The Uniting American Families Act has not yet been passed.
    Currently, because same-sex partners are denied the right to marry, they are not afforded equal rights under immigration law. While the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to sponsor their spouses and other members of their immediate family for immigration into the United States, gay men and lesbians do not have the same right to sponsor their same-sex partners. Recently introduced in both the House and in the Senate, the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) addresses this issue.
    The UAFA would allow same-sex partners to be united legally through the U.S. immigration process. The bill would correct the bias in the INA by adding the term "permanent partner" to the law’s definition of family members; therefore, same-sex partners of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents would be eligible for green cards and immigrant visas available to spouses and other family members.

→  Probably better than the 1980s statement from the leader of the Moral Majority who said that executions might be a fitting solution to the problem of homosexuals.
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A divorced single mother of three had this to say:
"I told my little brats to shut that damn gay faggotry off. I told them Jesus is the only man another man is allowed to love in this house. I told my oldest Sammy-Jeff to fetch me my beer and cigarettes and then get out of the house as I've had enough of 'em for one day."

An offended Christian parent had this to say:
"I can't believe Heinz would do this to us. After all the hotdogs this family have pounded down their chubby gullets - nothing short of slathered in Heinz mayo and ketchup - they're trying to make us talk to our kids, and about homosexuality! Isn't that something the schools are supposed to do?

Ted Haggard had this to say:
"Offensive commercials like this should never befall the unwanting public. Such provocativeness should never be viewed by children. Just look at how their soft, supple lips pressed together. I'd bet that in the next one they'll each caress each other, drawing their rough, manly forms together into a tight embrace. Their rugged scents meshing in a vibrant bouquet of... Err, umm...Praise Jesus!"

An AFA member had this to say: "I can't believe the audacity Heinz has to force homosexuality and the homosexual agenda into my house, where God and my children are. God is fiercely in love with my children, and doesn't want their innocent minds corrupted by all these media and liberal types who just want to brainwash my kids. What kind of horrible person tries and brainwashes children with such horrible lies? Why, just last week after Johnny's Christian sports group and before church, I told him that he shouldn't listen to any of this nonsense about homosexuals or evolution or sex education, and that if he says God's prayer fifteen times after bible study tomorrow, that I'd buy him a new baseball bat."

[yes, they're spoofed] our thanks to YouTube.com

in their video recounting his opposition to GLBT protection in the workplace, his opposition to expanding the federal Hate Crimes law to include GLBT, his support of DADT, and his campaign against recognizing ban same-sex relationships in his home state.

Bennett: "What do you say to the polygamists?"

Stewart: "Being gay is part of the human condition!"

rated as one of "Sketch Comedy's Greatest Hits"
thanks to AfterElton.com and to MegaVideo.com

The HRC says that this is not an isolated incident. "Transgender Americans are often targeted for hate violence. Hate crimes against transgender people tend to be particularly violent. Bias-motivated violence against transgender people appears to be epidemic. Crimes against transgender people are under-investigated and under-prosecuted."
    The Action News WMC-TV Memphis video shows Duanna Johnson in the booking area at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center after an arrest for prostitution. The tape clearly shows a Memphis police officer walk over to Johnson and hit her in the face several times with the handcuffs wrapped around his knuckles. The tape shows another officer holding Johnson's shoulders as she tries to protect herself. But then she sits back down, and the officer hits her in the face again and then maces her.

Human Rights Campaign presents this video to capture the emotional resonance of the simple words that so many have waited so long to say: "We're married."
    But the right-wing groups behind California's discriminatory ballot initiative – the one that seeks to roll back this victory in November – claim they collected 1.1 million signatures on their petition.

spoofed by the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles from Gilbert & Sullivan's comedic opera "The Mikado." Set in Japan, the story pokes at British institutions.
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SNL's sarcastic take on Senator Larry Craig's integrity, reknowned now for soliciting gay sex in a bathroom with some secret foot-tapping technique only known to gay men

Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Christian Family Research Council an offshoot of James Dobson's Focus on the Family, and tongue-in-cheek satirist Stephen Colbert discuss their outrage over the California Supreme Court ruling to legalize gay marriage.
thanks to Comedy Central

It wasn't the first same-sex wedding on television, but it's arguably the best-known. Series regular Ross' (David Schwimmer) ex-wife, Carol (Jane Sibbett) marries partner Susan (Jessica Hecht) in a ceremony presided over by a minister played by Candace Gingrich, the out lesbian sister of then-Congressman Newt Gingrich, the very poster child for anti-gay Republicanism. Whether in spite of or due to the intense politics that year, there was a gap of five years before the networks tackled a same-sex wedding again.
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"This is a very important moment for us, the men and women of Cuba, because for the first time we can gather in this way and speak profoundly and with scientific basis about these topics" says Mariela Castro, director of Cuba's Center for Sexual Education. "Brokeback Mountain" is broadcast in prime time on Cuban state television.

