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  Camp for children of gay parents offers acceptance and refuge
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  National
  90% of straight Americans OK with gay co-workers
  An Unwanted But Essential Gay Archive Deteriorates
  Anti-Gay Journo Takes Aim Pitney's "Controversial" Palin Piece
  Bashing victim publishes photos of injuries (DC)
  Clearing Up A Gay Group Scandal
  College Park church target of anti-gay threat (GA)
  Deal Possible in Gay Man's 2007 Murder (NYC)
  Eighth Circuit orders school to give gay rights group equal access (MN)
  Firefighters claim they were sexually harassed at Pride (CA)
  Florida anti-gay amendment faces trouble
  Florida transgender restroom on 2009 ballot
  Gay Atlanta in transit
  Gay bashing victims hold 'love' rally in Logan Circle (DC)
  Gay couple settles lawsuit against University of Hawaii
  Gay Couple too hot for restaurant to handle (TX)
  Gay Dancer Killed by Harbor Police Was Shot in the Back (CA)
  Gay high school planned (IL)
  Gay pride event still a tough sell (UT)
  Healthcare Faith Opt-Out Sought
  Homeless man charged in murder of gay Pace student (NYC)
  Kavanaugh Ad Finances Anti-Gay Web Site (NY)
  Majority of Americans Agree That Transgender Employees Should Be Judged by Job Performance, Not Gender Identity
  Man banned from South End after alleged gay bashing (MA)
  NYC Mayor Ends Resistance on Anti-Bullying Initiative
  Right Wing Alleges Women's Shelters Are Lesbian Predator Hotbeds
  Salt Lake police looking for suspect in beating of gay man
  Suspect in Boston anti-gay attack pleads not guilty
  Transgender Emergency Fund kicks into gear (MA)
  Transgender Singer Files Complaint Over Karaoke Snub (CT)
  University of Hawaii settles gay housing lawsuit
  Victim in homophobic attack seeks pepper spray
  Video: Local gays asked to be "Minnesota-nice" to visiting Republicans
  Violence against gay, lesbian residents sparks new group (KS)
  International
  Australia's gay rights bill promotes polygamy claims opposition
  Belgian married gay couple jailed in Senegal for "acts against nature"
  Bringing equality to gay relationships (AU)
  Concerns voiced about gay ruling (SA)
  Court review of same-sex unions worries Hungary's gay community
  France to call for EU, UN action on women's and gay rights
  Gay and Transgender Victims of Bullying Get New Online Reporting Facility
  Gay contracts for school dance partners (NZ)
  Gay cops get organised in Italy
  Gay man fights for life after homophobic attack
  Gay man stabbed seven times in homophobic knife attack
  Gay Palestinians Suffer National & Personal Trauma
  Gay pirate radio show interferes with Hong Kong air traffic control
  Gay rail guard sacked (AU)
  HIV conference told of sexual abuse of youths in Papua New Guinea
  Homosexuality still illegal in most countries
  Jail for two women in Emirates' first lesbian indecency case
  Lesbian couple in the dock for kissing on Dubai beach
  Lesbian senator calls for same-sex marriage in Australia
  New rules allow religious schools to discriminate
  Norway's Muslim leaders urged to reach out to gays
  Radical gays under surveillance ahead of Papal visit (France)
  School gay support groups barred - youth agency (NZ)
  Security forces to launch Gay association (Italy)
  Taiwanese gay "priest" accused of fraud and sexual assault
