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Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë takes first steps in journey that could lead him to the presidency: "In the introduction to a book of interviews, outlining a market-oriented and even Blairist future for Socialism in France, M. Delanoë hinted strongly that he would run for the leadership of the Parti Socialiste in November and probably seek the party's presidential nomination in four years' time. He was ready, he said, to "invest my convictions and energy in my country" if 'democracy and the Socialist Party call on me... to act'."

Gay Adoption

Florida is the only state in the country that *specifically* bans adoptions based on sexual orientation. At the capitol Wednesday, child welfare advocates were on hand to support a bill to allow gay couples to adopted.

Democratic Senator Nan Rich of Miami says allowing gay couples to adopt would help offer some relieve to the state’s foster care system.

“We have over 3,000 children that are waiting for loving, stable homes. Permanent homes. So this is another pool exactly of parents of people that we believe should have the same rights as anybody else.”

The Florida Office of Analysis and Accountability says children left in foster care grow up more dependent upon public assistance.

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California Counties to Offer Same-Sex Marriages June 14

Same-sex couples in some counties will be able to marry as soon as Saturday, June 14, the president of the California's county clerks association said Monday.

Stephen Weir, who heads the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials, said he was told by the Office of Vital Records that clerks would be authorized to hand out marriage licenses as soon as that date — exactly 30 days after the California Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage should be legal.

The court's decisions typically take effect after 30 days, barring further legal action.
"They are shooting for the 14th," said Weir, adding that the state planned to give California's 58 counties advice early this week for implementing the historic change so local officials can start planning.

An effort, however, is under way to stay the Supreme Court's decision until voters can decide the issue with an initiative planned for the November ballot. The measure would overrule the justices' decision and amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage.

Justices have until the ruling's effective date to weigh the request, but could give themselves longer to consider it, attorneys have said. Another complicating factor is that the Supreme Court also directed a midlevel appeals court that upheld the state's one man-one woman marriage laws a year ago to issue a new order legalizing same-sex marriage, and it's not clear when the appeals court would comply.

Suanne Buggy, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Public Health, which oversees the vital records office, would not confirm Monday that state officials have settled the matter of when counties can or must start extending marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
"We will be getting guidance out to the counties soon," Buggy said.

According to Weir, it would be up to each county clerk to decide whether to open their offices to gay and lesbian couples on June 14 or to wait until the following Monday.

Some clerks have said they would aim to accommodate on the earliest possible date, depending on their staffing and anticipated demand, he said. If the court's decision does take effect on June 14, couples could, in theory, plan to obtain their licenses and take their vows at 12:01 a.m. that day, he said.

As it happens, Weir's office in Martinez already holds open hours on the second Saturday of each month, so serving couples who want to get hitched as soon as possible won't be a problem, he said. He and his partner of 18 years hope to be the first ones to tie the knot.

"Just because we have been so close to it, and so far, I would really like to be first," Weir said.

County clerks spoke with state officials last week about how to amend marriage license and related forms to eliminate references to "bride" and "groom," according to Weir. Because each county must use the same forms, the vital records is expected to notify them this week of which gender-neutral wording to use, he said.

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Barack Obama Draws Massive Crowd in Portland, Oregon

Two days before tomorrow's Oregon primary, Barack Obama drew 75,000 people to a rally that the New York Daily News called his "wow" moment.

Although Tuesday's primary could give Obama a majority of pledged delegates, the campaign reportedly won't be declaring a victory in the nomination that night.

The Clinton campaign was also in Oregon over the weekend, the NY Times reports: "Bill and Chelsea Clinton also were in Oregon on Sunday, campaigning on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton in Salem. 'Don’t you let anyone tell you she can’t win,' Mr. Clinton said. 'You can still make your voices heard.' ... 'In wrapping up the case for his wife, Bill Clinton did not criticize Obama, who is heavily favored to win in Oregon on Tuesday,. writes The Oregonian. 'Instead, he directed his sharpest comments at the news media, citing what he said were recent studies that concluded that the Democratic primary campaign had been the subject of ‘the most biased, one-sided media coverage in the history of American politics.’'"

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Gambia gay death threat condemned

President Jammeh last year claimed to have found a cure for Aids
Gay rights activists have condemned Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's threat to behead homosexuals.

