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Late last week, House leaders announced their decision to change the language of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) so that it only includes sexual orientation and not gender identity. These House leaders have said that they do not have enough votes to move forward with the original fully-inclusive bill. Sign their pre-written letter here. • George Takei's hard as a rock: asteroid named in gay actor's honor. |
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Religion's Role, Respect Find New Ground
Above you see video of Sally Field's acceptance speech at last night's Emmy Awards. You're not hearing Field's actual words: "If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.” Did we not just hear the first shot in the Culture War's next front?? |
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Since 2004, Washington spooks have been monitoring anti-war activists and other groups ideologically opposed to the Bush administration, including gay groups. |
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What He Was Thinking, Where God Fits and How Hubert Humphrey Got Him Started
Within minutes, the presidential hopeful had his team release a statement clarifying his position. What a perfect conversation starter for Richardson and our editor, who met up with Richardson this morning. Get the goods on Richardson's poor choice of words, what to do about anti-gay Saudis and who's going to hell, after the jump… |
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After discharging 60 Arabic language translators for being gay, the military is now forced to rely on a translating machine that has not been fully tested, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Servicemember's Legal Defense Network honcho Steve Ralls remarks, "The military is placing homophobia well ahead of national security." They might as well give terrorists plane tickets and send them on their way… |
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Exiled Activist Asks For Western Aid
Mustafa, 26, was a well-known gay man in his neighborhood in the city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, who went out for a walk with a friend to shop for clothes. Mustafa was stopped and arrested by the local militia of the Badr Corps - the armed branch of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), which is the largest Shia political formation in Iraq. The Shia forces also killed a 17-year old boy named Ali. |
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Use Internet To Entrap, Torture Gays
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Some Soldiers Not Buying It
Commander Phil Sagar told BBC radio: Of course we're sorry for anyone who's suffered personal trauma. We can't change the past and what's happened has happened. But if, as I'm sure you have, you've got testimony from people who feel that their lives have been ruined from this, then clearly that is not a good place to be. Sagar's apology didn't come from left field - fifty former soldiers are looking for financial compensation for their unfair treatment. |
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Foreign Affairs Committee Criticizes State Dept. Disc.
Citing the 9/11 Commission's warning - "under-investment in critical foreign languages presents an urgent and immediate threat to our national security" - the politicos urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her staffers to rehire gays and lesbian translators… |
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Gays Welcome To Work For Pentagon
Gay defender defenders Servicemembers Legal Defense Network points out that this statement's the first time The Department of Defense has invited queers to help fight America's so-called good fight. |
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Demand Condi Do Something
In addition to citing a United Nations resolution regarding the plight of the Iraqi queer, Frank and Baldwin highlight the nation's horrific anti-gay crimes rates: According to Iraqi LGBT, a London-based human rights group working to support the human rights of gay Iraqis, twenty-six of its members have been killed since 2003, including the murder of two minors -eleven-year-old Ameer and fourteen-year-old Ahmed who were forced into child prostitution–in 2006. In addition, a mass kidnapping of five gay men from the Shaab area of Iraq took place during the first week of December 2006. All are now presumed dead. So, what are the odds that Condi's going to hop on this? C'mon, any guesses? We say one in a trillion. No, make that one in a bajillionkazillion. If Condi hasn't done anything about the unending tide of violence, why would she start now? Because two gay politicos are pressuring her? If anything, that'll just force that beast of a woman further into the closet of politically-convenient denial. About Iraq, we mean… Read the entire love letter, after the jump.. |
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Berkeley's Sunshine Project employed the Freedom of Information Act to obtain records of the queer weaponry, which the Pentagon played down as an "idea". The records prove, however, that the government actively pursued the project. Berkeley's Edward Hammond explains: The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another. The Pentagon papers also indicate the Air Force requested $7.5 million to fund the bomb, which officials describes as "distasteful but completely non-lethal". Warmongers initiated the project in 1994, the same year 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' went into effect. |
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The Personal History Behind His Politics
As we've mentioned before, the former Senator from Alaska's made Don't Ask, Don't Tell the cornerstone of his campaign. In this Queerty exclusive, Senator Gravel writes on the very personal origins of his queer-friendly policy. Read all about it, after the jump… |