http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/nom-deeply-offended-by-booksellers-it-getteth-better-marketing-video/news/2011/11/04/29640
NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, is deeply offended by bookseller Simon & Schuster’s viral “It Getteth Better” cartoon video that pokes fun at religious anti-gay bigots.
http://www.kgan.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kgan_vid_8632.shtml
MARION, IA (KGAN) — A last minute attack ad has surfaced in the race for Senate District 18 in Marion. The ad comes as a phone call and a number of voters called CBS 2 & FOX 28 about the messages. With the election on Tuesday the ad comes just in time to try and swing votes. Andrea Jilovec was one voter who received the call.
“I was shocked, I was dismayed, and I think it’s one of the worst phone calls I have ever received,” she says.
The caller says the message is sponsored by the Citizens for Honesty and Sound Marriage in Iowa and it targets Liz Mathis and her stance on same-sex marriage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/gay-mormon-conference-circling-the-wagons_n_1079891.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
Circling the Wagons, a three-day conference for LGBTQ and same-sex attraction Mormons, explored the issues surrounding sexuality and religion in Salt Lake City, Utah, this weekend.
The event, which attracted more than 300 participants of varying faiths, was sponsored by Mormon Stories and the Open Stories Foundation, organizations with no official affiliation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, according to the Deseret News. The conference featured speakers as various as bishops, therapists, authors and poets and was aimed a providing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and same-sex attracted persons and their families a place where they can “gather to acknowledge, explore and honor shared experiences.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/basketball-wives-evelyn-lozada-chad-ochocinco-257313?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Evelyn Lozada, star of VH1’s hit reality series Basketball Wives, has signed a six-figure deal to develop literary and feature film projects, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/service-academy-gay-cadets_n_1070094.html?ir=Gay+Voices
WASHINGTON — At the nation’s service academies, gay cadets and midshipmen are now free to live the same out lives as their friends at civilian schools. But even as the academies express firm support, the future officers are taking only cautious steps in an environment they say is still challenging for the openly gay.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-senator-bullying-bill_n_1073928.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
The Republican-led Michigan Senate passed a new bill requiring state school districts to implement anti-bullying policies, but one Democratic senator believes specifics of the legislation don’t go far enough.
Known as Matt’s Safe School Law, the bill effectively bans harassment in schools and requires every district to have an anti-bullying policy. The law was inspired by Matt Epling, a Michigan teen who committed suicide shortly after an anti-gay hazing incident.
http://www.divamag.co.uk/category/lifestyle/interview-with-transgender-politician-sarah-brown.aspx#.TrEhdF_YWg0.twitter
The only openly trans politician in Britain, Cambridge City Councillor Sarah Brown recently came in at number 28 in the Independent on Sunday’s annual Pink List.
How does it feel to be voted as the most influential trans person in the country?
I’m still recovering from the shock really! I’m thrilled and really, really humbled, it’s just an amazing feeling and I want to thank the judges and everybody who nominated me. I’ve been joking with all my friends that I’m on top of Gok Wan!
http://gawker.com/5855949/
Ben Clifford Dawson is an 83-year-old resident of Centerville, Iowa who is running for city council. He is also a prostitute! At least according to police who arrested Dawson on Wednesday after a 10-day investigation concluded he “offered to perform sex acts on a woman in exchange for repayment of a loan” and then “began kissing her neck without consent.” By the looks of his mugshot, he enjoyed it.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/03/swimming-world-thorpe-idUSL4E7M319X20111103
Ian Thorpe’s bold attempt to take part in the 2012 London Games after a five-year retirement is more likely to end in failure than a fairytale gold, the Australian swimmer said on Thursday.
Australia’s most successful Olympian will return to the pool for the first time since 2006 to race in the 100 metre individual medley on Friday at the two-day Singapore leg of the World Cup ahead of the Australian Olympic trials in March.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/11/03/gates-zuckerberg-page-and-brin-make-forbes-most-powerful-people-list/?awesm=tnw.to_1BfyQ&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=tnw.to-other&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=spreadus_master
As technology companies continue to benefit from the boom in smartphone, social network and computer use, their founders are finding with the billions of dollars their company makes, they begin to exert power not only financially but in influencing huge numbers of people around the world.
Forbes has put together its list of ‘The World’s Most Powerful People’, including 70 individuals that it believes really “matter”. The list, published yesterday, puts politicians, religious leaders and tech founders together, ranking them in terms of how much influence they have over people.