Last week he told a political rally that gay people had 24 hours to leave the country.

He promised "stricter laws than Iran" on homosexuality and said he would "cut off the head" of any gay person found in The Gambia.

Carey Johnson of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Council said the comments were "disgraceful".

"What president Jammeh fails to realise is that there are a significant population of Gambians who are gay, and he has no right to ask them to leave," Mr Johnson said.

The Gambia is a country of believers... sinful and immoral practices [such] as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country

Yahya Jammeh
President of The Gambia

The speech was "doubly disgraceful" because The Gambia is the host country for the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, he said.

Mr Johnson said the speech, part of President Jammeh's 13-day tour of the country, was an attempt to scapegoat gay people and blame them for the country's ills.

"He's fighting to maintain his control over the country, he finds the weakest group and lays all the problems at their door," Mr Johnson said.

'History of homophobia'

"The Gambia is a country of believers... sinful and immoral practices [such] as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country," the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15.

"Jammeh has a long history of homophobia," said British gay rights activist Peter Tatchell.

"If he tries to carry out these threats, international aid donors are likely to withdraw their support, and foreign tourists will stay away in droves, thereby damaging the Gambian economy," he added.

Correspondents say a number of homosexual men have fled to The Gambia from neighbouring Senegal after a crackdown there following arrests at a "gay wedding" in February.

Both countries are predominantly Muslim and President Jammeh cultivates an image of being a devout Muslim.

In February last year, he was condemned by campaigners when he claimed to have cured people of HIV and Aids.

His "cure" was a mixture of herbs that patients ate and spread on their bodies.


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Major Monument to Gay Holocaust Victims Unveiled Today in Berlin

A monument remembering gays persecuted by the Nazi regime was unveiled in preparation for a ceremony today in Berlin which was presided over by Germany's federal commissioner for culture, Bernd Neumann, and openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit.

Below, Neumann and Wowereit peer into the monument.



The monument consists of a 3.6 meter-high, 1.9 meter-wide pillar containing a small window through which can be seen a one and a half minute film loop of two men kissing, directed by the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg. Vinterberg directed the 1998 film The Celebration.

A still from the film loop is below.



And here's another shot of the monument, which sits half a block from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin's Tiergarten Park, across from the Jewish Holocaust memorial.

According to Deustche Welle, "Originally it was debated whether homosexuals should be included in the larger memorial before the decision was made to give homosexuals their own monument. But the design corresponds to the Holocaust Memorial's field of steles, a series of concrete blocks of varying sizes. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews is well known, for many years there was little public acknowledgement of Nazi atrocities towards homosexuals. Estimates put the number of homosexuals arrested by Nazis at about 54,000 with 7,000 being killed in concentration camps. 'It is not easy for a gay man to live in this country and this society. It's important to remember that this society punished homosexuality for 20 years after National Socialism ended,' said Günter Dworek of the Federation of Gays and Lesbians in Germany (LSVD), a driving force behind the project."

The monument was designed by Berlin-based Norwegian-Danish artist duo Ingar Dragset and Michael Elmgreen (below).

the largest gay pride in the world is in Sao Polo

The São Paulo Gay Parade is, if not the biggest, one of the biggest events of its kind in the world. In 2005, more than 2,000,000 people attended the Parade (read BBC and News24).
It is also one of the major tourist events in São Paulo; the event has official support from the city government of São Paulo. The Parade happens yearly, usually in June; it is the beggining of Brazilian winter, when temperatures are lower, but rains are rare.

For information in Portuguese, visit the site of the official organizer of the event, the Associação do Orgulho GLBT de São Paulo (Association of the Pride of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders of São Paulo).

What is the Parade?




Terra The Parada do Orgulho GLBT de São Paulo (Parade of Pride of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders of São Paulo) has been organized since 1999, with the aims of bringing visibility to social-sexual categories and fomenting the creation of public policies for homossexuals, bissexuals, transvestites and transsexuals.
The main strategy is to occupy public spaces so as to make possible an effective exchange of experiences, elevate the self-esteem of homossexuals and sensibilise the society towards the tolerance with differences.
Year after year, the conscientization and education towards respect to diversity has generated positive results as far as bias eradication is concerned. During the Parade, the homossexuals, united, help construct and guarantee the plenitude of their rights.