Blogger Shabaka of Toronto writes "This is so embarrassing. I'm glad for Cuba suddenly finding itself with such a progressive social agenda after Fidel's departure. I wish the same was true for the US. All the Democrat candidates leave me feeling lukewarm in regards to gay rights issues, but they're still worlds better than the outright hostility evinced by the Bush administration."

Rare video available here after the commercial.

U.S. news sources ignore the events.

documenting the disaster that befell the town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, when homosexual activists took over.  And they're serious!

The AFA sells the DVD for $14.95 or a 5-pack for $49.95

On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court overturned the state ban on gay marriage: "In contrast to earlier times, our state now recognizes that an individual's capacity to establish a loving and long-term committed relationship with another person and responsibly to care for and raise children does not depend upon the individual's sexual orientation."

Taping her show that same day, Ellen announces her marriage to Portia and receives standing applause from the audience!

Opponents are already asking the court to stay its judgment pending legislation in November that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. They've collected a million signatures to push this to a ballot.

In a 4-3 decision — "We therefore conclude that in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex couples."

Governor Schwarzenegger adds "I will not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling."

A coalition of religious and social conservative groups is working to put a measure on the November ballot that will enshrine California's current laws banning gay marriage in the state constitution — they have already gathered a million signatures. The American Family Association and the National Organization for Marriage respond with the need to reign in "activist judges."

out, partnered, philsopher, moralist, gay-rights advocate, professor of philosophy at Wayne State University, on the road with lecture series

whose May 2008 episode reflects the anguish of two soldiers, their love, the family, and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
thanks to YouTube.com

ABC's 20/20 "Main Street USA" explores how the public responds to PDAs with gay couples. ABC asks two couples, Kaolin and James, and Ashby and Leslie, to sit on park benches in Verona, N.J., and then in Birmingham, Ala., to see if there are any differences in reaction among passersby.
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speaking on a 2003 CNN show hosted by Larry King, Maher's comments are noteworthy for how little has changed. He is most notable as the former host of "Politically Incorrect," which aired on the Comedy Central television network and later ABC. He is currently the host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO and has authored a number of books.
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here the "Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" by Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the poorly received 1975 musical comedy, cult classic film. The overtly sexual nature of the British rock comedy was not well received by the mainstream media at that time. The critics were generally negative. Most of the conservative public abhorred the flamboyant, transvestite, bisexual scientist.
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Find at Amazon.com.

The Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Visit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
and the Day of Silence.org

The Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Visit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
and the Day of Silence.org

The Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Visit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
and the Day of Silence.org

in which she brings out lip-syncing drag queens, each embodying a different Madonna incarnation, before proclaiming, "It takes a real man to fill my shoes!"
    Madonna perhaps had the gays from the very beginning: The iconic cone-bra was nice ... pissing off religious people with "Like a Prayer" and "Like a Virgin" was approaching fantastic ... and that SEX book ... or the "Justify My Love" video? That pretty much sealed it; the unabashed sexuality, the androgyny...the "poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another" quotation...

In 1991, SNL used gay sexuality to spoof the heterosexual male perspective commonly seen in advertising. And this aired at a time when major companies were afraid to openly target gay customers -- all in keeping with comedy shows mining current social issues.

this is from the list of Greatest Gay Hits, a 2001 Saturday Night Live clip: "Homocil," a drug for parents suffering from anxiety over a gay-acting son... and the parody ends very bluntly: "Until you come around … because it’s your problem, not theirs."

an old-fashioned, very uncomfortable father is introduced to his son's boyfriend and can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth, but he's trying so hard
thanks to YouTube.com

prolific Israeli out musician, this music from the film The Bubble.
    A 2007 performance for the Israeli troops was canceled: "I've been trying to portray the right image of Israel -- the part that people outside don't usually know, the more liberal and young, fun country it sometimes is and can be. Most of the time I like Israel, so I was surprised and a little bit disappointed." (from his OUT.com interview).
    He lives with his boyfriend Mike Phifer in Tel Aviv.
"Someday he'll come along, The man I love
And he'll be big and strong, The man I love
And when he comes my way
I'll do my best to make him stay
He'll look at me and smile, I'll understand
Then in a little while, He'll take my hand
And though it seems absurd
I know we both won't say a word"

released "Fastlove" in 1996 about the need for gratification, sexual fluidity, and fulfillment without a worry regarding commitment, three years after the death of his lover Anselmo Feleppa, a Brazilian fashion designer, who dies of an AIDS-related cerebral hemorrhage. Days later Michael decides to come out to his parents. The press outs him in 1998. He lives with his partner of 12 years, Kenny Goss, in London.
In the absence of security
I made my way into the night
Stupid cupid keeps on calling me
(but) I see nothing in his eyes
I miss my baby...

