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The Advocate.com:
Connecticut Gets Married - This weekend, all 50 states participated in protests against the passing of antigay legislation in California, Arizona, Arkansas, and Florida...
Connecticut Rings In - Now that the Constitution State has become the third in the nation to extend marriage equality, what’s next?
Supreme Beings - There are innumerable reasons to head to the polls this November. The most important? The future of the United States Supreme Court...
Olivia Cruises: Out to Sea - Having charted the challenging waters of lesbian entertainment and travel for 35 years, you’d think business would at last be smooth...
The Bush dodger returns - After almost two years of living with her Canadian partner in that gay-friendly nation just north of Buffalo, an American lesbian faces her own shame at not fighting back and decides to return to the U.S. of A...
RawStory.com:
Lack of funds may force group to return imperiled gay Iraqis to the streets - Iraq’s lesbian, gay and transgendered residents have become an all-too frequent target of that occupied nation’s lawlessness.
Soldier faces threats from military after refusing anthrax vaccine - A soldier serving in Iraq who is stationed in Baghdad says he has faced "threats" and "intimidation" from his Army superiors – including the possibility of forced inoculations – after he refused to take the military’s controversial anthrax vaccine.
Citing shortage of armored humvees, Army has soldiers train on simulators - U.S. Army bases have begun to use computer simulators to familiarize soldiers with combat driving techniques for the "up-armored" Humvee because the military has not provided enough of the vehicles to allow for troop training, a RAW STORY investigation has found.
Pentagon conducting research into adverse effects of anthrax vaccine while maintaining it is safe. The Pentagon resumed its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program for selected troops last week despite the fact that its own doctors are quietly conducting research into adverse effects of the vaccine...
Bush-'connected' drug company obtained anthrax vaccine contracts despite side effects. Two former high-ranking health officials with close ties to the Bush administration helped a Michigan-based pharmaceutical company secure sole-source, multi-million dollar federal contracts for the purchase of its controversial anthrax vaccine, a RAW STORY investigation has found...
'Shocking' program could carve $60 million out of HIV/AIDS prevention budget over next three years. A little-known initiative added to the recently-renewed Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Act will divert $60 million from the Center for Disease Control’s HIV/AIDS prevention budget over the next three years into a fund for which no states actually qualify...
Minority AIDS Initiative threatened by funding changes. Funding for a federal grant program to help city and states fight rising HIV infection rates within minority communities has been suspended only days before the Center for Disease Control released a report calling for a “heightened response” to the “major health crisis” of HIV/AIDS in African American communities...
Alternet.org:
Rachel Maddow: Out on Air America, shaking up the airwaves. A rising progressive voice amid the straight, white male-dominated conservative echo chamber that is talk radio -- has become an important pillar in Air America Radio's daily line up and relaunch last month as the host of the highly rated "The Rachel Maddow Show"
PageOneQ.com:
Accused army soldier will complete military term - A soldier with an exemplary service record will be allowed to finish out the remainder of his term after he was apparently targeted for dismissal by his Army superiors because they think that he is gay.
Without proof, military targets man assumed to be gay - After enduring months of homophobic harassment and slurs, a decorated soldier with an exemplary service record may have been targeted for dismissal by his Army superiors because they think that he is gay.
Marriage equality advocates gear up for battles in New England, other states - Equal marriage advocates in Connecticut and Vermont are gearing up for what could be an intense battle over proposed bills to extend marriage rights to the states' same-sex couples.
Gay City News.com:
Tears of Joy in Connecticut - Tears were Barbara LeCornec's eyes as she watched her friends, a gay couple together for more than seven years, become one of the first to enter into a civil union in the state of Connecticut last Saturday morning...
Metroline-online.com:
Kathy Griffin - Cutting The Bold & The Beautiful Down - There is no one quite like Kathy Griffin. Brave, brash, fearless and funny, the talented comedienne cuts the bold and the beautiful down to size with all the prize-fighting wit and zip of a comedic Ali...
