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While Perry and his 3 ring circus of anti-queer hate is gearing up to congratulate each other for passing the buck to Yahweh Elohim in what he’s calling “The Response”, the GLBT community in Houston came together to remember those we have lost to hate and to dedicate a small garden as a lasting place of reflection. This effort was sparked to life as a reaction to a recent murder that took place in Houston. A young gay man named Aaron Scheerhoorn had been stabbed as was running from his attacker. Upon seeing a nightclub, he ran to the club’s entrance seeking help. The doorman turned him away… whereupon Aaron’s attacker pushed him down and in front of dozens of onlookers, commenced to stabbing Aaron over and over again… the onlookers did absolutely nothing to stop the attack and allowed the murderer to escape without hindrance.
http://www.cristanwilliams.com/b/2011/08/01/the-real-response-in-houston-texas-to-hate-bigotry-and-murder/While Perry and his 3 ring circus of anti-queer hate is gearing up to congratulate... more
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"A Pennsylvania judge has refused to divorce two women married last year in Massachusetts, leaving them in apparent limbo because they do not meet the residency required to divorce in the Bay State.
Berks County Judge Scott Lash said he could not grant a divorce to Carole Ann Kern and Robin Lynn Taney because their marriage is not recognized under Pennsylvania law.
"Relief under the divorce code can only be obtained by parties who are recognized to be married," Lash wrote in a ruling issued Thursday.
Kern, a Berks County resident, had filed a petition in October seeking to divorce Taney on grounds their marriage was irretrievably broken. The pair had married four months earlier in Brewster, Mass.
Massachusetts law has no residence requirement to marry, but requires couples seeking to divorce to have lived there for a year, a requirement they did not meet.
Gay couples seeking to divorce face a tangle of state laws on the subject.
Like Pennsylvania, Rhode Island bans both same-sex marriage and same-sex divorce.
New York and New Jersey, on the other hand, ban same-sex marriage but grant divorces to such couples. Despite objections from New Jersey’s state attorney general, a judge there approved a same-sex divorce on grounds the state accepts virtually all out-of-state marriages.
In Texas, Attorney General Greg Abbott last month intervened to block a divorce granted by a district judge to two women who had also married in Massachusetts.
"There’s not a consensus," said Jennifer Pizer, senior counsel and marriage project director for Lambda Legal, a national civil rights group for homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people.
"State laws vary enormously and we’re in a time of legal change and evolution. ... But the pace of change is, of course, different in different parts of the country," she said.
Lash compared the case before him to that an unmarried heterosexual couples who separate after living together and pooling assets.
"(They) cannot, upon their breakup, rely upon the divorce code for disposition of property rights or alimony," Lash wrote.
Pennsylvania’s Marriage Law includes a section that explicitly states that same-sex marriages performed elsewhere are void in the commonwealth. Kern, in her petition, called the language "discriminatory against homosexuals and patently unfair" and noted how the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 struck down long-standing state prohibitions on interracial marriage..."
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100326pa_judge_refuses_to_grant_same-sex_divorce_after_mass_marriage/srvc=home&position=recent"A Pennsylvania judge has refused to divorce two women married last year in... more
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In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson, Host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Robin McGehee, Co-Chair of GETEqual, who was arrested with gay activists Lt Dan Choi and Captain Jim Pietrangelo in front of the White House in protest of the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. A trial is set for April 26th. When asked what they hope to accomplish McGehee stated, “Our biggest thing is highlighting the injustices out there. As a social movement we’ve had Stonewall and Act-Up as our fighting back mentality, highlighting the injustices and then having social change around those issues. But the reality is our movement as a whole has not applied nonviolent disobedience to the full federal equality message and that’s really where we are. Kip Williams and I are in the next step after the National Equality March. It’s to say, "Look we brought hundreds of thousands of people to Washington D.C. to march on the mall. We’ve done our statewide rallies. We’ve lobbied. We’ve written letters. We’ve phone banked. Now the only thing we know to do is create our lunch counter moment like other social movements before us and really highlight the injustice and give visual imagery to ways we are discriminated against and not only in a proactive way. So, for example in “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, that would be a proactive message to a plan, a strategy and then to provide visual imagery that is highlighting injustice in a reactive way.”
To Listen to the Full Interview & More Info:
http://voices.outtakeonline.com/2010/03/lgbt-activist-robin-mcgehee-speaks-out.htmlIn this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson, Host of OUTTAKE... more
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from the article:
"Fokas, a United Church of Christ minister, joined the Pennsylvania Army National Guard in 2003. He was 39 years old and felt called to serve his country by pastoring to soldiers on the front lines.
Fokas warmed to the challenges, and many colleagues came to admire his professionalism and humanity.
But now that he’s home, Fokas, 46, is facing a challenge that threatens his future with the military.
An officer has accused Fokas of telling him he is gay."
more at the linkfrom the article:
"Fokas, a United Church of Christ minister, joined the... more
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News regarding queer (gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, friends, family, and allies) military issues. Not restricted to U.S. militaryNews regarding queer (gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, friends, family, and... more
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Annise Parker has been elected by the voters as Houston's first openly gay mayor, seizing 53.6 percent of the vote.
Of the more than 152,000 residents who turned out to cast ballots in the fourth largest U.S. city Saturday, 81,652 chose Parker - some 11,000 votes more than for her opponent.Annise Parker has been elected by the voters as Houston's first openly gay mayor,... more
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