Kim Pearson of Trans Youth Family Advocates is interviewed on "CNN Headline News"
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the ordinarily upbeat talk show host Ellen DeGeneres pauses to discusses the recent tragic death of the gay 15 year-old Larry King in Oxnard, California
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exposed by the blogger at Pam's House Blend who coins the label "homobigot." And the local media responds. Much of northern Colorado is sure that such homobigots don't live here.

sample the German's "All That Counts" that airs every day with Roman as a gay figure skater who falls for Deniz, a hockey player who is questioning his sexuality. And there are no cut aways and squeamishness over gay boys doing what gay boys do.
Here's a montage of the shows and another from YouTube How It All Started.
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On the short-lived Acceptable.TV, this skit presents a world where aliens land on earth, promising to share new technologies that will solve the world’s problems, but humans who encounter them obsess over their sexuality. Despite the opportunity to change the course of history, our world leaders are only interested in making juvenile gay jokes about the aliens’ sex lives.
thanks to AfterElton.com

a "Greatest Gay Hit" from the British show "Sketch Comedy"... tackles the hypocrisy of recent American political scandals in which sometimes the most adamantly anti-gay politicians are themselves deeply closeted.
Fry is a conservative politician who continually finds himself embroiled in gay sex scandals for which he apologizes alongside his family at press conferences. In each situation he presents a ridiculous excuse as his supportive wife stands by his side struggling to maintain her countenance. Indeed.
And another snippet here

On May 29, 1957, the body of retired filmmaker and well-known homosexual James Whale is discovered in the bottom of his swimming pool in his Pacific Palisades home in California. The strange circumstances surrounding his death are the basis for this film starring Brendan Fraser and Ian McKellen.
Whale is suspected of being assassinated by one of the many young regulars who frequent his swimming pool.
When a handsome young drifter becomes the gardener for the ill-tempered old man, he is surprised to learn that this eccentric recluse is none other than the once-famous genius who created the original Frankenstein films of the early thirties.
Check the NY Times review.

Chris Kattan’s character Mango was a burlesque performer who entertained in his many fans – regardless of their gender or sexuality. With his talented hips and the sound of Everything But the Girl’s "Missing," Mango's allure was irresistible. While part of the joke was that celebrities otherwise not attracted to men were intensely attracted to Mango (even Garth Brooks was helpless to resist), the real punch line was always the obsessive lengths to which the smitten guests would go to woo the dancer. Sometimes the attempts to court Mango were interrupted by another celebrity, as in the sketch below, where David Duchovny is pulled away by John Goodman.
from Sketch Comedy's Greatest Gay Hits

best known for this very controversial 1995 song "I Kissed a Girl." The original music video is a story-song about a lesbian flirtation between two suburban girlfriends which became an unlikely radio success thanks in part to a comedic music video featuring beefcake Fabio. Interesting and odd website JillSobule.com

"Shouldn't we be promoting faithfulness and loyalty to one's partner regardless of sexual orientation."
thanks to current.com

from "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn" where the out former model plays in drag with dreamlike scenarios of hip-hop, psych-folk and electro music.
thanks to YouTube.com

Host Keith Olbermann on MSNBC with comments from comedian George Carlin on this and other "news" items... "Don’t these professional Christians have something to do during the day? I mean, isn’t there - didn’t Jesus leave instructions on how to plan your day with something constructive?"
thanks to CrooksAndLiars.com
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from the Top 10 in most E.U. countries in the 90s and a huge hit on the gay club scene from Spain to Finland to Lithuania by German Artist/Songwriter Sebastian Roth, an androgynous mix of flamboyant drag and a club kid.
thanks to YouTube.com
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Also an eye-candy tribute to the song from the hunky Carlson Twins, Kyle and Lane.

famous actor and one of the very few openly-gay (out since 1988) men to be Knighted in Great Britain. He is best known for his roles as Gandalf in "Lord of the Rings," as Magneto in the "X-Men" movies, and in "Bent" portraying the horrors for gays and the love that was found in the Nazi concentration camps. He is a vocalcritic of Britain's ex-Prime MInister Tony Blair for his lack of interest in the rights agenda.