  Westminster will not allow a new nightclub on G-A-Y site (UK)
  Marriage Equality
  California prisons prepare for gay weddings
  Court backs New York's recognition of out of state gay marriages
  Study: Gay civil unions may last longer
  Don't Ask Don't Tell
  Two veterans reflect on military's policy on gays
  Proposition 8 in CA
  Poll indicates support for California gay marriage ban is waning
  Turnout will decide gay marriage initiative, reverend says
  Politics
  43 California companies get perfect score on GLBT ranking
  A gay young time in the clubs
  A National Gay Vote Needed For Obama
  AP Misrepresents Obama, McCain Gay Positions
  Area Democratic lawmakers pushed on gay issues (NC)
  Biden called a 'proven advocate' for gay rights
  Conventions Reveal New Positions on Gay Rights
  Creep of the Week: Gov. Sarah Palin
  Former gay ambassador launches new rights group
  Gay Republican group endorses McCain candidacy
  Gay Republicans, Media Incorrectly Repeat Palin's Gay Positions
  GOP CLAIMS PALIN'S TEEN DAUGHTER'S PREGNANCY IS ALL HILLARY'S FAULT
  McCain chief meets with gay Republican group
  No Gay Sex, Please; We're from Virginia
  Palin and gay rights: the straight dope
  Polis criticizes Congress' handling of gay issues 
  Republican Platform: Same Old Anti-Gay Politics
  Republicans about evenly split on legal recognition of gay couples
  Republicans have nothing to offer gay Americans claims HRC
  Virginia delegation rejects Twin Cities guide due to gay tourist content
  Zogby Poll: Americans Would Be OK With a Gay President
  Business
  A&F, Cardinal, Nationwide ranked among top gay-friendly workplaces
  A-B, Bryan Cave, Thompson Coburn among most gay-friendly companies
  Communities pursue gay tourists (NC)
  Coors gets perfect score on GLBT listing
  Corporations Proud To Receive High Marks On Gay Index
  Gay rights organization lauds 5 Rochester-area firms
  Hallmark cards for gay marriages draw criticism from conservative Christian groups
  ING Insurance in New Zealand dumps gay sex questions
  McDonald's boycott organizer cites conference to promote 'gays' (Anti-queer Source)
  New Gay and Lesbian Magazine in Hawaii
  Editorials/Opinion/Blogs/Letters
  Gay rights sends America down slippery slope (Anti-queer)
  It's a nerve-racking day for kids who are queer
  The problem with us gay conservatives
  Actors/Celebrities
  Did Soulja Boy really make a gay sex tape?
  Gay icon Fran Drescher speaks up for same-sex marriage
  Justin Long's In Gay Porn
  Books
  Author's legal thriller addresses gay sex, AIDS in the Black community
  Film
  Czech drama tipped for Queer Lion at Venice film festival
  Documentary Focuses On Southern Gay Life
  Oscar gets his first sip of 'Milk'
  Religion
  Canon says he would quit over gay bishop (UK)
  Firestorm Over Gay Allegations of Esteemed 19th Century Cardinal
  Scots bishops call gay adoption "gravely wrong"
  Welsh Anglicans unlikely to appoint gay man as bishop
  Sports
  2008 Gay Softball World Series Wraps Up in Seattle
  England Win Gay World Cup
  Gay rugby team plays with pride
  Gay Tory attacks Britain's Olympic athletes for going to China
  Gay World Cup organisers hope more women will take up the game
  Swimming straight for inclusion
  Ten years of gridiron gays
  This Gay Week in Sports: Matt Leinart, Michael Phelps
  Travel
  Gay Spain is the place to be
  Hawaii: Kauai
 
