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As U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill testifies before Congress today, Iraqi’s security is far from assured. Militias now targetting the socially marginalized could soon take their killing spree mainstream. From: ForeignPolicy.com – BY RASHA MOUMNEH – When my colleague and I sat down last April with Hamid, an Iraqi man from Baghdad, his trauma-induced stutter [...] From: LezGetReal.com – by Paula Brooks – Voicing the ever-increasing concerns and frustrations that many of President Barack Obama’s liberal allies are feeling, Steve Hildebrand, Obama’s deputy campaign manager during last years successful drive for the White House, said Yesterday he is “losing patience” with the White House over issues ranging from Obama’s handling of [...] From: GayRights.Change.org – by Michael A. Jones – Proving that love, tolerance, acceptance and equality don’t have to be mutually exclusive from religion, the Unitarian Universalist Association has launched a brand-spanking new Web site meant to cull together religious voices working hard for equal rights and marriage equality. The site? It’s aptly named [...] From: HealthNews.com – By: Lara Endreszl – Death, even when expected, is hard for anyone to deal with, but a suicidal death is often more difficult for friends, family, and loved ones to fathom. Oftentimes there are warning signs, in the form of depression or a mental illness, and other times suicide seems to strike [...] Supervisor Harvey Milk, left, and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone during the signing of the city’s gay rights bill in 1977. From: The San Francisco Sentinel – BY ERIC BAILEY – The Los Angeles Times – The legacy of Harvey Milk has had a very good year. Three decades after California’s first openly gay elected leader [...] From: Boston.com – By David Sharp – (AP) PORTLAND, Maine—Election officials announced Wednesday that gay marriage foes surpassed the threshold of signatures necessary to put the state law on the November ballot, setting the stage for a furious, two-month campaign that will determine whether the number of states allowing same-sex [...] Scientists were able to isolate two antibodies responsible for resistance to the disease in an African patient. The discovery could be key to the development of a vaccine. From: latimes.com – By Thomas H. Maugh II – After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing [...] From: LezGetReal.com – by Bridgette P. LaVictoire – The ad war in Maine has begun. Maine’s supporters of marriage equality have begun to air ads supporting the defeat of the voter veto attempt which has been largely underwritten by the Catholic Church in Maine and by the National Organization of Marriage from outside the state. [...] From: Huffington Post – by Michael Luongo – Baghdad, Iraq — This is my second time in Baghdad, and I have to admit, overall I have seen a lot of improvements. My first trip, in the summer of 2007 to do a large investigative report for New York’s Gay City News was during the height [...] Sponsors of Ref 71 ahd 121,486 signatures From: The Washington Blade – OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) – A referendum that could overturn Washington state’s “everything but marriage” domestic partnership law has qualified for the November ballot. The secretary of state’s office said Monday that sponsors of Referendum 71 had 121,486 valid petition signatures – enough to put the [...] |
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