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Bizarre New Ruling from Israeli Orthodox group

Bizarre New Ruling from Israeli Orthodox group

Posted by Melanie Nathan an BLOG by David Taffet  and Tammye Nash (quoting Haaretz); Also appeared Boston Globe; 9/2009 If you Think some things you hear from American right wing Christian groups are loony? Well, we Jews are very proud of our... (Continue reading)

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Play Exploring Transsexuality and Faith Protested by Christians over Transsexual Jesus

Play Exploring Transsexuality and Faith Protested by Christians over Transsexual Jesus

11/04/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire What would Jesus do if he was a transwoman? That is, in some ways, what Jesus Christ: Queen of Heaven is asking. The play explores the journey of faith that one transwoman, the playwright Jo... (Continue reading)

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President Obama Pays His Respects As Fallen American Heroes Return Home

President Obama Pays His Respects As Fallen American Heroes Return Home

10/29/09-by Paula Brooks NPR is reporting that while most of us were sleeping, President Barack Obama went to look upon the real cost of the war in Afghanistan as he journeyed in the pre-dawn darkness to Dover (Del.) Air Force Base... (Continue reading)

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Melanie Nathan Calls for Moratorium as US Citizen’s Brazilian same-sex husband denied asylum ..

Melanie Nathan Calls for Moratorium as US Citizen's Brazilian same-sex husband denied asylum ..

BOSTON — Associated Press reports today that a gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won’t be reunited with his Massachusetts husband in the U.S. Tim Coco, the US citizen binational spouse said that  Attorney General... (Continue reading)

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Jamaican police discount British diplomats murder as a hate crime

Jamaican police discount British diplomats murder as a hate crime

9/13/09-by Paula Brooks Police in Jamaica are trying to discount reports in the British and American press that the murder of British diplomat, John Terry, was a homophobic hate crime. Last week Terry, 65, a British honorary consul, was found strangled and... (Continue reading)

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Prime Minister Brown Offers Appology To Alan Turing

Prime Minister Brown Offers Appology To Alan Turing

09/11/09- By Bridgette P. LaVictoire Simply because it is the law at the time does not make it right. When Alan Turing was prosecuted for “gross indecency” and subjected to experimentation in order to attempt to cure his homosexuality, it... (Continue reading)

British Diplomat found murdered in Jamaica, homophobic hate crime suspected

British Diplomat found murdered in Jamaica, homophobic hate crime suspected

9/11/09-by Paula Brooks The honorary consul to the British High Commission in Jamaica has been found murdered at his home in Montego Bay it what appears to Jamaican police to be a homophobic attack. The body of John Terry, 65, was discovered... (Continue reading)

Fleeing Death Threats And Harassment, Lesbian Soldier Seeks Asylum in Canada

Fleeing Death Threats And Harassment, Lesbian Soldier Seeks Asylum in Canada

09/09/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Private Bethany Smith is hoping that she will be granted asylum in Canada after fleeing there to avoid persecution in the Army for being a lesbian. According to Pte Smith and her lawyer, Jamie Liew, Pte... (Continue reading)

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Budapest’s “Gay Dignity” takes place amid heavy police security

Budapest’s “Gay Dignity” takes place amid heavy police security

9/6/09-by Paula Brooks Security was heavy as more than 2,000 people took part in Budapest’s “Gay Dignity” march Saturday, despite threat’s by Neo-Nazi’s and other extreme right-wing groups to disrupt the march. Last year, a similar march in Hungary’s capitol city was... (Continue reading)

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LGBT’s in Rome terrorized and confused after gay bar bombing

LGBT’s in Rome terrorized and confused after gay bar bombing

9/3/09-by Paula Brooks A recent spate of anti-gay violence has left the LGBT community in Rome confused and terrorized after two bombs were thrown at the Colosseum Bar, a gay club located in the center of the Italian capital of Rome... (Continue reading)

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Petition Hopes For Official Apology For Man Who Broke The Enigma During WWII

Petition Hopes For Official Apology For Man Who Broke The Enigma During WWII

08/31/09 -by Bridgette P. LaVictoire In 1952 homosexuality was a crime in the United Kingdom. It is in that year that Alan Turing was prosecuted under the gross indecency act after admitting to a sexual relationship with a man. Two years... (Continue reading)

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Whoopi Goldberg speaks up for Gays in Hungary

Whoopi Goldberg speaks up for Gays in Hungary

8/29/09-by Paula Brooks “View” host Whoopi Goldberg has recorded a special message of support for a Gay Pride event in Budapest, Hungary that has been the target of violent attacks in recent years. Whoopi’s message will be played publicly... (Continue reading)

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Chinese Gays clash with police

Chinese Gays clash with police

8/29/09-by Paula Brooks The China Daily is reporting that more than 100 gay men in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou protested this week against a recent police effort to push them out of a park regularly frequented by... (Continue reading)

Lawmakers in Uruguay pass Gay Adoption Bill

Lawmakers in Uruguay pass Gay Adoption Bill

8/28/09-by Paula Brooks Congress members in Uruguay have passed a bill allowing  gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. The bill was approved Thursday by a vote of 40-13. Two years ago, Uruguayan lawmaker passed legislation to recognize same-sex civil unions. It also... (Continue reading)

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Lesbian Former Soldier “Disgusted” at Meager Ministry of Defense Payouts To Wounded Veterans

Lesbian Former Soldier

08/27/09 -by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Lance Bombardier Kerry Fletcher is angry at the paltry payouts to injured British Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. Lane Bombardier Fletcher was recently awarded £187,000 after she was bullied for refusing to sleep with a male... (Continue reading)

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