Dutch gays, Catholic church put aside dispute

From Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch gay rights groups have called for an end to protests against a Catholic church southwest of Amsterdam after it said it would no longer seek to bar homosexuals from taking communion.
The Sint-Jan church in Den Bosch says it will leave it up to believers to decide whether they are [...]

Aaron Carter Poses for No H8

Aaron Carter
By Advocate.com Editors
Aaron Carter, the pop star younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, stripped his shirt off and posed for the No H8 Campaign in Los Angeles last week. The campaign raises awareness and money for gay rights.
Carter was quick to post the photos on his Twitter page, telling followers, “OH YEAHH!!! IM [...]

NOM on Reports Prop. 8 Judge Is Gay

Judge Vaughn Walker
By Advocate.com Editors
National Organization for Marriage executive director Brian Brown has responded to the San Francisco Chronicle’s column reporting that federal judge Vaughn Walker, who is presiding over the Prop. 8 case, is gay, attacking the judge not for his sexual orientation but for being biased.
A column in Sunday’s Chronicle called [...]

Mexico City passes full marriage rights bill

A rainbow ribbon sits on the desk of delegates at the city's assembly in Mexico City December 21, 2009. Mexico City's assembly voted to extend gay couples full marriage rights on Monday in a landmark law that is the first of its kind in Latin America, a traditionally macho and Catholic region. Photograph by: Daniel [...]

Is Prop 8 like the Anita Bryant crusade?

By Lisa Keen, Keen News Service
Attorneys challenging the California ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage painted the “Yes on 8” campaign as a modern day copycat of Anita Bryant’s late 1970s campaign to “Save the Children.”
Through testimony by gay history scholar George Chauncey of Yale University, the plaintiffs’ legal team discussed, in U.S. district court, [...]

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