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Item: High court will hear Washington Ref-71 case in January
::: The US Supreme Court will decide on January 15, 2010, whether to accept or reject the appeal of last fall’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld Washington’s practice of treating ballot measure petitions as rel...
Canadian border agency’s seizure of LGBT films raises specter of past censorship
Three films sent to an Ottawa LGBT film festival were held for "review" last weekend by Canadian customs officials. The films are Clapham Junction, I Can’t Think Straight, and the PG-rated Swedish comedy Patrik Age 1.5 On Nov. 20...
Item: Miami hospital nurses apologize to woman who couldn’t visit her dying partner
Undated photo of Langbehn and Pond ::: At a town-hall-style meeting Thursday, several nurses from Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital personally apologized to Janice Langbehn, a lesbian from Lacey, Wash. who wasn’t allowed her t...
Item: High court justice again blocks release of Ref-71 petitions
US Supreme Court Justice Arthur Kennedy today temporarily reimposed a ban on release of the names of those signed the petitions putting Referendum 71 on the Washington ballot, Associated Press reports. The referendum asks voters to approve or reject ...
Must read: Maine’s Question 1 and Washington’s Ref. 71 compared
Although the Nov. 3 ballot issue in Maine called Question 1 has garnered more national attention and far more money from progressive activists, voters across the continent on the west coast will also be asked to weigh in on a law that grants ...
Notes: New format report shows WA Ref-71 within acceptable error rate
After an earlier attempt at releasing signature counts for Washington’s Referendum 71 that an elections official admitted “was probably TOO much transparency”, a new way of calculating the numbers of signatures was unveiled yesterday. The elec...
Item: Washington anti-gay group must follow law
::: Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) ruled today that the campaign group that promoted Referendum 71 petitions must follow state law and disclose its financial backers, just as all campaigns are required to do. The campa...
Thursday update: Ref. 71 petition signatures still have too many errors
Thursday’s Referendum 71 signature checks in Washington continue to show an error rate on referendum petitions that is too high for the number of names submitted. The error rate has been increasing for checks done in the past two days. From the bl...
If current error rate on WA Referendum 71 continues, it won’t qualify for ballot
State workers in Olympia are checking each name on Referendum 71 petitions photo: Secretary of State’s blog The current error rate for signatures on Referendum 71 petitions appears – for now at least – to be too high for the measure to make i...
Seattle conference for LGBTQ Asians and Pacific Islanders has ambitious goals
A national conference will be held August 14 through 16 in Seattle for LGBTQ Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander (API) individuals and organizations. It’s an event at which participants will deal an intersecting web of issues that ...
Must read: WA LGBT activists powerless to counter strong grass-roots anti-gay campaign
Right-wing activists in Washington faced long odds when they started to collect signatures for a proposed anti-gay ballot measure this spring, Lornet Turnbull reports in the Seattle Times. The ballot measure, called Referendum 71, would give voter...
Seattle runner injured by bomb thrown onto track at World Outgames
Dean Koga gets a kiss from Italian runner Giampiero Mancinelli a day after being injured by a bomb. OutSports.com photo by Jim Buzinski Source: OutSports, Windy City Times, Copenhagen Post, BBC Dean Koga of the Seattle Frontrunners was injured b...
WA anti-gay R-71 group claims to have submitted enough names to put rights to vote [updated]
R-71 petitions photo via secretary of state’s office [This post includes inline updates] On its Twitter feed, the Washington Secretary of State’s office said Saturday afternoon it had received the “first batch” of of petitions at 3:10 pm f...
Anti-gay group in Washington set to bring in referendum petitions Saturday
The right-wing splinter group in Washington opposed to rights for registered domestic partners claims that it will probably have enough signatures by Saturday afternoon to put a temporary halt to the most recent expansion of the state’s domestic p...
Historic Magic Valley Pride builds bridges in So. Idaho
By James Tidmarsh, Photos by Nicki Abraham reposted with permission from ©2009 PrideDEPOT.com TWIN FALLS, ID — “Building Bridges.” That was the theme of the first ever Magic Valley Pride festival, organized by the Southern Idaho Gay, L...
Supreme Court lets stand ruling that school can’t endorse exclusionary ‘faith’ club
The US Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear a case brought by a right wing legal group on behalf of two students at a suburban Seattle-area high school who sued after the school refused to let them set up a group that would have accepted only o...
Video: Straight guy from Renton, WA declares crush for David Hasselhoff
A friend of his explains in a comment at AfterElton.com that America’s Got Talent contestant David Johnson “is happily married to a woman”. The explanation was required because Johnson, a bank loan officer, took his first few minutes of fame-li...
LGBT Pride parades in Kalispell, Mont. for the first time
Source: Missoulian, Kalispell Daily Interlake, KECI TV Montana Pride Celebration, 2009 photo at bottom by Michael Jamison/Missoulian About 550 people paraded along the main street in downtown Kalispell, Montana Saturday in the...
Nationwide walk shines light on needs of queer homeless youth
Source: QSaltLake, YouthNoise, Seattle Gay News, PFLAG blog Images from the first "Shine" event held at Westlake Park (lower image) and elsewhere in Seattle in May, at the start of a journey throughout the country to shine a ...
Names of gay city employees private for now, but Seattle argues they must be released
Source: Seattle PI, Seattle Times, KING TV The names of Seattle municipal employees who belong to an LGBT affinity group will not be released for at least a week, but the city argued yesterday before a King County judge that state law requ...
Headlines: San Antonio’s gutsy mayor; Seattle Pride’s bad debts; + headlinks
::: Despite a coordinated campaign of hate-filled emails prompted by a right-wing talk-show host in San Antonio, Texas, the city’s newly elected mayor insists he will not back down from a commitment he made in March to serve as g...
