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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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Monday, June 27th if National HIV Testing Day: Get Tested!
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Experts recommend everyone get tested for HIV

Jane J. Lee - Mercury News June 6, 2011
 
When Naina Khanna wanted to get tested for HIV in 2000, doctors told her she didn't need to be.

In her early 20s, the Oakland resident was a South Asian woman in a heterosexual relationship who didn't display any of the behaviors that would have put her in a high-risk category.

But a year and a half later in 2002, Khanna did get tested and found she was HIV positive.

Khanna's case illustrates the need for regular HIV testing of everyone, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006. They suggest that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 should be screened for HIV.

Monday is a good day to take care of this, since it is National HIV Testing Day.

The Asian and Pacific Islander community is the only ethnic group to show an increase in new HIV cases, according to research published in the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care by researchers at the CDC in April. That group has the lowest testing rates, said Hyeouk Hahm, assistant professor at Boston University who has studied this disease in the API community.

The increase is attributable to a number of causes, including the stigma related to HIV and AIDS and ingrained stereotypes, along with low testing rates, added Hahm.

The model minority stereotype, the idea that everyone in the API community is high achieving, is problematic, she said. It feeds a cultural practice of only showing a perfect family image to the rest of the world. As a result, people in the API community don't want to talk about HIV or get tested because they feel that would shatter the image.

It was one year before Khanna, policy director for Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Disease, sought medical care for her HIV because she didn't want to talk about it with anyone. She worried about how that kind of disclosure would affect her family.

The model minority stereotype oversimplifies an incredibly diverse community, said Dr. Royce Lin, a physician in San Francisco General Hospital's HIV/AIDS Division and an associate professor at UC San Francisco.

And assumptions about people can cause things to be missed, he said. Doctors may not ask about a woman's sexual history or her partner's sexual history because she doesn't fit into what's typically considered a high-risk group.

But knowing this kind of information is particularly important for women in the API community, because 86 percent of API women with HIV were infected through heterosexual sex with their partner, said Lin.

That's how Khanna said she was infected.

"One in three people in the API community living with HIV don't know they have it," said Lin. He thinks that if HIV testing were routine, like getting your cholesterol checked, it would help dispel the stigma around HIV and getting tested.
 
"My family has been extremely accepting," said Khanna. But she thinks they don't talk about her HIV status in their broader community.
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!

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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New York Gay Marriage Vote Alters Political Battle Lines
By GEOFFREY A. FOWLER And CAROL E. LEE - Wall Street Journal - Jun 27, 2011

New York's decision to permit same-sex marriages sets the stage for battles in half a dozen other states and could propel gay rights as a political wedge issue in the 2012 elections.

The new battle lines were already being drawn as states such as Minnesota prepared to take on the same-sex marriage issue in the near future and as the New York law put fresh pressure on President Barack Obama to articulate a clearer position on the topic.

Gay-rights advocates, who celebrated Sunday at parades across the country, said New York's move--a bill permitting same-sex marriage that was championed by Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by a Republican-led state Senate on Friday--marked a turning point in the nearly 20-year political and legal debate over the definition of marriage. "This is an immense win that brings giant momentum to the movement to end marriage discrimination in the U.S.," said Evan Wolfson, president of national gay rights group Freedom to Marry.

After the gay-pride parade Sunday in New York, Mr. Cuomo said, "I think you're going to see this message resonate all across the country now. If New York can do it, it's OK for every other place to do it."

Opponents said they would go on the attack against Republicans who support gay marriage. Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, said New York's move was a "disaster for the Republican party," and that his group planned to spend $2 million over the next 18 months to defeat the legislators who supported it.

But those GOP lawmakers also received pledges of support from Wall Street, including from hedge fund manager Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management. The political action committee of the Gill Action foundation, started by Tim Gill, promised aid.

A cadre of financial executives including Paul Singer, head of New York-based Elliott Associates, have been organizing efforts to support gay marriage for more than a year.

In September, Mr. Singer and Ken Mehlman, a partner and global head of public affairs at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, were among the organizers of a fund-raiser to help push gay marriage legislation. Daniel Loeb, head of New York hedge-fund firm Third Point LLC, joined forces with Mssrs. Singer and Mehlman, telling colleagues and others that he considers it a civil-rights issue, one person close to him said. Hedge-fund investors have been calling to thank Mr. Loeb for backing the measure, the person said. Mssrs. Singer and Loeb themselves declined to comment through spokespeople.

New York's move may have implications in other states. Minnesota bans gay marriage and voters there will consider a constitutional amendment next year that would add a heterosexual definition of marriage to the constitution. Bill backers and gay rights leaders have pledged to raise at least $4.7 million for their campaigns.

In North Carolina, home of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the state is weighing whether voters should take up a constitutional ban on gay marriage. Legislators in Maryland and Rhode Island are considering pro-gay marriage bills of their own.

Gay-rights leaders in Oregon and California, where 2008's Proposition 8 banned same-sex marriages, are also weighing whether to bring pro-gay marriage initiatives to the ballot next year.

"It is absolutely important that we continue fighting just as hard, even stronger, in Maryland and everywhere else," said Robert Broadus, the head of Protect Marriage Maryland, who was in New York last week trying to help defeat the vote.

President Obama, who supports civil unions, has said his position on same-sex marriage is "evolving." At a Manhattan fund-raiser with gay and lesbian donors Thursday, Mr. Obama expressed support for the process New York was undergoing. In doing so, he angered some Democratic supporters, who said leaving marriage up to states shifts the burden in what they believe should be a federal issue.

"The progressive Democratic community is looking at Andrew Cuomo and seeing Bobby Kennedy and the president is not looking very politically astute by comparison," said Richard Socarides, who advised President Bill Clinton on gay-rights issues. "People remember that when he ran for president he said, 'I want to change the country.' Now he's saying to gay people, 'If you want change, look to your state legislature?' ''

Mr. Obama "has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples," said Obama spokesman Shin Inouye. "The states should determine for themselves how best to uphold the rights of their own citizens. The process in New York worked just as it should."

New York's move more than doubles, to 35 million, the number of Americans who live in states that permit same-sex marriage. Five other states, plus the District of Columbia, also allow gay weddings.

A May Gallup poll, echoing a March Washington Post-ABC News poll, found 53% of Americans believe same-sex marriage should be recognized as valid, with the same rights as heterosexual marriages. The poll, which has a sampling error of 4%, found 44% support for same-sex marriage last year.

Opponents point to a May Alliance Defense Fund poll which claimed a 2.53% margin of error found that 62% of Americans think marriage should be defined "only as a union between one man and one woman."
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