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JULY 21, 2006 ¡ffllïïihlM S.F. Lends a Hand to Trans Citizens "Feisty post-punk feminist" Jill Sobule headlines Los Angeles' Queer Music Festival. Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. “It would do well to perma nently consign this immoral and mean-spirited proposal to the legislative dustbin and move on.” In 2004 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that there are no rational reasons for denying marriage to same-sex couples. About 8,000 same-sex couples have since been married under state law. The initiative petition is the second effort to prohibit same-sex marriage since the court decision. A legislatively proposed amendment was voted on favorably in 2004 but was soundly defeat ed in the 2005 convention. “To date, [gay and lesbian couples] have had to endure 16 yes or no votes about the validity of their relationships,” said Foreman. “This playing with people's lives to advance narrow political and partisan interests is beyond cruel. We look forward to the day when attempts to overturn this funda mental right are rejected once and for all.” Legislators Try to "Encourage" Anti-Gay Discrimination Thirteen years after San Francisco outlawed discrimination against transgender employees, the city’s proposed budget includes another milestone: funds to improve employment and entrepreneurial opportunities among transgender people in the city. The budget, presented July 11, includes a historic $300,000 commitment to turning around high rates of poverty in San Francisco’s transgender communities. Community members hail the vote and the support of elected officials. “It’s a great time to be living and working in San Francisco,” said Cecilia Chung, deputy director of the Transgender Law Center. “This historic vote reinforces the city’s role as a national leader in the transgender equality movement. Just five years after the city began offer ing health insurance equality for city employees, this initiative will set a new milestone in trans gender history by creating full and fair employ ment and entrepreneurship opportunities for our community.” L.A. Spawns Queer Music Festival The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Lily Tomlin Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center is presenting the city’s first-ever Queer Music Festival. Featuring a lineup of some of the country’s best-known queer rock, pop and hip-hop artists, the two-day event will take place Aug. 19 and 20. The first day will be headlined by renowned “feisty post-punk feminist” Jill Sobule, who will be joined on the bill by Oakland hip-hopper JenRO. The second day’s headliners are experimental indie rocker Rachael Cantu and Latino rockers Tender Box. “The time is ripe for a major community gather ing around a new generation’s expression of their queen identity and spirit,” says Allison Mixin, the center’s cultural arts prixluction manager. “The reaction from the bands we’ve invited has been fan tastic, and we hope to make this an annual tradition. The activist group Scouting for All called for action July 2 in response to a controversy concern ing gays and the Boy Scouts in South Georgia, where two Republican legislators say they will introduce legislation aimed at inflicting financial punishment on Bank of America. State Rep. Earl Ehrhart, R-Powder Springs, and Sen. John Wiles, R-Marietta, said the Bank of America Charitable Foundation sent a letter to the Alapaha Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America denying the organization’s request for a WTHP Gay Games Go Digital charitable contribution. The letter said the founda tion was turning down the request because the Boy Worldwide fans of the Gay Games can view Scouts violated a “nondiscrimination policy.” video coverage of the 2006 Chicago event on broad Wiles and Erhart said they will draft legislation band, mobile phones and cable television thanks to that will bar state government from doing business Gay Games Global Sponsor PrideNation Network. with companies that cite such “nondiscrimination During the Gay Games, PNN is providing smart policies” when dealing with youth organizations. phone and podcast updates. Gay Games Chicago “Bank of America, like any company, has the and Proud TV are using the videotaped fixitage for right to support post-Gay Games television shows and a whatever causes it „Gay Games souvenir DVD. Listeners can chooses,” Wiles tune in online and through mobile sniffed. “However, phones to hear Gay Games updates provided by PNN Radio. the state of k "J After the Games, which end July 23, Georgia also has complete coverage will be available via the rights—the right to Akimbo set-top box (Proud TV Channel), stop doing business online at www.pridenation.com, via with corporations Windows Home Media Center (Proud TV who refuse to sup Channel) and via Apple iTunes podcast port organizations Georgia state Sen. John Wiles (search for “PrideNation”). who exercise their doesn't care for Bank of America's “It’s amazing to think of catching Gay right to freedom of take on the Boy Scouts. 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