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CA: APA Shuns Manchester's Hotel in Support of Prop 8 Boycott

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The American Psychological Association, which will hold its annual convention in San Diego in August, is the latest group to officially protest San Diego hotelier Doug Manchester’s financial support two years ago of California’s gay marriage ban.

While the association is not formally calling for its members to boycott the Manchester Grand Hyatt, its governing body and many of those planning to attend the conference have opted to cancel meetings scheduled at the hotel as a way of expressing their displeasure over Manchester’s financial contribution to the successful Proposition 8 campaign to outlaw gay marriage.

The group, which expects to draw 14,000 attendees to its first San Diego convention, acknowledges that it may take a financial hit for its cancellation of some meeting-room bookings, spokeswoman Rhea Farberman said.

Full Story from Sign On San Diego
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Creating Change Conference Opens in Dallas This Week

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

From the possible end of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law that bans gays from serving openly in the armed forces to the expansion of gay marriage, there will be plenty of chatter among the 2,000 gay and lesbian activists gathering in Dallas this week. The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, organized by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, kicks off today, with events planned through the weekend.

“There’s buzz about everything,” said Sue Hyde, the conference director. “People are going to be buzzing about ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ … We have some really tough issues on the agenda, and we’re making some progress on the local level and the state level and even the federal level on a whole range of issues.”

Task Force officials welcomed President Barack Obama’s remarks on overturning “don’t ask, don’t tell” last month in his State of the Union address. But they’re disappointed he didn’t offer a detailed plan, which allows for “foot-dragging,” Hyde said.

Full Story from Dallas News
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Uganda: Role of US Evangelicals in Gay Marriage Death Penalty Law

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”

Now the three Americans are finding themselves on the defensive, saying they had no intention of helping stoke the kind of anger that could lead to what came next: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.

Full Story from New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html?hp

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