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Hopeful Huckabee's bigoted campaign comments
by Lisa Keen -
SGN Contributing Writer
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's been saying a lot about Gays lately - but not much of it is very nice.
Most attention this week has focused on his written comment in 1992 that, "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isola more
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Homophobia at 30,000 feet: A Gay man's ordeal on Southwest Airlines
by Nick Ardizzone -
SGN Staff Writer
A Gay Spokane man and his partner were subjected to anti-Gay slurs, discrimination, and eventual police action during and after a Southwest Airlines flight Wednesday. Kelly Brown, Associate Editor of Spokane's Stonewall News, contacted Seattle Gay News to give an exclusive interview about the more
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Gay & Lesbian Task Force to honor GSBA director Louise Chernin at January awards dinner
by Barbara Sehr -
SGN Contributing Writer
"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time." - Angela Davis
The work of Louise Ch more
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Obituary: Gay historian Allan Berube 1946 - 2007
by Wayne Hoffman -
Special to the SGN
Gay historian Allan Berube, award-winning author of Coming Out Under Fire, died on December 11, 2007. He was 61.
His death was due to sudden complications following the discovery of two stomach ulcers, according to his close friend Jonathan Ned Katz, a fellow Gay historian. more
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Midnight civil unions planned in NH
There's a new reason to celebrate this New Year's Eve in New Hampshire.
On January 1, a civil unions bill takes effect which give same-sex couples the right to enter into civil unions which entitle the couple to all the same rights as a marriage. To celebrate the new law, an increasingly large group is planning to gather on the S more
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GLAD deplores RI Supreme Court decision blocking couple's divorce
The Rhode Island Supreme Court released a 3-2 decision Friday preventing Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers from obtaining a divorce.
The women are Rhode Island residents who married in Fall River, Massachusetts in 2004, and mutually sought a divorce in Rhode Island Family Court in October 2006. Family Court Chief Judge more
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Rep. McDermott wants discriminatory HIV/AIDS immigrant law changed
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) released a congressional letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security Friday, demanding that changes be made to current law, and against a proposed new rule affecting entry into the U.S. by individuals with HIV.
Quoting from the letter that Rep. McDermott, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), and 29 other co-sponsor more
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Hate crimes bill killed by friendly fire
by Chris Crain -
SGN Contributing Writer
Karl Rove's days of working the political wedge against Gays may be over, but Gay and Transgender hate crimes protections were nonetheless caught in a classic Washington vice last week, dashing hopes the long-stalled legislation would pass this year with Democrats finally in control of more
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Anything But Straight - Dumbfounded and dumb
by Wayne Bensen -
SGN A&E Writer
Perhaps if the largest newspaper in Little Rock were called the Arkansas Republican-Gazette instead of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Mike "Huck-a-Bible" might have bothered to read the news. America was shocked to learn that the rising GOP political star was blissfully unaware of the Nati more
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Ask Michael: Heartbreak and the psychopath
by Michael Raitt -
SGN Contributing Writer
More and more I am hearing about women and men in the LGBT community (and the straight community as well) who, for a number of reasons, are going to the internet to find love and then losing a lot more than a dream. While internet dating is fine in principle, people need to be reminded more
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African American GBLTQ history forum lively and informative
by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer
It might have been below freezing outside last Thursday night, but inside the spacious auditorium of Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, a lively discussion about the unspoken history of African-American GBLTQ folks was going on. Presented by the Central District Forum as part of more
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Lambda Legal challenges denial of Gay student to wear dress to prom
In court papers filed today in the Northern District Court of Indiana, Lambda Legal says that West Side High School in Gary, IN, violated Kevin "K.K." Logan's First Amendment rights when it barred him from his prom for wearing a dress.
K.K. Logan attended West Side High during his junior and senior year and expressed a deeply more
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Memorial for Joe Eisenhauer - April 4, 1948-December 15, 1999
Joe received his last rites and peacefully left us on December 15, 1999. Fifty-one years is a pretty short lifetime, but he accomplished a lot in those 51 years.
Joe was born in Cleveland and moved with his family to Phoenix, AZ, in his teen years, where he attended the University of Arizona before joining the Coast Guard.
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The Outfield: GLAF supports acceptance for all
by Dan Woog -
SGN Contributing Writer
This fall, Mac Chisaboon fielded an anguished e-mail sent to the Gay & Lesbian Athletics Foundation (www.glaf.org). As founder of the organization, which promotes the visibility and acceptance of GLBT athletes at the professional, amateur, and recreational levels, he was used to queries from more
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Gay History - Seattle Gay friendly restaurants 1950-1970
by Don Paulson -
SGN Contributing Writer
Seattle had a number of Gay-friendly restaurants, from greasy spoons to epicurean delights. Gay money was gladly accepted by all restaurants - especially during the 1930s Depression - but the overt Gay lifestyle was taboo. You wore the mask. Other nice but catch-all places such as the more
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UK Civil Partnerships recognized in Spain
by Peter Tatchell -
Special to the SGN
"The Spanish government has, for the first time, recognized UK same-sex civil partnerships," said Gay human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell of OutRage!
"This is a big breakthrough in securing overseas recognition and rights for British lesbian and Gay civil partners. Up more
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Romney's religion
by Jennifer Vanasco -
Special to the SGN
Mitt Romney scares me.
Not because he's Mormon, which has been the center of conversation for the past few weeks. I've had plenty of friends and colleagues who are Latter Day Saints, and I know that they can think and act independently of the church on a variety of issu more
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