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NYC judge refuses to grant mayor Michael Bloomberg an injunction to prevent a law going into effect to force companies doing business with the city to provide domestic partner benefits.
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Posted 26 October 2005 - 06:17 AM
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Posted 26 October 2005 - 06:24 AM
QUOTE(swmr545 @ Oct 26 2005, 07:17 AM)
October 26, 2004 -
NYC judge refuses to grant mayor Michael Bloomberg an injunction to prevent a law going into effect to force companies doing business with the city to provide domestic partner benefits.
NYC judge refuses to grant mayor Michael Bloomberg an injunction to prevent a law going into effect to force companies doing business with the city to provide domestic partner benefits.
swmr you are just copy-n-pasting text from the "Today In History" section on 365gay.com. I believe that is against the rules here. We can all read a website. If you want to have a discussion then fine, but the copy-n-pasting is getting old.
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Posted 26 October 2005 - 06:25 AM
QUOTE(randb @ Oct 26 2005, 07:24 AM)
swmr you are just copy-n-pasting text from the "Today In History" section on 365gay.com. I believe that is against the rules here. We can all read a website. If you want to have a discussion then fine, but the copy-n-pasting is getting old.
Yeah, that's a good point. Swmr, we all get what your doing. Please keep this sort of thing to a minimum.
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Posted 26 October 2005 - 07:02 AM
QUOTE(ngilbert @ Oct 25 2005, 02:10 PM)
I actually managed to get my hands on a copy of the gay agenda.
Let's see here - they spent like a half an hour going over the minutes from the last meeting. Then they broke for a 15 minute smoke break. Then guest speaker Ted Allen went over tips for buying the perfect bell pepper, which sounds kinda cool.
Another smoke break.
Then they went over the super-secret gay recruitment numbers for 2005 and a quick overview of some classified "Project Spongebob" and then another smoke.... hey. Waitaminute! You're onto something here!
Let's see here - they spent like a half an hour going over the minutes from the last meeting. Then they broke for a 15 minute smoke break. Then guest speaker Ted Allen went over tips for buying the perfect bell pepper, which sounds kinda cool.
Another smoke break.
Then they went over the super-secret gay recruitment numbers for 2005 and a quick overview of some classified "Project Spongebob" and then another smoke.... hey. Waitaminute! You're onto something here!
That got me thiking...we really need to develop a gay conference call bingo.
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Posted 26 October 2005 - 09:25 AM
Houston Comets forward Sheryl Swoopes is opening up about being a lesbian, telling a magazine that she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about."
Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, told ESPN The Magazine for a story on newsstands Wednesday that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model.
"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."
Swoopes, who was married and has an 8-year-old son, said her 1999 divorce "wasn't because I'm gay."
She said her reason for coming out now is merely because she wants to be honest.
"It's not something that I want to throw in people's faces. I'm just at a point in my life where I'm tired of having to pretend to be somebody I'm not," the 34-year-old Swoopes said. "I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love."
http://news.yahoo.co...oopes_comes_out
Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, told ESPN The Magazine for a story on newsstands Wednesday that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model.
"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."
Swoopes, who was married and has an 8-year-old son, said her 1999 divorce "wasn't because I'm gay."
She said her reason for coming out now is merely because she wants to be honest.
"It's not something that I want to throw in people's faces. I'm just at a point in my life where I'm tired of having to pretend to be somebody I'm not," the 34-year-old Swoopes said. "I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love."
http://news.yahoo.co...oopes_comes_out
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 07:00 AM
October 28, 2005
Sulu is gay, Trekkies "Stunned"
George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.
Reaction from the Trekkie-American community was mixed. Said Tim Johnson, 45, of Redondo Beach, CA, "I'm stunned. Like someone has just shot me with a Type II Original Series phaser set to level four stun setting. That's the level right before kill and can incapacitate an adult male Klingon for up to five hours. That's how stunned I am."
From his parents' basement in Long Island, NY, 39 year-old Ron Gold echoed Johnson's reaction, "I probably have the same feeling that Commodore Decker of the USS Constellation had when he realized the tritanium-hulled doomsday device from the Andromeda Galaxy had overloaded his ships warp drive! We all are aware of Lt. Sulu's love of botany, as shown in the episode "Shore Leave" and also his love of fencing, as shown in the classic "The Naked Time" and I guess now we know he loves other guys too."
The 68-year-old Takai said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years.
Most of Takai's devoted long-time fans expressed support for the actor. Said Sam "Romulan" Romney, 48, of Atlanta, GA, "I think Gene Roddenbery's vision of the future is one of inclusiveness and the human struggle to achieve. And just because Mr. Takai hasn't found a girlfriend yet, he shouldn't give up hope. Look at me. I haven't given up hope."
Sulu is gay, Trekkies "Stunned"
George Takei, who as helmsman Sulu steered the Starship Enterprise through three television seasons and six movies, has come out as a homosexual in the current issue of Frontiers, a biweekly Los Angeles magazine covering the gay and lesbian community.
