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THE C O A S T A L E M P I R E
LGBT C O M M U N I T Y N E W S
A F I R S T CI T Y N E T W OR K P U B L I C AT I O N
Transgender Woman & Jail - p.4
Boy Scouts Lifting Gay Ban - p.8
Aids Patient “0” - p.10
DOMA and Immigrants - p13
Atlanta Federal Hate Crime - p.15
French Protest Against Gay Marriage - p.16
History of Gay Marriage - p.18
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Transgender Woman
Raises Jail Concerns
Transgender woman’s fury after
she’s thrown in men’s prison
By JoAnn Merrigan
Courtesy of The Sun - UK - Picked up from Savannah, GA
referring to Del Valle’s anatomical parts. “However, we do have
policies for that. We are a nationally accredited jail which requires
us to have policies for almost every situation.”
Harris says on Day four, Del Valle was moved to an isolation cell.
He says initially, she had been placed in the holding cell because no
isolation cells were available. He also told us that he has received no
formal complaint from Del Valle but that if he does, her complaint
will be investigated.
SAVANNAH, GA A transgender woman is calling attention to her experience in the
Chatham County Jail after being confined there for four nights. She
says at times she was scared to death.
Del Valle told us that even on the last day, the isolation cell was in
an area where men were also housed in cells. She said much of her
time at the facility she was frightened and nervous. She also believes
the charges against her are wrong and “should have never happened
in the first place.” Del Valle told us she may be seeking legal action.
A TRANSGENDER woman accused of indecent exposure is furious
after she was forced to serve time in a MALE prison.
Ashley Del Valle was arrested by police during a holiday in Savannah,
Georgia for allegedly flashing her boobs. The 38-year-old, from New
York, denied the claim - insisting she was wearing a sheer top.
But she was taken to a police station, and then thrown behind bars at
a male-only jail. Del Valle has lived as a woman for two decades, but
she was classified a man because she still has male genitalia.
Courtesy of Huffington Post - Picked up from Savannah, GA
Del Valle said: “They didn’t know where to put me. The young men
there were out of control. They kept beating on my cell. It was pure
torture.”
Del Valle has been living as a woman for 20 years and legally changed
her name in 2002. She is from Queens but came to Savannah with
her cousin recently for a vacation. Early Sunday morning she was
arrested by Savannah Chatham Metro Police for indecent exposure.
A police report says her breasts were exposed. Del Valle disputes
the claim. She says she was just wearing a sheer top and was having
a great time one second and the next thing she knew she was being
arrested. The police report also charges her with disorderly conduct
for reportedly fighting with a police officer.
A New York-based transgender woman is crying foul after being
jailed alongside male inmates when she was arrested in Georgia for
allegedly exposing her breasts.
She also accused prison officers of humiliating her, adding: “They
were referring to me as a thing; they were not referring to me as a
human being.”
Ashley Del Valle tells local NBC affilate WSAV that she felt like
she was “being punished for who I was” when she was arrested
by Savannah Chatham Metro Police for indecent exposure and
disorderly conduct with a police officer. The 38-year-old Queens,
N.Y. resident was visiting Savannah with her cousin on vacation.
Roy Harris, Deputy Chief of Chatham County Jail, has defended the
decision to lock her up with male inmates.
She says after being taken to the jail, the nurse examined her and
after realizing she still has male genitalia, she was put in a holding
cell. She spent two days there. She told us some jail personnel were
rude and referred to her as “a thing”.
Although Del Valle is identified on the police report as a woman,
her booking photo lists her as a man. Once Del Valle arrived at the
jail, officers determined they could “not have put her in a female
dorm,” according to Chief Deputy Roy Harris, and hence moved
to a “unique general population area” surrounded by male inmates.
And he insisted staff were sensitive to her situation, adding: “We do
have a policy in place. Typically we put them in isolation. We do take
particular caution with inmates such as this.”
It was at that time that she went to Cell Block 5, which Harris
described as a “unique general population area.” Del Valle says she
was in a cell surrounded by men in cells. “They were banging on
walls, calling me names and I was afraid, I was afraid for my life,”
she told us.
However, Harris said the cell was locked at all times and there
was no chance that Del Valle could have been harmed. He believes
all procedures were followed. “Unfortunately, when you classify
somebody into the jail, that’s what you have to go by,” said Harris,
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She was given a private cell but was surrounded by other inmates, who
taunted and insulted her.
Ashley Del Valle, Transgender Woman, Was Jailed
As A Man After Allegedly Exposing Breasts
Chief Deputy Roy Harris says the jail has procedures on dealing with
transgender individuals and by law could “not have put her in the
women’s dorm.” Harris says Del Valle was confined in the holding
area for two days alone in a cell with restroom facilities. He says
she was supervised. He says by Day three, she had to be moved from
the holding area because other inmates were being booked.
This story was picked up and published in The Huffington Post, The Sun - UK,
Think Progress, Transgender Blog and more.
She spent four nights at Chatham County Jail - until family members
paid to bail her out - and insists she was scared to death during her
spell inside.
While the county’s chief deputy says all procedures in dealing with
transgender individuals were followed, 38 year old Ashley Del Valle
offers her own perspective. “I felt like I was being punished for who
I was,” she told us.
“I felt like I just wasn’t being treated like a human being,” she told us.
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He said: “First off, Ashley is still a man. I think he’s had some surgery,
breast implants. But technically he is still a male.”
“They were referring to me as a thing; they were not referring to me
as a human being,” she said of jail personnel. The male inmates, she
added, taunted her with insults.
Among those to decry Del Valle’s treatment was Think Progress
blogger Zack Ford. “Whatever transgender policy the jail supposedly
has, misgendering her and endangering her in such ways did not
prioritize her safety nor convey even the most basic respect for her
identity,” Ford wrote.
Del Valle’s case is similar to that of Andrea Jones, a Tennessee-based
transgender woman who reportedly went topless in the parking lot
of a local DMV after officials refused to change her sex from male
to female on her driver’s license.
“If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take
off my shirt,” Jones explained at the time. “It’s not right for the state
to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made.
They cannot hold me to both standards.”
Carla Hale, Gay Teacher, Fired From Catholic High
School After Being ‘Outed’ By Mother’s Obituary
By Meredith Bennett-Smith- Courtesy of The Huffington Post
Students and supporters are rallying around a gay teacher
recently fired from her job at a Catholic school, reportedly after
local Catholic officials learned about her sexual orientation.
This week students found out about the firing of Carla
Hale, a longtime teacher at Bishop Watterson High School
in Columbus, Ohio, according to local news outlet Outlook
Columbus. Two people familiar with the incident told Outlook
that Hale was fired after her partner’s name, Julie, was listed
among the survivors in a public obituary for Hale’s mother.
The obituary ran in the Columbus Dispatch on Feb. 25.
Hale told the Dispatch an anonymous parent had seen the
obituary and outed her to diocese officials. “Within weeks,
Hale said, she was fired because she is in a gay relationship,”
the Dispatch wrote.
As news of the firing spread on Monday, a petition was posted
on Change.org calling for the Diocese of Columbus to reinstate
Hale. Signed by over 8,000 people already, the petition reads,
in part:
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Carla Hale, a beloved teacher at Bishop Watterson High School,
was fired because of her sexuality. She was a teacher who cared
for her students and treated each one with respect. The school,
however, did not reciprocate that respect in its treatment of her.
Discrimination and injustice is something that we all have a duty to
fight in today’s society. It’s unfair that someone who cared so much
about her students and her job should lose them on the basis of
something she cannot even control.
