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• Camp Courage: Winning Back Marriage by Telling Painful Stories

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  Julia Rosen This weekends Camp Courage in Sacramento was a good tonic for the loss in Maine and part of our collective path forward to restoring marriage equality to California.  The heart of Camp Courage is learning how to craft your "story-of-self" a ...
  3 days ago

• Harvey Milk in Armenia (2): Milk was shown on a national TV channel H2

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 126
  His life changed history. His courage changed lives. When I first watched Milk in London in January 2009, my first thought was "We need someone like Harvey Milk for Armenia. Someone who will inspire. Someone who will lead civil rights movement." My second thought was whether the film will be shown in Armenia. ...
  5 days ago

• Join in Marriage Rallies TONIGHT

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 156
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• What Would Harvey (Milk) Do?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  For gay equality in Maine, a good focusing question :  
  1 week ago

• ON THIS DAY IN MOVIES: THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 578
  On this day in 1984, TC FILMS INTERNATIONAL released THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, a documentary focusing on the country’s first openly gay elected public official. MILK was assassinated while in office (along with San Francisco Mayor GEORGE MOSCONE) by DAN WHITE, a deranged co-worker. The doc went on to win an Academy ...
  1 week ago

• Gavin Newsom Withdraws From California Governor Race, Randy Thomasson Harasses, Cheyenne Jackson, Scott Speedman, John Huetter, Robert Perovich

  
  the time of my life — Authority: 138
  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced late Friday that he is withdrawing from the California governor’s race. Newsom said that “with a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible to commit the time required to complete this effort the way it needs to – and should be – ...
  2 weeks ago

• News: Ken Cuccinelli, Detroit, Rumer Willis, Malaysia, Britney Spears

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 743
  Gay Detroit City Council candidate Charles Pugh under scrutiny after Detroit Free Press pulls endorsement because of foreclosure on condominium . Kathie Lee Gifford as a gay droid for Halloween . Watch: Britney Spears new video for "3" . Homophobic bigot Randy Thomasson is urging his ...
  2 weeks ago

• GLBT History Month Icon For October 30th: Gus Van Sant

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 143
  The second-to-last National GLBT History Month Icon is no stranger to Portlanders, film buffs, activists, or artists. Gus Van Sant is a name synonymous with the Pacific Northwest, and his accomplishments in the realms of cinema have made him internationally revered.An Academy Award-nominated director, Van Sant has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anti-LGBT parents calling schools to cancel Harvey Milk Day

  
  California Ripple Effect — Authority: 515
  Randy Thomasson’s anti-LGBT extremist group SaveCalifornia.com is losing it over Harvey Milk Day. In an attempt to hijack curricula and force their own agenda through our public schools, they are urging their followers to call local schools and school boards and demanding they erase Harvey Milk Day from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harvey Milk Club Endorses Debra Walker, Rafael Mandelman and Michael Goldstein for 2010

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  San Francisco’s Harvey Milk Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Democratic Club  had an endorsement election down at the Women’s Building  in the Mission District last night. Here’s the upshot, via the Twitter: “ Harvey Milk Dems have endorsed Mandelman in D8, Walker in D6 and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harvey Milk on “Hope”

  
  James Preller's Blog — Authority: 465
  I found this quite by accident. Lucky day, I guess . . . This is known as “The Hope Speech,” but I understand Milk gave many variations of this speech for years. I believe this version comes from a speech he gave soon after his 1977 election to a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Bay Area has Arrived – A New Blog from the New York Times is Here

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 510
  Well it’s here. The Bay Area blog from the New York Times  is finally here, along with a new Bay Area Edition  for the newspaper. And, like some other famous New Yorkites (such as Harvey Milk, Bill Graham and Senator Carole Migden), the NYT has offended the locals of San Francisco upon arrival . Oh ...
  3 weeks ago

• Boycott of California schools urged

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 147
  OneNewsNow – October 21, 2009 Boycott of Calif. schools in the making SaveCalifornia.com has launched a new drive to protest a pro-homosexual bill recently signed into law. By Charlie Butts Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, tells OneNewsNow he is calling for a boycott over a law designed to force ...
  3 weeks ago

• DOSSIER: Was Chris Skinners Murder a Hate Crime? … Malcolm X, The Bisexual

  
  Queerty — Authority: 728
  ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web. • Was 27-year-old Toronto man Chris Skinner murdered because hes gay ? CONTINUED » Permalink | 2 comments | Add to del.icio.us Tagged: Chris Skinner , chuck bass , Crime , Ed Westwick , Gossip Girl , Harvey Levin , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Harvey Milk, Gavin Newsom, Nancy Pelosi in Massive SF Mural

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 743
  Whats being described as "the worlds largest mural portrait" is set to be unveiled on Sunday at the Bob Pritikin Mansion in San Franciscos Noe Valley. Fog City Journal reports: "The colorful mural by acclaimed artist Guy Colwell features SpeakerNancy Pelosi lancing a Republican elephant; a terminating ...
  3 weeks ago

• Anti-LGBT forces throw a fit over Harvey Milk Day

  
  California Ripple Effect — Authority: 515
  The religious right has officially put California public schools ‘on notice.’ Even though Gov. Schwarzenegger signed SB 572 a week ago, Randy Thomasson and SaveCalifornia.Com continue to assault and slander former San Francisco Supervisor and LGBT civil rights leader Harvey Milk. In an article published by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Encourageing Gay Bashers, That’s our OC Board of Education

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 481
  OC Register Columnist Yvette Cabrera wrote in her column on Monday about the flap over comments made by Orange County Board of Education President Alexandra Coronado over the establishment of Harvey Milk Day in California and the vote of the Board to urge the Governor to veto the legislation, which he signed earlier ...
  3 weeks ago

• From the field: EQCA volunteer visits local GSA

  
  California Ripple Effect — Authority: 515
  Post from Spencer, EQCA volunteer. You can sign up to volunteer at www.eqca.org/volunteer . Today Sacramento Field Manager Jennie Reiken and I visited the Gay-Straight Alliance at Rosemont High School in Sacramento. It was great to see a group of high school kids so excited about important LGBT issues. Around 30 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Home Schoolers Ranking Higher on ACT Scores

  
  May He Increase — Authority: 417
  The October print edition of the Christian Examiner had a write up on a recent study done by the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) where they found that home-schooled high schoolers scored a full point higher than the national average. Some of the findings include: The new ACT results also support ...
  3 weeks ago

• Schwarzenegger signs Harvey Milk Day and Marriage Recognition bills

  
  Gayboomers — Authority: 128
  From a press release from Equality California:(Sacramento) Today Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law two historic LGBT rights bills – recognizing the contributions of slain civil rights leader Harvey Milk and a bill that underscores that same-sex couples married before the passage of Proposition 8 are entitled ...
  4 weeks ago

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