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Alert: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And "Target" is cool with this? ...Now Target is suing the LGBT community for their peaceful demonstrations in front of their stores. ....Our answer: BOYCOTT "TARGET"

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Treatment for H.I.V.

New York Times - Printed May 30, 2011 - Letter to the Editor
 
To the Editor:
 
I'm very encouraged by the news that early treatment for people living with H.I.V. can help bring this epidemic under control ("When Treatment Is Also Prevention," editorial, May 23).

For those of us on the front lines of this battle, there is much to be optimistic about. But the stakes in our communities, especially communities of color, and around the world are too high for us to take the foot off the gas pedal now.

Congress can and should provide adequate financing to achieve the domestic and international goals. We can pay for this by, among other things, repealing wasteful subsidies to oil companies, reducing unnecessary Pentagon spending, and bringing our troops home from Afghanistan.

We're making great progress, and if we remain committed to this effort, there is great hope to put H.I.V. and AIDS on the long-term road to elimination.

BARBARA LEE
Washington, May 25, 2011

The writer, a Democratic member of the House Committee on Appropriations, represents California's Ninth Congressional District.
Take Action:
  • Update: DADT has been repealed. President Obama has kept his promise!
  • Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida! In conclusion, O'Reilly expressed out-right Hatrad of the LGBT Community.
  • Boycott Arizona the home of "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform!
  • Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores. Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech! STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 4/8/2011: Target lost it's case to stop the LGBT from canvassing in front of their stores. A huge PR Disaster for TARGET! Perhaps Target should go out of business as they betrayed their investers and customers. Target contributed massive funds to a politician who would like to exterminate gays. Now, Target can not stop us from Boycotting them, nor picketing, nor talking to customers near their stores; although, Target allows a anti-gay company such as the Salvation Army to stand outside their door and speak with customers and raise money. Isn't this a double standard? Perhaps TARGET would better understand the issue if they cared about David Kato - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay! That is because Uganda wants to kill gay people. Again, TARGET invested in a political candidate that would Kill the Gays!
  • End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
  • Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
  • BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating to anti-gay marriage groups.
  • BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
  • NEW: "Tune Out Trump", Boycott all Trump Hotel, casinos, holdings, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? After making racist remarks about Obama and recv'g public backlash, Trump decided not to run for president after NBC renewed his awful TV Show. How can NBC renew the clown's show after he pulled all such low-class shenanigans? Boycott NBC! Boycott advertisers of The Apprentice and Trump's other business's. Don't shop at any bullding with Donald Trump's name to include Trump Hotels, Casinos, Condo's, Offices, Shops! The Donald has expressed extreme Hatred towards gays and blacks with his birther remarks and anti-gay rhetoric. Remember how poorly Trump treated Rosie O'Donnel? Now we know why he did that! It was hate against a lesbian as we now know he is biget. Unforgiveable! Dump NBC because they re-newed Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"!

And Now, Model Wars!

This group is called "Peckers Pics." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?" Warning: This may stoke you!
 
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Demise of adoption ban brings relief for gay parents
By Elaine Silvestrini - May 30, 2011 - Tampa Bay Online

A state appeals court threw out Florida's ban on gay adoptions and since they have begun forming legally recognized families statewide.

Stanley Kroh knew he was the boys' father, even though the state of Florida didn't agree.

His partner of 12 years, Joel Kroh, adopted Noah from Guatemala in 2003 and Gabriel from Vietnam in 2007.

"I've always wanted to be a father," said Joel Kroh, 43, a director of client services for a technology company.

His status in the adoptions was as a single man.

The Krohs, who live in Lutz, said the social worker who did the home study didn't ask about their sexual orientation, even though it was illegal for gay people to adopt in Florida and even though Stanley was present.

Stanley changed his last name to Kroh so there would be less confusion for the boys. As far as they were concerned, they had two fathers: Daddy Joel and Poppy Stanley.

But Stanley Kroh said he feared something might happen to his partner, leaving him with no legal right to keep the boys. They had legal papers drawn up naming Stanley as guardian but were told he didn't have the same rights he would if he were legally the boys' father.

That changed in September when a state appeals court threw out Florida's ban on gay adoptions, meaning there was no longer any barrier to Stanley making official his relationship with his sons.

"I never thought it would happen in my lifetime," said Stanley Kroh, 56, who adopted Noah and Gabriel in February.

"It's terrifying not to have the family legally recognized," he said.

