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Seattle Gay News Friday, April 1, 2011 - Volume 39 Issue 13 |
Laurie Jinkins' relationship recognition bill passes -
Governor Gregoire promises to sign it ------------------------------
Family Acceptance Project explores acceptance in Always My Son------------------------------
InterPride holds conference to help Pride in hostile areas------------------------------
Barney Frank to reintroduce ENDA------------------------------
General Gayety: The fabric of our lives------------------------------
LATE BREAKING: Derek Morado not discharged
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United Way helps to keep Chicken Soup Brigade's van rolling------------------------------
Researchers need to engage LGBT population in health studies------------------------------
Group Health LGBT & Allies group works for equality
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Parents, students, and teachers ask Congress to support school bullying bills------------------------------
New EEOC regulations include HIV as a disability------------------------------
One for the goddess
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Bisexual actor Farley Granger dies at 85------------------------------
Mixed messages from feds on bi-national marriages------------------------------
Labor calls for a Week of Action, April 2-8------------------------------
'Equality' beyond marriage -
An interview with activist Ryan Conrad
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| Laurie Jinkins' relationship recognition bill passes -
Governor Gregoire promises to sign it by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer On March 30, the Washington Senate passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriages concluded in other jurisdictions as valid domestic partnerships in Washington. The vote was 28-19. The bill, originally proposed by Rep. Laurie Jinkins (D-27), has already passed the state House of Representatives by a margin more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Acceptance Project explores acceptance in Always My Son by Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor Part two of a two-part series exploring the link between a healthy family acceptance of LGBT children and preventing homelessness and suicide. For part one, visit http://sgn.org/sgnnews39_12/. Can a father accept his Gay son? What does it take to change the heart a more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
InterPride holds conference to help Pride in hostile areasby Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor On March 26-27, 10 of the 26 known Pride organizations in the Pacific Northwest region converged on Seattle to commit to the fight for human rights while showcasing their community pride by becoming members of InterPride. Founded in 1982, InterPride is the international as more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barney Frank to reintroduce ENDAby Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer Rep. Barney Frank (D-N.Y.) announced at a D.C. news conference on March 30 that he will reintroduce ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would amend federal civil rights laws governing employment to prohibit most employers from discriminating in hiring and promotions more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
General Gayety: The fabric of our livesby Leslie Robinson - SGN Contributing Writer We Americans like to express ourselves with our chests. I'm not speaking of Jane Russell, or even Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'm talking about our proclivity for wearing T-shirts with slogans on them. Americans have been human billboards for decades. more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LATE BREAKING: Derek Morado not discharged
On the evening of March 31, openly Gay Petty Officer Second Class Derek Morado - who faced military discharge even though the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' was authorized by Congress in December of 2010 - won his fight to continue in the military. After a brief hearing, the three-person administrative board voted against dis more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
United Way helps to keep Chicken Soup Brigade's van rollingby Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor On March 29, the Lifelong AIDS Alliance Chicken Soup Brigade was announced as a United Way of King County recipient of the 2011 Hunger Relief Capacity Program. 'Over 1,000 sick and vulnerable people count on the Chicken Soup Brigade for meals and groceries each week - but more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Researchers need to engage LGBT population in health studiesby Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor Researchers need to proactively engage LGBT people in health studies and collect data on these populations to identify and better understand health conditions that affect them, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. According to the committee that wrote the rep more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Group Health LGBT & Allies group works for equality
by Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor In October of last year, Group Health formally recognized the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allies Staff Resource Group (LGBT & Allies) as a formal group. Since that time, the organization's membership has swelled to over 100 people. 'For several years, a small more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Parents, students, and teachers ask Congress to support school bullying billsby Shaun Knittel - SGN Associate Editor On March 29, parents, students, and educators concerned about school safety for LGBT students met with senators, representatives, and congressional staff on as part of GLSEN's third annual Safe Schools Advocacy Summit. According to GLSEN officials, the three-day summit hi more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New EEOC regulations include HIV as a disabilityby Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) - the federal agency responsible for enforcing laws against workplace discrimination - has announced that it will consider HIV infection to be a disability covered by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). The EEOC's decisio more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
One for the goddess
by Richard J. Rosendall - SGN Contributing Writer The death of a screen goddess is bound to attract a circus-like atmosphere in addition to the normal obituaries and video tributes. Following the news of Elizabeth Taylor's death on March 23, 94-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor's blood pressure rose and she was rushed to the UCLA Medical Cen more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bisexual actor Farley Granger dies at 85by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer Farley Granger, who made his professional reputation in the Alfred Hitchcock thrillers Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), died on March 28. He was 85. Granger was never 'out' in any sense of the word that a modern audience would recognize, but he refused to more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mixed messages from feds on bi-national marriagesby Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer LGBT rights advocates briefly celebrated reports that two U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) district offices were reversing long-standing policy and accepting alien relative petitions and green card applications filed by married same-sex couples. The reports were more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Labor calls for a Week of Action, April 2-8Pride At Work AFL-CIO Responding to a call from the AFL-CIO for a Week of Action to defend collective bargaining rights and state budgets that put people before profits, local labor organizations have put together a program of actions for the first week in April. SATURDAY, APRIL 2 2 p.m. at Peac more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'Equality' beyond marriage -
An interview with activist Ryan Conrad
by Rahul K. Gairola - SGN Contributing Writer Less than five years ago, in July 2006, Justice Barbara Madsen (now chief justice) of the WA Supreme Court wrote the infamous 5/4 decision to uphold the state's ban on Gay marriage. At the time, Madsen followed the lead of the state of New York, thus making Washington state the seco more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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National Newsby Rex Wockner - SGN Contributing Writer Ninth Circuit refuses to lift stay of Prop 8 strikedown The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on March 23 refused a request from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies that it lift its block on the August 2010 federal district cour more -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING NEWS! more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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