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Seattle's Lesbian & Gay Film Festival starts in two weeks
Launch of printed program at Bailey/Coy draws crowd
by Robert Raketty -
SGN Staff Writer
Three Dollar Bill Cinema launched its printed program for the 2007 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival at Bailey/Coy Books on Monday, September 24. Over 60 people turned out for the presentation from Executive Director Rachael Brister and Programming Director Jason P more
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VICTORY!
Senate passes Hate Crimes legislation
Matthew Shepard Act attached to Defense Authorization bill
by Robert Raketty -
SGN Staff Writer
The Matthew Shepard Act passed the Senate on Thursday, September 27, as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization bill. A bipartisan vote of 60 to 3 more
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Two charged in previously unreported Capitol Hill Gay-bashing
Men threaten to kill two people, use anti-Gay slurs
by Robert Raketty -
SGN Staff Writer
Two people told police that their lives were threatened and were called anti-Gay slurs by two men during the early morning hours of Saturday, September 22, during a Gay-bashing on Capitol Hill in Seattle. The King Count more
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Presidential candidates quizzed on same-sex fairy tale at televised NH debate
by Lisa Keen -
SGN Contributing Writer
Gay supporters of Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton were quick to the mat after the senator used the word "choice" in reference to sexual orientation during Wednesday night's (September 26) debate in Hanover, New Hampshire.
"She did not mean sexual orientation is more
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SGN EXCLUSIVE - Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin's OpEd piece opens Gay History Month
Representing Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District since 1999, Tammy Baldwin (being sworn
in on the right) is the first out Lesbian and the first openly Gay non-incumbent ever elected to
Congress. A leader in efforts to pass federal employment non-discrimination and hate crimes
legislation that include sexual orientation and gender identity, Co more
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Queer people of color harassed by police in opening week of UN General Assembly
On Wednesday night, September 26, without provocation, officers from the 9th Precinct of the New York Police Department attacked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community members who were attending an event organized by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). At the celebration, in front of M & R Bar, at 356 Bowery Street, two people were v more
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Keen on the Trail
Gay news from the presidential campaign trail
by Lisa Keen -
SGN Contributing Writer
EDWARDS' HIV PLAN
Democrat John Edwards on Monday, September 24, became the first presidential candidate of either party to announce a plan for combating HIV/AIDS. The plan, revealed at a Kaiser Family Foundation f more
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Seattle Women's Commission Summit bringing women together
The Seattle Women's Commission will convene its fourth biennial Summit at Seattle University's Pigott Hall on Saturday, October 6, 2007, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Keynote speakers will be State Representative and State Democratic Majority Whip Sharon Tomiko Santos, and Kristen Rowe-Finkbeiner, author of the award winning book, more
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