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Milk Oscar speeches resonate
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
Much has been made about how great it is that screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and actor Sean Penn won Academy Awards for their part in bringing director Gus Van Sant's Milk to life. Their acceptance speeches have exploded across every corner of the blogosphere, both obtaining legendary status almost the exact moment th more
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Lobby Day '09 "fantastic"
by Madelyn Arnold -
SGN Contributing Writer
Seventy clients and others from Bailey Boushay's Adult Day Health descended on Olympia February 25. "It was fantastic," pronounced client Alex Negesse.
That was the general reaction to Lobby Day, 2009.
Organized as always by Lifelong AIDS, the determined more
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Obama addresses health care, HIV/AIDS
by Lisa Keen -
Keen News Service
In his first state of the union address, President Obama beckoned American citizens on February 24 to do their part to help rebuild the nation's weakened economy. And while he singled out health care as one of three "absolutely critical" priorities during this difficult time, he also warned that a more
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Jesse's Journal: Stop the arrests!
by Jesse Monteagudo -
SGN Contributing Writer
It is hard to believe, but almost 40 years after the Stonewall Riots Gay men are still being harassed by the New York City Police Department. Since 2004, the NYPD has entrapped and arrested 52 Gay or Bisexual men on trumped-up prostitution charges in eight adult video stores in Manhattan. In each more
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Candace Derriere and Eric Bonesteel
by Sara Michelle Fetters -
SGN Contributing Writer
Considering the controversy surrounding Coronation 2009, the signature event for The Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle & The Olympic and Rainier Empire (ISCSORE) held Saturday, February 14 in the Waterfront Marriot ballroom, I thought it would be a good idea to sit down with ne more
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A winning script
by Wayne Besen -
SGN Contributing Writer
It is an odd time to be Gay in America. Whether you are celebrated or despised depends on where you stand at any given moment.
The most dramatic example of this dichotomy occurred on Sunday evening at the Academy Awards. To attend the glamorous event, one had to drive past anti-Gay pro more
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Gay History: Parallel universe camp drag
by Don Paulson -
SGN Contributing Writer
What's with these straight guys who play around with camp drag? Are they living in a parallel universe between Gay erotic curiosity and pussy envy? Whatever, sex is usually the bottom line. As Mae West said, "Sex is dirty if you're doing it right." Or is straight male camp drag plainly more
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Not Thinking Straight: Joining twice
by Madelyn Arnold -
SGN Contributing Writer
We needed to move, so several of us decided to check out the Pacific Northwest. I was the first one to have vacation time, so, though it required my broaching an airplane, I was the one who was ordered onto a local prop job to see what Seattle was like.
That small-town more
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Entre Hermanos continues work
by Marcos Martinez -
SGN Contributing Writer
Quiero dejarles saber del trabajo que estamos hacienda aquí en Entre Hermanos. Si no lo sabían, yo tengo poco mas de un año aquí como Director Ejecutivo de esta organización, y vamos entrando en un periodo de desarrollo.
Durante mi primer año, he aprendido mucho de more
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Chicago
by Jennifer Vanasco -
SGN Contributing Writer
For five months, I'm moving back to Chicago.
Which has a nice symmetry about it.
I first moved to Chicago in 1994, the year I graduated from college. I had been seeing Kristina for two years, and after our domestic partnership ceremony on the shores more
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Outfield: May the GForce by with you
by Dan Woog -
SGN Contributing Writer
Glenn Witman put together a nice hockey team. He signed former college and club players - guys who knew how to skate, shoot and check. They won their share of games in rinks around the U.S., but Witman wanted to test them against tougher competition.
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Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers
8 of Top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election
By EWEN CALLAWAY
Feb. 28, 2009
Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.
A new nat more
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Dueling lawyers in Prop. 8 case are a study in opposites
Sacramento Bee
1 March 09
Dueling lawyers in California Prop. 8 case are a study in opposites
By Aurelio Rojas
Kenneth Starr and Shannon Minter, lead attorneys in the California Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of same-sex marriage in the state, are as different as the competing sides they more
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More mea culpas from No on 8
Bay Area Reporter
5 March 09
No on Prop 8 admits mistakes
by Seth Hemmelgarn
An estimated 400 people gathered in San Francisco last week to talk about the work that lies ahead on marriage equality, and to vent their frustrations with officials from the No on Prop 8 campaign -- a chance many local activ more
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HRC Applauds Vermont House and Senate Leadership for Committing to Pass Marriage Equality Bill
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March 5, 2009
Brad Luna - Trevor Thomas
Human Rights Campaign Applauds Vermont House and Senate Leadership for Committing to Pass Marriage Equality Legislation
May passage would mark first time marriage equality enacted by legislative body
WASHINGTON - The Human Rights Campaign, the
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Calif. Supreme Court weighs same-sex marriage ban
The Seattle Times
As thousands of demonstrators chanted slogans and waved placards outside,
California's highest court on Thursday skeptically grilled lawyers seeking to
overturn the state's ban on gay marriage.
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