Thousands march in annual gay pride march in Jerusalem, dozens counter-demonstrate
Jerusalem — Thousands of Israelis marched calmly Thursday in Jerusalem's longest Gay Pride parade despite opposition from Anti-gay demonstrators. The subdued Jerusalem march from the center of town to the parliament building contrasted with flamboyant Gay Pride parades elsewhere in the world. Organizers said they were adjusting to the religious character of the city and using their march to promote their political agenda. Carrying rainbow banners, several thousand demonstrators walked...

Delayed Jerusalem Pride Parade Draws Thousands, Criticism
Israel's Gay Pride parade was pushed back about a month or so this year, so that it would fall on the one-year anniversary of the deadly shooting last year that claimed two lives in Tel Aviv. The gunman of that attack is still at large. The parade, which was held in Jerusalem on Thursday, drew more than 3,000 participants. There was no sign of the donkey cut-outs the city's ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor, Rabbi Yitzhak Pindrus, was allowed to bring to the march after his initial...

The Candidate Target Didn't Back
Antigay Republican Tom Emmer is making headlines for benefiting from Target Corp.'s $150K contribution to a conservative PAC supporting his bid for Governor of Minnesota. What isn't making many headlines is the identity of his likely opponent. Pro-gay former U.S. senator Mark Dayton is in the lead heading into the August 10 Democratic Primary. An heir to Dayton-Hudson Corp. fortune, Mark Dayton is the great-grandson of George Dayton, who stared the Dayton's Department Store chain. In 1962,...

The Target Widens
We all know why the LGBT community is upset over Target’s indirect donation to Tom Emmer…because he stands against Marriage equality and he hangs out with Anti-gay punks who think Gays should be murdered. But wait…that’s not all! According to a post on Change.org – Gay Rights: But what Emmer doesn’t say on his Web site is that as a state legislator in Minnesota, he also worked hard to try and restrict surrogacy to husband and wife Couples only . During...

The Target Widens
We all know why the LGBT community is upset over Target’s indirect donation to Tom Emmer…because he stands against Marriage equality and he hangs out with Anti-gay punks who think Gays should be murdered. But wait…that’s not all! According to a post on Change.org – Gay Rights: But what Emmer doesn’t say on his Web site is that as a state legislator in Minnesota, he also worked hard to try and restrict surrogacy to husband and wife Couples only . During...

A Calm Gay Pride
According to various reports, even though the number of attendees were in the thousands, those who participated in Jerusalem’s longest Gay Pride parade remained relatively subdued as they marched on Thursday amongst Anti-gay demonstrators. The march went from the center of town to the parliament building but contrasted with more outwardly festive Gay Pride parades held in other parts of the world as the event organizers said they were adjusting to the religious character of the city and...

How Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yitzhak Pindrus' Plan to Tackle Gay Pride
To counter Jerusalem's upcoming Gay Pride parade Deputy Mayor Rabbi Yitzhak Pindrus, who represents the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on the

Catholic Church Condemns Jerusalem Pride
May be a screen capture JPG that links to the video player, or an embedded video from an external source like YouTube.com May be a screen capture JPG that links to the video player, or an embedded video from an external source like YouTube.com --> Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal, the highest ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem, has gone public in denouncing the city's Gay Pride parade , releasing a pointed statement Friday. "It's organizers and the authorities who allow it, care neither for...

Nobody Got Stabbed At This Year's Jerusalem Pride
It was a toned down affair at yesterday's Jerusalem Pride march, where the gays paraded through the streets and ultra-Orthodox Jews spent the day god

First gay couples tie knot under new Argentine law
By Alexandra Ulmer Buenos Aires | Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:20pm BST Buenos Aires (Reuters) - Gay Couples rushed to tie the knot in Argentina on Friday, two weeks after the country became the first in Latin America to grant them the same marriage Rights as Heterosexual Couples. "We never thought we'd get to this point," said talent agent Alejandro Vanelli, 61, who wept as he exchanged vows with Ernesto Larrese, 60, an actor and his partner of 34 years. "It was time for our country to embrace equality...

Obama Expands FMLA to Same-Sex Parents
I may be on a bit of a roll today, but it seems like those who want to criticize the Obama Administration for not doing enough, fast enough for the LGBT community seem to conveniently overlook that this Administration has done more for the LGBT community in short time it’s existed than all prior Administrations combined. What are they doing now?

Jerusalem gay marchers encounter protests
Jerusalem, July 29 (UPI) -- About 2,000 people joined Thursday in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, encountering three groups of demonstrators. The parade proceeded from Independence Park to the Knesset or parliament building, Ynetnews.com reported. They encountered Protesters holding signs urging "sick perverts" to leave the city. While dozens of Knesset members were invited to join the parade, only one had confirmed late Wednesday that he would be there. Also Wednesday, police refused...

