I suppose it must have been my junior year
in high school when a classmate in my English class tried
to pass off a poem belonging to a lesser-known poet as his
own. The teacher listened as the student read "his" poem
in front of the class. She said nothing, and all of the
other students were completely star-struck by his poem.
A recent report from the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention showed that
the number of people newly infected each
year with H.I.V., the virus that causes
AIDS, is 40 percent higher than previously
estimated.
It was a rather unremarkable MSNBC segment
outside the Republican National Convention, between Chuck
Todd, Mike Murphy, and Peggy Noonan. But once the trio broke
for a commercial break, they kept talking, and live
microphones picked up their conversation.
French police, eager
to avoid a repeat of the condom shower that greeted the Pope
in Sydney, Australia, in July, certain gay activist groups
such as Act Up are being closely watched in the run-up to
the visit.
The Dubai Court of Appeal has found a lesbian couple guilty
of kissing on a public beach. The Appeal Court upheld the
one-month jail sentence for the women who both
pleaded not guilty.
Senegal has jailed a Belgian retiree and his male Senegalese
domestic helper for two years for "homosexual marriage and
acts against nature," their lawyer said Thursday.
Not a joke... A 7.5 million dollar investment by the U.S.
Air Force to develop a gay bomb that would transform
soldiers - our enemies' soldiers - into lustful homosexuals.
Only Margaret can give this story the exposure it
deserves... Watch out America!
LGBT teens are considering suicide at an alarming rate,
attempting it more often than their heterosexual peers and
are succeeding in those attempts more and more often
His running mate had a "news flash" for the media Wednesday
night, and John McCain had one for LGBT Americans on
Thursday: "Education is the civil-rights issue of this
century." It was the second thinly veiled dig at gays and
lesbians the Arizona senator made as he accepted the GOP's
nomination for president.
William Sleaster, a student at Concord High School rose to
ask McCain a question about gay rights and, ultimately
dissatisfied by the answer he received from McCain, told the
Republican presidential contender that he'd come looking to
see a leader and didn't.
I thought the Log Cabin Republicans would withhold their
endorsement of John McCain. Maybe I just hoped they would.
After all, they withheld
their
endorsement
of
President
Bush
in
2004.
So I
thought
it was
possible.
Despite the spin being put on John McCain's anti-gay record
by Log Cabin Republicans, there is ample evidence that
McCain is no "maverick" on LGBT equality.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican presidential candidate
John McCain’s running mate, strongly opposes domestic
partner benefits for Alaska’s state employees, even though
she vetoed a bill to block same-sex partners from receiving
the benefits.
Last night, the GOP took off the gloves and tried to rip the
heart out of the Democrats. It was a vintage Republican
affair, with the speakers viciously skewering Obama. The
headliner of the nearly all-white event was the unqualified
Sarah Palin, who showed that what she lacks in stature, she
makes up in striking ability - like a cobra.
And now dear world, the end is near;
And we all face the final curtain.
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full (of shit).
but God told me that it was okay.
He said 'don't worry who gets pissed,
There's only black and white; and there is no gray.'
Regrets, I'll leave that to you
But then again, I should mention.
I only did just what They said to do
I gave Them war and tax exemptions.
They always said, just stay the course;
never caring who else had to pay.
But more, much more than this,
I took your civil rights away.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But I never cared if there was doubt,
The Christian Right would bail me out.
I faced it all and I stood tall
and took your civil rights away.
I've loved, I've laughed and cried.
made Them a pile while you were losing.
And now, as all your fears arise,
I find it all so damned amusing.
You see my friends, I won't take the fall
for Katrina, Plame, Iraq and all.
Our money's gone, our gas his high.
because of me you're all gonna die.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
Your internet and cell phone calls
I hear your thoughts as well as what you say
You didn't watch, you didn't care
So I took your civil rights away.
So what's a Bush, what has he got?
but to blame someone else when he gets caught.
To say the things I truly feel;
and never care about what is real.
The polls may show that my approval's low
But I won anyway!
And so I say, God bless you all.
You'd better kneel and start to pray.
Korean nukes, Iran wants them too
They're scared of me and what I might do.
Your country's gone, what can I say?
You let me take your civil rights away!
Bronx Supreme Court
Justice Lucy
Billings has
rejected a legal
challenge to
Governor Paterson’s directive
that state agencies
recognize same-sex
marriages that were
contracted outside
of New York State.
Read more
New York
LGBT news.
While Sarah Palin
and Hurricane Gustav
dominated talk on
the abbreviated
opening day of the
RNC,
a prominent
Republican pollster
confirmed that the
recent change of
language describing
Proposition 8 was a
positive one.
Read more
California
LGBT news.
A proposed amendment
to Florida's
constitution that
would limit marriage
to people of the
opposite-sex could
be in for a rough
ride at the polls.
Read more
Florida
LGBT news.
The Bush
Administration is
trying to keep its
people from
testifying by
invoking Executive
privilege. Judge
Bates rebuked them
on this score in
July, and now he’s
saying they have no
leg to stand on in
an appeal.
McCain is following the Bush
administration habit, as in the Justice
Department, of putting a job candidate's
views on "God, guns and gays" ahead of
competence. The difference is that McCain
is filling a job one 72-year-old heartbeat
away from the presidency.
The
same group of indistinguishable sweaty
white people who gathered in New York in
2004 -- and plastered purple bandaids on
themselves to mock the military service of
John Kerry and the wounds that merited his
three Purple Heart medals - have spent
their time in St. Paul at their 2008
convention alternately worshipping their
own war hero
Lesbian
Grandmothers From Mars!
