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12 Senators Voice Opposite to Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill, Prop 8 Trial: Weak Allies and Powerful Enemies, Prop 8 Trial is the Most Important Trial in LGBT History, and more…
Tags: 2010 Elections, Anti-Gay Bill, Barack Obama, California, Civil Rights Movement, civil unions, criminalization of homosexuality, Federal Lawsuit, gay marriage, Illinois, LGBT Asylum Seekers, LGBT Refugees, LGBT Rights, marriage equality, Obama Administration, Prop 8, same-sex marriage, Uganda | by Victoria Lavin | January 21st, 2010, 9:03 am
According to Jim Burroway 12 Senators have opposed the Uganda’s anti-gay bill. Read more
Lisa Keen reports that we have weak allies and powerful enemies in the Prop 8 Trail which is about the California same-sex marriage ban. Read more
I tend to agree with Melanie Nathan of LezGetReal. The Prop 8 Trial has so much riding on it. The Defense of Marriage Act, same-sex marriage, ex-gay therapy, you mention it and it is mentioned in the trial. Everything that effects the LGBT community is riding on this trial. I believe it will go all the way to the US Supreme Court regardless who wins. The religious right won’t let a favorable ruling stand they will fight it all the way and the LGBT community should do the same. Read more
Posted on LGBT Asylum an article in the Gay City News by Arthur S. Leonard about how it is hard to LGBTs to see refugee status in this country. The US defines refugee according to the Immigration & Nationality Act in Sec. 101(a)(42) as:
“(A) any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, or
(B) in such circumstances as the President after appropriate consultation (as defined in section 207(e) of this Act) may specify, any person who is within the country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, within the country in which such person is habitually residing, and who is persecuted or who has a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The term “refugee” does not include any person who ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the persecution of any person on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. For purposes of determinations under this Act, a person who has been forced to abort a pregnancy or to undergo involuntary sterilization, or who has been persecuted for failure or refusal to undergo such a procedure or for other resistance to a coercive population control program, shall be deemed to have been persecuted on account of political opinion, and a person who has a well founded fear that he or she will be forced to undergo such a procedure or subject to persecution for such failure, refusal, or resistance shall be deemed to have a well founded fear of persecution on account of political opinion.”
This tends to make it hard for LGBTs to get refugee status and be denied protection by the US. I find this hurtful to those LGBT refugees who seek asylum in our country. Just goes to show the US still needs to be edcuated on our issues and plight. Read more
DC: Local activist and others around the globe hear the international outcry on the Uganda anti-gay bill. There still many countries that oppress LGBTs because of who they are. Take action against the Uganda bill and other countries who criminalize homosexuality. Read more
The Stonewall Democrats of Illinois endores Dan Hynes for Governor. Read more
IL: Gay advocates push for civil union bill, again. Read more
The new generation of the civil rights movement LGBT rights. Read more
Obama’s first year as President and ignoring LGBTs isn’t a good thing. Read more
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It is nonsense to say our “destiny” depends on one court case, or or president, etc. It has depended on average, garden-variety homosexual Americans and our friends and has been the most successful civil rights effort in America-faster than the womnen got their rights or black Americans have gotten most of theirs.
It would take some interest in history and the real world to understand just how successful we have been. Does any young person know what the political climate was in America in the McCarthy era when a few brave people started this lasting movement in 1950? They were communists. It was immediately taken over by conservatives and from then on we have made constant progress. The wonderful article, for example in Newsweek, on marriage and the CA court case was actually just repeating what was said in ONE Magazine years ago.
Billy Glover – no one says our entire destiny rests on this case; yet many much more learned than me have stated that this case could be the LGBT Roe v. Wade/ or SchoolB. V. Brown. That said the point is we have a lot riding on the case. More than people like you realize, hence my article which quotes me in this Blog. I would like to know if you have been following the testimony- another point in my http://www.lezgetreal.com article – if you have you may agree. What is being brought into evidence and the subject of cross examination speaks to the core of who we are as community – which speaks to our rights or our inequality. You are correct it has taken not one President nor one anything – it is a journey that strated even before stonewall. It all rolls up to this big huge impetus case. Remember Bill Clinton signed DOMA and regrets it. A journey indeed, like any other struggle – and each piece counts. Yes, there are also many other pieces not merely Prop 8 Trial – but this one will be landmark and that is the point. That is whty it is not merely a California interest case. My question, Billy, is where are the grass roots now? Are they in the streets? Are they responding to the calls for action? Are they writing the letters and telling their Stories – I mean all of them ? Melanie Nathan
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