Belfast Pride Sees Biggest Crowd on Record
Saturday saw an amazing estimated

Aboriginal elder to be honored by Yad Vashem
August 1, 2010 SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) – An Aboriginal elder who protested the “cruel persecution” of the Jews by the Nazis will become the first indigenous Australian to be honored by Yad Vashem. William Cooper, the 77-year-old elder of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal tribe, led a small march to deliver a petition to the German Consul-General in Melbourne just weeks after Kristallnacht. Although Cooper and his Australian Aborigines League were denied entry to the consulate on Dec....

Receiving Death Threats
Even though the Anti-gay religious Right does their best to paint themselves as Victims of the horrible Gay Agenda and make claims that the LGBT community is out to harm them, there aren’t too many stories about people being beaten or murdered because they’re straight or Christian, yet threats of violence continue against those who support LGBT equality, such as in the case of Memphis City Council member Janis Fullilove, who has received multiple death threats due to her efforts to...

First 'Gay Condom' Set To Be Introduced In India

Gay Games Blog
“The exhibition featuring portraits of out Gay and Lesbian athletes, the history of the LGBT sports movement, and Memorabilia from past Gay Games lent by the San Francisco Public Library is one of the highlights of Gay Games VIII.” Find the photos at the original source of this post: Gay Games Blog!

CBS Trying to Make Up for Lost Characters?
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has given CBS a "Failing" grade because they don’t see the network as fairly and accurately portraying the LGBT community. In fact, CBS received the worst grade amongst the five major networks for a second year in a row. GLAAD’s report is based on the criteria of "quantity, quality and diversity of images of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people." According to reports however, it looks as though the network...

Jewish settlers take over home in Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City; UN envoy protests
Jerusalem — Jewish settlers on Thursday took over a building in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and evicted dozens of Palestinian tenants, residents and police said, prompting a sharp Protest by the top regional U.N. Envoy. The takeover comes at a time when the U.S. is struggling to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks. The international community, led by the U.S., has urged Israel to refrain from any steps that could raise tensions in East Jerusalem, including Evictions and house...

Anne Rice Quits Christianity
Entry tags: books / authors Anne Rice Quits Christianity Anne Rice is no longer a Christian. By Advocate.com Editors The best-selling author of Interview With a Vampire and mother to novelist Christopher Rice posted on her Facebook page that she's left the religion because she refuses to be "antigay," "antifeminist," and "anti-Democrat." Rice wrote, "It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For...

Undercover Branch Brook Park patrol is suspended after fatal shooting of Atlanta CEO
Newark — Authorities have suspended an undercover patrol designed to crackdown on Gay men who use a County park for Sexual Activity after the shooting death of an Atlanta man by an officer, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said Friday. Citing a need to "make some adjustments," Fontoura said that in addition to temporarily postponing the operation, he is working with local Gay Rights Activists to see if both sides can develop a plan to bring an end to lewd behavior in the parks....

Emmer Says Corporate Donations are Free Speech
According to a post on WDAY , Tom Emmer, the Republican Candidate that has Target and other Minnesota based companies in hot water with the LGBT community and our allies has spoken out against the reaction to the donations by saying the Governor’s race is getting personal.

Russian Mosmetrostroy wins contract to build Israeli railroad
Russian railroad construction company Mosmetrostroy together with an Israeli partner has won a tender to construct a high-speed railroad between Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, Israeli business daily Calcalist said on Friday. Mosmetrostroy and the Israeli engineering company Minrav will lay one of the four railroad sections over 40 months. The work will include constructing two parallel tunnels through a mountain, three and a half kilometers long. The contract is estimated at 647 million Shekels (around...

OTEP Frontwoman Interviewed On 'Max & Cherri' Show
On July 18, 2010, "Max & Cherri" show conducted an interview with OTEP frontwoman Otep Shamaya . You can now watch the chat in four parts below. Shamaya was nominated for "Outstanding Music Artist" in the 21st annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) Media Awards . An outspoken advocate of Gay Rights, Shamaya serves as a key figure in the movement to promote fair, accurate, and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating...

Kristin Chenoweth Talks More Glee, Christian Beliefs & Loving the Gays
Entry tags: Gay / Lesbian / Rights , Glee Kristin Chenoweth Talks More Glee, Christian Beliefs & Loving the Gays Kristin Chenoweth talks loving the Gays , returning to Glee for season two and the negative connotation associated with being "a Christian"... You’ve been very open about your strong religious beliefs and identifying as a Christian while simultaneously advocating for Gay Rights. Does the negative connotation associated with Christianity upset you? Oh, I...