By Melanie Ntahan, January 22, 2013. The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association Board of Directors has affirmed Jen Christensen of CNN as its new president, succeeding the late Michael Triplett. Following the rules of the NLGJA bylaws, Christensen will serve the remainder of the term, through the 2014 convention. Since 2009, Christensen has served … More NLGJA appoints new president
The President gives the cue will our leadership follow? – A FULL EQUALITY BILL is the imperative benchmark; The Omnibus! Civil Rights Act Amendment to include Gender, Sexual orientation and Gender identity – if South Africa can do it so can we.. At least set the benchmark. By Melanie Nathan, January 22, 2013. Yesterday, Barack … More Gay LGBT Leadership must take note as President Obama establishes the cue for Full Equality
Conversations with Ugandans about Criminalization of Gays Can Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill start a new conversation? By Melanie Nathan, January 21, 2013. I have been writing about Uganda since 2009, after the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill. In all these years I have witnessed a conversation that has seemed only capable of extreme divisiveness. Discussions about … More Understanding that hate cannot dominate the Uganda Gay conversation
By Melanie Nathan, January 21, 2013. The Ugandan gay community is suing a U.S. Pastor, Scott Lively on U.S. soil, charging that he has committed crimes against humanity, resulting in their persecution. But it went further and this story illustrates just how murky the waters of anti-gay persecution can get. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender … More Ugandan Catholic Priest Persecuted by Scott Lively’s Anti-Gay Campaign speaks of bribes
AS Uganda Media reports that UK University pulls out of Uganda as a result of direct advocacy of Western Gay rights advocate, Private Courts, Inc.* By Melanie Nathan, January 20, 2013. After advocating against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill since its first introduction in 2009, last October I found out that the infamous editor of Rolling Stone … More Uganda cannot escape the global fall out from the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Statement by NLGJA, National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association By Melanie Nathan, January 17, 2013. It is with great sadness that we inform you that our friend and leader, NLGJA President Michael Triplett, passed away today after a courageous battle with cancer. While Michael only served as president for a few short months, he has … More NLGJA Announces death of Michael Triplett its President
Ssempa’s pornographic rhetoric showed the fire of a very sick and depraved soul. By Melanie Nathan, December 17, 2012. Today one of the bravest LGBTI Ugandan activists I know, Pepe, appeared on a live debate on Ugandan TV about homosexuality against the foul mouthed gay hater Pastor Martin Ssempa. One wonders why Pepe would knowingly … More Heroic Ugandan Activist Makes Pastor Martin Ssempa Look like the Devil in TV Debate
By Melanie Nathan, December 17, 2012. After watching Pastor David Dykes from Texas, in the Video below, yet another U.S.A. pastor in Uganda, touting the legislature’s duty to pass the pending Anti-Homosexuality Bill, otherwise dubbed “The Kill the Gays Bill,” my original reaction was to ignore his babble and not give him media time. However … More Lying Dykes in Uganda | Pastor Promotes More Hate
Watch Video below where Yvonne Chaka Chaka overtly declares her support for Uganda’s Gay Community By Melanie Nathan, 12/12/2012 At the same time as the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, otherwise known as ‘The Kill the Gays Bill’ moves from the number one spot to number six on the Ugandan Parliament’s Order Papers, the United Nations played … More United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Yvonne Chaka Chaka speak out against Criminalization of Homosexuality
SEE VIDEO Pleading with Authorities and LGBT COMMUNITY TO RALLY TO FIND LISA LAWSON By Melanie Nathan, Dec 04, 2012. UPDATED 6. 41 AM DEC 5 2012: Chuntrey Equality Pheap REPORTS via facebook :- “IMPORTANT!!! FROM MICHELLE (Lisa’s Girlfriend): It is with the greatest level of sadness that I have to come to you all … More Clayton County Detectives Fail to respond to missing Lesbian Lisa Lawson’s Disappearance
By Melanie Nathan, Dec 04, 2012. A must watch video showing Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera a gay rights activist in Uganda, – the renowned LGBT activist explains how she wants to be free and how the Ugandan Kill the Gays BILL impacts everyone in Uganda. Kasha Jacqueline is the founder and executive director of an LGBT … More VIDEO | Ugandan LGBT Activist Kasha Jacqueline Speaks about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Author of Kill the Gays By Melanie Nathan, Dec 03, 2012. Ugandan Member of Parliament, David Bahati and I have not spoken in quite a while, and I thought I would give him a call today to discuss the impending Anti-Homosexuality Bill’s vote this coming week. We used to speak regularly. I always thought that … More Talking Today to Ugandan MP David Bahati
As of Dec 03, 2012, this is what is left of the process needed to pass The AHB By Melanie Nathan, December 01, 2012. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill is first on the Order Papers in Uganda’s Parliament and could proceed as early as Monday December 03, 2012. How long the Bill, otherwise known as The Kill … More Uganda’s Parliamentary Process | How Easy to Pass The Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Melanie Nathan, Lawyer and human rights activist and Kristina Lapinski, Filmmaker, from GAY U.S.A. the Movie participate in the GetEQUAL UGANDA ARREST ME TOO Campaign. There are two things the U.S.A. LGBT and supportive community can do to help Ugandan LGBT community while the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (Kill the Gays Bill) is about to pass Uganda’s … More UGANDA ARREST ME TOO I am GAY
Release Posted by Melanie Nathan, NOVEMBER 27, 2012. The UK publisher Routledge has issued a public apology to Peter Tatchell for 20 “misrepresentations and distortions” and “inaccurate allegations” made by the former Human Rights Watch programme director, Scott Long. The full and unreserved apology to Peter Tatchell and the LGBT human rights group OutRage! has … More Publisher issues apology to Peter Tatchell for Scott Long Distortions
