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marching for PFC Bradley Manning at SF Pride
honoring whistleblower Bradley Manning at the SF Gay Pride event of June 30...
Posted: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 12:08am PDT
No longer
Proposition 8, known informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 California state elections. The proposition was created by opponents of same-sex marriage in advance of the California Supreme Court's previous ruling in In re Marriage Cases" which legalize same-sex marriage, overriding the statute (Proposition 22 in 2000) by ruling it unconstitutional....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2013 4:05pm PDT
Boycott SF Gay Pride, Part II
Party Your Heads Off...After all it's the land of the free and home of the brave?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 7:10pm PDT
2 Gay Rights Supreme Court Victories
Almost 44 years after Stonewall, when black and Puerto Rican drag queens fought back against a police raid of the Stonewall Bar in New York City, gay marriage is now legal in California as Prop 8 was overturned and the 1996 anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act was struck down, proving all of the gay pride marches and demonstrations these past 44 years have finally delivered the message to the ruling class that the gay liberation struggle must be recognized as a civil rights struggle....
Posted: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 8:30am PDT
Boycott SF Gay Pride
It's Time to Stand Up By Not Showing Up...
Posted: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:12pm PDT
Local LGBT Podcast Featured in International Live Broadcast Event for Pride Month
Local LGBT-produced internet radio show (or “podcast”) The Instant Gratification Podcast has been selected to participate in the 5th anniversary live broadcast of “Pride 48,” a 48-hour broadcast of LGBT-produced and LGBT-friendly podcasts celebrating Pride Month. Starting on the evening of Friday June 14th and running through Sunday June 16th, an assortment of shows will be hosting special live internet broadcasts. Topics of selected shows include comedy, political talk, pop culture, music, a...
Posted: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 12:55pm PDT
Will San Francisco Pride allow nudists?
Will SF Pride 2013 be "unabashedly progressive" ?
Let's hope so!
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Posted: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 5:22pm PDT
LGBTQ PRIDE - Nike Smashed in Portland in Memory of Late Trans Women
As LGBTQ Pride approaches, in the spirit of May Day 2012 in Seattle, the Nike store alongside a major street in Portland, Oregon had about half of its front windows smashed out with a baseball bat late in the night a few weeks ago....
Posted: Sun, May 26, 2013 6:29am PDT
The SF LGBT Pride Committee Has Nothing to Be Proud of Over Bradley Manning
Glenn Greenwald’s article in The Guardian titled “Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride parade, but corporate sleaze is embraced” (4/27/13) has internationally publicized the cowardly decision of the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration Committee to rescind its election of political prisoner U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning as a Grand Marshal of the annual Gay Pride Parade. Manning is the gay service member charged with giving WikiLeaks thousands of classi...
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 8:06pm PDT
San Francisco gay pride rescinds honour for Bradley Manning-Bows To Gay Militarists
Bowing to pro-war gay militarists the Pride Board rescinded honoring of Bradley Manning...
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 10:48pm PDT
SF Pride No Longer Represents Transgender Community?
It is common knowledge that SF Pride rejected Bradley Manning, as a Grand Marshal for this years' celebration. It is believed that Bradley Manning is transgender. Many people in the United States say he is a hero, while some view him as a traitor.
Even though veteran Grand Marshals voted him in, SF Pride President Lisa Williams went on the record and said "it was a mistake and never should have happened."
But what is more disconcerting is that the San Francisco Pride Committee does not appe...
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 7:21pm PDT
Bradley Manning Rejected as Grand Marshal by pro-Obama SF Gay Parade Director
The Obama fans insist on flouting their reactionary, pro-business and pro-war politics everywhere. The latest is the rejection of the appointment of Bradley Manning as a grand marshal at San Francisco's annual gay pride parade on the last Sunday on June. Manning is the heroic young gay military person who embarrassed US imperialism by exposing its lies, but no one was harmed. For that, he should be given the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Nobel Peace Prize....
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 4:58pm PDT
Rights
Being raised by lesbians and being completely normal in family values....
Posted: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 7:23pm PDT
Queer Artists Strike Back at Anti-Gay and Anti-Islamic Ads
Pamela Geller hit a new low with the Islamophobic ads that appeared on SF buses this week. She pretends to care about gay rights, but really she's just trying to use the gay community to promote her hate agenda. Bay Area queers aren't taking it! Queers strike back...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2013 11:47am PDT
LGBT Seniors Face Homophobia and Abuse in At-Risk Housing
On Monday, April 1, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., at San Francisco City Hall Room 412, the Housing Subcommittee of the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force held a hearing on under-reported denial of housing services, including unrelenting eviction threats suffered by LGBT seniors along with homophobic abuse directed at them, mostly by landlords....
Posted: Sun, Apr 7, 2013 4:23pm PDT
Queering Snitches, Landlords, and Bosses? Why Anarchists Must Not Host "Queering Anarchism
We are writing to inform you about concerns we have with the book Queering Anarchism, recently published by AK Press. This is not a critique of the politics within Queering Anarchism, albeit we have many, rather it is to offer you vital information on some of the contributing authors. We believe this information to be damning and contrary to anarchy, anarchism, and revolutionary movements alike....
Posted: Sat, Feb 23, 2013 1:12pm PST
Successful U.S. Businesswoman Forced to Commute to Los Angeles While Family Lives in Exile
American Rita Boyadjian and her German life partner, Mara, met in Cologne, Germany at a European Gay Pride celebration in 2002 while Rita was touring Europe on vacation. They fell madly in love and began a long-distance relationship. After 18-months of flying back and forth every 3 to 4 weeks while visiting on a tourist visa, Mara was able to obtain a student F-1 visa that allowed her to live legally in the U.S. for a four-year Bachelor’s degree program in Los Angeles....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 3:11pm PST
Judy and Karin: Volunteering for Our Cause Leads to a Handshake and a Few Words with Presi
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was to be seated behind us. As she walked in, I talked to her about our issue and shook her hand and thanked her for her efforts thus far. She said "It's in the President's proposal," meaning inclusion of same-sex binational families in comprehensive immigration reform.
...we shook President Obama's hand and reminded him we need his help. What did he say? "We won't forget you! You're in there!"...
Posted: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 11:11am PST
Transgender Rights Push Us All Toward Equality
(The gradual demise of the gender binary is good news for feminism. Roles and stereotypes become harder to pursue as gender identity blurs)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 11:55am PST