In 2007, The Queen of England issues her annual New Year Honors citations including Sir Ian McKellen for promoting GLBT equality. The Oscar-nominated actor, out since 1988, is a founding member of the gay rights organization Stonewall. "I am honored to join an Order which includes such distinguished practitioners in the arts. It is particularly pleasing that 'equality' is included in my citation." he says.
(b. 1939)
Music: Yann Tiersen's "La Noyée"
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This Lebanese-born, London-based singer already has an enormous repertoire. Visit his personal website, and see him live on YouTube and again here. He remains silent about his sexual inclination.
thanks to YouTube.com
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Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer Jodie Foster comes out at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast in Los Angeles where she is honored for being a pioneer and leader in her field in the entertainment industry. The 44 year old praises her partner (producer) Cydney Bernard of 14+ years: she thanks "my beautiful Cydney who sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss." Together they raise Foster's two sons Charles and Kit
thanks to CNN on YouTube.com
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Michael Busse (co-founder of Exodus), Darlene Bogle (a former Exodus ministries leader), and Jeremy Marks (former Exodus International and head of Courage UK) issue a public and formal apology for their work as ex-gay leaders and the harm they caused to those they tried to help
thanks to YouTube.com
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Not everyone fits nicely into the gay/lesbian dichotomy. Get used to it. [Campari Aperitif advertisement]

from the Dutch original bearband in Amsterdam, Bearforce1
thanks to DailyMotion.com
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the story of two gay concentration camp victims who fall in love and use their relationship as an emotional crutch in their efforts to rebuff the horrors of the Holocaust. When the play was first performed, there was only a small trickle of historical research or even awareness about the Nazis' persecution of homosexuals.
thanks to YouTube.com
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part of a statewide effort to reduce chronic disease and death directly related to tobacco use in Colorado's glbt communities—organizers include Denver’s GLBT Community Center, The Center’s youth program Rainbow Alley, Pride Center of Colorado Springs, Brothas4Ever, El Futuro, Western Equality in Grand Junction, Boulder Pride, and Lambda Community Center in Fort Collins.
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Question: "I am Keith Kerr, from Santa Rosa, California. I'm a retired brigadier general with 43 years of service, and I'm a graduate of the Special Forces Officer Course, the Command and General Staff Course, and the Army War College. And I'm an openly gay man. I want to know why you think that American men and women in uniform are not professional enough to serve with gays and lesbians?"
    Kerr is on the Military Advisory Council of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, "a national, non-profit legal services, watchdog and policy organization dedicated to ending discrimination against and harassment of military personnel affected by 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and related forms of intolerance."
thanks to YouTube.com
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How does this word
apply to you and me,
this little word
we call monogamy?
Is it silly to believe
we can only be attracted
to each other?
With beauty every where
it's so easy
to desire the touch of another.

Check his interview. thanks to YouTube.com
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#5 of Logo Online's Greatest LGBT films, a BBC movie adapted from out Welsh author Sarah Waters's novel set in the 1800s Victorian England, the story of a young girl's relationships sparked by a lesbian male impersonator

thanks to YouTube.com
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Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival, this documentary premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. From TV and film producer Daniel Karslake, the film takes a different approach to the gays-in-the-church debate. It focuses on devout Christians who learn their child is gay and how that affects their belief that same-sex relationships are prohibited by Scripture. The film looks at the the experiences of five very normal, very Christian, very American families -- including those of former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson.
thanks to YouTube.com
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#10 of Logo Online's Greatest LGBT films, the romantic film about a British prep school boy and his infatuation with the class jock who returns the love

thanks to YouTube.com
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a very short promotional film from the European Commission's EUtube with over 4 million views and a message.
thanks to YouTube.com
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set aside to memorialize those murdered out of anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The ts/tg community continues to be a marginalized group in the world of glbtq. This video from YouTube.com
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living stereotypes pondered by characters on the animated "Rick and Steve" show
thanks to LogoOnline.com
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A sketch from "Outlaugh on Wisecrack" featuring the women of The Gay Mafia Comedy Group (Starr Ahrens, Nancy Kissam and Diana Yanez)
thanks to YouTube.com
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We're still waiting to see. After he was nominated, Holsinger came under fire from gay rights and human rights groups for a 1991 paper he wrote for the Methodist Church in which he stated that homosexual sex was unnatural and unhealthy.
thanks to YouTube.com and ABC
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Dan gives tongue-in-cheek pseudo-conservative Stephen Colbert his expert opinion on hate crime legislation on the October 4, 2007 show
thanks to Comedy Central
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Life is complicated and can elude a simple Coming Out Day, from filmmaker Taiwan-born Tony Wei, who moved to Brown University and then on to Columbia in New York.
thanks to LogoOnline.com
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Under both versions, the bill provides employment protections similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (also known as "Title VII"), but specifically directed to gay, lesbian, bisexual (and under HR 2015, transgender) employees. The bill is different from Title VII in that it contains exemptions for religious organizations and specific provisions about employer dress codes. Currently, 13 states and the District of Columbia have policies prohibiting both sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in employment: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

thanks to logoonline.com
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short film by Susan Justin about a women coming out to her mother... again.

