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Catholic Charities vs. Washington DC Gay Rights Supporters
Brooke Baldwin | CNN: The Situation Room | November 17, 2009
posted: 17 November 09
HATE CRIMES, MEDIA AND 'TWO SPIRITS'
The Huffington Post | Gail Binkly, Editor Four Corners Free Press | October 26, 2009
Cortez became the center of a debate that raged on street corners, in coffee shops, and in the pages of the newspaper. Letters to the editor streamed in that variously condemned homosexuality, supported gay rights, questioned the very concept of “hate crimes,” and lamented the brutal death of a gentle and fun-loving boy.
posted: 26 October 09
National Equality March Draws Diverse Crowd to D.C.
AFRO Staff | The Afro American | October 14, 2009
African-American religious leaders such as columnist, Rev. Irene Monroe and the Rev. Graylan Hagler participated in the weekend’s events, leading an interfaith service at Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ.
“It wasn’t so long ago that this country justified bigotry against African Americans by hiding behind cherry-picked religious texts. It took strong faith leaders like Dr. King to help overcome religion-based bigotry, then,” said Mitchell Gold, founder of Faith In America. “Now, as we struggle for rights as basic as freedom from violence, or the ability to marry, the next generation of faith leaders is playing a key role in gaining civil rights for LGBT Americans.”
posted: 15 October 09
The Only Out Coach in NCAA Division 1 Women's Basketball
By Kathy Belge | About.com
Editor of About.com’s “Lesbian Life” sat down with Portland State University’s women’s basketball head coach, Sherri Murrell to discuss what it’s like to be, as far as we know, the only out lesbian or bisexual coach in NCAA Division One Women’s Basketball.
posted: 9 September 09
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SAGE, MAP RELEASE “IMPROVING THE LIVES OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER OLDER ADULTS”AT NATIONAL “AGING IN AMERICA” CONFERENCE MARCH 17TH
SAGE | March 17, 2010 | Chicago, IL
TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT GO TO
WWW.SAGEUSA.ORG or WWW.LGBTMAP.ORG
Chicago, IL, March 17, 2010….. A groundbreaking report released today represents the first major collaboration between lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy organizations and mainstream aging organizations to comprehensively examine the issues facing LGBT older adults.
“Improving the Lives of LGBT Older Adults” was co-authored by Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE) and the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) in partnership with the American Society on Aging, the National Senior Citizens Law Center, and the Center for American Progress, with a foreword from the AARP. The report was formally released at the American Society on Aging’s national conference, being held this year in Chicago, IL.
Mainstream aging groups endorse report on needs of gay seniors
Chicago Tribune | SAGE | Rex W. Huppke
Study calls on lawmakers to change Social Security and Medicaid to help growing population
(March 17, 2010)—A national report being released Wednesday in Chicago details the myriad social and financial stumbling blocks that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender senior citizens face and calls on lawmakers to change Social Security and Medicaid to help this growing population.
Giving heft to the report — prepared by Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Elders, or SAGE — is the endorsement it has received from major mainstream aging groups including AARP and the American Society on Aging.
LESBIAN PENS 2ND MEMOIR OF RECOVERY, "LEAVE THE LIGHT ON" FOLLOWS SUCCESSFUL "BLACKOUT GIRL"
Jennifer Storm | Leave the Light on | March 15, 2010
LEAVE THE LIGHT ON
A Memoir of Recovery and Self-Discovery
by Jennifer Storm
Young addict reveals her harrowing and ultimately victorious journey
‘post-recovery’
Review of “Blackout Girl”: “Readers who have suffered the debilitating after-effects of childhood sexual abuse or faced a descent into additions like the ones that [Jennifer] Storm details, will find much to empathize with here.” – Rachel Pepper, Curve Magazine
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Church Responds to New Law
Kate Boulden | CNN | March 6, 2010
Catholic Charities cuts benefits for new workers’ spouses to avoid D.C.‘s new same-sex marriage law.
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Readers react to photo of two men kissing
Washington Post | Andrew Alexander | March 9, 2010
Powerful photographs can have lasting impact, and a Post photo of two men kissing is an image that many readers can neither forget nor accept.
The photo, which ran on the newspaper’s front page and online last week, captured Jeremy Ames and Taka Ariga kissing outside D.C. Superior Court on the day that the District began accepting license applications for same-sex marriages.
