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Appreciating Diversity During the Holidays
It’s about more than just a simple “Happy Holidays” greeting card. by Guest Writer Simma Lieberman:- Guess who’s not celebrating Christmas this year? Millions of people in the US. That’s right. Tens of millions of Americans don’t celebrate Christmas religiously, either as followers of non-Christian religions (Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews) or as individuals with no [...]
I Miss South Africa – but heck…I have the Music
….and now you do too… By Melanie Nathan; 11-17-10 – I miss South Africa – its sounds, its smells, its sky and its storms – I miss sitting in a tree and pretending I am a cheetah. I miss blaring radios, the loud conversations and the Xhosa click – I miss biltong a good braai [...]
South Africa Accused Corrective Rapist Breaches Bail Conditions
Melanie Nathan; 11-16-10 - Ndumie Funda, the co-founder and director of Luleki Sizwe, the organization that helps survivors of corrective rape, is one of the heroes in the ongoing story about the rape of Millicent Gaika, the brave lesbian warrior whose story we have been covering since her horrific ordeal earlier this year. Ndumie has [...]
Prince William and Kate Middleton Officially Engaged
11/16/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It was one of those signs which probably should have clued my parents into the fact that they had a daughter and not a son, but during the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, I had to collect everything about it that was in the news, including all those cheesy [...]
‘Mama Wu’ – Unusual Hero For Gays & Lesbians in China
Melanie Nathan – 11-16-10 – Wu Youjian is China’s first PFLAG-ER – so to speak! Eleven years ago her then teenage son told her that he was gay, Wu did something most unusual for the likes of China. She told him: “There’s nothing wrong with liking boys and it’s no big deal.” Her motherly love [...]
Ireland: Same Sex Partners to be included in Immigration Laws – USA Trails
Melanie Nathan – 11-15-10 The Irish justice minister Dermot Ahern has tabled amendments to give civil partners equal treatment under Ireland’s immigration laws. The Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill is currently at Committee stage in the Dáil. Yet to provide Marriage Equality, Ireland has signed Civil Partnership into law, giving couples similar rights to marriage, [...]
Sexy Bikini Clad Polish Singer Seeks Seat On Warsaw City Council
11/14/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Sex sells- just as any business out there, and sex gets votes- just ask Mitt Romney and Scott Brown. Ewww…. Well, Sara May is not Mitt Romney or Scott Brown, luckily. She is a very sexy Polish singer who has decided to try and see if she can get into local [...]
Susanne Baer Becomes Germany’s First Lesbian Constitutional Justice
11/14/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Susanne Baer has been nominated by Germany’s Green Party for a position on that nation’s Constitutional Court, and the parliamentary committee which handles those nominations has elected her. She is the first open lesbian to sit on the Court as a justice. The purpose of the court is to interpret the [...]
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