The petition was started by Jackson Garrity, a former student of
Hale’s.
“Well Ms. Hale was my cross country coach sophomore year and she
was my physical education teacher this (my senior) year,” Garrity
told The Huffington Post in an email. “I started the petition because
Ms. Hale was one of the favorite teachers at Watterson, not only one
of my favorites, but also many other students. When news of her
dismissal got out, many students were upset, especially because of
the reason for her dismissal. We all wanted to let our opinions get
out and tell the diocese that we were upset with the decision.”
Garrity went on to say he had never witnessed this type of
discrimination at Watterson before, despite the school taking
Catholic stances on social issues. “That is why I was shocked when
Ms. Hale was fired,” he said.
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and a woman only. The Columbus Dispatch notes that teachers
at Catholic schools in Columbus can be fired for “immorality”
or “serious unethical conduct,” according to a contract between
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus and the Central Ohio
Association of Catholic Educators.
A spokesperson for the Catholic Diocese of Columbus told
HuffPost that “personnel matters are, however, by diocesan policy,
confidential.”
This is not the first time a teacher at an Ohio Catholic school has been
let go over sexual orientation or support of gay rights. In February,
Purcell Marian High School Assistant Principal Mike Moroski was
fired by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati after endorsing gay marriage
in a personal blog post.
That same month, music teacher Al Fischer was fired from his job
at St. Ann Catholic School in north St. Louis County, Mo., after
archdiocese officials learned he was planning on marrying his
longtime partner.
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Boy Scouts To Consider Lifting
Ban On Openly Gay Youths
How sincere is Democrats’
new commitment to gay rights?
By Linda - Courtesy BIG GAY NEWS.com
The Boy Scouts of America would no longer deny membership to
youth on the basis of sexual orientation but would maintain its ban
on openly gay adult leaders under a proposal it is considering, the
group said Friday.
The organization’s executive committee made the proposal, which
is expected to be presented to the Boy Scouts’ voting members at its
May meeting in Dallas. If the policy is approved, it will take effect
January 1.
By Kerry Eleveld - Courtesy Salon.com
Former Eagle Scout John Stemberger, founder of OnMyHonor.
Net, a group opposing the policy change, said the Boy Scouts
currently allow anyone to participate, disallowing only “the open
and aggressive promotion of homosexuality and political agendas,”
according to a statement.
When President Barack Obama first introduced his principles for
immigration reform a little over two months ago, one notable point
of differentiation from the Senate’s framework was that he chose to
include same-sex couples and their kids in his plan.
As Stephen Colbert noted on “The Colbert Report,” the president’s
plan said it would treat “same-sex families as families.”
“If approved, the resolution would mean that ‘no youth may be
denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of
sexual orientation or preference alone.’ The BSA will maintain
the current membership policy for all adults,” Boy Scouts public
relations director Deron Smith said.
“When it comes to young boys, parents should still have the final
say on the issues of sexuality and politics,” he said. “Allowing open
homosexuality in the BSA injects both those topics right into the
program. We urge the national council to vote against this resolution
and uphold the time-tested membership policy of the Boy Scouts.”
There’s no guarantee the approximately 1,400 voting members
will follow the national board’s lead in its May vote. The local
representatives who are voting members of the national council are
supposed to represent their local councils’ viewpoints.
The Boy Scouts have been considering a change in the longstanding
policy against allowing openly gay members. In February, the Boy
Scouts’ national executive board postponed a vote on lifting its
outright ban on openly gay Scouts and troop leaders and ordered a
survey of its members on the issue.
“It is up to each (local) council and each voting member of the
National Council to determine how to fulfill these obligations in a
manner that fulfills their responsibility to both the Boy Scouts of
America and to their local council,” Scouts spokesman Smith wrote
in an e-mail.
When asked last week whether the president was willing to “let
that provision go” at a White House briefing, press secretary Jay
Carney responded, “It is certainly the case, as the president said in
his statement, that not everything in the bill reflects how he would
write it, but it broadly is consistent with his principles.”
The survey showed a generational split between adults and youth in
the scouting community. While most adults support the Boy Scouts’
current policy of “excluding open and avowed homosexuals, young
parents and teens tend to oppose the policy,” according to the survey,
which was also released Friday.
The Family Research Council hopes to convince the voting
members to vote “No.” The group is presenting a Stand with the
Scouts simulcast on May 5, asking people to watch together in their
churches and homes.
Pressed further about whether President Obama would sign the bill
in its current form, Carney countered, “Have you ever seen a bill of
this size go from inception to a president’s desk unaltered? So we’ll
see where this goes.”
The change doesn’t go far enough for James Dale, an Eagle Scout
and former assistant troop leader who sued the scouts under New
Jersey state law after he was kicked out of the Boy Scouts in 1990
because he is gay.
“The outcome of this decision will affect the very future of Scouting,
as a shift in the policy would undermine the very principles held by
the BSA for over a century,” said the council, on its website. “This
decision is too important for those who value the Boy Scouts and its
value to American communities to stand idly by.”
“This proposal continues to send a destructive message, offering
the veneer of acceptance while still communicating that being gay
is immoral,” Dale said. “Fair-minded Americans will not again
welcome the Scouts until they stop discriminating.”
Provo, Utah, Scout leader Paul Barker sees the glass as half-full.
“I am forever an optimist, and I see it as a very big step forward in
the right direction to which I will applaud,” said Barker, an Eagle
Scout and married father of four, ages 4 months to 7 years.
Hmm … We’ll see? For those of us who have been closely tracking
the issue (and I’m not a passive observer here — I consult for
Immigration Equality on the matter of equalizing treatment for samesex binational couples), it looked like a softening of the incredibly
strong and consistent positioning the White House presented a
couple of months ago.
Dale’s lawsuit, filed in 1992, said his expulsion violated the state’s
anti-discrimination law. When his case made it to the Supreme Court
in 2000, the court ruled that it would violate the Boy Scouts’ First
Amendment protection of freedom of association to require that it
accept gay members.
Saddened by recent stories of Eagle Scouts turning in their badges,
Barker launched Ally Patches to support gay Scouts and their allies
and create an atmosphere that’s more welcoming.
Lawyer Evan Wolfson, who represented Dale in that case, applauded
the move to include gay youth in scouting but agreed that banning
them once they’re adults is wrong.
“Barring discrimination against gay youth is an important step
forward that is in the best interest of young people and scouting
in America,” Wolfson said. “But leaving in place a discriminatory
policy once those kids grow up still sends a damaging message to
gay and non-gay young people that is inconsistent with the other
values that scouting claims to teach.”
Barker’s website is selling patches similar to those Scouts earn to
signal support for gay members. (The price tag is $3.50 per patch,
and $1 goes to the Family Acceptance Project.)
“I had great, great leaders (in the Scouts); they were like second
parents to me,” he said. “I took their example of love and compassion
and wanted to do something.”
“We’ve been very clear that we think that it makes sense for samesex couples to be treated the same when it comes to immigration
laws and every other law,” he said in mid-February, responding to
a question about whether he was committed to including same-sex
couples in immigration reform.
“What’s next, Mr. President,” Colbert jested, “treating gay people
as people?”
But the president also noted: “What I’m trying to do right now is to
give Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, and in the House,
the opportunity to work through some of these issues to see where
their compromises are.”
But now that the Senate’s Gang of Eight has introduced its
immigration bill and it notably excludes the provision that would
allow U.S. citizens to sponsor their same-sex partners for residency,
the White House appears to be wavering.
