tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35930775455737824922024-03-13T11:37:14.177-07:00LGBT RAINBOWThis website is for LGBT. I will share news, activities and believes of LGBTLGBT RAINBOWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790914424139011508noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3593077545573782492.post-47454035608268303822013-06-12T17:00:00.000-07:002013-06-12T17:00:00.737-07:00<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="caps" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LGBT</span> advocates protest removal of gay marriage resolution from June 12 council meeting</span></span><br />
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Then, Councilwoman Delia Jasso threw a wrench in the plans by pulling her support. Rawlings could have still placed it on the June 12 agenda, but has said he won’t. Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano tried Friday to put it on the agenda anyway, but Rawlings blocked her efforts.</div>
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Saturday, the gay community rallied to show its displeasure.</div>
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“We’re here to support full equality for everyone, including the right to marry. We don’t see that as a particularly political or left-wing or right-wing kind of thing. We have family members and friends who are gay, who are lesbian, who are bisexual,” said Spencer Dawkins, co-president of Dallas PFLAG.</div>
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“It’s not going to ruin our marriage. In fact, it will probably enhance it if we can learn from them. They’re just individuals who want families like we have a family,” said Shirley Dunn, Dawkins’ wife.</div>
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Wednesday, gay activists still plan to show up to the city council meeting, even though the resolution is not on the agenda. GetEQUAL TX is hoping to “pack the Dallas City Council chambers,” according to a Facebook event page.</div>
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By noon Tuesday, the Dallas city secretary’s office had four speakers signed up to address the council about the gay marriage resolution.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A gay British soldier who believed he was going to be bashed to death by troops from a rival regiment says <strong style="color: black;">Prince Harry</strong> rescued him from a homophobic attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Harry was his tank commander back in 2008 when the incident happened. Trooper <strong style="color: black;">James Wharton </strong>told the prince that he feared he was going to be murdered after six soldiers threatened to “batter” him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">‘I told him, ‘I think I’m going to be murdered by the infantry.’ I climbed into the turret and talked Harry through exactly what had happened. He had a complete look of bewilderment on his face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up in my eyes. He said, ‘Right, I’m going to sort this shit out once and for all.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“He climbed out of the tank and I poked my head out of the turret a few moments later to see him having a go,” Wharton said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I could see he wasn’t holding back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wharton (pictured above) says Harry also warned the other soldiers they would face severe discipline if they continued to threaten the gay trooper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I will always be grateful to Harry and I will never forget what happened.” Wharton now reflects. “Until he went over and dealt with everything I was on track for a battering.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The revelations come as Wharton’s book about his 10-year military career is about to be published, with extracts appearing in British paper the <a class="content-link" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337882/Harry-saved-gay-hate-attack-Prince-extraordinary-showdown-troops-threatened-gunner.html" style="color: #1f8dc5; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="color: black;">Daily Mail</strong></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A former Lance Corporal, Wharton was one of the servicemen who made up the official escort for the Queen as she went to Westminster Abbey for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He quit the army this year, bringing to an end a high-profile role as the most prominent out gay soldier in the UK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Wharton says he and Harry served together in Canada for several months, sharing many stories and laughs during their training.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Harry happened to mention that he and his brother had been told they were gay icons, the former solider recalls. “I laughed and told him that I didn’t think that was the case. He became really adamant saying, “What? What? We are! Our press people told us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Harry then asked if he couldn’t be a gay icon because he was ginger. It was all very funny.”</span></div>
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A Russian LGBT film festival has been targeted under “foreign agent” laws, and fined a substantial amount for allegedly failing to declare foreign funding, which organisers deny having received.</div>
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The Bok o Bok (Side by Side) Festival, which originated in the city of St Petersburg, was established in 2007, and recently expanded to several other Russian cities including Moscow, Tomsk, Arkhangelsk, Perm and Novosibirsk.</div>
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Authorities began an investigation of the organisation in March, and a judge has ruled that the festival must pay 500,000 rubles (£10,000), in fines, for failing to register as a “foreign agent”, under controversial new laws.</div>
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On recently introducing the laws, the Kremlin said that any NGOs must register if they are in receipt of funding from foreign parties.</div>
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The Side by Side festival denied receiving any foreign funding. A statement posted on the festival website claimed that the judge had ignored their efforts to convince the court that their denial was true.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/29/st-petersburg-passes-gay-propaganda-law-2/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 202, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #6f3442; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">The fine follows a St Petersburg law equates homosexuality with paedophilia, and which was passed by the city on February 29 of last year</a> – despite more than 270,000 people signing an online petition against the measure.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/01/25/russian-national-anti-gay-law-passes-first-reading/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 202, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #6f3442; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">In January, the Russian State Duma adopted the first reading of a homophobic censorship bill which would impose federal sanctions for the promotion of “gay propaganda”, similar to those passed in several regions of Russia, including St Petersburg. </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/06/07/russia-elton-johns-outfits-dubbed-homosexual-propaganda-by-communist-group/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(243, 202, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #6f3442; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Sir Elton John is due to perform in Russia in July, and in what could be a similar turn of events which saw Madonna being sued for “homosexual propaganda” last year, it has been suggested that the famed entertainer’s outfits constitute just that.</a></div>
