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Obama hails Stonewall at inauguration - Calls for equal treatment of 'our Gay brothers and sisters'
'[I]f we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.'
President Barack Obama did not neglect the LGBT community in his inaugural speech this week. Referring to the principle of inherent equality as 'the star that guides us still,' Obama went on to say that it 'guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selm more
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DOMA's last gasp? - House GOP files brief in defense of discriminatory law
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The so-called Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), representing the House Republican leadership, filed its brief defending DOMA with the Supreme Court on January 22.
Attorneys for Edie Windsor, the plaintiff challenging DOMA in Windsor v. U.S.A., will reply to BLAG's brief in more
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Going to the mat for women - Sen. Patty Murray challenges House Republicans on VAWA
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
Washington Senator Patty Murray issued a statement January 22 challenging the House Republican leadership to pass the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
'The fate of the Violence Against Women Act still lays squarely on the shoulders of [Majority Leader] Eric Cantor and [House more
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When will BSA get a clue?
by D'Anne Witkowski -
SGN Contributing Writer
Look, I'm no Boy Scout - and I never have been. I'm not a boy, for one. I'm also an 'avowed homosexual,' which means the Boy Scouts don't like me as a matter of official policy.
Now, this has not had a huge impact on me personally. My younger brother was in the Cub more
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René Jesus Valdes
May 27, 1948 - February 2, 2012
One year ago, René Jesus Valdes, linguist, Gay Games Gold Medalist, and 30-year HIV survivor, died after increasingly difficult bouts of mental anguish. He was born In Havana, Cuba, and battled discrimination after being expelled from university and denied employment for being Gay. He came to the U more
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Tying the knot - Senator Ed Murray and Michael Shiosaki ?make their engagement official
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Associate Editor
Washington State Sen. Ed Murray of Seattle (D-43), who led the effort in the Legislature to legalize same-sex marriage, is getting married himself. He and his longtime partner, Michael Shiosaki, have revealed that they plan to wed August 10.
The ceremony is planned for the 22- more
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Rhode Island House passes marriage equality bill - Measure faces uncertain fate in Senate
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
A bill to legalize same-sex marriage passed the Rhode Island House of Representatives on January 24. The vote was 51-19.
The issue was never in doubt, since the bill came to the floor with 42 co-sponsors in the 75-member House. Speaker Gordon Fox is Gay and was a leading support more
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Eyewitness to history - A first-person account of Inauguration Day
by Sarah Toce -
Special to the SGN
The crowd erupted in cheers as pro-LGBT President Barack H. Obama addressed the diverse crowd of waiting Americans at the United States Capitol and adjoining National Mall January 21.
The majority of those present at the time-encapsulated building stood in line for more than se more
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The community's response -
Leading LGBTQ voices react to President Obama's inaugural address
(Compiled from news sources)
FREEDOM TO MARRY
'In his second Inaugural today, President Obama traced the moral arc from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, and rightly exalted the struggle for the freedom to marry as part of America's moral commitment to equality, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Freed more
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2016: Sooner than you think
New poll finds people like Joe, but they love Hillary
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll released January 23 shows Hillary Clinton retiring from the State Department at the peak of her popularity. Some 67% of poll respondents said they have a favorable impression of Cl more
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New dating website seeks to connect LGBT Mormons
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Associate Editor
If you are single, Gay, Mormon, and looking for love, then Origins might be the answer to your prayers.
Origins' creator, Andrew Markle, says the forthcoming website seeks to give Gay Mormons an online social network to meet others like them for 'marriage or long-term com more
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British parliament to debate marriage equality bill
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The marriage equality bill sponsored by Britain's Conservative government was officially introduced in Parliament by Culture Secretary Maria Miller on January 24. The measure will be debated on February 5.
Prime Minister David Cameron is committed to passing the legislation, a more
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Northwest News
DIVERSE HARMONY
IN CONCERT -
'HARMONY VS. DISSONANCE'
On Friday and Saturday, January 25 and 26, at 7:30 p.m., at Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center (104 17th Ave. S.), Diverse Harmony, Seattle's LGBTQA youth chorus, presents a concert of songs reflecting the positive and negative issues that we may deal with in our daily lives. This concert is open to th more |
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UK in same-sex succession row
If the King is Gay, do you sing 'God Save the Queen'?
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The British Parliament is facing the question of what to do if a future King or Queen happens to be Gay.
Labor Party MP Paul Flynn has introduced an amendment to the law that deals with the possibility more
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