Audience Choice Award, Brussels Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. PlanetOut Award for best animation. Inside Out film Festival's Best Female short Award.

thanks to LogoOnline.com
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about the Minneapolis airport arrest of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) in a "lewd conduct" incident in a men's public restroom
thanks to YouTube.com
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Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign speaks up.
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not the "young and smooth" and proud to be non-standard, the group proclaims "No smooth-looking boy band, we're four furry friends whose passion for singing and performing brought us together" — Robert (Belfast) and Ian, Peter and Yuri from Amsterdam

The Bear community is a loosely-defined subculture in the gay/bi community, often mature, hairy, heavy set, disdainful of effeminate style. "Cubs" are ofttimes younger or a passive partner and "otters" are likely hairy but not as stocky.

The Bear community is alive and well in northern Colorado!

thanks to YouTube.com
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from the 2006-release DVD taken from her 1994 autobiography. Produced by Barbra Streisand, starring Glenn Close as Cammermeyer and Judy Davis as her partner Diane Divelbess. Born in Norway during World War II, she immigrates to the U.S. where she obtains citizenship in 1960, joins the Army Student Nurse program, is discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" as a colonel, and sues to be reinstated in the National Guard until her retirement in 1997. A Federal District Court in Seattle rules her discharge, and the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military, unconstitutional.
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Last week (Sept 19, 2007), the Republican mayor of the U.S.'s eighth largest city changed his intentions at the very last minute about a bill in support of gay marriages and signed the bill passed by the San Diego City Council that morning, thus pushing for a decision by the state Supreme Court.
"Two years ago, I believed that civil unions were a fair alternative," he said at a news conference. "Those beliefs, in my case, have since changed. The concept of a 'separate but equal' institution is not something that I can support."
He said that he wanted his adult daughter, Lisa, and other gay people he knows to have their relationships protected equally under state laws. "In the end, I could not look any of them in the face and tell them that their relationships, their very lives, were any less meaningful than the marriage that I share with my wife, Rana. I’ve decided to lead with my heart. . . to take a stand on behalf of equality and social justice."
Thanks to cbs5.com
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As it's been done in countless places over the years, economics shape politics. Recent marketing polls show increasing leverage now with 1.3 million gay and lesbian households in the U.S. with children under the age of 18 and with gay consumers being more likely to buy products from companies that treat their gay and lesbian employees well (90%), that advertise in gay media (85%), and that sponsor LGBT events and charities (90%). Here, Advertising Age of New York talks about Levi's two versions of a current commercial, one gay, one straight. Previously Orbitz did the same.
appreciation to YouTube.com
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here, the album's lead single "Message to Myself"
Etheridge's myspace.com page
thanks to NewNowNext.com
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here Gen. McBrayer discusses how valuable homosexuals are and why we must never put their lives at risk by allowing them in the military
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Awesome troupe including 20 of the best international male ballet dancers from 13 countries, here promoting their new show in Sydney. Lest one jump to conclusions, the "drag" of entertainment has no sexual orientation or gender identity implications.

scenes from the romantic comedy of two young lesbians meeting in Vancouver, recently reviewed in AfterEllen.com. See the trailer here. Thanks to YouTube.com
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trailer for the classic but campy, romantic comedy of two young lesbians meeting in Vancouver. Recently reviewed in AfterEllen.com. Visit YouTube.com for multiple cuts, or just order here
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and from its soundtrack "The Man I Love" by gay Israeli composer/performer Ivri Lider.

While on army reserve duty at a West Bank checkpoint, an Israeli soldier crosses paths with a Palestinian. They fall in love When they meet again in Tel Aviv, defying the cultural taboos. American-born, Israeli writer/director Eytan Fox ("Yossi & Jagger" and "Walk on Water") along with his partner/co-writer of 18 years bring bitter fatalism to the ending: love and friendship are buried by the harsh reality of ongoing violence.