Those compromises are now apparent. The question is whether
President Obama and his Democratic counterparts in the Senate will
fight to see that same-sex couples are treated equitably in any bill
that reaches the president’s desk.
Now that the Gang of Eight has weighed in, the next stop for making
changes to the bill will likely be the Senate Judiciary Committee,
which is chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy who is also holding an
informational hearing on the bill Monday. Leahy, a chief co-sponsor
of legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to sponsor their samesex partners for residency (the Uniting American Families Act),
is widely expected to offer the provision as an amendment to the
immigration bill once it reaches his committee.
Here’s Carney in January: “The president believes that [the provision
for same-sex couples] should be included and that should come as
no surprise … the president has long believed that Americans with
same-sex partners from other countries should not be faced with the
painful choice between staying with the person they love or staying
in the country they love.”
And White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer said several days
later: “The president in his plan said that you should treat same-sex
families the same way we treat heterosexual families. It’s wrong to
discriminate.”
Naturally, Washington enthusiasts smell trouble. As the Washington
Post noted: “The standoff may force Obama to choose between two
key interest groups — Hispanics and gays — that helped power his
reelection last fall.”
But at the outset, President Obama rejected that choice, instead
positioning the legislation, above all, as something that should
promote fairness throughout the immigration system.
If the other nine Democrats on the committee follow his lead, the
amendment should pass with ease. But all eyes will be on Sens.
Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer. Feinstein is the
only Democratic committee member who’s never signed on as a
co-sponsor of UAFA, though she has co-sponsored a bill that would
repeal the Defense of Marriage Act — one way, among others, to
alleviate this immigration inequity for LGBT citizens. Durbin and
Schumer, meanwhile, represent two key members of the Gang of
Eight that excluded same-sex couples from the original immigration
bill.
When Leahy reintroduced UAFA this year with Republican cosponsor Sen. Susan Collins, he noted that any immigration bill
that comes through his committee “should recognize the rights of
all Americans, who have just as much right to spousal immigration
benefits as anybody else, straight or gay.”
Mr. Leahy, apparently, wants to treat gay Americans as Americans.
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AIDS ‘Patient Zero’ was a
publicity strategy, scholar writes
By Don Sapatkin - Courtesy Philly.com
The 1987 New York Post headline - THE MAN WHO GAVE US
AIDS - was arguably one of the most influential of all time.
“Patient Zero” - a promiscuous gay Canadian flight attendant - had
spread AIDS from coast to coast. The story sparked sensational
media coverage, drove a book onto the best-seller lists, pushed the
“gay disease” onto mainstream America’s radar screen, and helped
jump-start an activist movement, all of which eventually focused
more money and scientific brainpower on an epidemic that had
already killed tens of thousands.
It was also wrong - intentionally creating a scapegoat to publicize
And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts’ authoritative chronicle of
the early years of AIDS. The book mentioned the case on just a
dozen or so of its 630 pages.
“We lowered ourselves to yellow journalism. My publicist told me,
‘Sex, death, glamour, and, best of all, he is a foreigner, that would
be the icing on the cake,’ “ Michael Denneny, Shilts’ editor, said
in an interview. “That was the only way we could get them to pay
attention.”
How the first serious examination of AIDS policy had to be sold
as sordid tabloid fare is described in a new book by Philadelphia
University historian Phil Tiemeyer, Plane Queer: Labor, Sexuality,
and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants.
When he recently asked students about the media deception, “threequarters of the class were a bit repulsed,” Tiemeyer said. But they
don’t remember a time when AIDS meant certain death, he said,
and preventing it was not a priority for the news media, the Reagan
administration, or most of the public.
The 1970s and early 1980s - after New York’s Stonewall riots and
before AIDS - were the heyday of gay male sexual liberation, with
dance bars and steam baths overflowing as meeting places and
hundreds of sexual partners a year not that unusual. A new disease
surfaced in 1981, but its mode of transmission was then a mystery.
“People were dropping dead left and right of the most horrible,
opportunistic infections, no one knew what was happening, and
everyone knew that if this was sexually transmitted,” they’d be
dead, said Denneny, Shilts’ editor.
Patient Zero was an actual early case. He just wasn’t the first case.
And in the book, Denneny said, he “was representing all the people
who refused to stop having unprotected sex even after they became
ill.”
Shilts describes the astonishment of scientists, who were trying to
learn how the infection was spread, upon hearing again and again
from patients that dying men in different cities had had sex with a
gorgeous young flight attendant.
Shilts discusses the 1984 study that demonstrated sexual transmission
by diagramming links among cases labeled by location, such as LA9
and NY4. Eight are directly connected to a patient labeled simply
0 - the Patient Zero who, according to a study author, originated as
a letter O (for “Out of California”) in an earlier study of men around
Los Angeles.
And Shilts relays the attitude of that patient - calling him “the
Quebecois version of Typhoid Mary” - as he continues to have sex
with men in different cities, in chilling scenes like this:
“Back in the bathhouse, when the moaning stopped, the young man
rolled over on his back for a cigarette. Gaëtan Dugas reached up
for the lights, turning up the rheostat slowly so his partner’s eyes
would have time to adjust. He then made a point of eyeing the
purple lesions on his chest. ‘Gay cancer,’ he said, almost as if he
were talking to himself. ‘Maybe you’ll get it, too.’ “
Shilts, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who died of AIDS
in 1994, never actually wrote that Dugas brought the disease to the
United States, saying it was “a question of debate.” And he resisted
using that salacious angle to promote his weighty history, his editor
said.
“Randy hated the idea. It took me almost a week to argue him into
it,” Denneny tells Tiemeyer in the new book.
But there was “terrific animus in the media about covering AIDS
at all,” Denneny said. The New York Times, Newsweek, and other
publications “all told us they were not going to review a book that
was an indictment of the Reagan administration and the medical
establishment.”
So St. Martin’s Press produced new publicity materials focusing on
the hot flight attendant and fed them to the New York Post. The
tabloid’s Oct. 6, 1987, headline sparked a media frenzy. Shilts
appeared on 60 Minutes. The Times reviewed the book on a weekday
and again on Sunday; it was a best seller the following week.
“And then we put Randy on a huge publicity tour, and he spent time
switching the attention to the Reagan administration,” Denneny
said.
Still, the focus on a promiscuous homosexual who knowingly
infected others infuriated many in the gay community. They feared
- rightly - that they would be blamed for spreading the disease even
as they sought to rein in the laissez-faire sexual culture.
Kenneth Mayer, an AIDS doctor and public policy expert now at
Harvard University, was at a conference in New York when the Post
hit newsstands.
But if that was the only way to get the book to a mass audience,
he said, “I guess in the long run they did a service to increase the
conversation.”
David R. Fair feels the same way. He had just been named head of
Philadelphia’s new AIDS office and was trying to get the city to take
the crisis seriously. “The first thing I did was buy 40 copies of the
book and give it to the mayor and department heads,” said Fair, now
a consultant to nonprofit organizations.
“It’s really hard to remember how little attention was being paid to
AIDS outside New York and San Francisco,” he said. “The book is
what led to the creation of a national AIDS activism movement.”
Tiemeyer had not planned to write a new book about Patient Zero.
Indeed, that story takes up just two chapters (but is, ironically, his
publicity pitch). A historian of gay and lesbian communities, he had
decided to dig into the impact of gay male flight attendants.
In this seemingly narrow demographic, Tiemeyer finds notable
achievements in equal rights, from the first workplace health benefits
for domestic partners, in 2001, to a 1984 legal decision forcing an
airline to reinstate a flight attendant with AIDS, which he argues was
a key step in the run-up to the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act.
