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• He is a gay icon but Cohen the Barbarian seeks wider appeal

  30Nov
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  >England wing returns with no club but fresh ambition to Twickenham today, he tells Robert Kitson

  At least Ben Cohen has not been forgotten. Apparently there were more than 46,000 hits on his website last month following the release of the exiled England wing’s new beefcake calendar and he has bowed further to popular demand by doing a photo-shoot for Gay Times. A large chunk of his fan-base clearly cares little what he does on Saturdays as long as he is bare-chested in glossy colour every month.

  The positive attention makes a change. Cohen does not enjoy the uncritical adoration of everyone within the macho world of English rugby but admirers of his physique are unfazed by the summer fall-out at Northampton which caused him to leave the club he joined as a 16-year-old. Nor, on a recent promotional visit to Prowler, a specialist gay outlet in Soho, did anyone query his decision to reject England’s call in the build-up to the World Cup. Or ask whether flogging topless calendars for his testimonial year is not a slight come-down for a 29-year-old World Cup winner who should still have plenty to give his chosen sport.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Gay rights group, Sharpton organization back Scottsdale anti-discrimination plan

  28Nov
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  National gay rights groups and the state chapter of a civil rights group headed by the Rev. Al Sharpton are backing efforts to enact an anti-discrimination ordinance in Scottsdale that would cover gay and transgender individuals.

  Scottsdale is considering a measure that would apply to businesses in the city, city government contractors and agencies.

  The Human Rights Campaign and National Gay & Lesbian Task Force have joined local gay rights advocates, including Equality Arizona and the Arizona Transgender Alliance, in backing the measure. The state chapter of Sharpton’s National Action Network also is supporting the measure.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Study Looks At Gay Hands

  27Nov
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  The wonderful world of science continues to burrow into sexual difference. A study out of Ontario contradicts earlier evidence by saying gay and bisexual men are more likely to write with their right hand.

  A new study has provided a new twist on the connection between sexual orientation and right or left-handedness, claiming that gay or bisexual men have an elevated incidence of extreme right-handedness.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Christian bookshops refuse to stock gay study Bible

  25Nov
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  CHRISTIAN bookshops are refusing to stock copies of a new Bible study guide that challenges standard New Testament translations that describe gay sex as sinful.

  A US distributor, God’s Word to Women, has banned the Australian publication, and withdrawn another Bible translation published by the same NSW publishing house, Smith and Stirling, for promoting a lifestyle in contradiction of the scriptures.

  Two American academics have asked that their endorsements be removed from other works by a classical Greek lexicographer, Ann Nyland, because of her authorship of the gay study Bible.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Policy on equality for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people

  25Nov
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  We live in a society which attempts to dictate sexual preference and gender identity through promoting the gender stereotypes and homophobic attitudes which underpin the heterosexual nuclear family, and by promoting marriage and the nuclear family as the only legitimate model for relationships. Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people suffer oppression because their lives are a challenge to the nuclear family which is an economic cornerstone of capitalism. The Socialist Alliance opposes all attempts to shoehorn people into sexual and gender conformity. We believe it is a basic democratic right that a persons’ self-definition of sexual preference and gender identity should be recognised. Heterosexism exists at almost every level in this society, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is entrenched in all of the key institutions of society – education, health, the law, the media, family, church and state.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Fifteen gay couples get married in group ceremony

  18Nov
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  FIFTEEN same-sex couples have declared their love and commitment to one another in a wedding ceremony organised by Adelaide’s Feast gay and lesbian festival.

  Hundreds of people gathered at Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide, for the public ceremony and a garden reception for invited guests at nearby Carclew youth arts centre.

  Guests included family and friends, many of whom had travelled from interstate.

  They celebrated under tents and trees on the Carlew lawns.

  Wedding cakes were on display and later shared.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Schoolboy jailed for role in gay murder

  13Nov
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  A TEENAGER who triggered a homophobic murder on a gay council worker was locked up for 12 months today.

  The 15-year-old knocked James Kerr to the ground before his two friends launched a savage assault, leaving him dying in a pool of blood.

  The schoolboy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, contacted one of his friends after running into Mr Kerr, 51, in a park in Perth, Scotland, telling them he had been assaulted.

  He had originally faced a murder charge but a guilty plea to a reduced charge of assault was accepted by the Crown in the early stages of the trial.

  Sentencing at the High Court in Edinburgh, Judge Lord Macphail told the youth his own attack had been homophobic and unprovoked, and that he had approved of his friends’ brutal killing.

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• Entertainment Weekly salutes landmark moments in gay Hollywood

  10Nov
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  In the tradition of our own “Twenty Most Groundbreaking Gay Films” Entertainment Weekly writer Mark S. Luckie takes a look back at some of the defining moments in the portrayal of the LGBT community (in both film and television) in his video essay, “Landmark Moments in Gay Hollywood”.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• Ferndale winner says being gay is not the issue

  08Nov
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  New mayor is proud of civic progress.

  The newly elected and openly gay mayor of Ferndale said being gay is no longer an issue in city politics.

  His sexual orientation had little to do with his campaign, said Craig Covey, 50, elected Tuesday with 54% of the vote.

  Covey, a Ferndale councilman for eight years, said his campaign was able convince voters that the city had found inventive ways to succeed.

  “Ferndale has demonstrated how to be successful in these new times, using smart-growth policies, diversity, inclusion and a walkable downtown,” Covey said Wednesday.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News

• On Protecting Gay Americans from Workplace Discrimination

  07Nov
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  Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) vote tests our values. An incrementalist law is a blunder.

  For the past few weeks, members of Congress and leaders within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community have debated how best to advance the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). This legislation was initially intended to protect LGBT Americans from arbitrary firing and other forms of employment discrimination.

  While states as diverse as Iowa and California already protect LGBT Americans from employment discrimination, 31 states still do not. Thus, there is overwhelming public support for federal employment protections. Reflecting this, a 2006 Gallup Poll reveals that 89 percent of respondents favor equal employment opportunities for gay people.

  However, Republicans in Congress are pandering to their extreme right wing by refusing to support basic workplace equality for LGBT people. In the face of this opposition, some ENDA advocates led by openly gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., have introduced a compromised version of the legislation that retains the anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation while it excludes the more contested protections for gender identity. This incrementalist version of ENDA pragmatically embraces more mainstream gays and lesbians while it continues to leave transgender Americans vulnerable to discrimination.

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  Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gay News from GXR News