Archive for April, 2010
Detect skin cancer early when its most curable
Do you know your skin? Beyond your face and hands, which you probably look at every day, do you know what the skin on the inside of your arms or the bottom of your feet looks like? It's important to know what your skin looks like - every inch of it - so that if a suspicious lesion appears or a mole starts to change, you can make an appointment [...]
Australian former Olympic swimmer comes out
Australian former Olympic swimmer Daniel Kowalski came out in an article he wrote for the Melbourne newspaper The Age on April 18. "Being a gay man with a foot half in and out of the closet is tough; the games it plays with your mind -- and more importantly, your heart -- are hard to put into words," he wrote. "I finally accepted my [...]
Big White House protest Sunday
Discharged and Active Gay Servicemembers to Protest in Front of White House on Sunday They Demand Obama Show Leadership and Immediately Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" as Promised WASHINGTON Â On May 2nd at 12:00 noon (EDT), GetEQUAL, Queer Rising and Talk About Equality will gather outside the White House to demand that President Obama [...]
Creep of the Week – Traditional Values Coalition
Did you hear the news? Nancy Pelosi wants you to have sex with your dog. And President Obama wants you to do it with your underage cousin for money. It’s all right there in the fine print of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Or at least the version the Traditional Values Coalition made up. It’s no surprise, of course, that a bill [...]
Argentina marries, unmarries gay couples
Argentina is experiencing same-sex marriage chaos. Three gay couples and one lesbian couple have been allowed to marry in recent months following judicial rulings that applied specifically to each couple. But other judges then came along and, upon the request of hostile parties, annulled three of the four same-sex marriages. Then, on [...]
Hospital Visitation: A Daily Struggle for LGBT Couples
Every day, same-sex couples must fight for the basic rights that straight married couples take for granted. One of those basic rights is the right to visit your partner in the hospital. Michael and I are fortunate to live in Broward County, a progressive county in the mostly conservative state of Florida. Broward has a Domestic Partners [...]
RuPaul ‘Drag Race’ crowns a new queen!
The final three boils down to the number one superstar on RuPaul’s Drag Race Can you believe we’re at the end of RuPaul’s Drag Race? It certainly has been a memorable season, and the finale certainly was memorable in its own right. With that combination of finalists, we also got to see quite a variety of drag artistry. I like that [...]
Gay activists arrested at John McCains office in Phoenix
Activists from a group called Human Equal Rights Organizers, or HERO, were arrested at Sen. John McCain's office in Phoenix on April 26. Meg Sneed, Jimmy Gruender, Lee Walters, Luisa Valdez and Lonnie Allen Howard-Stidham had refused to leave the office until McCain spoke with them about Howard-Stidham's 2007 discharge from the Coast Guard [...]
Gay anti-gay senator wins Pink Brick
San Francisco's LGBT Pride Committee has given its annual "Pink Brick Award" to a gay person for the first time: California state Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield. Ashburn was outed in March after he was arrested for drunk driving as he reportedly drove away from a gay bar. It quickly emerged that Ashburn, who has an almost perfect [...]
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