For a time, Gaëtan Dugas was the best-known flight attendant in the
world.
“On the one hand, the minute that Randy released this story about
Patient Zero, people knew it wasn’t true,” Tiemeyer said. “On the
other hand, the fear was so intense,” and so-called “family issues”
had become so divisive, that “they wanted a scapegoat, they wanted
to believe that this thing that was out of control was caused by gay
male sexual excess,” he said, “that there was someone who was to
blame.”
Bill Darrow, a coauthor of the original studies that cited Patient
Zero as a link to show sexual transmission, is among Shilts’ biggest
supporters, and he has few qualms about the selling of And the
Band Played On. Darrow, now a professor at Florida International
University, teaches a course called Ethical Issues in Public Health.
“Most public health people think that the ends justify the means,”
he said. He recalled the fights for money and recognition of growing
danger during the Reagan administration.
“We had to wait almost five years for anybody to pay attention to
this terrible problem. By then it was too late,” Darrow said. If they
had done so earlier, “we could have saved an awful lot of lives.”
“I remember thinking, this is really unfortunate,” he said of the
single-villain approach. “It is much more complicated. It is much
more about people’s willingness to talk to people they have sex with
and to change their own sexual practices.”
Montana Gov. Signs Bill
Decriminalizing Gay Sex
Federal Court in Class Action Case: Doma
Unconstitutional As Applied To Immigrants
An obsolete law deeming gay sex as deviant — akin to bestiality
— was stricken from Montana code Thursday, prompting gay rights
activists to say they hope that full legal equality may be close at
hand.
On Friday July 12, 2012, Jane DeLoen
filed a class action lawsuit in federal
court in Los Angeles challenging the
constitutionality of the Defense of
Marriage Act (DOMA) as applied to
deny immigration family benefits. The
DOMA was enacted and signed into
law by President Clinton in 1996. For
all federal benefits based on marriage,
including
immigration
benefits,
DOMA restricts the definition of
marriage to unions between “one man
and one woman.”
By Kathryn Haake - Courtesy ABC News
When Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signed Senate Bill 107
decriminalizing gay sex, cheers erupted in the Capitol’s Rotunda.
It had been 16 years after the state Supreme Court ruled the law
unconstitutional and 24 years after gay rights activists began their
fight to take government out of the bedroom.
“I am not going to speak too long because, frankly, the longer I talk,
the longer this embarrassing and unconstitutional law stays on the
books,” Bullock said.
The victory, though a powerful one for the gay community in
Montana, is highly symbolic with no tangible benefits aside from
striking the obsolete law condemning gay sex from Montana code.
The outdated code has not been used to prosecute individuals for
years. And previous efforts to offer gays and lesbians protection
under the law, including a push to prohibit civil discrimination, have
been thwarted by a GOP-controlled Legislature.
Rep. Jerry Bennett, R-Libby, said he holds no ill will toward gay people,
but he and other Republicans opposed the legislation and similar efforts
along religious lines. He added that there is a bi-partisan movement to
“protect the family,” defining marriage as between a man and a woman,
and gay rights efforts could have “long-term ramifications.”
“This isn’t over,” he said. “We will see a continual push for
recognition of unions ... for health insurance. All kinds of things
will come out of this.”
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The decriminalization bill passed the House on a 64-35 vote, and it
cleared the Senate 38-11. In both cases, Republicans joined minority
Democrats to advance the legislation, as gay rights activists hailed
their success as a sea change within the GOP.
“In the past we’ve seen members of the Republican caucus say, I can’t
stand with you because it will cost me my re-election,” said activist
Jamee Greer, a lobbyist with the Montana Human Rights Network.
Gay rights activists are hopeful the bi-partisan effort is a catalyst
for further change. They say that gay equality aligns itself with the
fundamental libertarian values of privacy and a live-and-let live
attitude pervasive in Montana — especially among Republicans
who subscribe to a strong Libertarian undercurrent.
This year an effort to prohibit discrimination against gays and
lesbians in housing and employment was tabled by a conservative
House committee. That plan and another to legalize gay marriage
remain priorities in future sessions, Greer said.
“As more and more LGBT people come out to their friends and
their neighbors,” Greer said, “it’s going to be harder to discriminate
against them.”
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According to the lawsuit Jane DeLeon,
an immigrant from the Philippines, has been residing with her US
citizen partner in California for twenty years and they were married
in 2008. The lawsuit claims that DeLeon has been approved for
an immigrant visa based on her employment. However, she needs
a “waiver” from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service
(“CIS”) to qualify for a visa. Such waivers are commonly available
to immigrants whose deportation would cause hardship to a US
citizen spouse. In DeLeon’s case the waiver was denied by USCIS
in September 2011 solely because she is married to another woman.
Her lawsuit seeks equal treatment for immigrants seeking visas who
are in lawful same sex marriages with U.S. citizens as the treatment
afford heterosexual married couples.
On Friday Federal Judge Consuelo Marshall in Los Angeles, CA.,
issued a long-awaited decision ruling that Jane DeLeon has standing
to challenge DOMA in the courts and that DOMA violates the Fifth
Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection as applied to immigrants
because it is irrational: “This Court finds that the broad distinction
created by DOMA § 3 is not rationally related to Congress’ interest
in a uniform federal definition of marriage.” The court decided that
“State law traditionally governs marriage recognition,” and DOMA
had disrupted the “long-standing practice of the federal government
deferring to each state’s decisions as to the requirements for a valid
marriage.” The court also found that a 1982 precedent case issued by
the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit, Adams v. Howerton,
which decided that barring same-sex couples from immigration
benefits did not violate equal protection, has been superseded by
“intervening statutory and policy changes,” and is therefore no
longer binding precedent.
Judge Marshall also ordered that the case proceed as nationwide
class action for the benefit of a class of immigrants it defined as
follows: “All members of lawful same-sex marriages who have
been denied or will be denied lawful status or related benefits under
the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101 et seq. by the
Department of Homeland Security solely due to § 3 of the Defense
of Marriage Act, 1 U.S.C. § 7.” The court decided that the class is so
numerous and its members’ legal claims so similar as to justifying
certifying the case as a class action.
Ms. DeLeon had also applied for a preliminary injunction giving
her and class members immediate work permits before the Supreme
Court rules on the constitutionality of DOMA, a decision expected
in the Windsor case in June 2013. The Los Angeles court declined
to issue a preliminary injunction at this time, believing that interim
protection already provided by DHS of deferring the deportation of
immigrants in same sex marriages with U.S. citizens will sufficiently
protect the class until the Supreme Court issues its decision in the
Windsor case.
Statement by plaintiffs’ attorney Peter Schey, President of the
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law: “We welcome
the court’s decision that DOMA violates the constitutional rights
of immigrants in bi-national same sex marriages. This will afford
maximum protection to class members, particularly those who are
low-income and without the means to hire attorneys, and those whose
visa applications have already been unconstitutionally denied. We
suspect there will be no further denials of visa applications based
on DOMA after this decision is reviewed by DHS headquarters. We
will continue to dedicate our resources to insure that immigrants in
same sex marriages with US citizens are not detained or deported
and are treated humanely pending a final decision by the Supreme
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A Peruvian father faces allegations that he doused his son with
gasoline and set him on fire after learning the 22-year-old was gay
and HIV-positive.
“Violence against another person because of his or her sexual orientation
has no place in our civilized society,” said United States Attorney Sally
Quillian Yates. “The citizens of this district should know that we are
committed to aggressively prosecuting hate crimes.”