Stanley Kroh, an environmental manager for Tampa Electric Co., said he was told that his was the first adoption by a gay person officially sanctioned in Hillsborough County.

Since the court ruling, gays have quietly begun forming legally recognized families across the state.

"We know it's happening," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Shelbi Day, who argued the South Florida case that resulted in the lifting of the ban.

There are no statewide statistics because officials do not ask the sexual orientation of adoptive parents.

However, Day said agencies that handle adoptions for the state "are getting a lot of people enrolling in their classes that are gay men and lesbians wanting to adopt. … So far, we haven't heard of any glitches of people wanting to adopt and being told they can't."

Jeff Rainey, chief executive officer of Hillsborough Kids, which handles local adoptions for the Florida Department of Children & Families, said nine gay couples and individuals have attended classes as part of the adoption process.

There are about 150 children available for adoption in Hillsborough. At any given time, the county has six or seven foster families led by gay parents. "We always need adoptive families," Rainey said. "All these kids deserve a loving home to grow up in."

Hillsborough circuit judges Emily Peacock and Catherine Catlin each has presided over one gay adoption in the past few months, and Catlin said she's aware of at least two others in the county.

Both judges said they were thrilled to see children going to loving homes, adding that the change in the law has been quietly welcomed in the legal community.

Still, some fear the change will be short-lived. They worry another court challenge, a new state law or a change in the state's Constitution will reinstate the ban.

Brian Winfield, a spokesman for Equality Florida, said the gay rights organization is preparing to mobilize if necessary.

"Our adoption phone banks have resulted in 24,640 Florida voters being educated on the issue and also identified as in support of fair adoption that focuses on the best interest of the child and not a parent's sexual orientation," he said.
 
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One of the main opponents of gay adoption is Liberty Counsel, a conservative legal foundation with a headquarters near Orlando. Several requests for comment from Liberty Counsel officials were unsuccessful.

In November, Liberty Counsel founder Matthew Staver told Christian Web News that he planned to ask the Legislature to pass a law reinstating the ban. No such bills were proposed in the 2011 legislative session.

"Children should not be placed in a homosexual household," Staver, a lawyer, told the website. "Recent studies have indicated that children raised in a homosexual environment are more likely to engage in homosexual activity at an exponentially increased rate."

In its ruling overturning the ban, however, the 3rd District Court of Appeal said scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports allowing gay people to adopt. The issue "is so far beyond dispute that it would be irrational to hold otherwise; the best interests of children are not preserved by prohibiting homosexual adoptions."

The court noted that gays can become foster parents and permanent legal guardians in Florida.

The state, which had argued that children have better role models and face less discrimination in two-parent heterosexual households, chose not to appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.

Since no other district court in Florida has issued a contrary opinion, the 3rd DCA ruling applies statewide.

Catlin said the court wrote "such a well-reasoned decision" that she doesn't expect it to be overturned anytime soon.

Some lawyers remain guarded.

Tampa attorney Kim Byrd, who specializes in gay, lesbian and transgender issues, was reluctant to discuss adoption because his clients fear a possible backlash.

"There's a lot of concern about the doors being closed on gay adoptions," he said. "They're concerned about press, in general, bringing attention to stories of gay people adopting."

Tampa lawyer Jeanne Tate, who owns an adoption agency, said her phones have been "ringing off the hook" with dozens of gay people looking to adopt, many of them afraid that the current opening is temporary.

St. Petersburg lawyer Maria Bates, who also owns an adoption agency, said the change is happening slowly.

"The ban was in place for over 30 years," she said. "People are nervous to take the next step."
 
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Stanley Kroh would not have gone public before his adoption of the boys was final.

"I wouldn't want to alert people to the fact that I guess we were vulnerable in that way," he said.

Kroh acknowledged it's possible his sons will be teased for having two fathers. But he said it wouldn't be tolerated at the charter school they attend, where he is chairman of the board and Joel is secretary/treasurer of the parent and volunteer organization.

Their neighborhood includes an interracial family, a family that had an interracial adoption and a family with lesbian parents.

"I think the boys are growing up in an environment where it just seems perfectly normal to see all those variety of families out there," Stanley Kroh said. "They're not going to feel strange or different at all."

Noah, 8, is a Rays fan and plays Little League baseball. He said he recently came close to hitting his first home run.

As far as Gabriel, a squirmy, giggly 4-year-old, is concerned, everyone in sight is simply an "apple head."

"Our boys have loving parents," Stanley Kroh said. "They feel safe and secure. We want exactly the same thing for our kids that any other loving parent wants."
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