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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyOctober 1st, 2011
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Conference on Teen Suicide: New York. The second event of a four part series titled “More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church,” will examine the epidemic of teen suicide. Participants in this segment, will examine “will examine where Catholic educational institutions are getting it right, where they need to be better, and where their complicity in the wounding of young LGBTQ persons is unacceptable.” Dan Savage will give the keynote address. Other speakers include Robert Goss, theologian and author of Jesus ACTED UP: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto; Patrick Cheng, Assistant Professor, Historic and Systematic Theology, Episcopal Divinity School; Fred Roden, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut; and Winnie Varghese, Episcopal priest and former Chaplain, Columbia University. The conference takes place today from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Union Theological Seminary at 3041 Broadway in New York.
Human Rights Campaign National Dinner: Washington, D.C. President Barack Obama will be the keynote speaker at the HRC’s 15th annual National Dinner this evening. This will be his second appearance at the HRC shindig, having spoken at the event in 2009. Since then, we’ve seen the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and a significant evolution, as it were, in the Obama Administrations decision to drop its defense of the “Defense of Marriage Act” in federal court. The speech will be carried live on Sirius/XM OutQ 108.
AIDS Walks This Weekend: Amherst, NS; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; New Glasgow, NS; New Hope, PA; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; Tulsa, OK; Turo, NS; and Wilmington, DE.
Pride Celebrations This Weekend: Ashland, OR; Ashville, NC; Belgrade, Serbia Canceled! Cumbria, UK; Dallas, TX (Black Pride); Ft. Worth, TX; Jacksonville, FL; Johannesburg, SA and Moab, UT.
Also This Weekend: Gay Days at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA; Out On Film, Atlanta, GA and Rainbow Festival, Phoenix, AZ.
TODAY IN HISTORY:
Denmark Begins Registering Partnerships: 1989. Axil and Eigil Axgil made world history when they became the first gay couple to enter into a Registered Partnership in Copenhagen, after 40 years together. The Axgils, who had been living under the same surname (an amalgamation of their given names) for 32 years, were among ten couples registered that day when Denmark became the first country in the world to provide legal recognition for same-sex couples. While the new law provided many of the rights and obligations of marriage, Registered Partnerships remained a second class institution by omitting adoption rights, artificial insemination availability, or religious wedding ceremonies in state-run Lutheran Churches. In 1996, Registered Partnerships were extended to Greenland. Several bills which would provide full marriage equality have been debated in the Folketing over the past several years, with the most recent bill being rejected by the ruling coalition in June 2010, but the Folketing did decide to extend adoption rights to Registered Partnerships a month later.
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Cowboy
October 2nd, 2011
I feel like a traitor. I should be supporting my home state by being in Moab but I’m in Disneyland right now.
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