According to the Peruvian daily newspaper La Región, Hitler Baneo
Núñez, 49, allegedly tried to burn the victim (identified in reports
only by his initials R.B.P.) alive after becoming tired of neighbor’s
jokes about his son’s sexuality.
“Hate-fueled violence will not be condoned,” said Roy L. Austin Jr.,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. “The
Justice Department will use all the tools in our law enforcement arsenal
to investigate and prosecute hate crimes.”
Though neighbors helped save R.B.P., the young man ended up with
his face, arms and parts of his legs burnt, according to the report.
Not only is R.B.P. HIV positive, he also reportedly has tuberculosis.
According to United States Attorney Yates, the charges and other
information presented in court: On February 4, 2012, Cain, 19, Moragne,
21, and a juvenile, all associated with the Jack City street gang, targeted
a 20-year-old gay man as he left a grocery store located in Atlanta’s
Pittsburgh neighborhood. Cain punched the victim in the head and
pushed him to the ground. Cain, Moragne and the juvenile surrounded
the victim and repeatedly punched and kicked him while the group yelled
anti-gay epithets, including “No f****** in Jack City.” Moragne then
picked up a tire and struck the victim with it. The group also stole the
victim’s cell phone. A fourth person, also with the defendants, recorded
the assault using a cell phone. The video footage was posted to the
Internet.
Cain and Moragne admitted to violating the Matthew Shepard and
James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded federal
jurisdiction to include certain assaults motivated by the victim’s sexual
orientation. The federal hate crimes law criminalizes certain acts of
violence motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived race, color, national
origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity.
This case is the first in Georgia to charge a violation of the sexual
orientation section of the federal hate crimes law.
Last year, Cain, Moragne and the juvenile, who was considered an adult
under Georgia law, were prosecuted in Fulton County Superior Court for
offenses that did not include a hate crime. In State court, Cain and Moragne
were sentenced to a term of imprisonment of ten years suspended upon the
service of five years. As part of their plea agreement, Federal prosecutors
recommended that their Federal and State sentences run concurrently.
This case is being investigated by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation and Detectives with the Atlanta Police Department.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Brent Alan Gray and Trial Attorney Nicole Lee Ndumele of the Justice
Department’s Civil Rights Division.
Courtesy of Huffington Post
Peruvian Father, Allegedly Set Fire To Gay,
HIV-Positive Son
Christopher Cain and Dorian Moragne both of Atlanta, Ga., pleaded
guilty today in federal court before Senior United States District Judge J.
Owen Forrester to beating a man because of his sexual orientation.
“The FBI remains committed to ensuring the civil rights of all individuals,
to include those singled out and attacked because of their perceived
differences,” stated Mark F. Giuliano, Special Agent in Charge, FBI
Atlanta Field Office. “These acts of violence should be reported and
aggressively investigated to ensure that we send a clear message that
these actions will not be tolerated.”
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Earvin Johnson III, Magic Johnson’s Gay Son,
Goes Public With Boyfriend, Parents Very Proud
Magic Johnson’s gay son is going public with his romance.
“My dad wanted to kill me because of those illnesses, but my aunt
took me out of my father’s house and took me to Iquitos to put me
in the institution ‘Algo bello para Dios’ since March 1,” the victim
is quoted in reports translated by The Huffington Post as saying.
“Unfortunately, my father doesn’t accept me as I am.”
Earvin Johnson III, one of Magic’s three children, stepped out handin-hand with his unidentified boyfriend on Los Angeles’s Sunset
Strip on Monday night, TMZ reports.
A statement provided by local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) advocacy organization Comunidad Homosexual de la
Región Loreto (CHERL) and cited by BuzzFeed reads as follows:
Although this is reportedly the first time Earvin, also known as EJ,
and his boyfriend have been seen together publicly, there is nothing
to suggest that he was not open about his sexuality prior to this.
“We hope that this complaint ... will be treated seriously by the
authorities and that it can generate a change and call attention
of the public to the homophobia that lives inside the home and is
growing in society towards gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and trans
people in the Loreto region.”
EJ is a 20-year-old student at New York University and Magic
and his wife, Earlitha “Cookie” Kelly, couldn’t be prouder of him.
“Cookie and I love EJ and support him in every way,” Magic told
TMZ. “We’re very proud of him.”
When Magic revealed he was HIV-positive in 1991, rumors about
his sexuality arose. Instead of recoiling from the spotlight and the
speculation, the former Los Angeles Lakers player used his celebrity
to spread awareness and tolerance.
Back in 2008, Magic opposed California’s Proposition 8 -- a clause
that banned same-sex marriage in the state.
“Prop 8 singles out one group of Californians to be treated differently
-- including members of our family, our friends, and our coworkers,”
he said in a recorded telephone message sent to California voters.
“That is not what California is about. So this Tuesday, vote no on
Proposition 8. It is unfair and wrong. Thanks.”
Magic is not alone in his stance. More and more athletes are speaking
out in support of equality as of late.
Most recently, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe told athletes
who are concerned about possibly sharing a locker room with gay
peers to “grow the f**k up.”
“It’s not right that we can’t just accept someone for who he is,” he
writes, in part, in an editorial for CNN. “Why? Why do people care
so much about someone else’s sexuality? Why do people give two
s***s how someone else lives his life?”
Earlier this year, a young British man was convicted of manslaughter
after killing a local gay teen by setting him on fire.
The BBC reports that 20-year-old Jordan Sheard has been sentenced
to three and a half years in jail for the death of Steven Simpson after
pleading guilty to manslaughter charges. Simpson, 18, died one day
after sustaining “significant burns” in June 2012, according to the
report.
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PARIS - France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a
wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the
nation’s heartland and triggered huge demonstrations that tapped
into intense discontent with the Socialist government. Within hours,
fiery clashes broke out between protesters and riot police.
Legions of officers stayed late into the night, and a protest against
the measure turned violent near the Invalides complex of museums
and monuments. Protesters threw glass bottles, cans and metal bars
at police, who responded with tear gas.
It was an issue that galvanized the country’s faltering right, which
had been decimated by infighting and their election loss to President
Francois Hollande. France is the 14th country to legalize gay
marriage nationwide _and the most populous.
The measure passed easily in the Socialist-majority Assembly,
331-225, just after the president of the legislative body expelled a
disruptive protester in pink, the color adopted by French opponents
of gay marriage.
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told lawmakers that the first
weddings could be as soon as June.
“We believe that the first weddings will be beautiful and that they’ll
bring a breeze of joy, and that those who are opposed to them
today will surely be confounded when they are overcome with the
happiness of the newlyweds and the families,” she said.
Earlier in the day, there appeared to be more police than protesters
outside the Parliament building on Paris’Left Bank, but that calculation
soon shifted as night fell and thousands gathered to protest the bill.
The protest dwindled to a few stalwarts shortly before midnight,
when the violence began among a few hundred demonstrators
In recent weeks, violent
attacks against gay couples
have spiked and some legislators have received threats — including
Claude Bartelone, the Assembly president, who got a gunpowderfilled envelope on Monday.
One of the biggest protests against same-sex marriage drew together
hundreds of thousands of people bused in from the French provinces
— conservative activists, schoolchildren with their parents, retirees,
priests and others. That demonstration ended in blasts of tear gas, as
right-wing rabble-rousers, some in masks and hoods, led the charge
against police, damaging cars along the Champs-Elysees avenue
and making a break for the presidential palace.
Following the vote members of the gay and lesbian community
flocked to a square in central Paris, just behind City Hall, to celebrate
the vote.
