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Wrestling star calls LGBT rights a 'pressing issue'
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
Hudson Taylor, a 23-year-old University of Maryland wrestling star and academic All American, is the kind of person the LGBT community is referring to when we say 'straight ally.'
In the world of athletics - from junior and high school sports teams through college and the professionals - homophobia is commonplace. No one c more
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Mississippi high school cuts Lesbian student from yearbook
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
When Mississippi high school senior Ceara Sturgis opened her yearbook on April 23, she could not find her photo. The ugly truth: Wesson Attendance Center school officials had purposefully not included her photo - in which Sturgis is wearing a tuxedo - and had not mentioned her name at all.
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SGN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:
Openly Gay Bryce Bennett runs for Montana office
by Scott Rice -
SGN Contributing Writer
Bryce Bennett is not your average 25-year-old. He's a buttoned-down politician with an agenda and well-honed talking points. He's also an openly Gay man running for the Montana State House of Representatives. Yes, his district, Montana House District 92, is comprised mostly of one of the m more
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Closing arguments set for federal Prop 8 trial
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
On Wednesday, June 16 - 156 days after the start of the federal Proposition 8 trial - Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, will hear closing arguments in the case that challenges the constitutionality of California's Gay marriage ban.
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Getting married
by Jennifer Vanasco -
SGN Contributing Writer
Jenny and I are getting married.
The problem is where.
Oh, not where we're having the wedding. That's easy. Our wedding will be held in the church we attend, a 100-year-old Lutheran Church on the Upper West Side of New York, with well-worn wooden pews and more
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South Park murder suspect will not face death penalty
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
Isaiah Kalebu, the 24-year-old man accused of torturing and raping two women, and slaying one of them, in their South Park home on July 19, 2009, will not face the death penalty.
On April 28, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg announced that his office will not seek the death penalty for more
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Lesbian to lead Service Employees International Union
'The most powerful Lesbian in the country'
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
Mary Kay Henry, out Lesbian and an executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), will almost certainly be elected president of the powerful union on May 8.
She will succeed retiring president Andy Stern, beating out current SEIU secretary-treasurer A more
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GetEQUAL announces another protest at White House
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
On April 29, GetEQUAL, Queer Rising and Talk About Equality - all Gay equality advocacy organizations - announced that on May 2, at noon, discharged and active duty Gay servicemembers will protest at Lafayette Park in front of the White House.
According to GetEQUAL, the LGBT ve more
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Bolivian President not homophobic, spokesperson says
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The Bolivian government took the unusual step of denying that its president, Evo Morales, is homophobic in the wake of controversial remarks by Morales in which he seemed to say that eating chicken made men Gay.
The Bolivian government statement came in an April 26 letter to the LG more
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International News
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
by Rex Wockner -
SGN Contributing Writer
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 more
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Northwest News
QUEER YOUTH SPACE
SEEKING COMMERCIAL
LANDLORD
ON CAPITOL HILL
Queer Youth Space is looking for a friendly commercial landlord on Capitol Hill by Monday, May 3rd. In order to demonstrate to the City of Seattle that their project is feasible, they need an agreement with a landlord that states that should the grant be funded, the landlord would be interested in le more |
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National News
by Rex Wockner -
SGN Contributing Writer
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 more
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'I won't enforce the immigration law,' says Arizona sheriff
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The sheriff of Pima County, Arizona will not enforce his state's controversial new immigration law.
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told reporters on April 28 that the law could not be enforced, and he would not even try to do so.
'We've been asked to support this law. We don't more
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Meet Kevin Keller -
Archie Comics introduces Gay character
by Shaun Knittel -
SGN Staff Writer
Archie Comics announced April 22 that Riverdale High will be accepting enrollment of its first openly Gay student this September.
Kevin Keller will debut in No. 202 of Veronica Comics in a full-issue story, 'Isn't it Bromantic?'
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Return of the Washington Blade
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The Washington Blade, the country's oldest LGBT newspaper, will return to the newsstands April 30, its new publishers say.
Founded in 1969 as a one-sheet newsletter called the Gay Blade, the paper evolved into an award-winning newspaper and website with a national and international more
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General Gayety: Bad fences make for bad neighbors
by Leslie Robinson -
SGN Contributing Writer
Fences.
Poet Robert Frost, playwright August Wilson, and novelist Mark Twain got literary mileage out of fences. Now instead of writing about a fence, Chris Trumbull has written on a fence. He didn't create literature; he created graffiti.
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Neo-Nazis vandalize local activist office
by Mike Andrew -
SGN Staff Writer
The national conversation about right-wing extremism got very real and very local on the morning of April 25, when apparent neo-Nazis vandalized the offices of Washington Community Action Network (WCAN).
According to the Seattle Police report, WCAN workers left the building at ab more
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GSBA cruise mixer a
seaworthy success
by James Whitely -
SGN Staff Writer
GSBA Prime Time Mixer
April 21
Pier 55
On Wednesday, April 21, about 200 members of the GSBA gathered down by the waterfront to sail the Sound for the GSBA Prime Time Mixer. The purpose of the mixer was to welcome this year's new members of the GSBA.
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LGBTQ survey reveals a diverse population
by James Whitely -
SGN Staff Writer
The Rainbow Center of Tacoma, an LGBT community space in Tacoma, Washington, conducted a survey of LGBTQ people in the greater Pierce County area from March 1, 2010 to April 10, 2010. The survey was conducted under the direction of Paula Frederick, PhD., a sociologist with expertise in the fi more
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