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[swmr545]

October 18, 2004 -

Anglican church commission criticizes Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop and calls on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.

[swmr545]

October 20, 2004 -

Missouri high school student Brad Mathewson disciplined for wearing pro gay T-shirt to class.

[bishmasterb]

Is October almost over yet?

[camay2327]

I was wondering the same thing???

[Chad Vander Veen]

Don't worry, November is Gay Heritage month, followed by Gay Admiration month in December. And, the whole of 2006 is Gay Celebration year where we count down the 365 most celebrated gay leaders.

[ngilbert]

And, the whole of 2006 is Gay Celebration year where we count down the 365 most celebrated gay leaders.

Hmmm. 365? I don't think there's 365 of any kind of celebrated leader. You'd have to really scratch the bottom of the barrel. I think toward the end of the year you'd start seeing things like:

November 15: Today we celebrate Dick Sargent. Or Dick York. Not sure which actually, but one of the guys who played Darren on Bewitched was definitely gay. And so we celebrated Mr Sargent.... or York... or whomever.

[swmr545]

Don't worry, November is Gay Heritage month, followed by Gay Admiration month in December. And, the whole of 2006 is Gay Celebration year where we count down the 365 most celebrated gay leaders.

In that case, thanks to Rock Hudson for making President Regan finally focus on the AIDS crisis. Not to mention Matthew Shepard in bringing about the national attention of hate crimes against LGBT people.

Thanks to those drag queens that rioted at Stonewall that kicked off the national movement of equal rights for the LGBT community. Many thanks to those who organized the AIDS Quilt, the protests on the streets in response to the government's inaction about HIV/AIDS.

Many thanks to all those people that have come before me and worked in tougher times in order to make them more accepting. Thanks to Cher for being an awesomely fabulous gay icon, same goes for all those DJ's who do remixes so we can dance to 'em in clubs. Thanks to the disco era and Greenday for being gay friendly.

Thanks to Robin Williams and the many other actors/actresses that have played the role of a LGBT person to TV/movies. Thanks to the actors/actresses that are openly gay.

Thanks to all those youth/adults that come out to themselves and others each and every day around the world.

And thanks to all those straight peope who aren't so narrow minded and bigotted/biased against the LGBT community.

[Farley]

Kansas cannot punish illegal underage sex more severely if it involves homosexual conduct, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday in a case watched by national groups on both sides of the gay rights debate.

The Supreme Court said in a unanimous ruling that a law that specified such harsher treatment and led to a 17-year prison sentence for an 18-year-old defendant "suggests animus toward teenagers who engage in homosexual sex."

"Moral disapproval of a group cannot be a legitimate state interest," said Justice Marla Luckert, writing for the high court.

The defendant, Matthew R. Limon, has been behind bars since he was convicted in 2000 of performing a sex act on a 14-year-old boy. Had one of them been a girl, the state's "Romeo and Juliet" law would have dictated a maximum sentence of 15 months.

The court said Limon should be resentenced within 30 days as if the law treated illegal gay sex and illegal straight sex the same, and it struck language from the law that resulted in the different treatment.

http://news.yahoo.co..._us/sodomy_case

[nhardy]

And thanks to all those straight peope who aren't so narrow minded and bigotted/biased against the LGBT community.

Thanks to the LGBT community for constantly carpet bombing their agenda on the rest of the world.

[swmr545]

Judge Nixes Ex-Gay Injunction
by The Associated Press

Posted: October 22, 2005 11:00 am ET


(Memphis, Tennessee) A federal judge has refused to allow Love In Action ministry, which claims to counsel gay clients to turn straight, to continue "treating people".

An injunction was sought against an order from the state Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities, which found that the organization's two Memphis facilities were controlling patients' access to their prescription medication and thus needed to be licensed as a mental health facility. (story)

Love In Action International Inc. has sued the state to oppose being required to get a license. It claims that the facility did not restrict access to medication, but kept it in a central location to prevent theft and tampering. The ministry is being represented by the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based Christian legal organization, that regularly fights gay rights issues.

U.S. District Judge Bernice Donald denied the motion Friday, The Commercial Appeal reported.

"We're still very encouraged and we believe the court will eventually rule in our favor," said Nathan Kellum, counsel for LIA. "There are no disputed facts, it's just a question of the state misapplying the statute of licensure."

Love In Action's stated mission is "the prevention or remediation of unhealthy and destructive behaviors facing families, adults and adolescents," including promiscuity, pornography and homosexuality.

The company has drawn protests from gay rights advocates, who Love In Action claims were instrumental in getting the state to inspect the facility and push for its closing.

The Love In Action organization came to national attention earlier this year when a teenager complained he was being sent to the facility by his parents in an attempt to "turn him straight."

On his web log 16-year-old from Bartlett, Tenn., and said his parents "tell me that there is something psychologically wrong with me. ... I'm a big screwup to them, who isn't on the path God wants me to be on. So I'm sitting here in tears ... and I can't help it." (story)

©365Gay.com 2005

[swmr545]

October 22, 1870 -

Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover behind Oscar Wilde's legal trouble, is born near London.

[camay2327]

Is October over yet??????

[swmr545]

October 23, 2002 -

Pioneering gay activist Harry Hay dies. A founder and architect of the modern gay rights movement in 1950, Hay and four others formed one of the nation's first gay rights organizations, the Mattachine Society.

[swmr545]

Vatican Synod Waffles On Barring Gay-Friendly Politicians From Sacrament
by Malcolm Thornberry 365Gay.com European Bureau Chief

Posted: October 23, 2005 12:01 am ET



(Vatican City) Catholic bishops meeting in Vatican City for the first synod led by newly anointed Pope Benedict XVI have turned down a proposal that would have seen priests refuse communion to politicians who pass laws supporting same-sex marriage and other measures that violate church doctrine.

Instead, the synod of more than 250 bishops from around the world decided to leave the issue to local bishops.

Had the measure passed it would have meant Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who legalized same-sex marriage in their countries, and about a dozen American politicians who support gay marriage - including San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom who issued marriage licenses last year to same-sex couples - would have been refused the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church.

http://www.365gay.co...2305vatican.htm

[swmr545]

October 24, 1981 -

The first National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Aging was held in California.