

• Whip It : Devo, Reggie Watts @ The Regency Ballroom, 11/6/09

  
  Hard Rock Chick — Authority: 422
  It was to be my twelfth show in fifteen days, and it was definitely the ‘wildcard’ show. I’ll admit it, I know very little about Devo . I blame it on an unfortunate coincidence in timing- I vaguely remember seeing the video for ‘Whip It’ when I was very young, probably around 10 years old, in close ...
  2 days ago

• I’m a Little Bit Country and a Little Bit Punk: Mickey Avalon, Beardo, Ke$ha @ Slim’s, 11/5/09

  
  Hard Rock Chick — Authority: 422
  2 years and 8 months ago, a fledgling HRC wrote about her first Mickey Avalon show at Popscene. Since then, I’ve seen him three other times, with DJ AM (RIP) , with Andre Legacy and Dirt Nasty , and with Beardo . I may be a mostly rock/metal/industrial chick, but truth be told I was raised in the heyday of ...
  3 days ago

• Relationship Recognition Cases in the Wisconsin Courts

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Wisconsin Supreme Court, via flickr user Photo Phiend The Wisconsin State Supreme Court announced this week their refusal to hear a case challenging the state’s domestic partnership registry that provides limited rights to couples.  The folks at Wisconsin Family Action say they’ll continue their challenge ...
  3 days ago

• A Push for Marriage Recognition in Maryland

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Maryland Delegate Heather Mizeur has a great guest commentary in the Maryland Gazette calling on the Free State to recognize her marriage to her partner Deb.Inevitability might seem a counterintuitive argument to make this week, after Maine voters joined California’s in rejecting a law that would have allowed ...
  3 days ago

• Referendum 71 APPROVED in Washington State!

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Although signs looked good on Election Night, it’s now official… news organizations have called the race over Referendum 71 (the proposed expansion of domestic partner protections) for the Approve side!Domestic partners in Washington State now have the state-level rights and responsibilities afforded to married ...
  3 days ago

• No More Gay Apartheid - New Tactics Needed

  
  Michael-In-Norfolk - - Coming Out In Mid Life — Authority: 147
  Yesterday I wrote about a post by David Mixner concerning the election debacle in Maine, New Jersey and Virginia and his view that the GLBT community had to demand no more gay apartheid in America. David has done a follow up post that again in my mind lays out what I have talked about previously - that the GLBT ...
  3 days ago

• What Do HRC + Scientology Have In Common? Inflating Their Memberships

  
  Queerty — Authority: 721
  The Human Rights Campaign writes in every press release that it is "the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization." Claiming 750,000 members, that might be true. But HRC counts membership by including anyone whos ever donated $1 — even if that donation came in a ...
  4 days ago

• While HRC Refuses to Criticze Obama or DNC, Guess Which Activist Did?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 721
  Freedom To Marrys Evan Wolfson, who just got done schooling Tony Perkins , is one ballsy marriage activist. While most mainstream gay organizations like HRC are sitting out this round of White House/Democrat criticism for their silence on Maines marriage battle, Wolfson, a former Lambda Legal attorney, is leveling ...
  4 days ago

• Another look at the Goldstone report, and the response to the Israeli gynecologist who testified

  
  Vlad Tepes — Authority: 149
  UN Watch Oral Statement Delivered by Dr. Mirela Siderer , 29 September 2009 Agenda Item 7: Report of the fact-finding mission on Gaza [ version française ]         [ Swedish ] My name ...
  4 days ago

• Virginia Election Wrap-Up

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  While there were certainly some great victories yesterday (Kalamazoo, Bill Owens in NY, and hopefully Washington State), it was also a very rough year. While Maine is on all our minds, here in Virginia we’re reeling from the statewide election of some very, very anti-equality candidates. While our heads are hanging ...
  4 days ago

• Join in Marriage Rallies TONIGHT

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  A number of cities are holding rallies TONIGHT (Wednesday) to protest last night’s loss in Maine and recommit themselves to the fight for marriage equality nationwide.  Details on some of the events are below (and I’ll update as I get more information):Washington, DC5:30pm, Dupont CircleNew York5:30pm, Union ...
  5 days ago

• Marriage Equality Moving Forward in NJ, Despite Corzine Loss

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Garden State Equality released two new ads yesterday evening proving that despite pro-marriage Gov. John Corzine’s election loss, advocates are pressing forward on bringing marriage equality to New Jersey: Marriage Equality Moving Forward in NJ, Despite Corzine Loss is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of ...
  5 days ago

• Whos to Blame for Maines Marriage Failure?

  
  Queerty — Authority: 721
  After yesterdays voter-approved rape of our marriage rights in Maine , the obvious question to ask is: Howd this happen? And next: Who can we blame? Its a natural instinct. Surely there must be someone or something out there to direct our anger, our frustration, our disgust. Its the same thing that happened exactly ...
  5 days ago

• A Deep and Bitter Disappointment from Maine Yesterday

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  The following is from an e-mail sent to our members and supporters this morning from HRC President Joe Solmonese: A deep and bitter disappointment from Maine yesterday: Maine voters have passed a devastating Proposition 8-style measure overturning the state’s marriage equality law. Our hearts are with everyone in ...
  5 days ago

• Counting Continues, Long Night Ahead

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Some of the results are in with a big win in Kalamazoo, Michigan (upholding a LGBT inclusive non-discrimination ordinance) and disappointing losses in the Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.  News organizations are also calling New York’s 23rd Congressional district race for Bill Owens, defeating ...
  5 days ago

• Pro-LGBT Anti-Discrimination Ordinance Upheld in Kalamazoo

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  VICTORY!  From an email to volunteers on the One Kalamazoo campaign, campaign manager Jon Hoadley declared victory in their effort to keep a LGBT inclusive non-discrimination ordinance on the books:“Our campaign started with a very basic idea, and today voters confirmed that we are One Kalamazoo,” said Campaign ...
  5 days ago

• NJ ELECTION REPORT: It’s all about Labor, the Yankees, and yes, Corzine

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 499
  Just a five minute drive from the Holland Tunnel, I arrived at the Hudson County office HQ.With less than an hour to go before the polls close, every phone line was filled. Our labor allies, SEIUand the teachers remain just as passionate now as they were when some arrived at 5:00am. Yes, [...] NJ ELECTION REPORT: ...
  5 days ago

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