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She’s short, tiny and has a speaking voice that sounds like Betty Boop fused with Marilyn Monroe. But Kristin Chenoweth has become one of the most revered musical theatre performers of her generation, even crossing the line into a hugely successful television career with her sheer talent and popularity. By Garrett Bithell. </div>
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Eight times a week, for nine months, Kristin Chenoweth would float into Broadway’s George Gershwin Theatre on a bubble as Glinda in <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Wicked</em>, and utter the first line of the musical: “The Wicked Witch of the West is dead.” But one evening, after giving herself two herniated discs from the famous Glinda hair-flip, her doctor gave her a whole Vicodin pill to take before the show. At 97 pounds and just 4 feet 11 inches tall, the little pill knocked Chenoweth out of the park.</div>
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“I came in on a bubble alright,” she says. “Literally and metaphorically! I saw the three thousand people in the audience and I was just so happy! Then I tried to get my first line out... I apparently finished the show, but I don’t remember it at all. Some people said it was my best performance ever, which is mildly concerning!”</div>
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Although Chenoweth had already cultivated a successful musical theatre career, including a Tony Award for playing Sally in<em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;"> You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown</em>, it was the <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Wicked</em>juggernaut that well and truly catapulted her into the zeitgeist. The shiny world of TV soon beckoned and she left <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Wicked</em> in 2004 to join the cast of <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">The West Wing</em> as media consultant Annabeth Schott. For her performance, she was nominated twice, along with the cast, for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She appeared in the final two seasons of the program until 2009. Chenoweth also played Olive Snook in the television series <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Pushing Daisies</em>, which garnered her an Emmy Award in 2009.</div>
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<strong><em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Above: Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, with Idina Menzel in Wicked in 2003.</em></strong></div>
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Later that year, Chenoweth guest starred as April Rhodes in <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Glee</em>, a role she continues to reprise. She has been lavished with praise for her role, and nominated for a further two Emmys. But it’s because the show explores characters that echo her own personal experience at school as a bullied glee kid that her success in the role means so much.</div>
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“But in a way, I think anyone who says they weren’t bullied, and that even goes for the bully as well, isn’t being honest,” Chenoweth says. “Everybody has felt it – even as an adult, it’s just a case of what kind of bully you have.</div>
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“Obviously I don’t ever want people to be bullied – but did some of those experiences shape who I am today? Yeah. I made me tougher. We have a big campaign in the United States called ‘It Gets Better’, and it really does. It’s the nerds who run the world, and I was a big one in school. I had a unique speaking voice, I’m 4’11’’ – there are a lot of things to bully! It just goes to show: don’t peak in high school!”</div>
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Chenoweth was confronted with a different form of bullying only recently when she accepted a role on <em style="color: black; top: 0px !important;">Good Christian Bitches</em> in 2011. Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Kim Gatlin, the series centres on a recently widowed woman who moves her family back to the upscale Dallas, Texas neighbourhood where she grew up. As a former high school bully, she hopes to win over her old classmates only to discover she is the centre of malicious gossip in the Christian community. Chenoweth, who is Christian herself, was lampooned by her conservative religious fan base for taking the piss out of the Bible belt.</div>
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“I grew up in that very area,” she says. “I know those women exist, and I would never ever do something that made fun of God, because I am a God person. I think there’s a difference between having fun with a world and making fun of a world. But it is a world that exists – I grew up in the Bible belt and that’s how it is!”</div>
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Another common source of conflict for Chenoweth’s religious fan base is her outspoken support of GLBT rights, same-sex marriage and deep connection to the gay community. But she is not one to be beaten into submission any more. “One of the things I’ve come to understand is that I don’t have to reconcile my Christian faith with my gay rights advocacy, others do,” she states. “And whether they can or not is not up to me.”</div>
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Chenoweth is touring Australia for the first time throughout June. Supported by a cast of singers, dancers and actors, the concert will showcase her wide-ranging skills from musical theatre and opera, to country music and her self-penned material.</div>
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Indeed this versatility, and Chenoweth’s achievements in the entertainment industry generally, are even more impressive considering she suffers badly from Ménière’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear that affects hearing and balance. It is characterised by episodes of vertigo, low-pitched tinnitus, and hearing loss.</div>
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“It is the most awkward, horrifying thing to have in my industry,” she says. “There have been times on stage when my co-stars have basically held me up to keep me from falling down, or even going into the orchestra pit. My peripheral vision is completely off and I hear a tone that switches ears – and let me tell you, trying to maintain perfect pitch when you hear a C# is not easy. I also can’t really dance any more because I can’t turn. </div>
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“I don’t mean to be ‘woe is me’ because everybody has their Achilles’ heel, but this is mine. I’d like to kick Ménière’s disease’s arse. If I could chop off my little finger – and I play the piano and the guitar – to not have it any more, I would. That’s how much I hate it! But you know what? Life is pretty wonderful and I’m going to enjoy it as much as I can, regardless.” </div>
