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Boston.com – By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff
MassEquality, the gay-marriage advocacy coalition, created one of the most effective political campaigns Massachusetts has ever seen, leading a battle that attracted national attention and culminated in a…
Philly.com – By Amy S. Rosenberg – Inquirer Staff Writer
The grande dame of A.C.’s gay nightclub scene closes its doors.
Atlantic City – Mortimer Spreng is a redhead. Which you wouldn’t know if the only time you saw him was on stage at the legend…
UKGayNews.org.uk
Kampala – A Uganda chapter of International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) has been launched in Uganda following a successful meeting attended by over 100 gay men and women, transgender people, human rights activists and other suppo…
NST.com
Kuala Lumpur: Two senior police officers were nabbed by Anti-Corruption Agency officers on suspicion of accepting a bribe to secure the release of a transvestite.
The two officers — an assistant superintendent and a sergeant — were picked u…
SoVo.com – By Lou Chibbaro Jr.
The offices of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and gay Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) declined to comment today on a press report that House Democrats have decided not allow Baldwin to introduce an amendment…
GayPeoplesChronicle.com – by Eric Resnick
Washington, D.C. – The controversial version of the gay and lesbian Employment Non-Discrimination Act that doesn’t include transgender people passed the House Education and Labor Committee last week and is e…
LavenderMagazine.com – By Libby Post
The recent tumult over whether the federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) would pass if it included protections for the transgender community brings to mind Otto von Bismarck’s old political chestnut: “…
WashBlade.com – Lou Chibbaro Jr
Democratic leaders postponed a vote this week in the House of Representatives on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).
The announcement came several hours after the White House issued a statement saying th…
BayWindows.com – Richard J. Rosendall
Red October used to be a fictional Soviet submarine imagined by Tom Clancy. This month it has been applied to the heat wave in the eastern United States. I think I will remember this Red October not for the uns…
Atlanta.CreativeLoafing.com – By Cliff Bostock
Gender bias sweeps the gay punditocracy
It never fails that whenever the subject of civil rights protections for gay people comes up, opponents start griping about “special rights.” A surprising numb…