2007 Colorado premieres in Colorado Springs 9/14-16 and in Denver 10/5.

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This Lebanese-born, London-based singer already has an enormous repertoire. Visit his personal website, and see him live on YouTube and again here. He remains silent about his sexual inclination.
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Born in 1974, Ivri knew he was gay at age 10 and comes out at 24. See his interview at NewNowNext.com. Lider composed the original music for the film of young Israeli men in the army, "Yossi and Jagger"

after the Australian's huge success in the "Savage Garden" pop duo and divorce in 1999, Hayes comes out and subsequently enters into a civil partnership with Richard Cullen in 2006 in London.
      "My whole career as a big commercial pop artist was fed through self-hatred, basically. It was all about escapism in a fraudulent way. I became a pop star because I knew I had to become something extraordinary to escape."
      "I was kind of dying inside and people aren't stupid. They could tell there was something off about me - that's why it didn't work. And that was a godsend."
      "I feel lucky to live in an era where my relationship can be considered legally legitimate and I commend the UK Government for embracing this very basic Civil Liberty."
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Just random clips of Stewie's sexual "fluidity." Comedians and cartoons continue to push the envelope.
Thanks to YouTube.com
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→ More on Clinton at LOGO online.
→ View the Obama video and the Edwards video. → Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese: "From repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ supporting equal employment rights, providing full funding for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to eliminating the Defense of Marriage Act, these candidates went on record and committed to fighting for equality in all sectors of our society. Unfortunately, we have more work to do. The overwhelming majority of the candidates do not support marriage equality. While we heard very strong commitments to civil unions and equality in federal rights and benefits, their reasons for opposing equality in civil marriage tonight became even less clear."
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→ More on Edwards at LOGO online
→ Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese: "From repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ supporting equal employment rights, providing full funding for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to eliminating the Defense of Marriage Act, these candidates went on record and committed to fighting for equality in all sectors of our society. Unfortunately, we have more work to do. The overwhelming majority of the candidates do not support marriage equality. While we heard very strong commitments to civil unions and equality in federal rights and benefits, their reasons for opposing equality in civil marriage tonight became even less clear."
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→ More on Obama at LOGO online
→ Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese: "From repealing ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ supporting equal employment rights, providing full funding for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to eliminating the Defense of Marriage Act, these candidates went on record and committed to fighting for equality in all sectors of our society. Unfortunately, we have more work to do. The overwhelming majority of the candidates do not support marriage equality. While we heard very strong commitments to civil unions and equality in federal rights and benefits, their reasons for opposing equality in civil marriage tonight became even less clear."
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Here Michael Cashman, former British actor, now a Labour politician and President of the European Parliament's Intergroup on gay and lesbian issues, speaks to the debate in the European Parliament on rampant homophobia in Poland in April 2007. Cashman is open about his homosexuality and regularly comments on government policy decisions relating to sexual orientation. He registered a civil partnership with Paul Cottingham, his partner of over twenty years, in March 2006.
Thanks to YouTube.com
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Singer, actor, playwright Oded Gross in this video laments the end of his marriage. He has a number of reasons why his relationship has come to an end. His myspace.compage. This video from PageOneQ
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a new animated comedy series on Logo, featuring voice work by Alan Cumming, Margaret Cho, Wilson Cruz and Peter Paige and music composed by the same folks who wrote the music for Avenue Q. Mucho thanks to YouTube.com
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He hammers the liberal media paranoia that pervades the right-wing neo-cons and leads them to do things like countering the "biased" Wikipedia with Conservapedia which has a unique definition of homosexuality
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FOX TV's Family Guy once again treads where others dare not go, this time broaching the bdsm fetishes. A clip from YouTube.com
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reflecting on the war in Iraq, the gutless media, the Bush administration, and his role as Mrs. Claus in a Macy parade, with appreciation to YouTube.com
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exploring the staggering rate of HIV/AIDS rampaging through the African American community. The causes contributing to this pandemic are complex; homophobia, high rates of incarceration, lack of self-esteem in Black women, brothers on "the Down Low." Trailer from Duke Media, here from videos at aol.com
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a comment on the increasingly difficult task of separating str8 from gay from bi and sexual orientation becomes more fluid and stereotypic roles fade. From video at aol.com
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Intimate stories with gay and lesbian couples reveal the historical role of family, marriage and commitment in the black community. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Debra Wilson in 2006. From BrightCove.com
[trailer — 4:24]

an upbeat montage from movies and video shorts as seen on BrightCove.com
[3:58]

music video capitalizing on the ambiguity that surrounds Abraham Lincoln's sexuality
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a Harry & Draco spoof set to "If You Were Gay" from AvenueQ
   “So much of the basic Potter plot is identical to the traditional coming-out story: Harry's differentness makes him an outcast in his own family. He is physically, emotionally, and mentally mistreated by the Dursleys [his aunt and uncle]. Their cruelty is calculated and dangerous – he is, in essence, repeatedly queer-bashed by them. And as in so many coming-out stories, Harry is confused by his secret desires.”&mdash(source)
[2:43]