Reaction from the Trekkie-American community was mixed. Said Tim Johnson, 45, of Redondo Beach, CA, "I'm stunned. Like someone has just shot me with a Type II Original Series phaser set to level four stun setting. That's the level right before kill and can incapacitate an adult male Klingon for up to five hours. That's how stunned I am."
From his parents' basement in Long Island, NY, 39 year-old Ron Gold echoed Johnson's reaction, "I probably have the same feeling that Commodore Decker of the USS Constellation had when he realized the tritanium-hulled doomsday device from the Andromeda Galaxy had overloaded his ships warp drive! We all are aware of Lt. Sulu's love of botany, as shown in the episode "Shore Leave" and also his love of fencing, as shown in the classic "The Naked Time" and I guess now we know he loves other guys too."
The 68-year-old Takai said he and his partner, Brad Altman, have been together for 18 years.
Most of Takai's devoted long-time fans expressed support for the actor. Said Sam "Romulan" Romney, 48, of Atlanta, GA, "I think Gene Roddenbery's vision of the future is one of inclusiveness and the human struggle to achieve. And just because Mr. Takai hasn't found a girlfriend yet, he shouldn't give up hope. Look at me. I haven't given up hope."
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 08:19 AM
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 08:41 AM
QUOTE(Farley @ Oct 26 2005, 10:25 AM)
Houston Comets forward Sheryl Swoopes is opening up about being a lesbian, telling a magazine that she's "tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about."
Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, told ESPN The Magazine for a story on newsstands Wednesday that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model.
"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."
Swoopes, who was married and has an 8-year-old son, said her 1999 divorce "wasn't because I'm gay."
She said her reason for coming out now is merely because she wants to be honest.
"It's not something that I want to throw in people's faces. I'm just at a point in my life where I'm tired of having to pretend to be somebody I'm not," the 34-year-old Swoopes said. "I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love."
http://news.yahoo.co...oopes_comes_out
Swoopes, honored last month as the WNBA's Most Valuable Player, told ESPN The Magazine for a story on newsstands Wednesday that she didn't always know she was gay and fears that coming out could jeopardize her status as a role model.
"Do I think I was born this way? No," Swoopes said. "And that's probably confusing to some, because I know a lot of people believe that you are."
Swoopes, who was married and has an 8-year-old son, said her 1999 divorce "wasn't because I'm gay."
She said her reason for coming out now is merely because she wants to be honest.
"It's not something that I want to throw in people's faces. I'm just at a point in my life where I'm tired of having to pretend to be somebody I'm not," the 34-year-old Swoopes said. "I'm tired of having to hide my feelings about the person I care about. About the person I love."
http://news.yahoo.co...oopes_comes_out
a lesbian in the WNBA. Now that's a shock! In other news the earth really is round and the pope IS catholic.
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Posted 28 October 2005 - 09:41 AM
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a lesbian in the WNBA. Now that's a shock! In other news the earth really is round and the pope IS catholic.
Yeah, but Sulu is gay? In the words of the immortal Christopher Lowell... Who knew?
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Professional sports needs a parade of modern-day Pee Wee Reeses. It needs locker rooms full of men who would do what Reese did for his teammate, Jackie Robinson, when some Neanderthal fans in Cincinnati were jeering him over the color of his skin.
Reese wrapped his arm around Robinson in a forever show of humanity, and baseball's first black ballplayer would say he'd never again feel alone and isolated on a big-league field.
Are today's athletes man enough to embrace their first male peer to publicly disclose his homosexuality while in the prime of his team-sport career?
"It's not the fans the gay player is probably worried about," said Yvette Christofilis, executive director of The Loft, a gay and lesbian community services center based in White Plains. "If it was just the fans, more men and women would be coming out.
"I think it's the locker room, the organizations, the leaderships and the advertisers. I think most fans would applaud it."
So do I. So does a pitcher who was there the day Reese pulled Robinson in tight and made him a Dodger, a brother, for all the world to see.
"I don't think a gay player would have as much trouble as Jackie had," Ralph Branca said. "I think today's society is more accepting."
The day an active player in the NFL, NBA, NHL or major league baseball follows Sheryl Swoopes's lead and calls a news conference that would serve as the antidote to Mike Piazza's I'm-not-gay press briefing will be a great day in the history of American sports. That man, whoever and wherever he is, will stand with Robinson as a credit to his race, the human race.
Here's hoping that brave pioneer steps forward sooner rather than later. Here's thinking that fans shouldn't hold their breath waiting for him to show.
"He will break down barriers," Christofilis said, "and he will be broken down with the barriers. He'll be buried with the barriers. For a man to come out while he's still playing, he'd probably have to be in a very dark spot where it's his only option."
Christofilis was only saying what everyone knew long before Swoopes, MVP of the WNBA, outed herself the other day: It's much different for a male athlete. Much more dangerous. There are endorsements to imperil, teammates to frighten, jobs to lose.
http://news.yahoo.co...lbebravepioneer
Reese wrapped his arm around Robinson in a forever show of humanity, and baseball's first black ballplayer would say he'd never again feel alone and isolated on a big-league field.
Are today's athletes man enough to embrace their first male peer to publicly disclose his homosexuality while in the prime of his team-sport career?
