Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Support Keith Olbermann's show "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" - new on "CURRENT TV" (air's nightly @ 8 PM EST (Mon - Fri). About time - as we need progressive un-censored news! Replays at 11 PM Eastern and 2 AM Eastern.

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? In San Diego we peacefully canvassed customers near their stores. In return, TARGET is suing the LGBT community for voicing our right of FREE SPEECH! Now, Target lost in court! David beat Goliath! Return everything you bought to TARGET and tell them why! ....Boycott TARGET!!!!!

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Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:
Access to Health Care Benefits for Gay Partners Is Gauged

By SABRINA TAVERNISE - New York Times -  July 26, 2011

WASHINGTON -- In the first comprehensive count of domestic partner benefits by a federal government agency, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that about one-third of all workers had access to health care benefits for same-sex partners.

Bureau officials added two questions about domestic partner benefits for same-sex couples to the National Compensation Survey, a sample of 17,000 businesses and local governments, as a response to growing public interest in the topic, said Philip Doyle, assistant commissioner at the agency. The results were made public on Tuesday.

Thirty-three percent of state and local government employees had access to domestic partner health benefits for same-sex couples, the survey found, slightly higher than the 29 percent of employees in private companies.

Gary Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the data collection "reflects contemporary reality of what constitutes a compensation package." It will also allow researchers to track whether laws on same-sex marriage affect the availability of domestic partner benefits.

Access to the benefits varied depending on the type of job. Business and financial managers, for example, had some of the highest rates of access to such benefits at 52 percent, compared with 17 percent for workers in the service industry. That is partly because service industry workers tend to have less access to health care than financial managers.

In all, 42 percent of service workers have access to health care. Of those, about a third had access to domestic partner health benefits, the survey found.

The regions with the greatest access for people working for private employers were the Pacific region, the Mountain region (which included Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming) and New England. Those with the lowest were the South and the West North Central (which included Iowa, Missouri and South Dakota).
Take Action:
  • Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck's radio show and his quest spots on Fox News. Glenn Beck is anti-gay rights. Update: Boycott Successful: Update 4/7/2011: Beck has been fired by FOX NEWS! Radio stations dropping Beck as well in several locations. Now, tell FOX to stop having Beck as a Guest.
  • 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! Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - political donations, corruption, greed, bribery, hacking!
  • 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 its 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 customer base. 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?
  • 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.
  • Remember David Kato, Gay activist - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay!
  • "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 re-new the clown's show after he pulled such hateful 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! Again, Dump NBC because they air/re-newed Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"! Now the Donald Claims the Long Form Birth certificate is a fraud. And NBC keeps this guy?
And Now, Our War of the Fittest!
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, you should select the guy that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!
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Bachmann's School District Excels at Gay Bashing, Fosters Teen Suicide
By Carolyn & Jamie - AutoStraddle - Jul 27, 2011
 
In the past two years, nine teenagers in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District have committed suicide. Five students are now suing over ongoing gay bashing. The district is represented by Michele Bachmann. Coincidence? Critics think not.

The Anoka-Hennepin School District is identified as a "suicide contagion" area because of the high rate of suicides and suicide attempts, involving not only students but adults.

Four of the nine incidents in the past two years were by students who were either openly gay or perceived to be. One teenager, Samantha, was involved with starting a non-school-district-approved gay-straight alliance (according to Mother Jones, her mother says she wasn't gay herself, but wanted to create an anti-bullying environment). She was harassed and stalked and teased, and her friends have said that school staff saw it happen on more than one occasion, but didn't do anything. Another student, Justin Aaberg, hanged himself in his room after going to a school at which the Parents Action League encouraged students to preach to gay kids and after being told, at least once, that he would go to hell for being gay.

The school district has a number of anti-gay policies. It responded to a request to create a GSA by saying that it needed to be cleared with "legal," which is usually code for "stalling." It had a 1990s-era policy that prohibited any and all discussion of being gay, including related information about HIV and AIDS, because it might have given people the scandalous idea it was normal or valid. The 2009 update to that policy isn't much better, and requires teachers to be "neutral" in their responses to sexual orientation issues, including bullying, and which (in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Counsel, functions like a gag policy).

Some of the responses to issues coming from these policies have been excellent, but some have been unbelievably gross. In response to a Day of Silence held after Samantha's suicide, some religious activists held a "Day of Truth" (since renamed the not-that-much-better "Day of Dialogue") which essentially encourages homophobic bullying. From an "honest" and "compassionate" perspective! The Parents Action League handed out T-shirts. The head of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, the type of ministry that uses the phrase "homosexual indoctrination" on public radio, and that supports Bachmann, also criticized the less intolerant policy. Bachmann herself hasn't spoken out against the district's changes, but has gone on record several times to suggest that bullying is OK and being gay isn't.

According to Slate, Bachmann's critics are arguing that the combination of her nonsense-encouraged approach to bullying and her personal opposition to gay rights are what has made the Anoka-Hennepin district so deadly. Judging by their coverage of the Mother Jones article, the Washington Post blog, the Daily Mail, and NYMag, among others, support that conclusion.

However, in an interview with Salon`s Natasha Lennary, Stuart Biegel, the author of The Right to Be Out, doesn't agree that the district's problems are solely Bachmann's fault. Instead, that the problem goes beyond just one district:
"85 percent of LGBT students surveyed nationally said they've been bullied at school. This is not a new dynamic and not limited to what's in Minnesota. When I was doing research for 'The Right to Be Out,' I came across evidence that there's been at least 10 years of criticism of anti-bullying measures as subterfuge for gay indoctrination."
Meanwhile, five students are actually suing the school district for ongoing gay-bashing, specifically for the "gag policy" that asks educators to delegate sexual orientation-related discussions elsewhere, regardless of context. The policy, which was adopted in early 2009, reads:
"The School District employs a diverse and talented staff committed to serving students and families from diverse backgrounds. The School District acknowledges that one aspect of that diversity regards sexual orientation. Teaching about sexual orientation is not a part of the District-adopted curriculum; rather, such matters are best addressed within individual family homes, churches, or community organizations. Anoka-Hennepin staff, in the course of their professional duties, shall remain neutral on matters regarding sexual orientation including but not limited to student-led discussions. If and when staff address sexual orientation, it is important that staff do so in a respectful manner that is age-appropriate, factual, and pertinent to the relevant curriculum. Staff are encouraged to take into consideration individual student needs and refer students to the appropriate social worker or licensed school counsellor."
The SPLC and the National Centre for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) will be in part representing the students. Kate Kendell, the executive director for NDLR, says that:
"There is something seriously wrong in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, and district officials know it. In school after school, kids who are perceived as gay are harassed mercilessly until they drop out, melt down or lash back. This epidemic of harassment -- unlike anything we've seen in neighboring districts -- is plainly fueled by the district's shameful and illegal policy singling out LGBT people and LGBT people alone for total exclusion from acknowledgement within the classroom."
Blaming Bachmann for the state of her district is easy, because everyone likes to see someone with bigoted ideas facing evidence that they are very, very wrong. Also: she's scary. On the other hand, earlier this month, the trial for the classmate who shot 15-year-old Larry King began. This past January, Lance Lundsten committed suicide as a result of bullying. And it will take a lot to forget about the multiple instances of gay-bullying-related suicides last fall. These things keep happening, and while any solution would be better than no solution, it's probably time to keep criticizing Bachmann and to start criticizing other organizational levels, too.
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."

....Jake
 
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