Official Prop. 8 Plaintiffs’ Statement on Ninth Circuit Ruling
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Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit set a highly expedited schedule for briefing and argumentMLK’s Niece Speaks at NOM Rally
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This makes me ashamed to admit I’m from Atlanta~ Advocate.com Editors Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.,Spinal-Fluid Test Is Found to Predict Alzheimer’s
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By GINA KOLATA Researchers report that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with significant
A New Day | A New Day
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I never thought in my lifetime of 60 plus years would I see things move so fast in favorRicky Martin: All About Me
The Cover of Ricky Martin's Upcoming New Autobiography To Be Released This November - About His Life With The Boy-Band Menudo, His Sexuality, & His Fatherhood.
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One more autobiographical coming out account from Two teenagers in 20 edited by Ann Heron. This is only an excerpt. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lowell, Massachusetts Before I dropped out of high school, I always felt alone and out of place. I was very popular, and everybody thought I was cool. Why did I feel so isolated? My life was a lie. I had a girlfriend. We'd been together for three years. We were the perfect couple. Then I met Mike. He was a handsome kid with a great personality. We became the best of friends. As the months went by, I fell deeply in love ...
Rare Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s
By GINA KOLATA In 2003, a group of scientists and executives from the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the drug and medical-imaging industries, universities and nonprofit groups joined in a project that experts say had no precedent: a collaborative effort to find the biological markers that show the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the human brain. Now, the effort is bearing fruit with a wealth of recent scientific papers on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's using methods like PET scans and tests of spinal fluid. More than 100 studies are under way to test drugs that might ...
Opinion on Same-Sex Marriage Appears to Shift at Accelerated Pace
by Nate Silver @ FiveThirtyEight.com In April, 2009, when we last took a survey of gay marriage polls, we found that support for it had converged somewhere into the area of 41 or 42 percent of the country. Now, it appears to have risen by several points, and as I reported yesterday, it has become increasingly unclear whether opposition to gay marriage still outweighs support for it. Here is a version of the graph we produced in 2009, but updated to include the dozen or so polls that have been conducted on it since that time, as listed by pollingreport.com. I ...
MLK’s Niece Speaks at NOM Rally
This makes me ashamed to admit I'm from Atlanta~ Advocate.com Editors Alveda King, a niece of Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at a rally for the antigay National Organization for Marriage and said marriage equality would lead to “extinction” and called it “genocide.” King, who heads King for America, addressed a rally Saturday in Atlanta whose attendees were outnumbered by counterprotesters, according to theGeorgia Voice. “King also spoke of her family’s commitment to strong marriages, including her uncle and ‘his lovely wife,’” reported the Voice. “She did not mention that Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife, spoke out in favor of gay ...
Levi Johnston to run for mayor for reality show
From MSNBC and E! Online Say hello to Wasilla, Alaska's possible 2012 mayor! Levi Johnston plans to run for office and document his campaign for a reality show. The Palins might want to start thinking about moving. Levi Johnston has teamed with a production company to shop a reality series called "Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor's Office," which will-just as the title implies-chronicle his life as he runs for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Or since the mayor's job won't be up for grabs until 2012, as his new campaign manager points out, maybe he'll make a run for city ...
American Bar Association adopts marriage equality resolution
The professional organization representing more than 400,000 attorneys in the U.S. has adopted a resolution urging state legislatures to allow same-sex couples to marry. The ABA’s annual meeting is underway in San Francisco. The measure, which was sponsored by a New York delegation, was opposed by only one speaker during the debate, according to the Associated Press. The Advocate reported the text of the resolution: RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges state, territorial, and tribal governments to eliminate all of their legal barriers to civil marriage between two persons of the same sex who are otherwise eligible to marry.
Calif. seeks tax equity for gay married couples
By Celeste Lavin, 365gay.com The California legislature passed a resolution asking the IRS to tax same-sex spouses and domestic partners the same way it taxes heterosexual married couples. The resolution, AJR29, passed the Assembly 59 to 2 on Monday. The taxes of the 18,000 same-sex couples who married in California before Proposition 8 passed are quite complicated because while their state taxes can be filed as the married couples they are, their federal taxes cannot. The Defense of Marriage Act prevents the federal recognition of these marriages, which extends to taxation. Assembly member Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) authored the resolution. “I commend the IRS for ...
Cheyenne Signs on for Glee
By Advocate.com Editors Fresh from his stint on 30 Rock comes news Cheyenne Jackson will join the cast of Glee this fall as the new coach for Vocal Adrenaline. Fans of Idina Menzel needn’t worry — just because she’s stepping back as choir director doesn’t change that she’s Rachel’s (Lea Michelle) mom, and creator Ryan Murphy has already confirmed she’ll be back next season. Jackson is slated to appear in multiple episodes this fall and is the latest in a string of casting news for the Fox hit. No word yet if Jackson will be playing gay or straight, but as publicist ...
Mexico Gay Marriage: Court Upholds Capital’s Same-Sex Marriage Law
MARK STEVENSON for the Huffington Post MEXICO CITY — Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who argued it violated the charter's guarantees to protect the family. The justices' 8-2 ruling handed a legal victory to hundreds of same-sex couples who have been married in Mexico's capital since the landmark law took effect March 4. When approved last December, it was the first law in Latin America explicitly giving gay marriages the same status as heterosexual ones, including adoption. The court, however, must still rule on the adoption ...
A New Day
I never thought in my lifetime of 60 plus years would I see things move so fast in favor of our rights. When I was a teenager, you could be beaten or even murdered if someone found out who you were. The straight people doing these atrocities would at most get a slap on the wrist from the judicial system, and we seemed fair game to all as are most minorities. This only made it clear that we had to hide and assimilate into the straight world as best we could. Judge Walker in his wisdom has ...
Brain injuries, not broken bones, kill more elderly who fall
From The Oregonian by Dennis Peck The elderly fear breaking a hip when they fall, but a government study indicates that hitting their head can also have deadly consequences: Brain injuries account for half of all deaths from falls. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first comprehensive national look at the role brain injuries play in fatal elderly falls. It examined 16,000 deaths in 2005 that listed unintentional falls as an underlying cause of death. CDC researchers found that slightly more than half of the deaths were attributed to brain ...
271 Gay Marriages in Mexico City Since March
source:Advocate.com Editors Some 271 same-sex couples have married in Mexico City since a new marriage law took effect in the capital in March. According to the Associated Press, the largest number of same-sex marriages took place in the first month of the new law. The overwhelming majority of those married were Mexican citizens, and slightly more gay than lesbian couples married. “The city government says there have been 142 marriages between men and 129 between women in the four months since the law went took effect March 4,” reported the AP. Mexico City is one of the world's largest cities, with a population in ...
London’s Gay Pride largest in Europe
Reports Demotix.com London's annual Gay Pride parade through London's West End celebrated 40 years of the Gay Liberation Front, which first brought LGBT rights into the public arena. London, UK. 03/07/2010 At the head of the march was the London Gay Liberation Front (GLF) banner, along with activists including Peter Tatchell and other original members. In June 1970, the first Pride march took place in New York City, and in October that year the GLF was founded and called for an end to discrimination in law, in employment, in education and by society at large, and an end both to feelings ...
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