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Chad Griffin , of USA Largest LGBT Rights Organization and Dustin Lance Black , Director of MILK, photographed with the Gay Flag of SA as a Symbol of grass roots activism SA Editorial, June 11, 2012. Sunday in the Castro was buzzing when Chad Griffin, the new President of the Human Rights Campaign, made a … More HRC’s New Chief Chad Griffin gets a GAY Flag of South Africa
By Melanie Nathan, June 09, 2012 NEW ORLEANS In no great surprise two Republican congressmen denounced a same-sex commitment ceremony held at the Army’s Fort Polk training base in Louisiana, asserting that it violated Defense Department policy. Following last year’s repeal of its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the Defense Department said chaplains at military … More Republicans Denounce Lesbian Commitment Ceremony on Louisiana Miltitary Base
Much gay and LGBT news for the past week and here are some reports you may find worthy of a read- From the LA Times to the Boston Globe, gay equality and related news abounds- Prop 8 case headed to Supreme Court The battle over the constitutionality of California’s anti-gay Proposition 8 shifted to the … More GAY Politics Report this Week
by Melanie Nathan, June 05, 2012 We are on the home stretch of Proposition 8’s wild ride through the Courts with a set of victories that will either reinstate same-sex marriage for Californians or result in the Supreme Court of the United States hearing the case. I wrote a very personal article back in 2009 … More California Prop 8 on the Way to Victory Revisiting My Child’s Wounds
Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a request from anti-marriage forces to reconsider its landmark ruling in Perry v. Brown that found California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. Proposition 8 stripped gay and lesbian Californians of the fundamental freedom to marry. … More California Same-Sex Marriage Victory Stands as Ninth Circuit refuses to Re-Hear Prop 8 Case
USA: President Obama Issues Proclamation for Gay Pride Month (LGBTQ Nation) The White House on Friday issued this proclamation by President Barack Obama, declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, calling on Americans to “eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.” http://purpleunions.com/blog/2012/06/usa-president-obama-issues-proclamation-for-gay-pride-month.html USA: … More Gay Marriage Watch this Week
Tyler Clementi was bullied to death and the Judge heard guilty 288 times, yet sentenced his convicted antagonist to 30 days, 300 hours of community service and a $10,000 donation. … More Tyler Clementi Gets No Justice
We celebrate the founding principles of the new South Africa, a country that knows what courage means. : Democracy, Justice, Equality, and Human rights. By Melanie Nathan, May 14, 2012. While South African traditional leaders ignore South Africa’s importance in the world with their draconian ideals, as they question the validity of their own equality … More Traditional Leaders Should Not Forget What South Africa’s Freedom Means to the World
Around the U.S.A. May 12, 2012, A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office where several gay and lesbian couples were turned away. The civil disobedience followed … More North Carolina Lesbian Arrested trying to get Marriage License
By Melanie Nathan, May 11, 2012. BOSTON – Following President Obama’s announcement to support same sex marriage, Senator John Kerry, along with 16 of his Senate colleagues, today renewed their call for the Obama Administration to protect married gay and lesbian couples facing possible deportation. In a letter sent to the U.S. Attorney General and … More Letter to Eric Holder as Senators Urge Protections for Same Sex Binational Couples Facing Deportation
By Melanie Nathan, May 20, 2012. While I resist giving Bristol Palin the time of day, I would note that she is part of the right wing anti-Obama spin machine and so when she saw fit to pick the President out with her view of his parenting – well it was hard to resist this … More Bristol Palin Tells Obama how to be Dad on Gay Marriage Issue
Amendment One – the marriage amendment that asserts same-sex discrimination. At 9:00 pm EST it seems that North Carolinians have decided to chase their gay people and single mothers out of town! We do not want you to have equal lives here – why don’t you dissolve and lets pretend you do not exist! Thats … More North Carolina Votes to Discriminate against Gay People
“Believe it. Do it;” Mother’s Day and Magnificent E-Cards By Melanie Nathan, May 08, 2012 GENEVA, 8 May 2012—The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) today launched a new campaign, “Believe it. Do it.”, aimed at bringing attention and action to the global goal of ending new HIV infections among children by 2015 and … More UNAIDS launches action to end new HIV infections among children by 2015
by Melanie Nathan, May 03, 2011 on GAY U.S.A. the Movie Rev. Billy Graham Interferes in North Carolina’s Civil Law . May 3rd, 2012 “While Graham asserts clarity in the Bible, I assert clarity in the law. If Graham wants to talk about clear Bible as being applicable above the civil law he should be … More GAY USA Blog Roundup | From NOM to Billy Graham
By Melanie Nathan, April 30, 2012. While the United States has yet to publish its annual (2011) Human Rights Report, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office issued its 392 page report on human rights today and the LGBT section can be found at page 68 as follows:- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights The Government is … More United Kingdom Publishes New Human Rights Report