15 Simple Ways to Keep Your Partner Happy

So you're in a relationship and your partner starts nagging. He tells you that you just don't understand him, and that he really wishes that you would just do more "little things."
It's not the big things that make him happy; it's paying attention to the little details and showing you care that is really meaningful. He doesn't necessarily need lavish gifts -- He needs to know you're thinking about him.
Here are some ideas to get you started doing these "little things" he really wants:
1. Rub his feet instead of asking him if he wants you to rub his feet. Make it look like you want to do it.
2. Make him dinner one night. Don't ask him if he wants you to make dinner. Make him dinner before he gets home.
3. Light a candle so that he arrives home to a nice environment instead of coming home to the glaring lights of the television and other things.
4. Send him a text in the middle of the day telling her "I miss your smile from this morning" or "Last night was amazing!" or "The conversation we had last night was great."
5. Send an eCard in the middle of the day... something cute to remind him how much you really care about him.
Send an eCard in the middle of the day... something cute to remind him how much you really care about her.
6. If he's going on a business trip, offer to drive him to the airport or pick him up to make his life that much easier.
7. Let him have control of the remote control. Don't monopolize it for a change. Just give it to him and let him actually sit there and enjoying watching one of his shows. Then you can share one of his interests by watching it with him.
8. Offer to iron one of his shirts or take his clothes to the dry cleaner.
9. Clean up the bathroom without being asked. Don't just sit there and ignore the mess around the toilet. If you know it drives him crazy to see water splashed all around the sink, dry that area after you use it.
10. If you work out together, enjoy it with him instead of rushing through your own workout and then not letting his workout at the same time.
11. Take a shower together, then wash his hair, scrub his back, and give him a spa treatment. Do this and enjoy it!
12. The next time he gives you a massage, give him a massage the next day. Offer it! Don't just say you'll give him a massage...do it!
13. Surprise him by making plans. Tell him, "We're going out tonight honey." You can even just go out for a drink or dinner somewhere. It's taking the initiative that's important.
14. Decide on and set aside one night a week as date night. Have a date like when you first started dating.
15. Call him in the middle of the day and just say hello. Don't wait for him to call you.
It can be simple to keep him satisfied. It's not necessarily about what you give him financially or what gifts you give him. That's a cop out. It's the little things. The guy who makes the biggest mistake is the one who ignores their significant other then all of a sudden give them an expensive gift to make up for it. That doesn't make up for it at all.

a flight for nudists

A German travel company said it has decided to cancel a special nude charter flight that had been scheduled for this summer to a popular Baltic Sea destination despite being fully booked.

The July 5 flight to the popular Baltic Sea resort of Usedom was due to be the first of many and was aimed at East Germans nostalgic for the naturism that was authorised and extremely popular under communist rule.

But OssiUrlaub.de, the firm organising the service to a picturesque Baltic Sea island, said it has had second thoughts after "moral objections" in the media and from visitors to its Internet portal, a spokesman said.

The 50 people with tickets would have boarded the flight in the eastern city of Erfurt fully clothed, but once on the plane would have been free to undress and enjoy the rest of the journey without a stitch on.

They will now receive a full refund as well as a voucher for other products offered by the company, whose core business caters to holidaymakers who keep their clothes on, it stressed.

The travel agency created a stir in the media earlier this year with its plans for the first nudist charter flight to the Baltic Sea.

"In the former East Germany, naturist holidays were a much-loved way of spending the best weeks of the year," the founder of OssiUrlaub.de, Enrico Hess said at the time. "We want to make that freedom possible above the clouds, too."

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Did drugs kill the slowdance?

At dinner the other night for a friend’s birthday, a girl asked the question “What happened to the slowdance?” Remember when you were at the school dance at the end of the night there was always a slow dance and everyone would be pashing (snogging) their boyfriends/girlfriends and dancing that awkward teenage side shuffle with their arms around each other. Even in movies from the 80’s they would show slow dances at the end of the night in nightclubs.

Where did the slow dance go? Did drugs kill the slow dance because no one can actually slow down? Are gay men capable of the slow dance? My theory is that yes, drugs mean people can’t physically stop themselves dancing, or there’s no room for two in a K hole. The other theory is that if gay men slowed down on a dance floor and stopped waving their hands in the air like they just don’t care, then the groping would start and the slow dance would end up quite horizontal with 100 participants.


