AltWeeklies Wire
It's OK To Be Gaynew
Gay activists form response to ex-gay conference.
The Memphis Flyer |
Bianca Phillips |
02-22-2008 |
LGBT
Where Do We Go From Here?new
Ventura County grapples with education, diversity and hatred in the aftermath of the classroom murder of 15-year-old Larry King.
Ventura County Reporter |
Bill Lascher |
02-21-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: Education, crime, murder, LGBT, acceptance, courts, hate, prejudice, school shooting, gay & lesbian issues
Oregon's Domestic Partnership Law Runs into Murky Watersnew
The law is supposed to give registered same-sex couples the same state rights and responsibilities that marriage laws provide for opposite-sex couples -- but it remains to be seen if the separate institution will truly be equal.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
02-21-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
State of the Gay Nationnew
Attitudes of younger Americans give activists hope.
Metro Times |
Sandra Svoboda |
02-12-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Domestic Blissnew
Federal judge clears the path for domestic partnerships in Oregon.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
02-08-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
They're Coming to Take Over Your Town Nextnew
Eureka Springs is the subject of a new DVD purporting to show “how a small group of homosexual activists took over the city council in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and began imposing their homosexual agenda on that community.”
Arkansas Times |
Doug Smith |
02-08-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Trans Tribulations: Acceptance Elusive for Transgendered Community
After reading about a women's-only self-defense class in a local alt-weekly, a transgendered woman is refused entry into the class — because she has yet to complete her gender reassignment surgery. Meanwhile, she's supposed to be living her life as a woman . . . but how can you do that when the world still treats you as a man?
Monday Magazine |
Jason Youmans |
02-06-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Advocates Debate Domestic Partnerships vs. Marriagenew
While the Legislature ponders whether to pass the Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act, New Mexico’s gay community is having its own internal debate over domestic partnerships versus marriage.
Santa Fe Reporter |
David Alire Garcia |
01-31-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Waiting For Lovenew
Like breaking up, calculating the costs of delaying Oregon’s domestic partnership law is hard to do.
Willamette Week |
Stephen Marc Beaudoin |
01-30-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Snub Gays, Buy Microsoft?new
Rev. Ken Hutcherson is urging his anti-homosexual followers to buy up stock to theoretically gain some control and reverse the company's support for gay-rights measures in the state.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
01-22-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Over the (Capitol) Hillnew
The soul of Seattle's gayest neighborhood is being chipped away by high-priced condos. Does that signal the beginning of diaspora away from an older, richer, more hetero Capitol Hill?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-22-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
There Goes the Gayborhoodnew
As gay couples flee Seattle's Capitol Hill and its drift toward overpriced sterility, an unlikely South County suburb helps fill the void.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
01-22-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Gay Rights Advocates Prep for Domestic Partnership Hearingnew
On Feb. 1, Judge Michae Mosman will hear from the anti-gay activists' attorneys, who allege that state and county elections officials improperly tossed out signatures from a referendum petition aiming to put the domestic partnership law to a vote this fall.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
01-10-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Domestic Partnership Isn't All That's at Stake Herenew
Gay-rights advocates have blasted a U.S. District Court Judge's decision to put a hold on domestic partnerships for same-sex couples in Oregon until a Feb. 1 court hearing. But the temporary injunction issued last month hinges less on gay rights and more on a technical issue that could drastically alter the state's voter-initiative system by changing how the state treats petition signatures.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
01-09-2008 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Anti-Gay Activists Seek Injunction in Oregonnew
Less than a week before same-sex couples will be allowed to form domestic partnerships, attorneys for anti-gay activists will be in federal court, asking a judge for a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to stop the new law from taking effect.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
12-27-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