By Melanie Nathan, April 29, 2012 It was difficult for me to read Dustin Lance Black’s outlandish article on the Hollywood Reporter. I found it to be irresponsible, unsophisticated and quite poorly written. I sent my detailed response to the piece to both ‘The Advocate’ and ‘LGBTQ Nation’ which are publications I have written several … More Melanie Nathan’s Response to Dustin Lance Black’s Threat Against Support for President Obama
Senator asks Sen. Dibble if he believes the power of Jesus Christ can redeem anyone? By Melanie Nathan, April 25, 2012. Monday, Sen. Scott Dibble (DFL-Minneapolis) offered an amendment to a larger omnibus health policy bill that would prohibit state Medicaid dollars from being paid for any “reparative or conversion” therapies geared toward changing an … More Minnesota Refuses to Legislate Against Medicaid Paying for Pray the Gay Away
No one should have to choose between Spouse and Country By Melanie Nathan, April 23, 2012 It is a rare day that we find an opportunity to declare the plight of binational couples on mainstream television. Andrew Sullivan had that chance and although he spoke eloquently to his personal journey toward immigration in the USA, … More DOMA Bans Green Cards for Gay Couples Notes Andrew Sullivan on CNN
GOP Gay Presidential Candidate Calls on Romney, Santorum, Gingrich to Renounce NOM Pledges March 30, 2012 See Maggie Gallagher try and Defend her Race Baiting By Melanie Nathan, March 30, 2012 TOWSON, MARYLAND – In a speech at Towson University last night,openly gay Republican Presidential candidate Fred Karger issued a challenge to three of the … More GAY U.S.A BLOG NEWS UPDATES
Let us declare Maggie Gallagher – ‘marriage equality irrelevant’- By Melanie Nathan, March 29, 2012 I received an invitation to attend what is touted by organizers as the “media debate of the year ” to be held at Lee Chapel, at Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA – a debate on marriage equality between Maggie … More Calling on Andrew Sullivan to Boycott the Maggie Gallagher Debate
By Melanie Nathan, March 28, 2012 Kirk Cameron has come out with a pseudo-historical documentary which premiered last night and is asking that the film, Monumental, become a movement. He is also selling material by Marshall Foster on the Monument website. We are compelled to ask Cameron where he stands, especially in light of his … More Kirk Cameron’s Monumental Kill Gays Question
Melanie Nathan and Pikachu, 03/26/2012 My children have two moms, lesbians! Yesterday my fifteen year old daughter and her friend called me into the bedroom, they were giggling; “What should we tell her mom? Not sure how to handle this, ” they queried. The six year old was playing “Sims” on the computer and trying … More Look Mom The Sims has No Sperm Bank
Incompetency of the Seattle LGBT Commission highlighted by the Council member questions at the end of the discussion in Video By Melanie Nathan Watch the apology and the dramatic and emotional testimony given by leaders from the Seattle LGBT and Jewish community to the Seattle City Council ( Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology Committee … More Video Seattle City Council Meeting LGBT Commission Regarding their Discrimination Against Israeli LGBT Guests
The Seattle City LGBT Commissions has issued a formal apology, by posting it on Facebook, to the LGBT public and the Israeli AILO group, as can be seen below, for its actions in cancelling an event that in essence served to boycott and silence the visiting group from Israel.
It admits the “pain, offense … More Seattle LGBT Commission Issues Apology to Israeli Guests But Should Still Resign
Reacting to last week’s cancellation of a meeting with Israeli equality delegates,the Greater Seattle Business Association, the largest LGBT chamber of commerce in the United States with over 1000 members, wrote a letter to the City of Seattle LGBT Commission, to express their outrage at the commission’s decision to “silence LGBT voices by cancelling the City Hall event with a delegation of Israeli LGBT civil rights leaders.” … More Greater Seattle Business Association Outraged by Seattle LGBT Commission
By Melanie Nathan, March 19, 2012 I often wonder if advisory boards for non-Profit organizations keep a check on what they have tied their names to? Many are apt to join for an appealing mission statement tied to common causes and very often because a friend or acquaintance pitched the importance. Although I do recognize … More Jewish Voices for Peace and the Seattle LGBT Commission Anomaly
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By Melanie Nathan and Scott Rose, 03/16/2012 Caving to protests by a small anti-Israel and anti-Jewish contingency, using the guise of so called pinkwashing, the Seattle City LGBT Commission has silenced the voices of its Israeli LGBT guests from the coalition Group AILO, by cancelling, with less than 24 hours notice, a dialogue event which … More Seattle LGBT Commission’s Boycott of Israeli LGBTI Guests Opens Wounds
Denying dialogue is a means to foster hate … By Melanie Nathan, 03/14/2012 In the midst of a visit to the West Coast by a delegation of Israeli LGBT leaders, is a small group of US anti-Israel proponents determined to silence the visitors. Leading this effort to silence the equality activists from Israel is an … More Seattle University Assistant Law Professor Attempts to Silence Visiting Israeli LGBT Voices
A Ugandan gay rights group filed suit against notorious American evangelist, Scott Lively, in federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda. According to an Article by Laurie Goodstein in the New York Times … More U.S. Federal Lawsuit Filed by Uganda Sexual Minorities Group vs Scott Lively
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