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The lawyers don’t like my butt!

A while back I posted about appearing in a music video for Seany B. Basically the video was pretty raunchy with two couples engaging in a bisexual food fight orgy. It appears Sony’s lawyers have decided that it’s a bit too provocative to be released. We are hoping that they might allow it on youtube or something, just not on the commercial TV stations.

I still haven’t seen it, but the guy that directed and filmed it says it looks fantastic. I’m hoping to see it in the next few days, but I won’t be able to post it until all the legal stuff is sorted, if ever.

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Portland Elects Openly Gay Mayor Sam Adams

Sam Adams, an openly gay man whose family lived on "food stamps and public housing" as he grew up, has been elected Portland, Oregon's mayor. As such, he'll be the first openly gay mayor of a top-40 U.S. city.

The Oregonian reports: " The city commissioner soundly defeated 12 other candidates Tuesday to assume the top office in the city and one of the tallest bully pulpits in the Pacific Northwest. He captured 58 percent of the vote to avoid a November runoff against travel agency owner Sho Dozono. Adams, 44, won by stressing specifics: He promised to work with school leaders to cut the dropout rate, make Portland a leader in environmentally friendly businesses and use the Portland Streetcar and better planning to spur urban renewal."

You may recall I posted about Adams last September as he was being targeted by Bob Ball, a gay Portland real estate developer who also had an interest in the mayor's office, in an ugly, unsubstantiated smear campaign involving an underage intern. Adams, obviously, survived that attack.

Adams takes over for outgoing mayor Tom Potter in seven months.

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Barack Obama talked to Advocate gay magazine

In an exclusive Chicago sit-down with The Advocate's Kerry Eleveld, Democratic front-runner Barack Obama discusses "don't ask, don't tell," Rev. Wright, and what he would do for LGBT Americans if he becomes president. On the fact that he doesn't support Gay Marriage, Obama explains:"I strongly respect the right of same-sex couples to insist that even if we got complete equality in benefits, it still wouldn’t be equal because there’s a stigma associated with not having the same word, marriage, assigned to it. I understand that, but my perspective is also shaped by the broader political and historical context in which I’m operating. And I’ve said this before -- I’m the product of a mixed marriage that would have been illegal in 12 states when I was born. That doesn’t mean that had I been an adviser to Dr. King back then, I would have told him to lead with repealing an antimiscegenation law, because it just might not have been the best strategy in terms of moving broader equality forward. That’s a decision that the LGBT community has to make. That’s not a decision for me to make." Read full interview here...

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pop ashamed by sex abuse from priests

Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 81 yesterday, was greeted at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday by President Bush, his wife Laura and his daughter Jenna. The pope began his first visit to the United States by addressing an issue that has wounded the Catholic Church in the US, telling reporters on his aircraft that the sexual abuse of children has caused great suffering ”for the church and him "personally.” The scandal has produced thousands of sexual abuse victims and about 5,000 accused priests since it erupted in 2002 and has cost the church more than $2 billion in settlements. “I would not speak at this moment about homosexuality, but pedophilia, which is another thing. And we would absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry,” said the pope. Benedict XVI is not new to issues involving abusive priests. As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and was responsible for deciding whether to discipline priests accused of sexual abuse.

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Australia moves toward Equality for Gays

Changes to Australian federal laws which discriminate against same-sex couples are long overdue, Attorney-General Robert McLelland says. McClelland formally announced on wednesday that amendments to about 100 laws, identified as discriminatory in an audit, would be introduced during the winter session of parliament. "The changes will provide for equality of treatment in wide range of area including superannuation, taxation, social security, workers compensation, pharmaceutical benefits... These will make a practical difference to the lives of a group of fellow Australians who, far too long, have suffered discrimination at a commonwealth level" Mr McClelland told reporters in Canberra. "Discrimination on the basis of sexuality has long been removed from state and territory laws and this will compete the picture by introducing long-overdue reforms to remove discrimination from commonwealth laws." He added the legislative changes would not allow for gay marriage. "These reforms won't change the Marriage Act... We made it clear before the election that the government regards marriage as being between a man and a woman and we don't support any measures that seek to mimic that process."

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