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Monday, January 28, 2013

Puerto Rico News


via Puerto Rico News's Facebook Wall by Puerto Rico News on 1/28/13
News Review: Bill Penalizes Use Of The American Flag In The Absence Of A Puerto Rican Flag - Huffington Post | Puerto Rico's Brain Drain Problem - Politic365 | Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News

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News Review: Bill Penalizes Use Of The American Flag In The Absence Of A Puerto Rican Flag - Huffington Post | Puerto Rico's Brain Drain Problem - Politic365 | Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News
 

Gay News Review: NYT: President Obama’s elevating inaugural message on gay rights needs legal follow-through | Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News

Mike Nova's starred items

 The phrase that made the history:

“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” Mr. Obama famously said in his second Inaugural Address, “for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

 

via NYT > Editorials by on 1/27/13
President Obama’s elevating inaugural message on gay rights needs legal follow-through.

via NYT > Editorials by By LAWRENCE DOWNES on 1/5/13
In Illinois, the prospects for marriage equality will improve in the next legislative session.

via NYT > Opinion by on 1/21/13
The Inaugural Address for his second term makes a forceful argument for a progressive agenda.

 

via NYT > Editorials by on 1/27/13
The breadth of his cover-up of crimes committed by predator priests has been revealed with the release of seamy church records.

via Gay Puerto Rico's Facebook Wall by Gay Puerto Rico on 1/27/13
Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News

Gay Star News

Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays
Gay Star News
Puerto Rico's LGBT community may be a step closer to being protected from killings, assaults …


Puerto Rico to have new hate crime laws to protect gays - Gay Star News

via NYT > Editorials by on 1/21/13
The Inaugural Address for his second term makes a forceful argument for a progressive agenda.


Daily Mail









Russia anti-gay law to outlaw 'homosexual propaganda' and ban public events ...
Daily Mail
The legislation being pushed by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church would make it illegal to tell minors information that is defined as 'propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism.' It includes a ban on holding public ...



via BBC News - World on 1/25/13
Guidelines are being issued to the Russian army to check soldiers for intimate tattoos, but a military source denies gay men are being targeted.


via Russia - Google News on 1/26/13

Human Rights Watch









Russia: Reject Homophobic Bill
Human Rights Watch
The draft law contributes to an atmosphere that makes violence against LGBT protesters seem acceptable. If adopted, the bill would violate the free expression rights of all Russians and discriminate against and further stigmatize Russia's LGBT community.
'We Live in Russia, Not Sodom and Gomorrah'The Moscow Times

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via Russia - Google News on 1/25/13

Stuff.co.nz









Russia set to ban 'homosexual propaganda'
Stuff.co.nz
Russia's parliament backed a draft law on Friday banning ''homosexual propaganda'' in what critics see as an attempt to shore up support for President Vladimir Putin in the country's largely conservative society. Only one deputy in the State Duma lower ...



via Russia - Google News on 1/25/13

Salon









Russia's proposed ban on gay propaganda is awful
Salon
Have you heard about this Russian bill aiming to ban “propaganda of homosexualism”? It was just approved by an overwhelming majority in Russia's lower house of Parliament, and it is expected to be signed into law by president Vladimir Putin. And it's ...



Kathleen Wynne on Saturday was elected Canada's first openly gay premier

via Gay News - New York's Facebook Wall by Gay News - New York on 1/27/13
Pro-Gay Marriage Protesters Hit Paris... - ABC News

ABC News

Pro- Gay Marriage Protesters Hit Paris...
ABC News
Thousands of supporters of a government-sponsored bill that would legalize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples are marching in …


Pro-Gay Marriage Protesters Hit Paris... - ABC News

via Gay News - New York's Facebook Wall by Gay News - New York on 1/26/13
Poll shows 63 percent of French back gay marriage - Reuters

Poll shows 63 percent of French back gay marriage
Reuters
Support for adoption rights for gay couples also rose by 3 percentage points, although the country remains divided on the issue, …


Poll shows 63 percent of French back gay marriage - Reuters

via NYT > Global Home by By PETER BAKER on 1/27/13
President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, his departing secretary of state, sat for an interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

via NYT > World by By STEVEN ERLANGER on 1/27/13
About 125,000 people in Paris marched to support a same-sex marriage bill that lawmakers will begin to debate on Tuesday and that stands a good chance of becoming law this year.