“I feel immense joy, gigantic joy,” said 39-year old Sylvain Rouzel.
“At last, everyone has the same rights. This is huge! France was
lagging behind. We had to wait 14 years after the civil union to
finally obtain the right to get married, with equal rights for everyone.
I feel great!”
Paris’ openly gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, was among the crowd
of hundreds gathered for the street celebration in the Marais, the
city’s historic gay neighborhood.
When Hollande promised to legalize gay marriage, it was seen as
relatively uncontroversial. The issue has become a touchstone as his
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popularity has sunk to unprecedented lows, largely over France’s
ailing economy.
“The opposition is in a weakened position, but they know which
buttons to press in order to get a reaction in society, in a country
as liberal as France, where nobody thought it was an issue,” said
Hossein Alizadeh, a coordinator with the U.S.-based International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission who has followed the
issue.
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But the most visible face in the fight against gay marriage — a former
comedienne who goes by the name of Frigide Barjot — said the
movement named “A Protest for Everyone” will continue beyond
the law’s passage and possibly field candidates in 2014 municipal
elections. She said anyone involved in protest violence would be
marginalized, but blamed the government for its failure to listen.
“The violence comes from the way in which this was imposed,”
Barjot told France Info radio.
French conservatives, demoralized and divided by the election
loss of standard-bearer Nicolas Sarkozy, found common cause
in opposing same-sex marriage. Hoping to keep the issue alive,
the conservative UMP party planned to challenge the law in the
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“The controversy that we’ve seen has been a stoked and manipulated
controversy that’s really kind of a last-ditch attempt to block the tide
of history,” said Evan Wolfson, president of the American activist
group Freedom to Marry, which he said worked with the French on
the bill. “I don’t think it spoke to a deep or wide opposition among
the French people.”
French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular
among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that
law has no provisions for adoption, and the strongest opposition in
France as far as same-sex couples goes comes when children are
involved. According to recent polls, just over half of French are
opposed to adoption by same-sex couples — about the same number
who said they favored same-sex marriage.
Christophe Crepin, spokesman for the police union UNSA, says
the extraordinary security Tuesday included a total of about 4,000
officers in the area near the National Assembly building and water
cannon positioned nearby.
On the cover of Tuesday’s Liberation newspaper, the famed gay
photographers Pierre and Gilles took over the front page and
several of the inside pages, splashing them with some of their most
provocative photos, including one of three soccer players — nude
but for the footwear — facing the camera.
In New Zealand, where gay marriage enjoys popular support, people
gathered outside Parliament and joined in singing a traditional Maori
love ballad after a vote last week making it legal. Nine states and the
District of Columbia in the U.S. also recognize such marriages, but
the federal government does not.
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Bill Clinton Says Chelsea Changed
His View On Gay Marriage
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1. On May 18, 1970 Jack Baker and James McConnell, two gay
men, apply for the first marriage license in the United States, in
Minneapolis, MN. Gerald Nelson, Clerk of Hennepin County
District Court denies the request to marry. In 1971 Jack Baker
becomes the first openly gay man elected as President of the
University of Minnesota student body. The couple sues and the
case is dismissed in District Court, followed by an appeal to the
Minnesota State Supreme Court (dismissed), followed by an appeal
to the US Supreme Court (dismissed “for want of a substantial
federal question”).
2. In 1993 the Hawaii Supreme Court declared the states probation
against gay marriage to be unconstitutional, in ‘Baehr v. Lewin’. On
November 3, 1996 Hawaii voters enact an amendment to the state
constitution defining marriage as between opposite sex couples.
3. In September 13 1996, Lavender Magazine President Stephen
Rocheford debates Mitch Pearlstein, President of the Center of
the American Experiment, on Public Television arguing against the
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and supporting gay marriage as
historically inevitable.
4. September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signs the Federal
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage between
opposite sex couples, rushed through the Senate and House of
Representatives only two months before the 1996 election. All
Minnesota Representatives (with one exception) and both Senators,
including Paul Wellstone, vote for DOMA. Representative Martin
Sabo, 5th District, is the sole “no” vote cast of Minnesota’s
Congressional delegation.
5. In 1997, the Minnesota legislature passes a state version of the
Federal Defense of Marriage act.
6. On February 19, 2009 a civil unions bill is introduced in the
Minnesota House of Representatives. On March 5, 2009 a gay
marriage bill is introduced in the Minnesota Senate. Both fail.
7. On May 11, 2011 the Minnesota Senate passes a bill (already
passed in the House of Representatives) to place a proposed
amendment to the state constitution on the ballot that would ban
same sex marriage but not civil unions.
8. On May 16, 2011 Senator John Marty introduces “The Marriage
and Family Protection Act” which is for total marriage equality in
Minnesota. The Republican control of the legislature at the time
ensures that the bill fails.
9 On November 6, 2012, Minnesota voters reject the proposed
constitutional amendment defining marriage as between opposite
sex couples 52.6% to 47.4%.
10. On November 6, 2012 ten of the DFL State Senators (out of
a total of 39 DFL Senators), and seventeen of the DFL State
Representatives (out of a total of 73) elected, are in districts
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where the majority of the people voted “yes” on the constitutional
amendment to ban gay marriage.
11. Within 48 hours of the election victory over the proposed
constitutional amendment, Governor Mark Dayton, with the
incoming Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and House
Majority Leaders elect, all members of the Democratic Farmer
Labor Party (DFL), announce that gay marriage is not on their
agenda for this legislative session in 2013-14.
12. On November 29, 2012 Lavender Magazine begins a series
of articles (thirteen to date) including interviews with Governor
Dayton (who refuses to answer our questions) and the legislative
leaders about their press conference immediately after the election.
The Governor’s, Speaker’s, and the two Majority Leader’s names,
phone numbers and email addresses are printed after each article.
See the entire series of articles with contact information listed on
page 56 and on the Lavender website at: www.lavendermagazine.
com/author/brettstevens/.
13. On December 11, 2012 in an interview with Lavender Magazine,
State Senator John Marty indicates that he will introduce another
full marriage equality bill (as he did on May 16, 2011), including
the legislative findings that were in his last bill. He believes that the
bill can pass quickly, but doubts that the DFL leadership will allow
a vote on it. Senator Marty says, “There is no excuse for not getting
this done”.
14. On February 28, 2013 by State Senator Scott Dibble and State
Representative Karen Clark, introduce a bill for marriage equality
in the State Legislature. It is virtually the same bill introduced by
Senator John Marty on May 16, 2011.
15. On March 12, 2013 committee hearings are held in both the State
House and Senate and are quickly passed to go to their respective
Houses of the legislature.
16. Speaker of the State House Thissen and State Senate Majority
Leader Bakk both continue to indicate that there are not enough
votes in the DFL caucus to pass the bill for marriage equality. The
DFL controls both the House 73 (to 61 Republicans), and the Senate
39 (to 28 Republicans). Governor Dayton (DFL) indicates he will
sign the bill “if” it reaches his desk for signature.
17. On April 3, 2013 a bipartisan bill for full equality (like in
Colorado) civil unions is introduced in the Minnesota legislature.
NOW: If the DFL majority in both houses of the legislature
chooses not to pass a marriage equality bill this year, they have the
opportunity to pass instead the bipartisan compromise civil union
bill, joining moderate Democrats and Republicans, this session in
2013. The choices are: equality, civil unions, or nothing.
Bill Clinton was
honored at the
GLAAD
Media
Awards for his gay
rights
advocacy
as well as his
endorsement
for
same-sex marriage
on
Saturday.