Posted by Melanie Nathan, November 22, 2012. Hamas is a Palestinian fundamentalist Islamic terror organization and is considered such by the governments of the U.S., Israel, the U.K., and the European Union. During the last 10 days, over half of Israel’s population, about 5 million people, suffered from rockets launched from Gaza into Israel. Gaza is ruled by Hamas. Hamas Terrorists Firing Rockets … More Who is Hamas
U.S. State department denies Obama threatened sanctions By Melanie Nathan, November 21, 2012. We received news today that the Ugandan Parliament has set the second reading of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill for Parliament’s agenda for today, Nov 21. Note the Ugandan Kill the Gays Bill is at the second reading phase. (see process below.) That means … More Uganda TV accuses President Obama of threatening sanctions if Anti-Homosexuality Bill passes
BREAKING A TABOO “YOU ARE NOT ALONE” New York, NY – Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM), a non-profit organization committed to helping raise awareness of depression, is breaking a taboo in the Black community with the premiere of a groundbreaking documentary “You Are Not Alone”. Through the courageous sharing of personal stories, Black gay men … More Groundbreaking Documentary Looks at Depression in Black Gay Men
Tomorrow’s vote for President Barack Obama represents the single most important vote the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex community will ever make – my opinion. While we may still find ourselves with an obstructionist congress, that allows for very little, if any, pro-equality legislation in the USA, setting the tone, maintaining the dignity of … More GAY U.S.A. Elections 2012 Vote Obama
Stonewall Democrats like most LGBT Americans are mortified. Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Mitt Romney today and have now proven once and for all that they are not an organization aligned with the LGBT movement. According to Stonewall Democrats “They are a Republican front group bumbling their way into fooling LGBT voters that it’s OK to … More Disgusting GAY REPUBLICANS
Binders, Bodies and Bullshit from Mitt By Melanie Nathan, Oct 22, 2012. How can women in the united States of America votes against their own rights. Binders, Bodies and Bullshit from Mitt implores an Obama vote. According to Mitt Romney we should be rewinding back to what started winning back in the sixties. Lets make … More MITT YOU MAY OWN ANN BUT YOU DON’T OWN ME
Despite the first public retraction by Giles Muhame of his hang the gays campaign: “Had the Vice-Chancellor’s office known about this invitation and the background of the individual the invitation would have been withdrawn.” By Private Courts, San Francisco- October 20, 2012- Deputy Vice-chancellor Dr. David Young, of the University of Victoria, Kampala, Uganda, issued … More Ugandan University Invited Editor of Hang the Gays Article Now Issues Statement of Regret
WATCH VIDEO – Senator Arlen Specter’s service included solicitude and action for same-sex couples denied green cards. By Melanie Nathan, October 15, 2012. It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania today. While I thought I could never forgive him for his interrogation of Anita Hill, I … More Senator Arlen Specter Remembered by Lesbian Activist at hearings on UAFA
By Melanie Nathan, Oct 10, 2012 When I first read the Ugandan Rolling Stone “Hang the Gays Article” by managing editor Giles Muhame, like all in the gay world community, I was livid and then months later, and after David Kato was murdered (following even more cruel rhetoric by Muhame in a press release issued … More Victoria University International School of Journalism Hosts Hang the Gays Muhame
But fails to apologize to the gays and does nothing to make amends to the LGBTI community in Uganda By Melanie Nathan, Oct 10, 2012 In a self serving speech to a journalism class, Giles Muhame, the ex-editor of the Ugandan Rolling Stone Magazine, makes an admission of causing harm to gays and notes his … More Ugandan Hang the Gays Giles Muhame Admits Wrong and Regret
Oprah Invites Rick Warren to teach Lifeclass – “Oprah perhaps you do not understand the extent to which LGBT Americans are impacted by the denial of our basic civil rights,” Melanie Nathan By Melanie Nathan, Oct 07, 2012. That lesbian mom is me. Oprah’s Lifeclass site asks its usual weekly question “Are you hurting an … More Lesbian Mom Answers Oprah Hurt Me to Oprah’s Weekly Lifeclass Question
By Melanie Nathan, Oct. 06, 2012. While I am no expert on voter registration and voter fraud, it seems to me that the National Rifle Association, NRA, is up to no good. We all know that they have a great deal at stake in getting Mitt Romney and the Romney Ryan team elected and would … More NRA Voter Registration Site Triggers Fraud Suspicion
Despite Homophobia South Africa is a World leader for LGBTI Rights – Constitutional Equality ‘flagged’ by the fight vs. homophobia By Melanie Nathan Oct 06, 2012. The South African government has announced in the official Government Gazette that Gay Flag of South Africa has been approved and accepted as South Africa’s official gay flag (an … More South African Gay Flag Becomes First in World to be Recognized as official National Symbol
by Melanie Nathan September 23, 2012. The South African Human Rights Commission deputy-chairperson, Pregs Govender, has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council and governments to hold business to account for human rights violations in the world. Speaking in Geneva at the 21st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with the … More South African HRC Urges UNHRC hold Businesses Accountable for Human Rights Violations
Watch Video where 47% of America receives its Romney diss! By Melanie Nathan, September 18, 2012. Thinking the cameras were off, Mitt Romney made a remark that ought to lose him the presidency. Not to mention all the other reasons why he should not be president: Here is the ultimate FU/ Diss:- “There are 47 … More Romney Says Half of America Aint Worth His Time
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