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Wednesday A Landmark Day In DC With Marriage Equality

March 3rd, 2010

First some background… Last December the DC Council passed and mayor Adrian Fenty signed a marriage equality bill into law. As is DC law Congress had 30 days to review the bill and haters like the NOM, National Organization [Against] Marriage, freaked out and tried their best to get Congress to meddle in the [...]

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HRC Makes Big Promises

March 1st, 2010

Over the weekend HRC had a big shin-dig in Raleigh, NC.  Pam of PamsHouseBlend was there and has an awesome first person writeup on her blog here.  Attendees were entertained by Clay Aiken and Meredith Baxter but the real headliner was HRC President (and Inspector Gadget look alike) Joe Solmonese who  made some lofty promises:

Here’s [...]

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Some Political Satire For Ya

February 25th, 2010

Very rarely do I post something that has absolutely nothing to do with gay and or Denver life but I stumbled across this on one of my favorite gay blogs today and got such a kick out of it I felt the need to repost it.
Today’s media cycle has been saturated with coverage of the [...]

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Tonight’s State Of The Union Address To Mention Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

January 26th, 2010

Via CBS News:
Now Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is saying he expects the president to address “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the speech, CBS News Capitol Hill producer John Nolen reports.
Levin said he didn’t know what or how much the president would say on the topic.
The senator, [...]

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Gov Ritter Not Running For Re-Election

January 6th, 2010

Gov Bill Ritter is expected to announce later today (Denver Post) that he will not seek re-election later this year.  Scott McInnis, Ritter’s expected Republican challenger, currently leads in early polling.
In his single term Gov Ritter has been a champion for gay rights in Colorado having signed bills regarding second parent adoption, designated beneficiaries, employment [...]

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More Sally Kern Crazyness From Oklahoma

January 5th, 2010

Oh Sally.  In 2008 she said that gayness is a bigger threat to the US than terrorism and Islam.  Later that year she was caught twice bringing a loaded gun with her into the state capitol building.

Her latest lunacy?  Banning divorce.  Well kind of.  Via KOCO News:
Scheduled for introduction in the 2010 legislative session by [...]

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Working Towards Marriage Equality In NJ Update

January 5th, 2010

Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine leaves office on January 19th and will be replaced by a Republican.  Corzine has pledge to sign a marriage equality bill if the legislature passes one so Garden State Equality is hauling ass trying to get a bill to his desk before the end of his term.
The New Jersey [...]

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Marriage Equality Roundup

December 8th, 2009

Remember the afternoon the CA Supreme Court declined a request to strike down Prop 8 a group of 5 Denver activists with Soulforce staged a sit-in at the clerk and recorder’s office? Well those 5 people have taken their fight to court and are holding a joint-fundraiser this Friday to help pay their legal [...]

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Progress Being Made on ENDA, Gay Rights Group Calling For Grassroots Action

November 18th, 2009

I promised to let you know when ENDA (the federal nondiscrimination law) was making progress so here we go.
It’s looking like the House Education and Labor Committee is going to vote on ENDA soon and pretty much every gay rights group in the nation is asking their members across the country to call and write [...]

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Ted Haggard Claims His Compassion For The “Homosexual Community” Has Gone Up

November 16th, 2009

Via ABC 7 Denver:
It was good for me to go through the Christian hatred of people believing that I was a gay man — and hating me so strongly because of it. And so because of it, my compassion for the homosexual community has gone up incredibly,” said Haggard.
I’m not sure what “homosexual community” Ted [...]

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