Tuesday, June 7, 2011

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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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Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:
Gay students more likely to take risks, study says

Associated Press - June 7, 2011

Gay and bisexual high school students are more likely than their heterosexual classmates to smoke, drink alcohol or do other risky things, according to a government study released Monday. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which conducted the study, don't know why for sure. But gay, lesbian and bisexual students deal with stigma, disapproval and social rejection. "Many risk behaviors are related to how people feel about themselves and the environment they're in," said the study's lead author, Laura Kann of the CDC's division of adolescent and school health.
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  • Update: DADT has been repealed.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"! NBC, Really? Update June 1, 2011: Trump now claims that Obama's long form, original birth certificate is fake. And NBC keeps this hater? NBC, You Kidding Us?

And Now, Model Wars!

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Houdini Mehlman and His Bag of Gay Tricks
Adrian Margaret Brune - Huffington Post - 06/7/11

Seven years ago this winter, I drove down to Washington, D.C. to start my first job out of Columbia Journalism School as a staff writer for the Washington Blade, the oldest LGBT newspaper in the country. I hadn't yet permanently moved from New York, but already had started attending editorial meetings in DC to prep for the year ahead of me, a full one: gay marriage cases primed for the court dockets in Massachusetts and California, an election campaign in full swing and talk of a Federal Marriage Amendment in Congress to stem the undulating tide of social change.

But Chris Crain, the former executive editor, and Kevin Naff, the current editor of the Blade had an even bigger story on the horizon: outing Ken Mehlman. At the time, his was the dirtiest little secret in the DC LGBT community -- the savvy, equivocating Harvard lawyer who was running George W. Bush's re-election campaign on a strong anti-gay platform was gay. Crain, also a Harvard-trained lawyer, had it on good information from many a Harvard colleague that Mehlman was so deep in the closet he was buried under a pile of Brooks Brothers suits.

So we were going to drag him out. Crain and Naff wanted the story as soon as any reporter could get it. Trouble was, we couldn't. I set about the story first, emailing and calling friends of friends of Crain who knew Mehlman at Harvard. All said, yes, he way gay, and then no, they would not go on deep background, let alone on the record, about it. After exhausting all my leads, I tried to find ways to confront Mehlman at Bush campaign headquarters in Arlington. When I figured out how untouchable Mehlman was, I ditched that plan and went for a phone call: the weekly campaign roundtable for key Bush campaign staffers. In the middle of a talk on Ohio, I asked Mehlman the question: "Mr. Mehlman, with gay marriage being enacted in many states across the country, are you concerned that will be an issue with Ohio swing voters? And oh, are you gay?" My heart pounded. But Mehlman gave it no weight. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said, and moved on.

Before long, so did I, but not before writing the first story about the outing campaign taken on by a pair of gay activists John Aravosis and Mike Rogers, who, literally, outed no fewer than 13 gay Republican legislators and Capitol Hill staffers who supported, or worked for those who supported, the Federal Marriage Amendment. "I'm pretty uninterested in whether a gay staffer's name appears in a newspaper, or on a website. I am more interested in a reader approaching someone at a bar and asking, 'What the hell are you doing, working for someone who doesn't support our issues?'" said Aravosis, a former staff attorney for the late Sen. Ted Stevens, at the time. "An acquaintance of mine, a Southern Republican, worked for a member who was not anti-gay personally, but he signed on to the amendment (banning gay marriage). My friend quit. I'm basically saying, 'You know what, you have a choice. It's 2004. You can work for pro-gay Democrats, and now you can work for pro-gay Republicans."

And now it's 2011. And last fall Ken Mehlman openly admitted he was gay and he could also work for whomever or whatever he wanted, thanks to the work done on behalf of the LGBT groups he shunned. In fact, he had already done so, very quietly fundraising for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, former U.S. Solicitor Ted Olson's legal effort to overturn California's Proposition 8 ban gay marriage. Today, Mehlman is at the state capital in Albany trying to drum up support for gay marriage in New York with two weeks left to go before the issue comes up for a vote.

In the Atlantic blog outing him, Mehlman said he "really wished" he had acknowledged his sexual orientation sooner, so that he "could have worked against (the Federal Marriage Amendment).

"It's a legitimate question and one I understand," Mehlman said of his silence -- or to many gays and lesbians, his complicity -- in the political smear against gays. "I can't change the fact that I wasn't in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that," he told Ambinder. "It was very hard, personally."

But Mehlman was in that place years before. Sources spoke off the record of Mehlman's romantic pursuits in law school and of his clandestine presence in the gay community. Practically everyone in DC -- probably even the president -- knew where Mehlman stood on the gay continuum. Of course, as everyone else in this country, he had the right to live his life and to do the job of his choosing without being forced to succumb to the wishes of any special interest group, particularly the LGBT lobby. That said, I nonetheless wonder why friends of Mehlman didn't take him aside in 2004, as Aravosis suggested, and ask the "Why the hell" question. What made them so standoffish, or us equally complicit in the Ken Mehlman charade? Moreover, I question Mehlman's current penance. "The closet is our worst enemy. Look how Barney (Frank), (Steve) Gunderson and (Jim) Kolbe came into the cause," Rogers told me in 2004, ultimately hopeful that the people in his crosshairs would see the light. "They were dragged out, but now they're some of our most vocal advocates." True. But in this case, Mehlman is not adding anything to the gay community; he is simply trying to pick up the pieces of his own mistakes and probably kick-start his own political career.

"Showing up to the party less than 15 days until the vote is weak," said Natasha Dillon, one of the founders of Queer Rising, a group that has agitated for gay marriage in New York since it failed in December 2009. "If he really wanted to 'make up' his betrayal to his community, as a New Yorker, he should have been to Albany a long time ago."

Ken Mehlman had his chance to do the right thing years ago. Luckily, the gays are quick to forgive and forget. However, sometimes all people -- gay or straight -- get is one.
Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
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