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Mother of Gay Son Posts You Tube Video of Target Boycott

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Last week, the Target Corporation gave $150,000 to Minnesota Forward, an anti-gay group supporting Republican Tom Emmer’s campaign for Minnesota governor.

According to a CBS News report, “Emmer is a fiery conservative who opposes gay marriage, lauds Arizona’s strict approach to illegal immigration, once advocated chemical castration for sex offenders and wants to lower taxes.”

Enter Randi Reitan, who has a gay son and whose repeated attempts to reach Target executives failed. So what did she do? She took her anger directly to her local Target and had a friend film the encounter.

Full Story from Gay.com

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MN: The Guy Target Didn’t Back is Pro-Gay Marriage

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Antigay Republican Tom Emmer is making headlines for benefiting from Target Corp.’s $150K contribution to a conservative PAC supporting his bid for governor of Minnesota.

What isn’t making many headlines is the identity of his likely opponent. Pro-gay former U.S. senator Mark Dayton is in the lead heading into the August 10 Democratic primary. An heir to Dayton-Hudson Corp. fortune, Mark Dayton is the great-grandson of George Dayton, who stared the Dayton’s department store chain. In 1962, Dayton’s opened the first Target, a discount department store.

“Mark Dayton’s connection to Target is mostly a historical one,” his deputy campaign manager Katharine Tinucci told The Advocate.

Full Story from The Advocate

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CA: Stonewall Democrats Organize Against Prop 8 Author’s Assembly Run

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Andy Pugno, self-described Proposition 8 author, always struck me as the true believer among the legal team in Judge Vaughn Walker’s courtroom during the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial (see all of FDL’s Prop 8 coverage here). Some days, Charles Cooper and other members of his team looked beat, after a dose of David Boies’ cross-examination or Ted Olson’s remarks. Not everyone on the team looked like they thought they were winning, or even making very sensible arguments.

But you could always count on Andy to provide a surreal summary during press time after court – things were going wonderfully, the withdrawal of all but one expert was a masterful legal strategy, the Plaintiffs hadn’t made their case, the Judge’s questions showed how convincing the Defendant-Intervenors’ case was – despite their lack of evidence, absent credible witnesses, or expert testimony unfortunately ended up actually making the other side’s case, and used by Olson in his closing.

Never fazed Andy Pugno. In Andy Pugno’s view, the voters of the state of California had spoken, even if narrowly: traditional marriage between one man and one woman was the law. Lesbian and gay couples’ civil rights had been snatched away at the ballot box, but – hey, majority rule, that’s democracy, gotta take your lumps.

Full Story from Firedoglake.com

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IA: GOP Candidate for Governor Makes Play for Gay Marriage Foes

Friday, July 9th, 2010

The debate over gay marriage continues to drive the Iowa GOP campaign to regain the Governor’s mansion. When primary voters shunned the anti-gay marriage rhetoric of Bob Vander Plaats, opting instead to nominate former Governor Terry Branstad as their GOP pick, the issued appeared settled.

But while Vander Plaats was the contest’s most vocal opponent of the 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in the state, Branstad, a moderate Republican who believes in limited gay rights, is also opposed to the institution.

His pick of state Senator Kim Reynolds as his running mate is seen as a play for more socially conservative voters who supported the candidacy of Vander Plaats.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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CA: Trans Woman Running for Trial Court Judge

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Victoria KolakowskiA trans woman hopes to make history by becoming the first trans person to be elected as a trial court judge in the United States. Victoria Kolakowski, 48, is the frontrunner candidate for superior court judge in Alameda County, California.

She has over 20 years of legal and judicial experience and currently serves as a judge for the California Public Utilities Commission. She is also co-chair of the board of directors of the Transgender Law Centre and has represented trans plaintiffs in court.

Writing on her website, Ms Kolakowski said: “If I am elected, I would be the first openly LGBT superior court judge elected in Alameda County, the first openly LGBT person elected countywide, and the first transgender trial court judge in the United States.