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The Tasmanian Government is continuing with its LGBTI grants program which offers $50,000 each year to projects proven to assist the LGBTI community.</div>
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The Minister for Community Development Cassy O’Connor (pictured) told Budget Estimates that the funding in the 2013-14 budget allocated to the program is part of the government’s continued commitment to the LGBT community.</div>
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“As a progressive Government, we’ve fought hard to achieve equality and fight discrimination through policies like same-sex marriage and same-sex adoption,” she said.</div>
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“Supporting the LGBTI community and tackling prejudice and isn’t just about strong social policy. We also need to fund research that underpins good intervention strategies and policy.</div>
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“The program supports research and evidence-based projects that benefit the LGBTI community by helping to reduce discrimination and prejudice.”</div>
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The original grants program was due to run over three years from 2010 and designed to increase the number of Tasmanians who are accept of diversity and improve the resilience and capacity of the LGBTI community.</div>
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In 2013 the successful applications included the University of Tasmania, Relationships Australia Tasmania and TasPride.</div>
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“Family violence in the LGBTI community is an under-researched area, and information about its prevalence is limited,” O’Connor said.</div>
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“The LGBTI Grants Program provides an excellent opportunity to support that research.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Gay Australian conservative journalist and speech writer dies aged 61</span></h1>
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Christopher Pearson, columnist for The Australian and speech writer for
Australia's conservative former Prime Minister John Howard, has died
aged 61.<br />
Opposition leader Tony Abbott paid tribute to Pearson saying he was one
of Australia's 'finest conservative intellects' and a 'steadfast'
friend.<br />
'I valued Christopher's counsel and his wisdom,' Abbott said, Sydney Morning Herald reports.<br />
'I suspect he never fully appreciated the impact he had on others and
the sense of gratitude we have for him. Australia will miss him.'<br />
In a column for The Australian in 2009, Pearson wrote about reconciling
his homosexuality with his Catholic faith. He converted to Catholicism
in 1999 after being raised an Anglican.<br />
'I could never have been happy as a gay Christian - with or without a
rainbow sash - because it always seemed to me a contradiction in terms,'
Pearson wrote, adding that he 'reluctantly concluded that St Paul was right about homosexual sex'.<br />
Pearson was a vocal opponent to gay marriage. He wrote in his column for The Australian in 2010 that arguments
in support of same-sex marriage are shallow and that the Australian
Greens party's 'line' that all loving couples deserve to be treated
equally is 'specious'.<br />
National director of Australian Marriage Equality Rodney Croome said to Gay Star News:<br />
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'Christopher Pearson was profoundly wrong about homosexuality, faith,
family and marriage. Homosexuals are not "wallflowers at the great dance
of the generations", as he once wrote. Our destiny is to be fully
integrated into our families and communities. But his strong views did
some good, inspiring me and others to hone our case for equality and
inclusion.'<br />
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Two lesbians turn in for the night.
One lesbian turns to the other and says. "I want to be frank with you."
The other lesbian says "I thought it was my turn to be frank."
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So this guy's tired of life and fed up with not getting sex, so he
goes to join the monastery. But there's a recruitment test. As the Abbot
explains to the ten potential recruits, "My sons, we must be sure that
you won't be troubled by sexual impulses if join the order. So we have a
test for all our prospective members. Take your clothes off, sit on the
bench, and attach this bell to the end of your penis. When the naked
woman comes into the room, any man whose bell rings will have failed the
test. He won't be allowed to join our order, and must leave at once,
for he will be sorely troubled with sexual thoughts while he is in our
midst."
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So the men, young and old alike, sit on the bench with a little
bell tied to the end of their cocks, waiting expectantly. Then the most
beautiful young blonde with big tits waltzes into the room and starts
walking slowly down the line, teasing the men as she goes. Not a sound.
Not a single erection, not a single bell rings. Until she gets to the
end of the line and pushes her butt into the man's face.
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Well, it's all too much for him - his cock shoots up, the bell
rings furiously and goes flying off across the room with the force of
his erection. "I'm sorry," he mumbles, confused and embarrassed, "I'll
just pick it up and leave." So he bends down, naked butt upwards, balls
dangling, and from behind him comes the tinkling of nine little bells.<br />
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Poor Guy</h1>
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A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks
into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.
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He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying
the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets
up and goes into the bathroom. While he's in there, the husband tells
his wife:
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"Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He
probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I
saw how he kissed your neck." If he wants sex, don't resist, don't
complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he
nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry,
he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you."
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To which his wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was
whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and
asked me if we had any vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be
strong honey. I love you too!!"
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A young man sits down at a bar.
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"What can I get you?" the bartender inquires.
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"I want six shots of Whiskey," responds the young man.
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"Six shots!?" says the bartender, "Are you celebrating something?"
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"Yeah, my first blowjob," replies the young man.
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"Well, in that case," says the bartender, slapping him on the back, "let me give you a seventh on the house."
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The man holds up his hand, "No offense, sir. But if six shots won't get rid of the taste, nothing will."
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