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Keep up-to-date on all
of the most recent LGBT news through the daily news
PodCast produced by BigGayNews.com.
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Headlines covered in this segment:
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download the latest PodCast,
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Access the October edition of
the FPride Quarterly by
clicking here.
Highlights covered in this issue:
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Larry Craig
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ENDA
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You Decide 2008
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The upcoming presidential election in 2008 will have wide
sweeping effects on the LGBT community at large. As
such, it has never been more important to understand where
each candidate running stands on the issues of gay rights.
More specifically, it is also imperative that one also
understands the background of each candidate running so that
one may make an educated and well rounded decision on
election day in 2008. As such, please find the links
below that will redirect you to "special interest" sections
of this site:
Candidate Information:
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to learn more about the candidates,
their stances on gay marriage / civil unions, whether or not
they are LGBT friendly as well as who is still running and
also who dropped out of the race thus far.
Official 2008 Debate Schedule:
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to view the official 2008 debate schedule; includes both
Democrat / Republican debates.
FPride.org's Choose Wisely Campaign Headquarters:
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main page of FPride.org's Choose Wisely campaign
headquarters.
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2008 GLOBAL AIDS INITIATIVE |
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In late 2008 / early 2009, the Federation of
International Pride will begin working with our Uganda
partners to help orphaned children affected by HIV/AIDS
in 2 communities over a 2 year time period.
Click here to read more about our HIV/AIDS
relief efforts as well as how you can help us help
others.
Click here to access our
"Real Stories, Real Children and Real Poverty" section
which will slowly begin to tell the stories of those we
touch as we begin our efforts in Uganda. |
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FPRIDE.ORG ACTION CENTER |
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Dustin McDaniel, Arkansas' Attorney
General took a firm stance on LGBT adoption by approving
(for a second time) a proposed ballot initiative that would
ban LGBT individuals in addition to unmarried couples from
partaking in foster parenting or adopting children.
In its latest form, the initiative
notes that married couples are the best people to raise
children.
The conservative Christian group that
originally launched this effort is now seeking 62,000
signatures (which must be acquired by July, 2008) to ensure
that the measure makes its way to the ballot in November of
2008.
Click here now to
complete a simple form to voice your concern to Arkansas
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. |
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SPECIAL
INTEREST INFORMATION / NEWS |
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"In
Iran, we don’t have homosexuals!"
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad noted that
“In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals” in his September 24, 2007 address at
Columbia University before going on to ask "Why should they get (homosexuals)
sympathy?” and "Don't you have capital punishment in the United States?"
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Hardly the words of a man seeking peace and
serenity as he so desperately attempted to portray himself as doing in Monday’s
address, it is none the less extremely unsettling to then hear him continue to
rattle off comments such as "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in
your country. We do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you
that we have it."
With Ahmadinejad’s comments noted, let’s begin by
first noting that there are homosexuals everywhere! However, for
journalistic purposes, we will examine the facts as portrayed in the
International Lesbian and Gay Association’s (ILGA) “State of Homophobia” April
2007 report which documents “State Sponsored Homophobia” throughout the world.
The mere fact that Iran appears not only in the table of contents of this
report, but also has a good page and a half devoted to anti-gay measures,
clearly outlines that there are homosexuals in Iran or these laws would never
have been added to the Islamic Penal Code of Iran (last updated in 1991) from
which this report extracts its information.
Now that we have established that there are in
fact homosexuals in Iran regardless of what Ahmadinejad may claim, let’s examine
Ahmadinejad’s other comment that “In Iran, we don’t have homosexuals.”
Well, by examining ILGA’s “State of Homophobia” report, it is not hard to
understand why Ahmadinejad would make such a statement. For example,
Article 110 of Iran’s Penal Code states that “Punishment for sodomy is killing;
the Sharia judge decides on how to carry out the killing.” This in itself makes
Iran a very LGBT unfriendly country and also backs up Ahmadinejad’s statement
that Iran does not have homosexuals as both he and his government have an active
policy of eradicating homosexuals one-by-one as new intelligence comes in.
It is as such, not hard then to understand why most homosexuals in Iran are very
much underground because of this.
To read
more,
click here .
To view other articles, click here to access our
articles section.
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U.S. ELECTION 2008 DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS
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GOP Presidential Debate on Don't Ask, Don't Tell
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DEFUSING THE GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY |
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Originally produced to help defuse the
gay marriage controversy as well as educate the public at
large, OUTTAKE (a product of OUTTAKE Media, LLC.) is a truly
remarkable work.
Arline Isaacson, the co-chair of the
Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus demonstrates
flawless delivery and adds clear legitimacy to a necessary
movement which has fostered both support and criticism
throughout the United States.
To view the entire movie clip,
click here to access OUTTAKE
Media's website. Once the primary page loads, click
the "View Trailer" button to gain access to the full clip.
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STATE SPONSORED HOMOPHOBIA |
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 Did
You Know People Still Get Killed for Identifying as LGBT
World Wide?
Even though much international
progress has been made towards LGBT rights / an
international LGBT voice, governments still continue to not
only discriminate against those who identify as LGBT, but
also kill, torture or exile those who are "out."
To view a current map of those
countries that do not tolerate the LGBT community as well as
potential ramifications that those who are "found out" could
possibly face,
click here.
To view a full and complete report
about state sponsored homophobia,
click here
(a good read before traveling or working abroad for
prolonged periods of time).
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