Ten Years Added to HIV+ Federal Prisoner’s Sentence
Last month, District Judge Ron Clark added an additional ten years to the sentence of an HIV + federal prisoner who bit a correctional officer on the arm. Clark stated that "here was a very real risk that the victim…
Kentucky Judge Rules Funeral Statute Violates the First Amendment
District Judge Karen K. Campbell ruled in McQueary v. Stumbo, 2006 WL 2792291 (Sept. 26, 2006), a suit brought by the ACLU of Kentucky, that a recently enacted law intended to insulate funerals from political protests violates the First Amendment…
Post-Election Analysis Forum at The New School in NYC (This Wed.)
The Human Rights Campaign, FSIX, National Stonewall Democrats and Log Cabin Republicans are presenting the 2006 Post-Election Analysis Forum on Wednesday, November 29, 2006, 7:00PM - 8:30PM, at The New School. The is a free event and no reservation is…
Truth Wins Out Denounces Ignite Student Outreach “Ex-Gay” Camp
Wayne Besen () is the author of Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth and the founder of Truth Wins Out (TWO). Yesterday, he announced TWO's condemnation of Ignite Student Outreach, which "utilizes camps, conferences,…
Hmmm, should the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV be allowed?
This is a hard one. I can see why it's taking the Roman Catholic Church so long to figure out if condoms really are "the lesser of two evils." For some reason (I don't know, the whole death thing?) Kevin…
It could take four or five years!
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, tells Larry King that he (Dobson) just doesn't have the time to help "restore from being gay to not gay.†You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current call…
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy Smolicy
A CBS4 Investigation into recruiting by the United States Army found recruiters telling potential soldiers that it wasn't a problem if they were gay. Read more at The Frontlines. You can find Maria on MySpace here and read her current…
Can Rhode Island divorce a lesbian couple?
Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston married in Massachusetts and are now filing for divorce in Rhode Island. They filed for divorce in Rhode Island on Oct. 23, citing irreconcilable differences, Chambers' attorney, Louis Pulner, said Wednesday. Ormiston declined to comment.…
Conservative Party Looks to Challenge Mexico City Civil Union Law
Mexico's National Action Party is considering challenging the civil union law approved by Mexico City's assembly on November 9th that grants gay couples and unmarried straight couples living in Mexico City rights similar to those of married couples. What legal…
_Tango_ Upsets Parents Again
This time it's parents in Shiloh, IL. They want And Tango Makes Three banned from a local elementary school or moved to the school's "mature" section (I wonder if it's behind a black curtain like the XXX section in the…