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Carol Coombes Joins Film Festivals
Carol Coombes Joins On As Artistic Director of Philadelphia Film Festivals
 
Carol CoombesTLAvideo.com has announced that the award-winning creative force behind the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Carol Coombes, will be joining TLAvideo.com as a Managing Editor.  Coombes will be working to develop and nurture TLAvideo's growing and popular lesbian catalogue. Her position begins in early October, 2008.

"I am delighted to be joining TLAvideo.com as Manager Editor of Lesbian content." Said Coombes. "I am looking forward to working with the terrifically dedicated team at TLAvideo.com."

Additionally, Coombes will serve as the Associate Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Film Festival (www.phillyfests.com), presented by the Philadelphia Film Society.  Her duties will include programming and curating special events for one of the premiere film events on the East Coast, which will run March 26 through April 7, 2009. Her position as Associate Artistic Director is effective immediately to coincide with her attendance at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.

 "I am very excited to have Carol join the TLAvideo.com and Philadelphia Film Festival teams," said Raymond Murray, President of TLA Entertainment Group and Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Film Society. "Her film experience working in London with the British Film Institute and in Miami with the MGLFF is unparalleled. Her success in Miami - in taking a small regional gay/lesbian film festival - and in a few short years, making it one of the most important film festivals in the United States is a testament to her organizational abilities, her vast programming knowledge and overall vision of creating a world class film festival."

The Manchester, England native previously worked with the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, before moving to the United States to work on the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival in 2001;   eventually rising to the position of Director/Program Director.  Coombes brings with her nearly a decade of solid festival work, as well as a lifetime love-affair with cinema. She will be relocating to Philadelphia, headquarters of TLA Entertainment Group and the Philadelphia Film Society in late September.
 
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This week at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis the Log Cabin Republicans' (LCR) national board of directors voted 12-2 to endorse the Republican nominees John McCain and Sarah Palin for President and Vice President of the United States.
 
Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon stated that "on the most important issue that LGBT Americans faced in the last decade-the federal marriage amendment-Sen. John McCain stood with us.  Now we stand with him . . . Sen. McCain is an inclusive Republican who is focusing the GOP on unifying core principles that appeal to independent voters."
 
Sammon would like us to believe that "Sen. McCain showed courage by bucking his own party's leadership and the president-twice voting against the amendment.  He (McCain) gave an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, calling the amendment 'antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans.'"
 
Let's get something very clear. McCain was not standing with the queer community against the federal marriage amendment!  His vote against the amendment was not because of his support of queer rights, it was a vote in support of state's rights; this was the core Republican philosophy McCain was referring to.
 
Here's, for the record, is McCain's complete statement that included "the constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans . . . it usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."
 
Sadly, LCR endorsed candidate is as anti-queer as they come. McCain has a clear record of voting to deny equal rights to queers. He voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation, voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation, and he voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage (Defense of Marriage Act).  McCain also opposes queer adoption.
 
The second half of the endorsed ticket is also not as pro-queer as the LCR would like us to think. They claim that "Palin is an inclusive Republican who will help Sen. McCain appeal to gay and lesbian voters."
 
According the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) President, Joe Solmonese, "Sarah Palin is against recognizing our relationships, against domestic partner benefits, and against hate crimes laws." 
 
HRC also states that while Palin "veto legislation passed by the Alaskan state legislature in 2006 that would have prohibited providing domestic partner benefits to state workers, in defiance of the Alaska Supreme Court's ruling. She did this after the Supreme Court had already ruled and the Attorney General (Republican) advised her that the legislation was unconstitutional. Palin went on to state that, as a matter of policy, she was in favor of the bill."
 
LCR seem to be grasping at straws to find a pro-queer reason to endorse the McCain-Palin ticket but the fact is there isn't one. 
 
What else can be said? LCR have endorsed both an anti-queer Republican platform and anti-queer candidates to lead our country, in doing so they betray the queer individual's right to equality.
 
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"Age isn't a problem if you don't mind it," once remarked the American literary giant Mark Twain. The author of the masterpiece, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," made a lot of sense with a lot of things that he said during his lifetime and, for that matter, even after his death, with many witticisms attributed to him. Fame and celebrity keep going even when one's heartbeat stops.

I realize with getting older myself, so, too, are the many things that have shaped my own life (and some of you should also identify with the point that I'm making) and, more importantly, my own mind.

Andy Warhol - Keith HaringRecently, I wrote in this column two native sons of Pennsylvania and giants of the International art world, each in their own right, were getting older, if they lived that long. Sadly, neither did. Queer graffiti artist Keith Haring would have been 50; queer King of Pop Art Andy Warhol would have been 80.

During the 14th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, we screened "Midnight Cowboy," as it marked its 40th anniversary. Talk about things shaping your own life, I remembered the film like it was yesterday.

Turning 50, "The Leopard," the brilliant "key to Sicily," written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and a best-selling Italian novels of the 20th century, later became a classic 1963 film, brilliantly brought to the big screen by queer director, Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale.

