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National AIDS Strategy Clashes with Florida
Since 1980, 575,000 Americans, including approximately 300,000 gay and bisexual men, have lost their lives to AIDS. Each year, 56,000 Americans are newly infected with HIV. Inadequate funding and growing need has lead Florida and eleven other states to establish AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists.
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Pride, Proclamations & Party Politics
Presidential proclamations honoring LGBT Pride Month are back, thanks to the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Although largely symbolic, they nevertheless remain powerful statements of support.
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George Rekers: Hypocrisy or Pathology?
Before George Rekers brought his rent boy to Europe to “carry his luggage,” “show him Jesus” and, according to the escort, rub his penis, there was Ted Haggard and Larry Craig. Amongst the ranks of LGBT people, there is a shockingly high number of secret homosexuals who work to undermine the progress of their own people, although none consider the LGBT community “their own people.”
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Crunch Time For ENDA
While it's been sixteen years since the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) was first introduced as a bill in Congress, our community is finally close to getting the most basic of civil rights: job discrimination protection. To most Americans this bill is an obvious and overdue addition to existing law enacted in 1964 that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Fear-mongers on the right are working hard to demonize us and ENDA, so we must work even harder.
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Have Fun & Use A Condom A March 10 press release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a wake-up call to our community: “Data analysis by the CDC underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States.” The study reaffirms the necessity that either monogamy or the mantra “a condom every time” must become a reality for every gay and bisexual male.
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Fear Factor
We will soon get a ruling on a federal constitutional challenge to Proposition 8, the referendum that overturned same-sex marriage in California in 2008. In the nation’s first federal trial on the issue of same-sex marriage, Judge Vaughn Walker, Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court for Northern California, will decide Prop 8’s fate within the next few weeks. While lawyers for marriage equality have talked about fairness and equal rights, the other side is warning of doomsday.
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Christian Fascism in Africa
The use of the “Nazi” label as a comparison is often overblown rhetoric that diminishes the horror of the Holocaust and says more about the accuser than the accused, but there are situations when such comparisons are legitimate. Some African nations, with their increasing assaults on the human rights of LGBT people, are starting to resemble the early years of Nazi Germany.
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Pride & Prejudice
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A complex political issue unrelated to LGBT rights is jeopardizing funding and governmental support for North America’s largest Pride event, with competing cries of “censorship” and “hate speech” having the potential to overwhelm Toronto’s annual gay party. The long, complicated, often horrific crisis between Israelis and Palestinians has become a controversy at Pride Toronto as the celebration of the LGBT community collides with the politics of the Middle East.
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Vatican Circling The Wagons
As a non-Catholic, I have refrained from writing about the latest revelations of priests molesting children, but with Catholic leaders blaming gays and others for the sex abuse scandal in an attempt to deflect criticism away from the Vatican, they have made this ugly affair my issue.
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When Religion Hurts
Frustrated by their unsuccessful attempts to get Kevin Jennings fired from his job in the Obama administration, the “religious” right and their friends at Fox News are going after another gay man, Harry Knox, accused of being an “anti-Catholic bigot.” The New Testament speaks of not worrying about the speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own. This describes well the breathtaking hypocrisy of those working to oust Knox.
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