News - Entries from December 2005 - Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender (LGBT)

Thursday, December 29. 2005

Voting with Dollars

I really should have followed up on all of the Ford Motor Company Business when it occurred on December 14, 2005. But Big Mouth had all kinds of computer problems and a Navidad Gigante to prepare for (that you can read about on my personal blog), so I apologize for not picking up the slack.

So I'm sure you heard about Ford's retraction - or in their words - reaffirmation of their position. If not, here's their letter to the GLBT organizations that met with them, and here's the Human Rights Campaign's take on it. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that it was indeed a business decision on the part of Jaguar and Land Rover (let's face it, these are mid-life crisis, small penis, straight man cars anyway), and that the ads with all eight Ford lines is a nice goodwill gesture.

While I was on HRC's site, I also noticed this nifty little buying guide that they prepped before the holiday season. Beyond the fact that the page from which you can download the guide disturbingly headlines with the words "Buying for Equality," all of this business about business left me with all kinds of economical thoughts - and I don't mean spare ones, I mean thoughts about actual moolah.

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Friday, December 23. 2005

Poland Elects Anti-Gay President

The homophobic former mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczynski (pictured at far left with his twin brother) was sworn in as Poland's president Friday.

His anti-gay stance prompted the European Union to issue a statement saying "Poland could lose its EU voting rights if its newly elected president continues to oppose gay rights and seeks to introduce the death penalty, the European Commission warned yesterday."

As mayor of Warsaw the staunch conservative and devout Catholic Kaczynski twice banned the Equality Parade calling it "sexually obscene" then authorized a Normality parade in which Polish youth shouted slogans inciting intolerance and homophobia.

Posted by Sascha in News at 14:30 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wednesday, December 14. 2005

Stop US Congress from Criminalizing Gay Couples

The US House of Representatives will vote on a bill Thursday, December 15 that would effecctively turn thousands of lesbian and gay binational couples into criminals overnight.

According to the GLBT immgration group Immigration Equality, "If this legislation passes, U.S. citizens whose non-citizen partners are undocumented would become criminals overnight. Both the immigrant and the U.S. citizen partner could be prosecuted and imprisoned, and have their homes and assets seized"

Immigration Equality is urging people to call or fax their US congressperson to ask them to oppose H.R. 4437
Learn more about H.R. 4437

Find your representative's contact information (look in top left corner).

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Gay Marriage in South Korea

Judge Chung Jae-oh of South Korea has recentlly published a paper calling for Sourth Korea to legalize same-sex mariage and end discrimination.

The paper comes at the heels of a recent Seoul High Court decision to deny alimony to a woman from her lesbian partner on the grounds that "cohabitation of same-sex couples could not be regarded as a virtual marriage. "

Source:GCN Ireland

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