Show the real power of the real grassroots!
This is it. In one week, voters in California’s 44th district will decide between corrupt Republican incumbent Ken Calvert and progressive champion Bill Hedrick.
Joe McElderry – Ambitions
Joe’s version of Norwegian DonkeyBoy’s Ambitions, MySoCalledGayLife.com has earlier featured Donkeyboy. Joe McElderry (19) is the winner of UK’s «X Factor».
Today is the International Intersex Awareness Day
ILGA-Europe supports the initiative to mark 26 October as the International Intersex Awareness Day. The first ever public demonstration by intersex activists took place in Boston (USA), on 26 October 1996.
November 13th Interfaith Prayer Vigil Planned in Support of the Victims in Bishop Eddie Long Scandal
Tuan N’Gai, civil rights activist, author, and founder of Silence Equals Consent (silenceequalsconsent.org), has announced an interfaith prayer vigil to be held in Lithonia, GA. Minister N’Gai plans to pray for the end of pedophilia and homophobia in the Black Church. The event will also honour the memories of the LGBT teenagers who recently took their own lives.
Gold’s Gym Gives Money to Org. Promoting Anti-Gay Politicians
Robert Rowling, the CEO of the company that owns Gold’s Gym, has donated more than $2 million to American Crossroads, Karl Rove’s organisation that works to elect anti-gay politicians, according to website Change.org. Rowling is the head of TRT Holdings, which owns the chain of gyms, popular with LGBT people across the nation, and is one of several people who are helping to get Rove’s organisation running.
ILGA-Europe publishes a manual “Make It Work: Six steps to effective LGBT human rights advocacy”
Producing such a manual is part of ILGA-Europe’s work on strengthening and improving the capacity of LGBT organisations across Europe. The need for such a tool was identified some time ago within the framework of our PRECIS project.