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Last-Minute Campaign Mailing Blasts Senate Candidate
USA, Virginia
by McLean.patch.com
Voters receive postcard from group that doesn’t exist.
McLean voters and other throughout the 32nd Senate District received a campaign postcard on Friday from an organization called Our Heritage USA calling...
GA Announces a New Moving Train
A new moving train is on its way to the Gay Archipelago.
The Gay Archipelago (GA) is a cluster of 130+ LGBT sims today, located in a common area of the Second Life grid. The estates are independently managed by their owners. A volunteer...
Chilipepper Estate Celebrates New Ownership!
After nine long months of stalled negotiations, frustrating finance issues and multiple snags with ’who’s-who’ in ownership talks, Chilipepper Estate is proud to announce and celebrate the transfer of ownership to the team:...
Breaking News: the LGBT Sandbox in Second Life is Saved!
The LGBT Sandbox launched in Feb 2010 and located in the Gay Archipelago was to be closed tomorrow, Nov 2nd. This service costs $125 a month and it was quite a challenge to find someone willing to keep it up.
Fortunately, at the last minute,...
LGBT Pride Parade draws 30,000 people in Taipei
By Loa Iok-sin / Tapeitime
With music, self-made signs and creative costumes, an estimated more than 30,000 people from across Taiwan and several other countries yesterday marched through the streets of Taipei during the annual Taiwan Lesbian,...
Another Backwards GA School: Shorter College in Rome, GA
A new “Personal Lifestyle Statement” is being given to educators & staff at Rome, Georgia’s Shorter University. Under new guidelines imposed by this privately held co-ed liberal arts university, officials told its employees...
CDC Unveils New Page for Gay & Bisexual Men’s Health
The United States’ Centers For Disease Control (CDC) has recently released a new page on their comprehensive website just for issues common to Gay and Bisexual men. That page can be found HERE.
Many of us suffer various diseases...
Anti-gay Marriage Group Fakes Support with Doctored Photos [video]
Oct. 25: Rachel Maddow exposes the “National Organization for Marriage” for photoshopping crowd photos from an Obama rally into their photo of their own rally to make it look like their unpopular position on gay marriage has more...
RendezVous and LeDome sims scheduled to be moved
Due to departure of Second Life by Benoit Lednev, for family commitments, his two sims, RendezVous and LeDome, are scheduled to be moved soon. They are owned by a Real Estate Agency headed by Desir Flamand.
The sims market is becoming...
GOP Candidate Cain Supports Federal Ban on Gay Marriage
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain now says he supports a federal marriage amendment that would ban same-sex marriage across the United States.
In an interview Saturday with the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody, Cain...
Hung Halloweiner Costume Photo Contest
Running Now until October 31, Winner will receive a minimum of 2000L$
and be Hung October in the 2012 Calendar, which will be released the
beginning of next month. Come join in the fun..
At Perth CHOGM, Guyana & Many More asked to drop anti-gay laws
- In Bid to lower HIV rates in Commonwealth
Guyana will be among former British colonies that will be asked to repeal laws criminalising homosexuality at next week’s biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Perth,...
New arrests in Northern Cyprus for supposed gay sex
While this week is the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first European Court of Human Rights decision of decriminalizing homosexuality, three men were arrested last Thursday at their home in Nicosia, reports the website LGBT Asylum...
Shanghai Pride Week Kicks Off this Weekend
In Shanghai, the date of the Gay Pride is announced at the last time since the government has closed several event locations during the first edition in 2009. This year’s event will be held from October 22 to 29.
Organized for now by expatriates,...
GW News Launches YouTube Channel
Today, along with other exciting news, brings us the launch of our new YouTube channel, upon which I have posted my first creation.
Some might have caught a couple of our live party broadcasts that appear on our Facebook page, and that is still...
Tadd Cabaret, Special “Man in Auction”
I don’t remember how much Tadd went for, but it was a bargain to his winner!
Blue Love Beach Boardwalk Now Open
As a reporter here at GWN I don’t often write about Blue Love Village, my little corner of SL, because I don’t like to grandstand or be seen as a self promoter – at least not here. That disclosure out of the way, I do want to share...
Gay Meeting Point Pics on Flickr
The Gay Meeting Point events group in Second Life has created a Flickr group per Joaopedro Oh, the group’s organizer. Club owners & goers can request to join the Flickr group and post up pics of parties they attended that...
Herman Cain under fire for saying ‘gay is a choice’
by LGBT Weekly
NEW YORK – Just as a new poll showed Herman Cain moving into a tie for second place for the GOP presidential nomination, he sparked fury by saying that homosexuality is a choice.
The Washington Blade reported that during an...
R.I.P. Club CirKuit Dreams
Now added to the dead pool is the former club CiRKuit Dreams. Many rumors surround its demise, but I’m sure it leaves a hole in the time slot in which it was most creative. Alternate parties already exist then and I’m sure each...
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We Remember You Matthew…
Words from the web:
Matthew Shepard was brutally, savagely, and fatally attacked 13 years ago tonight, possibly exactly thirteen years ago at the very moment you are reading this now. It took a battle of eleven years to get what became the...
US Supreme Court Rejects Gay Dads Case
The United States Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a gay couple who want both of their names to appear on the Louisiana birth certificate of the child they adopted. The court said Tuesday it won’t review a federal appeals...
Happy National Coming Out Day (USA)
We’ve got the warm-fuzzies here at GW News today because it is National Coming Out Day!
There are a number of ways that people are celebrating today including some cool status updates on facebook with people’s coming out stories....
Parada LGBT atrai 700 mil pessoas à Praia de Copacabana
RIO – Cerca de 700 mil pessoas participaram da 16ª Parada de Orgulho LGBT, na Praia de Copacabana, na tarde deste domingo, segundo a Polícia Militar. Já os organizadores do evento estimaram que aproximadamente 1,5 milhão de pessoas...
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
by Garth Raleigh
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all...
Santorum Spewing More Hate On Gays [VIDEO]
In this five minute video clip, Santorum is busted for his hate on gays in the military.
Santorum: “It’s not the same. And I know people try to make it the same, but it is not. It is a behavioral issue, as opposed to a color of...
Church Ordains First Openly Gay Minister
BUT it was after he had resigned when he came out as a gay man 20 years prior. In Madison, Wisconsin (USA), 56 year old Scott Anderson was ordained yesterday by hundreds of friends and backers at Covenant Presbyterian Church in a ceremony...
iPhone used by Westboro Baptist to announce picket of Jobs’ funeral
Margie Phelps, Fred’s daughter, told press “Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell. God created iPhone for that purpose! ”
“No peace for man who served self, not God,” she wrote with the hashtag, #hellgreetedhim....
British PM Cameron continues Same Sex Marriage Support
At a Conservative party conference in Manchester UK yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron spoke of several topics of importance to many. Economics and war were certainly the main points of his last day but he managed to make consistent...