Westboro to Picket Tubbs Jones Funeral

The Westboro Baptist Church has made plans to picket the funeral of the late Ohio congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who died August 19 of a brain aneurysm.
An adamant gay rights ally and supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s run for president, Tubbs Jones was the first black woman to represent a congressional district in Ohio when [...]

Biden pick praised by gay groups

By 365gay Newscenter Staff
08.23.2008 4:20pm EDT
(Washington) Barack Obama’s choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate has been greeted with praise by LGBT civil rights groups.
During his career in Congress, Biden has a proven record of fighting for and supporting issues of fairness and equality, the Human Rights Campaign said Saturday.
“In selecting Senator Joe [...]

Joan Rivers Helps Fight Prop. 8, October 12 in San Diego

Event date: October 12, 2008
Comic legend Joan Rivers will be performing her singular act at 7 p.m., October 12, at San Diego’s Birch North Park Theatre in a benefit for the No on Prop. 8 campaign. A portion of the evening’s proceeds will go directly to the effort to defeat the upcoming November ballot measure [...]

Del Martin who fought for marriage rights dies

SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN)
Lesbian activist Del Martin, at the forefront of the battle for same-sex marriage in California, died Wednesday in San Francisco. She was 87.
Martin’s partner of 55 years, Phyllis Lyon, was by her side at the UCSF hospice, the National Center for Lesbian Rights said.
Martin and Lyon, 84, tied the knot June 16 [...]

One in three older Aussies have sex ‘a lot’

hmmmmmm…..maybe they have found something “down under” there:)
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 27, 2008
Older Australians are getting more sex than researchers suspected, according to a survey showing about a third of men and women are doing it more than once a week.
Australian statistics from a global sex study have given a rare scientific glimpse of the [...]

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