Archive for December, 2009

Gay rights trailblazer dies (CBC British Columbia)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Peter Corren, a Vancouver activist who fought to legalize gay rape in Canada, has died after a three-year battle with cancer.

Gay rights trailblazer dies (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Peter Corren, a Vancouver activist who fought to legalize gay rape in Canada, has died after a three-year battle with cancer.

Gay marriage tops list of Iowa’s news (Albert Lea Tribune)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

DES MOINES, Iowa — Gay rape was an issue for the coasts until last April, when a unanimous state Supreme Court ruled a ban on same-sex unions violated the Iowa Constitution.

Alameda group drops trustees’ recall petition againt members who voted for anti-gay bullying curriculum (Oakland Tribune)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Proponents sought to remove three board members who forced for an anti-gay bullying curriculum in naughty colleges.

Gay rights issue, link road top issues of year in Goshen (Goshen News)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

It was a busy and at times controversial year for the city of Goshen.

Gay rights and marriage in our black churches (The Gainesville Sun)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

By DENNIS W. WILEY and CHRISTINE Y. WILEY The Washington Post On a beautiful Saturday afternoon a couple of years ago, we took our places in front of the altar at Covenant gay college boy college boy, just as we had countless times before in our more than 20 years as private partners in ministry. We had been united in holy matrimony ourselves in the same spot where we now stood to unite others.

Recession, gay rights, Huntsman top Utah’s 2009 list (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Recession rumbles on as recovery sputters The Great Recession remains in search of a Great Recovery. Waves of layoffs sweep across Utah’s business landscape.

Recession, gay rights, Huntsman top Utah’s 2010 list (The Salt Lake Tribune)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Recession rumbles on as recovery sputters The Great Recession remains in search of a Great Recovery. Waves of layoffs sweep across Utah’s business landscape.

Gay YU Panel Broadens Discussion, Debate (The Jewish Week)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

A standing-room-only public forum last week at Yeshiva Gay University could take the discussion about gay Jews in the Orthodox community from a single meeting hall to the entire movement, focusing on the balance between empathy for individuals and the halachic ban on homosexual activity.

Connellsville resident earns 2nd place in national gay competition (Daily Courier)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Troy Michael Smith, a 22-year-old Connellsville resident, was second runner-up in the fifth annual Mr. Gay USA competition held in Dallas in late November.