As reported by
The
Hollywood
Reporter, the former
President
credits
his daughter for
changing his mind.
The former President said during his acceptance speech that his
daughter “has had a profound impact on the way I see the world. It’s
sort of humbling when you get to be my age when your child knows
more than you do about everything.”
“Chelsea and her gay friends have modeled to me how we should
all treat each other regardless of our sexual orientation or any other
artificial difference that divides us,” said the honoree. “Many of
them come and join us every Thanksgiving for a meal. I have grown
very attached to them.”
“And over the years, I was forced to confront the fact that people
who oppose equal rights for gays in the marriage sphere are basically
acting out of concern for their own identity, not out of respect for
anyone else.”
Clinton’s view on marriage equality changed substantially over the
years. During his presidency, he signed the Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA), which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples.
Winnipeg Rabbis Split on Bill
Favoring Gay-Straight Clubs
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Two leading Orthodox rabbis in Winnipeg are split over part of a
bill, proposed last December, which would require any school that
receives provincial funding to allow students to create a gay-straight
alliance club.
Fearing that Christian schools will be forced to accept such clubs,
many Christian leaders in Manitoba have opposed the bill. But in the
case of the province’s Jewish community, the two leading Orthodox
rabbis have landed on opposite sides of the debate.
“The Torah rejects homosexuality,” Rabbi Avraham Altein, the
longtime head of Chabad Lubavitch in Winnipeg, told the Canadian
Jewish News. “Religious schools should not be forced to accept a
gay rights group.”
But while Altein has written a letter to Manitoba Premier Greg
Selinger protesting the bill and taken to the airwaves to make his
views heard, Winnipeg’s other prominent Orthodox rabbi has taken
a much different approach.
Rabbi Ari Ellis, who leads Winnipeg’s largest Orthodox
congregation, told the news agency that he originally planned not to
get involved in the debate on the bill until he heard Altein claiming
that the bill stood in opposition to Orthodox Judaism.
“As an Orthodox rabbi and a Jewish educator, it is my belief that a
gay-straight alliance could be a welcome institution in our schools
and communities,” Ellis told the newspaper.
Gray Academy of Jewish Education, the only K-12 Jewish private
school in Winnipeg, has had a gay-straight alliance for several years,
according to head of school Rory Paul.
“I want to keep working on this until not only is DOMA no longer
the law of the land, but until all people — no matter where they live
— can marry the people they love,” Clinton told the crowd.
He has since called his approval of that law one of his biggest
mistakes as President and has urged the Supreme Court to strike the
law down.
“You are the agents of change. I got this award tonight, because I
was the object of your affection - or not, as the case may be,” he
added. “My daughter led me to support the marriage equality law in
New York when we were debating it, and to oppose North Carolina’s
denial of marriage equality, and to do all these other things. So I
want to thank her too. Thank you, GLAAD. Thank you, Chelsea.”
“Whenever we turn away from treating someone with the dignity
and honor and the respect that we would like accorded to ourselves,
we have to face the fact it’s about us,” Clinton concluded.
Nevada Senator Comes Out as
Gay Marriage Resolution Advances
New Sci-Fi Comic Book
Embraces Gay Romance
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — The Nevada Senate, after an hourlong, soul-searching debate about equality, love and marriage
passed a resolution late Monday repealing the state’s heterosexual
definition of marriage, the first step in a long process to recognize
gay marriage.
Comic fans who love sci-fi, action, and gay romance won’t want
to miss Alex Woolfson and Winona Nelson’s new graphic novel
Artifice. Not only because the story features gay protagonists, but
because the comic portrays their relationship as completely normal.
Courtesy of The Associated Press
Jase Peeples
In emotional comments, senators told of family members who are
gay; their own conflicts between religion and social justice. For Sen.
Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas, it was a coming out of sorts
when he announced to many, “I’m black. I’m gay.”
Senate Joint Resolution 13 repeals a constitutional provision
enacted by voters in 2002. It also declares that Nevada recognizes
all marriages, regardless of gender.
The resolution was approved on a 12-9 vote, with Sen. Ben
Kieckhefer, R-Reno, voting with the Democratic majority. It now
goes to the Assembly.
If passed by lawmakers this year and in 2015, it would go to voters
in 2016 for ratification.
“This is a vote to let the people vote for equality,” said Sen. Pat
Spearman, D-North Las Vegas. A black, lesbian minister, Spearman
talked passionately of growing up in the 1960s in the deep south,
being spit on because she was black.
“I know what it feels like when people want to push separate but
equal,” Spearman said. “Separate is not equal.”
Sen. David Parks, a Las Vegas Democrat who was the first openly
gay elected to the Nevada Legislature, urged his colleagues’ support.
“There is no threat; no threat to one’s marriage or their own personal
views,” Parks said. “Passage of SJR13 will begin the positive
process toward fairness and equality. “
The measure, he said, will allow voters to decide “so that someday
soon I may have the same rights you are entitled to.”
For many Republicans, the vote came down to whether marriage
should be in the constitution at all. The original version of the
resolution called only for repealing the Protection of Marriage Act
passed by voters in 2002 that defines marriage as between one man
and one woman.
They objected to expanding the measure to sanction same-sex
marriage.
“It is regrettable that it has come to this,” said Senate Minority
Leader Michael Roberson, R-Henderson, adding he and others in
the Republican caucus supported the original version of SJR13.
Artifice is firmly planted in the yaoi — a.k.a. boys’ love or BL —
comics genre. Yaoi, a Japanese manga genre focusing on gay men,
is mostly written for and by women and is immensely popular in
Japan, with a small,but avid fan base in the United States.
Originally appearing as a comic on Woolfson’s website, Yaoi911,
Artifice will be available in a collected print edition on May 1.
An official synopsis of the action-romance reads:
Deacon, a prototype android soldier, was ordered by his
corporate masters to eliminate a team of scientists who
knew too much and he has failed spectacularly. Not only
did he let one of his targets live -- 19-year-old human
outcast, Jeff Linnell -- he attacked the team sent to retrieve
him. Now the Corporation demands answers and they
have employed the brilliant and ruthless robopsychologist
Clarice Maven to get them.
Deacon seems desperate to conceal the shocking events
that took place on Da Vinci 4, but what chance does he have
fighting an adversary who can control his every move?
Many LGBT comic fans will certainly find the romance between
Deacon and Jeff refreshing, as their relationship is treated like any
other conventional story element — as least as conventional as a
love between a young man and an android assassin (think Blade
Runner meets The Terminator) could be.
As The Atlantic’s Noah Berlatsky points out, “The mainstream isn’t
exactly interested in gay protagonists in its pulp genre product at
the moment. But reading Artifice, you can almost see that future in
which gayness in sci-fi is neither disavowed, nor avant-garde, but
simply normal.”
Artifice is available for preorder at Amazon.com.
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Brittney Griner acknowledges she’s gay,
says ‘just be who you are’
Republicans Back Gay Marriage
Ahead Of Vote In Rhode Island
Ex-Baylor star Brittney Griner likes to remind all the girls and
young women who idolize her to just be themselves and not worry
what others think.
The five Republicans in the Rhode Island Senate are backing gay
marriage as a legislative committee prepares for a pivotal vote on
the issue.
Griner was doing just that this week while discussing her sexual
orientation, apparently for the first time with the media. The new
member of the Phoenix Mercury, chosen No. 1 overall in Monday’s
WNBA, did not make a big deal about the fact that she is a lesbian,
making no big coming-out announcement.
