US Soldier’s Deaths Embarrass US and Pakistan, Soaring Cost of Healthcare Sets a Record, Obama Denounces Uganda Anti-Gay Law at Prayer Breakfast, and more….
Tags: Afghan War, Anti-Gay Bill, Barack Obama, Catholics, criminalization of homosexuality, DADT, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Family Research Council, family values, Federal Lawsuit, gay marriage, Hate Crime, Health Care Reform, LGBT Soldiers, marriage equality, Pentagon, Prop 8, Religious Right, Right Wing, same-sex marriage, Segregation, Soldiers, Transgender, Uganda | by Victoria Lavin | February 5th, 2010, 8:16 am
Juan Cole of Reader Support News reports on the 3 deaths of US Soldiers in Pakistan. Read more
Los Angeles Times reports that Washington released a report saying that healthcare “spending grew to a record 17.3% of the U.S. economy last year, marking the largest one-year jump in its share of the economy since the government started keeping such records half a century ago.” Read more
Pink News reports that President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast denounced Uganda’s anti-gay bill. Obama said, “Surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it is here in the United States or… more extremely, in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.” Read more
Family Research Council wants the US to criminalize homosexuality. Read more
The Pentagon finally supports the ending of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. Read more
Gay teen from New York gets federal attention on case for bullying. It is about time that the federal government takes notice of ever ending problem in schools. Read more
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson pushes for domestic partner bill. Read more
Groundbreaking Lesbian Health Book released. Read more
Admiral Mullen’s opposition to ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was years in the making. Read more
Washington Post Editorial on the ending of DADT. Read more
Fox News reports on how LGBTs are more likely to be harrassed in school than their straight counterparts. Read more
Balitmore Sun Editorial on ending DADT because it is the right thing to do. Read more
Service members and veterans tell their stories about living under DADT. Read more
Lesbian heiress dies of diabetes complications. Read more
PA: Marriage activist plan week long events. Read more
D.C.: Senator Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) has introduced legislation that would require the District to put same-sex marriage on the ballot before issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as planned next month. Read more
California Prop 8 Trial has drawn national support in “friend of the court” briefs. Read more
Video: Clinton and Obama denounce Uganda’s anti-gay bill. View Video
Fox News Poll: Vote on the repeal of DADT. Vote Here
American schools are more segerated now than they were in the 1960s. Rethinking the meaning of school choice. Read more
AlterNet does a piece on killing of Americans abroad. Read more
Gay City News reports on a slow walk to ending DADT could sidetrack the issue. Read more
Raw Story does a piece on US killing American’s abroad if they are found in association with terrorist groups. Read more
Gay and Lesbian Times writes an editorial on the repeal of DADT. Read more
Congress ignoring DADT until 2011 with year long study. Read more
Is the tax break for transgenders to deduct their transition surgery only reinforcing the stigma as a disease. Read more
LGBTs activists to speak at United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Read more
Truth Wins Out praises Obama for speaking out against the Uganda anti-gay bill at the National Prayer Breakfast. Read more
Amy Goodman does a excellent piece on DADT on AlterNet. Read more
Google and the National Security Administration what they are doing together has privacy advocates worried. Read more
Religious leaders called on Obama to denounce the Uganda anti-gay bill at National Prayer Breakfast. Read more
Metro Weekly calls out Congress and Obama to repeal DADT in 2010. Read more
The Right Wing launches attacks on keeping DADT the way it is. Read more
TX: Houston transgender murder still remains unsolved. Read more
Fridae an Asian news outlet does a story on ‘Family Values’ Read more
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