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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.
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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.
Games coverage on iTunes, mobile
association.”
In a prepared statement, Scouting for All said,
phones, Internet and on cable,” said Brenda
“The proposed legislation amounts m extortion and
Schumacher, broadcast communications director
for Gay Games VII. ©
is probably illegal.” They encouraged interested
parties to contact the legislators—Wiles at
770-425-2490 and Ehrhart at 404-656-0109.
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