Xtra, Capital Xtra, Xtra West:
Neurosyphilis cases up across Canada and US - Public health officials point to lax safer-sex practices - There has recently been a sharp increase of reported local cases of neurosyphilis, a syphilis infection of the brain and spinal cord that most commonly affects HIV-positive people. There has been an increase in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver, primarily among men who have sex with men (MSM).
Crystal meth linked to rising STI rates - Ottawa Educators focus on harm reduction strategies - The recent rise in sexually transmitted infection rates among gay men in Canada and the US has alarmed many health and wellness workers in the queer community...
R u free 2 chat? Sexual health campaigning goes on-line - With on-line chatrooms and forums quickly becoming the rest stops of choice for gay men cruising for sex, health and wellness workers are looking for innovative ways to reach those logged on and at risk...
Asexuals want out - A lack of sexual desire can be its own identity - "I realized that I was asexual the same way I realized that I was short, because people started growing taller than me," says Cijay Morgan...
HIV super strain debunked - Three more men have been identified as having a drug-resistant form of HIV similar to the one at the centre of last spring's New York City's "supervirus" media storm, but a Connecticut doctor says it isn't a new superstrain...
New epidemic or flawed research? - AIDS activists, scientists, health professionals and media pundits have been dwelling on the same question for weeks now. Has a gay, middle-aged New York City man contracted a new HIV super strain or not?...
Supreme Court Gives Same-Sex Marriage the Go-Ahead - Radiating palpable jubilation and relief, Gianluca Ragazzini stood beside long-time partner Dan Miller in the middle of the newly-polished marbled lobby of the Supreme Court Of Canada (SCC)...
Film festival’s mysterious finances - The Making Scenes Queer Film And Video Festival has vanished without a trace: no files, no films, no records, no money, no executive director — and now, no remaining board members...
Pride Committee Of Ottawa is $100,000 in debt - Under the crushing weight of a six-figure deficit and amid a bitter leadership battle, the Pride Committee Of Ottawa has somehow managed to dodge another bullet...
Melissa Etheridge - Love and marriage lost and found - When Melissa Etheridge rolls into town later this month to play two live shows at the Le Théâtre du Casino du Lac-Leamy, she will have just celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary with actress Tammy Lynn Michaels...
Sex, marriage & politics - Although the date for the next general election is still up in the air, candidates for Ottawa Centre are already fighting for the riding’s coveted parliamentary seat...
kdlang - Exploring her “musical DNA” - Although she began her career pushing musical boundaries and people’s homophobic buttons, these days kd lang — Canada’s most famous and successful lesbian export — finds herself pushing around a cartful of musical awards and accolades from around the world...
Mainstream Press
Arts and Leisure:
She can't keep from singing - Ever since she was old enough to walk and talk, Lisa Piccirillo has been lending her voice to song...
Richard Bloom returns to his musical roots - When Richard Bloom was a young musician living in New York City in the early 1980s, he was part of the lively Lower East Side’s artistic community...
The Wilton Bulletin:
‘WORLD TRADE CENTER’: Accountant’s heroic 911 journey part of new film - It was an early September morning when David Karnes received a call from his sister as he sat working in his Deloitte & Touche office in Wilton. His sister had called from her home in Pittsburgh to tell the then-former Marine that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan...
Former Wiltonians recount their escape from Katrina - After the heavy winds and rain of Hurricane Katrina blew out of New Orleans the evening of Monday, Aug. 29, many of the city’s residents let out a sigh of relief...
Gould disputes merits of conflict charges - A resident who filed a conflict of interest investigation request with the Council on Ethics regarding Second Selectman Marilyn Gould is “misinformed,” according to Ms. Gould...
Folk-rock duo takes center stage Sunday - When Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irions decided to write and record an album together last year it seemed like the natural thing to do...
‘Walken2008’ Web site is a hoax - Could it be that one of Wilton’s most well-known and recognizable residents has thrown his hat into the ring for a run at the White House...
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