Back to Warhol and talking about things shaping your own mind and, ultimately, my always developing and reshaping of what I (and we) might call a "queer sensibility," I also remember most of the films by Andy Warhol like it was yesterday.

Happily, the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens (it's definitely worth the trip for movie lovers) is honoring Andy Warhol, the filmmaker, with a retrospective of 33 titles, made from 1963-1968. It's titled "Warhol's World."

In response to some of his critics, Warhol retorted, "Our movies may have looked like home movies but then our 'home' wasn't like anybody else's."  Like many queer folks, Warhol created his own extended family at his famous and infamous Factory.

My HustlerThe museum's retrospective will offer such treats as some new prints of titles like "The Chelsea Girls" (1966), "Couch" (1964), "Soap Opera" (1965), "My Hustler" (1965), "Empire" (1964), but only excerpts not the entire eight hours, "Sleep" (1963), only some excerpts again but not the entire five hours and 21 minutes (it'll be enough to get the point of both of these "documentaries" in Warhol's sense.
 
They'll be some even rarer screenings of 472 "Screen Tests" that Warhol shot of Susan Sontag, Lou Reed and other tastemakers of the period along with some "15 minutes of fame" long-forgotten celebrities, and "Beautiful Darling," a work in progress of Candy Darling, directed by Warhol.

"A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory," a documentary about a filmmaker who had been one of Warhol's intimates will also be premiered.

"Factory Girl" Edie Sedgwick, his most famous superstar, will be well represented in "Warhol's World" with screenings of "Vinyl," "Kitchen," "Beauty #2," "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Outer and Inner Space," and "Lupe," a homage to the tragic life and suicide of Hollywood legend, Lupe Velez.

Andy Warhol on the set of Lonesome CowboysLong before "Brokeback Mountain," Warhol directed "Lonesome Cowboys," offering plenty of male flesh and a healthy dose of sexual activity so that the cowpokes didn't get bored (Warhol's favorite pastime) out on the prairie.

In the end, I guess that age really doesn't matter so long as you've left a legacy for others to be reminded of where we've been and what we've done.

 So, maybe I do want to live to be 100! 
 

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Gay-friendly icon Judith Light, actress of "Ugly Betty," "Save Me," a new film with queer actor Chad Allen, and decades-long supporter of GLBT causes, and recently dubbed "the fairy godmother of the gay rights movement," by the editors of Instinct (September 2008), observed, "Working with the Point Foundation, I see young people who are hungry for their history, as well as raising themselves to a place of leadership. And not just in the gay community, but in the world, which is where the power of this community will shine in major ways."

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Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, under the Clinton Administration, told The New York Times (July 6, 2008) in response to the question regarding the reason that "President Bush asked Congress last month to lift the longtime ban on offshore oil drilling: "If I had to guess, I would say that President Bush is very close to the oil companies and wants whatever they want."
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Queer blogger Richard Lawson of "Gawker.com" shared  a little bit of his own personal gay pride with journalist Richard Hamilton in Instinct (September 2008): "I felt the proudest when my beloved home state of Massachusetts became the first in this land to allow gay marriage. I feel proud when I see a gay person who's strong and happy in their convictions, comfortable with their identity. I went to the New York Pride Parade for the first time this June. All of these people just walking around, totally unafraid in their own skin. It's pretty remarkable. And it rubs off on you (heh). I wish that I could like that every day."

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"Our courts have an important role to play in our government, but it is not their role to define American values. That right belongs with the people." Gingrich says in his two minute thirty-nine second appeal. "As you know in 2000 California voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly in favor of legally protecting marriage. Earlier this year four judges overruled the will of the people and declared the law that protected marriage unconstitutional . . . Think about that. Four appointed lawyers - that's all judges are - overruled more than four million California voters."
 
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in a released a video on YouTube urging Californians to vote for Proposition 8 - the constitutional amendment that would make gay marriage in the State illegal once more.  Too bad Gingrich didn't know that in California, Supreme Court judges are elected for twelve year terms - not appointed.
 

 
 
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