a comedy pilot produced by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions in association with Central Productions and Sony Pictures Television
[20:58] - a bit longish for the undedicated

also see Zimmerman's satirical song about Falwell's accusation of the gay contribution causing "9/11" →here
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based on a true story and always frightening in the confrontation. Here, Rev. Matthew Brewer (John Prosky) and his Citizens for Decency, protest at the funeral of a murdered gay college student. TV reporter Don Deetz (Jason Wiles) covers the story.
[1:26]

In 2006, former Marine Lieutenant Agnone completed a tour of duty in Iraq, leading a platoon to seek out and destroy weaponry including IEDs. Agnone and his partner, former Senior Airman Brandon Juarez, met while performing respective familial and military duties in Washington D.C, during President Bush's inauguration in 2005. Now out of the military, the two have begun a campaign to put an end to its discriminatory policies toward gays. Agnone is now a spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign
[1:56]

Homer thinks Bart is gay and attempts to put him straight, but not all goes according to plan while visiting a steel mill — stereotypes!   [3:17]

rapping against discriminatory violence in America, nicely produced by Indie film company Little Red Pictures, from BrightCove.com [4:20]

attempt to deliver a letter to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, signed by 43 deputies of the European parliament, with a call to allow the 2007 march “in support of tolerance and respect for the rights and freedoms of homosexuals in Russia.” The Mayor calls the Gay Pride Parade "Satanic" and vows that it would never be permitted in his city. "Some European nations bless single-sex marriages and introduce sexual guides in schools," Lushkov said in the speech broadcast on Moscow television. "Such things are a deadly moral poison for children." Likewise, the Russian Orthodox Church and various nationalist groups swear to halt any attempt to hold a march in support of gay rights in Russia.
   After this effort at the Moscow rally, gay activists picket Russian embassies in Rome, Brussels, and Jerusalem. Spokesperson for France's foreign ministry says “We regret the acts of violence and remind everyone that sexual orientation is a private matter. No one should be a victim of violence because of their sexual orientation.”
   In 2006, there is a violent protest to the parade, with skinheads, anti-immigrationists and members of other fascist groups including the Union of Orthodox Gonfalon-Carriers and All-National Union yelling "Russia free of faggots!", "Death to sodomites!" and "Sodom Won't Pass Here."

from brightcove.com [2:16 min]

anti-gay evangelical christian leader and founder of the Moral Majority, Falwell died on May 15, 2007. He is also remembered for his famous announcement that "AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." [5:41 min]

Mel White, once Falwell's ghost writer, spent more than two decades and $100,000 on psychotherapy, electroshock, even an exorcism, in efforts to "cure" himself of his homosexuality— more here from ColoradoConfidential.com [8:59 min]

re-dub of dialogue from the movie “40 Year Old Virgin.” Yes, adult themes and language.
     For those who've fantasized about gay superheroes or gay comic book characters, the question about Batman's gayness is ever-present. [5:15]

ABC 20/20 includes reference material on their site about this most marginalized sector of the GLBTQ community:

TG children: FAQs

TG children: Resources

Gender Identity Disorder find part ONE here and part TWO here

ABC 20/20 includes reference material on their site about this most marginalized sector of the GLBTQ community:

TG children: FAQs

TG children: Resources

Gender Identity Disorder find part ONE here

ABC 20/20 includes reference material on their site about this most marginalized sector of the GLBTQ community:

TG children: FAQs

TG children: Resources

Gender Identity Disorder

music video by Icelandic Grammy-nominee singer/songwriter, Academy-Award nominee composer Björk
     “Everyone is bisexual: I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it’s just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You’d be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.” (2004)
» more music here

amazing out guy. He is turned down for the role of Will in the NBC sticom Will and Grace because he was perceived as too straight. And now Barrowman is most recently known for his album John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter, his role as bi Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who, and the lead character in the spin-off "Torchwood" [now only on BBC]. He says that he realized that he was gay when he was eight or nine years old but only came out to his parents at twenty-two. The entire family is supportive, and Barrowman enjoys a close relationship with his parents, his siblings, and their children. In December 2006, he registers as a civil partner with British architect Scott Gill, his companion of 14 years.

