Gathering at the Palace to Cheer Friends & Neighbors in Beltzer’s “Coming of Age”
James Beltzer - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The Grove’s James Beltzer introduced the documentary “Coming of Age in Cherry Grove,” his work-in-progress, to an appreciative audience, at the Grove Hotel’s Ice Palace on June 20, that had come to see their friends, their neighbors-and themselves-and to cheer.
We saw Bella, who was a few seats away from us, say onscreen that Cherry Grove is “like a Federico Fellini movie” and play Susan Boyle doing “I Dreamed a Dream.” We saw Panzi, bullhorn in hand and all in yellow feathers, leading last year’s Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines and, later, she and Bella and Rose Levine held forth about the origins of the Invasion. The Pines’ Robyn Bird spoke of videotaping the Invasion and claimed, “I’m trisexual-I will try everyone sexually. Read more
Obama Extends Benefits to Same-Sex Partners of Federal Employees
President Barack Obama - photo submitted by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On June 2, President Barak Obama issued a memorandum to Federal Executive Department and Agency Heads extending benefits enjoyed by Federal heterosexual employees’ spouses and families to domestic partners and children of LGBT families. The memorandum instructs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the Administrator of General Services to ensure that sex-sex domestic partners and their children qualify as immediate family members and dependents under the law, with regard to family and medical leave protections, child care services, and retiree pension annuities, for example, but stops short, according to Lambda Legal of guaranteeing family health insurance. Read more
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Passes U.S. Senate Committee & House of Representatives, But McCain & Colleagues Announce Plan to Filibuster
President Barack Obama, courtesy of Organizing for America
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by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On May 27, the United States Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, passed, by a vote of 16 to 12, an amendment to the National
Defense Authorization Act that would remove “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”(DADT)-the heinous 17-year-old policy whereby open gay and lesbians are discharged from military service-from federal Read more
White House Moves to Bar Discrimination Against Same-Sex Partners in Hospital Visitation Rights
Janice Langbehn & family - photo courtesy of Lambda Legal
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On April 15, President Barack Obama directed 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to draw up rules ensuring that hospitals receiving federal funding, i.e. participating in
Medicare or Medicaid, will not discriminate against same-sex partners concerning visitation rights and respecting legal documents, such as medical power of attorney and health care proxy, that they hold.
In 2007, Janice Langbehn and her children were barred for eight hours by a Miami hospital from visiting her partner of 20 years, Lisa Pond, who was dying of a brain aneurysm, even though Langbehn had power of attorney, and Read more
Gay & Lesbian D.C. Couples Apply for Licenses in Anticipation of Marriage Equality
(left to right) National Gay & Lesbian Task Force board member Hans Johnson and then-board member Jerry Clark with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Task Force Deputy Executive Director Darlene Nipper just after the mayor signed D.C.’s marriage equality bill in December 2009. photo courtesy of www.thetaskforce.org
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Same sex marriage becomes legal in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital, on March 10 and, in anticipation, gay and lesbian couples began applying for marriage licenses on March 3, the day that the new Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act took effect, according to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. In mid-December, 2009, the D.C. Council passed the amendment act, by a vote of 12 to 1, and D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty signed it into law. Read more
Combating Hatred-The Battle Has Begun
Dave D'Amico, courtesy of the Star Ledger
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by Sherri Rase
January 29 was a special day in Union, New Jersey. Kean University’s Human Rights Conference, Combating Hatred, was delivered to a capacity and overflow crowd, in the Wilkins Theatre on campus, more than 1100 strong. Drawn not only from the University student body and faculty, Read more
Obama Mentions AIDS, Hate Crimes, & Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Late in 1st Presidential State of Union Address
President Barack Obama, backed by Vice-President Joseph Biden & Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
On January 27, President Barack Obama gave an hour-and-10-minute State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress, his first since he took office last year, in the House Chamber of the Capitol, in Washington, D.C. Read more
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