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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Joanne Bartone, Photographer, Pittsburgh

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.

Joanne Bartone, Photographer, PittsburghServices are all-inclusive for consultations / time & talent / photography / design / taxes., I am INSPIRED by love, by those I love, by art, nature, my colleagues and by the world around me! I hope you will BE INSPIRED by my photography! And as a family member, I am devoted to your special day!

My personality is warm, sensitive, gentle, fun-loving, imaginative, enthusiastic, interested and genuine. I would describe my photographic “style” much in the same way, adding artistic, contemporary and creative to the mix.

I am dedicated to my clients and love to make them happy through the images I create for them that I know they will cherish forever.

I LOVE my work and believe that can be seen in the images I create! I consider myself to be a contemporary photographer, but while photographing with syle and heart, I keep in mind the classic elements and theories of composition and design that I learned during my formal photographic education.

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PA: Lesbian Couple With Daughter Denied Family Discount at Sports Club

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Pennsylvania Sports Club and Marriage EqualityMichelle and Sandy Gladfelter and their five-year old daughter hoped to enjoy the family discount at Green Valley Swimming Pool & Sports Club in West Manchester Township, Pennsylvania.

They were turned down, the York Daily Record reports:

Michelle applied for membership at the pool and later received a call from owner Russ Jacobs. Jacobs told her she and her family would be welcome to join, but the discount does not apply to them.

“We don’t recognize same-sex marriages,” Jacobs said in an interview.

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: J-Angelo Event Planning, Milford, Pennsylvania

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

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J-Angelo Event Planning, Milford, PAEvent Planners are not as expensive as you may think, nor are we the authoritarians portrayed in the movies. In most cases, an event planner can assist you in arranging the preliminaries of your even in an hour and confirm the arrangements within 48-72 hours.

The event planner is not responsible for the quality or products by other vendors; however, it is crucial to business that every client is provided with excellent service.

In turn, the event planner’s presence at your event is your quality assurance that all will go well. A good planner has a varied and extensive network of vendors that work interchangeably in order to provide you with seamless service.

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PA: Marriage Equality Ban Pulled in Committee

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Pennsylvania Gay Marriage BanBack in 2004, the subject of same-sex marriage was a winner for the Republicans. Most of the laws and amendments banning same-sex marriage were pushed through in that election year, and helped to get George W. Bush reelected. Eight years later, it is not as clear that this is going to win as well as it did back in 2004.

Well, that is not stopping Republicans from pushing these measures in an attempt to drum up support among voters. In Pennsylvania, though, they have hit a snag as the attempted constitutional ban was pulled at what amounts to the last minute.

The House State Government Committee was suppose to take up the bill this morning, but it did not. The committee is headed by Representative Daryl Metcalfe, and he is the bill’s sponsor. It would ban same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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PA: House Considering Marriage Equality Ban

Monday, March 12th, 2012

Pennsylvania Gay Marriage BanA Pennsylvania House panel on Tuesday will consider a resolution that seeks to ban gay marriage in the state.

The House State Government Committee will take up the issue when it meets at 9AM at the Capital. Representative Daryl Metcalfe’s proposal would amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to ban recognition of any “substantial equivalent” to heterosexual marriage. The Republican lawmaker introduced his measure last year.

“The institution of traditional marriage has never been under greater attack,” Metcalfe said in introducing the amendment. “This not only includes the special interests who want to permanently redefine marriage, but unfortunately the executive branch and the federal Department of Justice who have blatantly and recklessly refused to uphold and defend its constitutionality. Once again, it falls to the responsibility of state lawmakers to restore the rule of law and carry out the will of the people.”

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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PA: NCLR Files Brief in Death Benefits Challenge to DOMA

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Pennsylvania Marriage EqualityThe National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a brief in federal district court in Pennsylvania yesterday arguing that private employers cannot hide behind the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to justify discriminating against same-sex spouses in private benefits plans.

NCLR is representing Jennifer Tobits, the widow of Sarah “Ellyn” Farley, whose parents have challenged the couple’s marriage and now seek death benefits provided by Ellyn’s employer, the law firm Cozen O’Connor P.C. Cozen’s arguments in the case jeopardize the policies of countless employers who currently provide equal benefits to same-sex spouses, including many of the nation’s Fortune 500 corporations.

Under Cozen’s retirement plan, Jennifer is entitled to Ellyn’s death benefits as her surviving spouse. Ellyn’s parents have argued that the couple’s four-year marriage is invalid because of DOMA and that Cozen should pay the benefits to them. Rather than pay the benefits to Jennifer, in January 2011, Cozen filed an action in the federal district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to determine whether Jennifer or Ellyn’s parents should receive the benefits.

Full Story from Gay USA

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Featured Gay Friendly Wedding Vendor: Reverend Ellen Kravette, Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

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Reverend Kravette is a proponent of New Thought, which perceives God not as an entity but as a Creative Presence, the Life Force of All Entities. The motivating energy of its’ presence is Love. The name we choose to give it or the form or shape in which we have learned to expect it is immaterial.

The God force comes through All Names and Shapes and Colors and ethnicities, It’s power to illuminate is available, constant and infinite.

To be in harmony with Divine Presence enables us to transcend all ego made fears, doubts and exclusions. This knowledge and demonstration of our god given ability is what Jesus Christ and all other sages have called us to unite with.

Dr. Ernest Holmes preached, “There is a Power for Good in this universe greater than we are, and we can use It.” The more we use it… the more we love… the greater is our transformation.

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PA: New Poll Says 50% Favor Marriage Equality

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Pennsylvania Gay Marriage PollMore people in Pennsylvania support than oppose gay marriage, a new poll concludes.

According to the Franklin & Marshall College Poll, conducted for the Philadelphia Daily News, exactly 50 percent of residents either strongly or somewhat favor giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. That’s an 8 percent increase since 2009.

When pollsters asked, “The state legislature is considering several proposals related to gay marriage and civil unions. Would you favor or oppose a constitutional amendment that would allow homosexual couples to get legally marriage?” 42 percent of respondents said they would either strongly or somewhat oppose the proposal.

Full Story from On Top Magazine

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PA: Marriage Equality at a Standstill

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Pennsylvania Marriage EqualityAs many states in the Northeast, most recently New York, take the final step in legalizing gay marriage, it seems Pennsylvania is lagging behind in the tremendously overdue fight for equal rights in the GLBT community. As the stale argument continues that marriage is a sacred act between man and woman, Pennsylvania residents need to team up to tear down the discrimination.

The majority of my friends identify as members of the GLBT community, and it is not only upsetting, but sickening to know that they are not afforded the same rights as me. It seems obvious that two people, regardless of their sex, race or religion should be able to recognize their relationship, which in theory could not hurt or negatively affect anyone outside of that partnership.

“I think that marriage is an important expression of dignity that all people should have access to,” said Dr. Margaux Cowden, advising coordinator for the GLBT studies minor at Temple.

Full Story from Temple News

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IL: Anti Gay Group From Pennsylvania Protests Civil Unions in Palatine

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Illinois Civil Unions ProtestAmongst the steady blare of car horns in support and occasional obscene gestures in derision, 10 men from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) protested against gay marriage Friday afternoon at the intersection of Rand and Dundee Roads in Palatine.

The group drove 800 miles from York, Pa., to stage several protests across Illinois this week following the state’s adoption of a civil union law, which went into effect on June 1 of this year, allowing same-sex couples many of the same legal protections as marriage.

After its enactment, 1,399 couples were issued civil union licenses in Lake, Cook, DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties in June and July.

Full Story from the Daily Herald

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