Warner Bros' 300 is just "fabulous" !

award-winning Sundance Film Festival documentary, taking its title from the German anti-sodomy penal code of 1871 that was expanded by the Nazis. After the homosexual Eden of the 1920s, about 100,000 men were arrested for homosexuality between 1933, when Hitler assumed power, and 1945, when World War II ended. About half were sentenced to prison; 10,000 to 15,000 were sent to concentration camps; and by the end of the war, only about 4,000 of those in the camps had survived. Of the eight known to be alive, six appear in the film. Rupert Everett narrates.
    Paragraph 175 was not eliminated until 1994, four years after the reunification of East and West Germany!

is held to bring attention to anti-LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination in schools. Students and teachers nationwide will observe the day echoing the silence that LGBT and ally students face everyday.
      The "Day of Truth is the religious right's reponse observed on the following day—an attempt to push junk psychology and bad theology on gay youth.
      This video examines the "truth." It is produced by the Truth Wins Out.org, a non-profit think tank and educational organization that counters right wing disinformation campaigns and debunks the “ex-gay” myth.

gay rights advocate Wayne Besen who made international news when he photographed "ex-gay" poster boy John Paulk cruising in a gay bar in Washington, DC, is the foil. His website: http://www.waynebesen.com

known to be linked to breast cancer. In the United States, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. One woman out of eight will develop breast cancer sometime during her life.
     Lesbians may be less likely to have health insurance because of the scarcity of domestic partner benefits. For straight women the primary health care contact is through reproductive health where screening is encouraged.
     When breast cancer is detected early, when it is still confined to the breast and has not spread to the lymph nodes, the 5-year survival rate is 97%.
     This video montage is of the hardships of Alice and Dana from "The L Word."

a break -- just enjoying some campy humor with the flamboyant queen comedian

FortPride will award a year's subscription for the award-winning lgbt news magazine "The Advocate" to the first person to correctly name all of the fetishes/acts alluded to in the MTV video. Submit your answers here or by email to contact@fortpride.org

We're just so thankful that this problem is elsewhere! Not our friends; not our family.
      Northern Colorado survives in a state of denial, certain that it's safe, confident that acceptance is on the horizon, thankful that HIV/AIDS is in the big cities.
      In reality, our support is underfunded, and those infected often seek help in other cities because resources here are scarce and can be discriminatory.

a music video from NBC's Thursday night comedy "Scrubs" with JD and TURK singing about their love for each other

compilation by a FortPride.org reader — thank you for the submission! (keep them coming)

a fan's music video compilation of gentle onscreen lesbian moments

CNN comments from a few months ago. Activists are fighting harder than ever to get a repeal, just one of many homophobic fronts the glbt community faces. Visit the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network: SLDN for updates

a spoof on the neocons' view of same sex issues and the "homosexual agenda"

discrimination, innuendo, politically incorrect, connotations... how does one get control of pejoratives? Perhaps saying it Out Load?

Lambda Community Center, in cooperation with Denver's GLBT Center, supports an anti-tobacco campaign in our community. To gather information about how to proceed, they invite you to participate via a valuabe, but relatively long, questionaire for glbt people who are still smoking.

a scene from Jimmy Kimmel's ABC "Late Night Show"

40 year old retired NBA player Tim Hardaway starts with "I hate gay people", and John Amaechi responds

a short biography via an amalgam of TV interviews in February 2007

a public service announcement on Canadian gay TV. We have such a long way to go!

a PSA video with four gay men talking about HIV status with a sex partner. Honesty in any relationship is tough, this being no different

amazing performance and showmanship by French mime and ventriloquist Jerome Murat

and what is natural in "the human condition," this from Bennett, the former U.S. Secretary of Education and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy

an educational and supportive film, a bit long, but ending with an enormously hopeful montage of famous and successful TG people

Pedro Julio Serrano, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Communications Coordinator, speaks to ABC News Exclusiva about LGBT Pride and the Latino Community. It's all to easy to forget that northern Colorado GLBTQ doesn't revolve around white, gay males.

why would we think this doesn't occur in Fort Collins?

and on gay marriage he flips between his older, more liberal thoughts and his newer need to appease the neocons in his party.

Before: "I think that gay marriage should be allowed if there's a ceremony kind of thing, if you want to call it that. I don't have any problem with that. But I do believe in preserving the sanctity of a union between man and woman."

After: "On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe that if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal."

a just-for-fun break in the political and social angst here in the Fort

a short, home-grown video, complete with tech problems, but sensitive and evoked a flurry of supportive comments from the tg/ts community along with the dreaded "These 'people' belong in mental institutions."

those who use their power to hurt GLBT Americans while they practice homosexuality behind closed doors. A panel moderated by Bill Maher.

film about a 20 year old in rural Mississippi, cautious in the face bigotry and repression

Moore the outs