"It's not the fans the gay player is probably worried about," said Yvette Christofilis, executive director of The Loft, a gay and lesbian community services center based in White Plains. "If it was just the fans, more men and women would be coming out.
"I think it's the locker room, the organizations, the leaderships and the advertisers. I think most fans would applaud it."
So do I. So does a pitcher who was there the day Reese pulled Robinson in tight and made him a Dodger, a brother, for all the world to see.
"I don't think a gay player would have as much trouble as Jackie had," Ralph Branca said. "I think today's society is more accepting."
The day an active player in the NFL, NBA, NHL or major league baseball follows Sheryl Swoopes's lead and calls a news conference that would serve as the antidote to Mike Piazza's I'm-not-gay press briefing will be a great day in the history of American sports. That man, whoever and wherever he is, will stand with Robinson as a credit to his race, the human race.
Here's hoping that brave pioneer steps forward sooner rather than later. Here's thinking that fans shouldn't hold their breath waiting for him to show.
"He will break down barriers," Christofilis said, "and he will be broken down with the barriers. He'll be buried with the barriers. For a man to come out while he's still playing, he'd probably have to be in a very dark spot where it's his only option."
Christofilis was only saying what everyone knew long before Swoopes, MVP of the WNBA, outed herself the other day: It's much different for a male athlete. Much more dangerous. There are endorsements to imperil, teammates to frighten, jobs to lose.
http://news.yahoo.co...lbebravepioneer
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 06:47 AM
Since it's Halloween, here's a little factoid from last year....
At the Castro Halloween Street Party in San Francisco, two party goers were stabbed to death. This happening in a place where this event has been going on for many years and most people that are attending aren't narrow minded against those that are members of the LGBT community.
Also, a little question for you guys...if you were serving on a jury for a murder case and the defendant made the "gay panic" defense, would you let him off? A recent trial happened where a man went on a date with a woman, only to later find out she was pre-op transgender. He stabbed her 17 times to her death, later to be found "not guilty" due to the gay panic defense.
For those of you who don't know, "gay panic" is where you go temporarily insane because you are so shocked by the fact you were with a gay person.
At the Castro Halloween Street Party in San Francisco, two party goers were stabbed to death. This happening in a place where this event has been going on for many years and most people that are attending aren't narrow minded against those that are members of the LGBT community.
Also, a little question for you guys...if you were serving on a jury for a murder case and the defendant made the "gay panic" defense, would you let him off? A recent trial happened where a man went on a date with a woman, only to later find out she was pre-op transgender. He stabbed her 17 times to her death, later to be found "not guilty" due to the gay panic defense.
For those of you who don't know, "gay panic" is where you go temporarily insane because you are so shocked by the fact you were with a gay person.
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 11:37 AM
QUOTE(swmr545 @ Oct 31 2005, 07:47 AM)
For those of you who don't know, "gay panic" is where you go temporarily insane because you are so shocked by the fact you were with a gay person.
Does that defense really work?
Can you stab a straight guy and claim that they *just* told you they were gay, and the shock and panic caused you to kill them.
If so, that could come in real handy!
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 01:19 PM
QUOTE(mylo @ Oct 31 2005, 12:37 PM)
Does that defense really work?
Can you stab a straight guy and claim that they *just* told you they were gay, and the shock and panic caused you to kill them.
If so, that could come in real handy!
Can you stab a straight guy and claim that they *just* told you they were gay, and the shock and panic caused you to kill them.
If so, that could come in real handy!
Depends on what you "stab" them with
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Posted 31 October 2005 - 01:45 PM
QUOTE(swmr545 @ Oct 31 2005, 06:47 AM)
Since it's Halloween, here's a little factoid from last year....
At the Castro Halloween Street Party in San Francisco, two party goers were stabbed to death. This happening in a place where this event has been going on for many years and most people that are attending aren't narrow minded against those that are members of the LGBT community.
Also, a little question for you guys...if you were serving on a jury for a murder case and the defendant made the "gay panic" defense, would you let him off? A recent trial happened where a man went on a date with a woman, only to later find out she was pre-op transgender. He stabbed her 17 times to her death, later to be found "not guilty" due to the gay panic defense.
For those of you who don't know, "gay panic" is where you go temporarily insane because you are so shocked by the fact you were with a gay person.
At the Castro Halloween Street Party in San Francisco, two party goers were stabbed to death. This happening in a place where this event has been going on for many years and most people that are attending aren't narrow minded against those that are members of the LGBT community.
Also, a little question for you guys...if you were serving on a jury for a murder case and the defendant made the "gay panic" defense, would you let him off? A recent trial happened where a man went on a date with a woman, only to later find out she was pre-op transgender. He stabbed her 17 times to her death, later to be found "not guilty" due to the gay panic defense.
For those of you who don't know, "gay panic" is where you go temporarily insane because you are so shocked by the fact you were with a gay person.
1. Do you have any source material regarding this case?
2. I wouldn't let him off, but it might alter the severity of the sentence I was prepared to give him. That is one f'd up thing to do to a person. Yet another reason I contend that trasnsexuals are crazy as a s---house rats and should be locked up in an asylum.
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