The Senate Republican Caucus announced Tuesday that its
members will support legislation allowing gay and lesbian
couples to marry. The senators cite their support for liberty and
limited government and say
same-sex couples deserve the
same marriage rights as anyone.
By Chuck Schilken - Courtesy of The LA Times
But she did not hide from the topic either when it was pertinent to
the issues being discussed.
In a pre-draft interview with USA Today on Monday, Griner brought
it up herself while crediting her parents for always encouraging her
to be herself no matter what cruel things people were saying about
her.
“My parents didn’t know at the time,” she said. “I hadn’t come out
completely. It was kind of like, YOU KNOW … I just hadn’t said
it. My dad and my mom have always told me, ‘Be who you are.’ At
the time, they probably weren’t sure what I was interpreting that as.”
During an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, she
discussed it in the context of being bullied as a child.
By David Klepper
While the GOP caucus only holds
five of the Senate’s 38 seats, its
support is another indication
of the growing support for gay
marriage in Rhode Island, now
the only New England state that
doesn’t allow gay marriage.
The bill has already passed the
House and the Senate Judiciary
Committee will decide Tuesday
whether to forward the measure
to the full Senate for a debate.
“It was hard, just being picked on for being different, just being
bigger, my sexuality, everything,” she said. “I overcame it and got
over it. Definitely something that I am very passionate about. I want
to work with kids and bring recognition to the problem, especially
with the LGBT community.”
Also on Wednesday, Griner and fellow recent WNBA draftees
Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins were interviewed by Sports
Illustrated’s Maggie Gray, who asked why it’s more accepted to be
a gay athlete in women’s sports than men’s.
“I really couldn’t give an answer on why that’s so different. Being
one that’s out, it’s just being who you are,” Griner said. “Again, like
I said, just be who you are. Don’t worry about what other people are
going to say, because they’re always going to say something, but, if
you’re just true to yourself, let that shine through. Don’t hide who
you really are.”
Gray then asked Griner if her status as a famous athlete made it any
more difficult to come out.
“It really wasn’t too difficult, I wouldn’t say I was hiding or
anything like that,” Griner said. “I’ve always been open about who I
am and my sexuality. So, it wasn’t hard at all. If I can show that I’m
out and I’m fine and everything’s OK, then hopefully the younger
generation will definitely feel the same way.”
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23 East 38th St.
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23 E 38th St..
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POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
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INSURANCE AGENCY
PRIDE ORGANIZATIONS
Adams Funeral Services
510 Stephenson Ave.
(912) 354-6260
Brighter Day Natural Foods
Organic foods, books and more.
1102 Bull St.,
(912) 236-4703
Thrive Carryout Cafe
4700 Highway 80 E
Whitemarsh (912) 898-2131
HAIR SALONS
Designs 804 Salon.
210 East Park Ave.
(912) 201-0070
Christopher’s Hair Salon
529 E Gordon St.
(912) 234-7070
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Assisted Recovery Center of Ga.
7722 Waters Ave
(912) 352-2425 or (888) 570-6391
My Brothaz Home Inc.
HIV/AIDS support
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127 Abercorn Street
Suite 302
(912) 349-2935
Stand Out Youth
Every Friday at 7 pm
307 East Harris St.
(912) 657-1966
HIV Services.
Chatham CARE Center
107 B Fahm St.
(912) 651-2253
Sparkling House Cleaning
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Bush Insurance Agency.
340 Eisenhower Dr. Bldg 300 Ste A
(912) 356-0266.
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Timothy Burkett Interiors
(912) 236-6500
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Robert W. Bush.
P.O. Box 8432.
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Georgia Legal Services
Bill Broker
6602 Abercorn Street
(912) 651-2180.
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Brunswick Manor
825 Egmont Street
Brunswick, GA 31520
(912) 265-6889
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10 Whitaker St.
(912)651-2180
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Summit Pest Control
Once a year Pest Control
(912)351-0979
Mitchell Bush
340 Eisenhower Dr. 300 Ste A
(912) 356-0266 ext. 106
Savannah Pride Inc.
savannahgapride.org
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Roys Hideaway
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(912) 660-3031
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11510 Abercorn Street
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Gaysavannah.com
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Agape Empowerment Ministries
703D Louisville Road
agapeempowerment.org
Asbury Memorial UMC
1008 East Henry St.
(912) 233-4351
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2716 Mechanics Ave.
(912) 354-6815
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
34th and Abercorn - Savannah
(912) 232-0274
Unitarian Universalist Church
313 E Harris St
(912) 234-0980
Unity Church of Savannah
2320 Sunset Blvd.
(912) 355-4704
Unitarian Universalist of Statesboro
609 East Grady Street
(912) 489-8338
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ARIES: A “Catch 22” situation arises and causes you frustration
early in the month. Creative thinking could turn things around,
however. Don’t be afraid to try the unusual. A Libra friend shows
you the positive side. Cynicism slows you down. Financial problems
may arise later in the month.
LIBRA: Before searching far for something you need, take a look
right in front of you. It may not seem so obvious at first, but it will
be crystal clear in time. A show of independence will work wonders
in a romance – especially with Scorpio. An unusual source tells you
of an investment opportunity. Good news comes in threes.
TAURUS: Absence makes the heart grow fonder, especially if
you’re involved with Scorpio. A decision you made several months
ago has an effect on you this month. A problem that arises will be a
blessing in disguise. Expect delays. Leo causes you frustration this
month.
SCORPIO: Time spent alone gives you the opportunity to think
through problems. You’ll be able to come to terms with a situation
that has been troubling you for some time. If you’re in a management
position, you may find that it’s lonely at the top. Change is imminent
in a romance.
GEMINI: A Taurus from your past resurfaces. You’ll find the bull
a little deeper than you remember. A mid-month break from your
busy schedule brightens your mood. Don’t be afraid to give in to
relaxation. It’s really not so bad! Scorpio plays a role. Decisive
action is key this month.
SAGITTARIUS: A career opportunity could come your way when
you least expect it. Before discounting it at face value, take a deeper
look. There may be more than meets the eye. If a major purchase
is in the works, be sure to shop around. Don’t write out any check
unless you’re getting a good deal.
CANCER: A great month! Something you worked hard for and
wanted for some time is finally yours. Don’t be afraid to celebrate
in a big way. More free time is on the way, so don’t be afraid to take
advantage. An especially romantic weekend is in store. Taurus plays
a role. Finances look good.
CAPRICORN: Look back to the past to help fix a problem today.
You’ll find that time has a way of repeating itself. Scorpio offers
some words of wisdom. New romance should be avoided this month
– especially if a Virgo is in the picture. An introspective mood leads
you to answers.
LEO: Keep a tight hold on valuables or something you love could
be lost. This is especially true if you’re traveling this month. Try to
make the best of a bad situation. Negative thinking makes matters
worse. Staying focused helps you keep pace with a busy workload.
AQUARIUS: A friend’s offer of help may not be totally selfless.
There could be some motives you’re not totally aware of. If you’re
looking for a new job, this could be a lucky time. Be sure to explore
all options. Social invitations are more abundant now. Don’t be
afraid to have some fun.
PISCES: Finances will become an issue –especially if you have
moved or taken on additional expenses recently. Careful budgeting
will get you through. A “to-do” list helps keep you organized
at work. Social activities may have to take a back seat to family
obligations this month.
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frustrations. Keeping it all bottled in won’t help one bit. A flirtation
at work could be a recipe for disaster. Know what you’re getting
into before flashing that smile. Leo is involved. A good time to get
in touch with old friends.
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