Full Story from Pink News

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FL: Transgender GOP Candidate for Congress Opposes Gay Marriage

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Remember Donna Milo, the Cuban transwoman who’s running as a Republican Congress? She believes marriage should be between “a man and a woman” and that her “triumphs are based on [her] abilities, not on a label or a crutch.”

That’s nice, except that the crutches she’s supposedly never used are the same ones that allowed her to become a US citizen, get married and have kids.

According to Milo’s website she was born in Cuba in the early 1960s and came to America at age three. As such, she benefited from the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act which changed the legal status of Cuban immigrants to grant them “permanent resident status” with access to legal work, medical care, government welfare, and unemployment benefits. So Milo’s right; she didn’t depend on a crutch so much as a automatic wheelchair.

Full Story from Queerty

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NY: AG candidate Promises to Sue Federal Government to Repeal DOMA if Elected

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said yesterday that she plans to sue the federal government over the Defense of Marriage Act if she becomes New York’s next attorney general.

“It’s time attorneys general around the country begin to challenge the legality of this discriminatory law,” Rice said. “I will be proud to be among the first AG’s to challenge DOMA and to tell the federal government that New Yorkers refuse to be subjected to government-mandated discrimination.”

The lawsuit would allege that by defining marriage between a man and a woman, DOMA infringes on state’s rights to define and regulate marriage as they see fit. Although same-sex marriage is not legal here, New York does recognize gay marriages performed in other states.

Full Story from City Hall

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ME: Anti-Gay “Christian” Running for Governor

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Michael Heath, former executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, has registered with the state ethics commission as a gubernatorial candidate. Heath, a resident of China, is listed as an unenrolled candidate, which means he has until June 1 to get at least 4,000 signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

Heath recently announced the formation of a group called the American Family Association of Maine. At the time, he said he was “re-entering public life to continue the fight against the gay-rights lobby.”

Heath spent 15 years working for the Christian Civic League, and became its executive director in 1994. He twice led people’s veto efforts to overturn gay-rights laws.

Full Story from the Portland Press Herald

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CA: Mayor of Palm Springs Would Be First Gay, Legally Married Member of Congress With Children

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Stephen Adams, vice president and regional manager of Sterling Bank & Trust, and Equality California Executive Director Geoff Kors hosted a fundraising event for Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet on the 40th floor of the Transamerica Pyramid. Mayor Pougnet is the Democratic candidate challenging Republican Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (Sonny Bono’s former wife) for her seat in the US House of Representatives. Adams said Pougnet has a very good chance to beat her and turn the congressional district Democratic.

Pougnet would be the first gay, legally married member of Congress with young children. In 2007, he was elected Mayor of Palm Springs where he has proven himself as a bi-partisan leader. He is committed to sustainability and renewable energy initiatives, will champion comprehensive health care, and fight to reinvigorate the American economy. He is challenging Mary Bono-Mack – one of only a few Republican members of Congress who is serving in a district that Barack Obama won.

Adams acknowledged the presence of Christine Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling the latter “a hero in health care.” He also spoke of the extreme rudeness and sometimes violence of many of the rightwing tea party people – especially calling Congressman Barney Frank the f-word.

Full Story from the Bay Times

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CA: NOM Funding Ad Against Senate Candidate Tom Campbell

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A group that promotes traditional marriage is funding a ad campaign against republican U.S. Senate candidate Tom Campbell. The anti-Campbell ad is a direct result of Campbell’s support of gay marriage.

Campbell openly opposed Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned gay marriage in California. He wrote an op ed piece where he laid out “Why Republicans should vote no on Prop. 8.”

Campbell wrote: “Republicans believe deeply that government should be limited. Government has no business making distinctions between people based on their personal lives. That’s why, as a Californian and a Republican who has held elective office at the federal and state levels, I will be voting No on Proposition 8.”

Full Story from NBC Bay Area

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