Monday, June 28, 2010

Eureka Springs



Glenn and I had a great time in Eureka Springs, Arkansas last weekend, and spent a night at the new gay men's resort Magnetic Valley Resort. Check it out when you go to Eureka Springs! Eureka Springs is a beautiful old Euro/Victorian city in the Ozark Mountains in NW Arkansas. Once a major destination for Christians for The Great Passion Play, Eureka has become one of the most progressive, gay friendly towns in Arkansas and the South. It has a lot of gay and gay-friendly businesses, hosts several "Diversity Weekends" each year, and the city even passed a "Domestic Partnership" registry.

Visit Eureka Pride
Magnetic Valley Resort

Court Rules Against Christian Student Group | News | Advocate.com



Court Rules Against Christian Student Group | News | Advocate.com

Christian Group Can't Bar Gays, Get Funding at Hastings College Court Says

Monday, June 21, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Socialist Party Statement on Gay Pride



Statement on Gay Pride 2010
by the SPUSA Queer Commission June 9, 2010


On June of 1969 fed up queers fought back when police began harassing them at the Stonewall Inn bar on Sheridan Square in New York City. By most accounts the most oppressed, drag queens and lesbians, lead the charge. This was a flashpoint in a long history of struggle. The homophile movement, the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis laid the groundwork for the uprising. Stonewall was also influenced by the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and the struggle against the war in Vietnam.

The first organized group that sprang from the Stonewall Riots was the Gay Liberation Front which was consciously named after the Vietnamese Liberation Front and included socialists, communists, anarchists and other radicals.

The Socialist Party USA stands with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Questioning people for liberation and full and equal participation in society. LGBTQ people deserve the same rights of marriage as heterosexuals, including the right to adopt children. LGBTQ people who chose to enter the military should have every right to live openly without penalty or harassment, and have every right that their heterosexual peers have.

Gay Power and Gay Liberation were the rallying cries of Stonewall. The Stonewall riots demonstrate the power of resistance and confrontation against injustice. Socialist liberation goes beyond rights and demands full empowerment and participation. The Socialist Party USA celebrates the legacy of Stonewall and the movement for LGBTQ liberation.



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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Iceland legalizes same-sex marriage

Iceland legalizes same-sex marriage

Which Side Are You On? Populists vs. Corporatists


It's time President Obama, the Democrats, and the American people choose between populism and corporatism. There is a class struggle between the corporate rich and "the people" (workers, poor, etc.) Unfortunately, the Obama administration and the Democratic Party can't seem to make a decision on which side to fight for.

The Democratic Party establishment, including Bill Clinton and the Obama administration, tried to STOP progressive candidates from challenging their established (corporate) Democratic candidates in primaries last week. Bill Clinton himself tried to persuade Joe Sestak not to run against former Republican Arlene Specter in PA, and campaigned for corporate whore Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas.

President Obama refuses to take a hard stand against BP in the Gulf, or STOP oil drilling off the coast, to placate "moderate" Republicans and Democrats, just as he refused to push for single-payer health insurance.

With the threat of another recessionary dip in the economy, Obama refuses to push for a bold progressive economic agenda, and is caving in to the "deficit hawks" who want to slash government spending and are pushing for cutting Social Security and Medicare.

When will Obama and the Democrats learn how to fight for workers? Will they side with workers ("the people") against the corporate elites? Not likely, since the Democratic Party, including Obama, are in bed with the corporate elites as much as the Republican Party.

Obama Needs to Decide Which Side He is On: Corporatist or Populist

Robert Reich: Why We're Falling into a Double Dip-Recession

Long-Term Unemployed Now 46% of Unemployed (Highest on Record!)

Obama Warns of Massive Layoffs of Teachers, Police & Firefighters (Congress refuses to Act)

The Do Nothing 44th President

Sunday, June 06, 2010

FedEx to Offer DP Benefits


Memphis-based FedEx is finally going to offer domestic partnership benefits for same-sex couples

Advocate: FedEx to Offer DP Benefits

The move will most likely change FedEx’s ranking on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index — currently 70% out of a possible 100. Rival UPS, which has offered same-sex DP benefits since 2004, has a perfect 100% rating from HRC.