Thursday’s News Roundup

Filed Under Headlines | November 26th, 2009 

Thursday’s News Roundup Includes News & Views On: Scapegoats; Double Standards; The Canadian Border Foulup; A Gay Legion; A Gay German Soldier’s Story; Growing Up Gay & More…

Media & Censorship:

- NY Times on Adam Lambert controversy: Community Standard or Double Standard?

- Queer film experts baffled by detention of Inside Out films – Out on Film ED & documentary director Aerlyn Weissman weigh in.

Marriage:

- Nathaniel Frank: Christian Leaders Scapegoat Gays on Marriage — anti-gay “Manhattan Declaration” scores of Christian signatories reveal the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their obsessive persecution of gay people.

- Australia — ACT wins fight on gay wedding laws — albeit with some slight tweaking.

- UK — MP takes up ’straight’ gay marriage fight.

Military:

- Gay German soldier tells of army discrimination — For two decades, homosexuality has been officially permitted in the German military, the Bundeswehr, and discrimination strictly prohibited. The story of paratrooper Udo Kappler paints a very different picture.

- The 448’s war — Nation’s only gay American Legion post, after fighting for its right to exist, pushes to end “don’t ask, don’t tell”

- American Legion on its gay post.

Politics:

- Philippines – Let LGBT Party Contest Elections — Election Body’s Discriminatory Action Threatens Democratic Freedoms.

- California Judge Challenging Obama on Gay Rights

- Deb Price: Auditioning to Pick Up Where Kennedy Left Off

Spotlight on Turkey: Soul-Searching in Turkey After a Gay Man Is Killed

Youth: Growing up gay in Chilliwack BC