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Dozens of LGBTQ rights activists gathered outside New York City's Chelsea Piers on Sunday holding signs like 'Transphobia is not kosher' and 'Say Gay' to protest the venue's hosting of a Jewish Leadership Conference featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a guest speaker. The governor will speak Sunday night about the vibrancy of Jewish life in Florida, and how that could translate to other communities across the country at the Tikvah Fund's Jewish Leadership Conference, which is being held at the famed Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. 'There's a Jewish Renaissance taking place in Florida, and we wanted to hear from...

An Antifa militant who publicized a hit list of Seattle business owners has been identified as a trans nonbinary furry and children’s camp counselor who has been arrested multiple times at violent protests. Mikaele Andrew Baker, 23, of Seattle, tweeted an extensive list of local business owners last week who signed a petition in support of the dismantling of a growing autonomous zone in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The business owners were subsequently doxed and received threats. Baker was born male but now identifies as trans nonbinary and uses “they/them” pronouns. For months, far-left activists took over part of Cal...

SALEM, Ore. - Supporters of a bill being considered by state lawmakers say it would close a loophole in the state's private indecency law. House Bill 3317 would amend the law by making exposure illegal when it is in view of a place where another person has an expectation of privacy. For instance, it would make it illegal to run around your yard naked in view of others. That is what Rainier's so-called "naked neighbor" Jimmy "Mack" McKenzie has been doing for years. A Team 2 investigation on McKenzie's nude - and some would say lewd - behavior outside his...

You guys just HAVE to come over to the Tennesseean's forum section. If I don't get called a bigot or racist within the first hour after a post, I don't figure I'm doing my job good enough. LOL! Over there I am Tree of Liberty. Forum home And would you mind Freeping my polls? Poll 1 on parental notificationPoll 2 Is the DOW record a bad thing?

Today: June 28, 2006 at 3:16:29 PDT Transgender Community Finds Acceptance By LISA LEFF ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A clash between police and patrons of an all-night diner here 40 years ago was once a forgotten footnote in history. For members of the transgender community, though, it was the start of their slow march toward widespread acceptance. Sparked by the riot, San Francisco activists started their own civil rights movement - three years before the more famous clashes at New York City's Stonewall Inn. A dedication this month of a granite anniversary marker at the site of the...

Lifeguard on Tiberias beach uses loudspeaker to tell off homosexual couple making out in water ; young man to receive NIS 5,000 in compensation from municipality What is the value of a hug? Quite a lot, if you live in Tiberias. A resident of the northern city, who was making out with his male partner on the beach and was told off in public by a lifeguard with a loudspeaker, will receive a compensation of NIS 5,000 (about USD 1,117) from the municipality and its economic company. At first, the young man filed a lawsuit against the municipality, but the...

Mass Equality, a militant gay organization pushing for national gay marriage, has announced that it plans to do a petition drive in South Boston during the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Petitioners will approach individuals and families watching the parade, urging people to sign their petition which demands national gay marriage rights. As you might expect, Catholics and parents who plan to be at the parade with their kids are angry at this latest assault and are calling-in to the show to protest. The Mass Equality rep is countering that her organization has the right to do this and that anyone...

Veteran singer Sir Elton John has refused to accept husband David Furnish's pleas of adopting a child, and has reportedly told his life partner he has no desire to be a father. Even though the Candle In The Wind singer is jointly sponsoring an African orphan with his spouse, he apparently has no intention of legally fathering a child, as he is convinced that as parents the couple will not be able to do justice with the child's upbringing. "We've talked about it a lot and, personally, I would. But Elton feels that we wouldn't be around enough at the...

Unstoppable Political Correctness Meets The Immovable Identity Group In my sophomore year at Pomona College my intramural inner tube water polo team made it to the championship game. The co-ed activity required each 7 person squad to have two women in the water at all times. Women's goals counted as two points as well - nice shooting Emily Gold, class of 2003! Some called this setup sexist, but it achieved its aim - women were included both on the squad and during the games. (The unintended consequence - a team fielded by the Women's Water Polo Team proved very difficult...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Dinner shared by a group of friends at a well-appointed Greenwich Village apartment featured eggplant Parmesan with a salad of mixed greens and avocado dressing. The guests already had snacked on hors d'oeuvres of smoked mozzarella and crackers. Not bad considering the diners find their food by digging through garbage. They call themselves "freegans," a play on the words "vegan"- vegetarians who avoid all animal products, including dairy - and "free." In an ideological rejection of consumer waste, they only eat food that's been discarded. And in New York City, at least, they never go hungry....

Society Becomes Stranger and Stranger Tragically, many psychologists and sociologists have noted that even in same-sex “marriages,” both partners take on heterosexual gender roles. That is, one person will play a female role and the other will play a male role. Some members of the gay community have denounced this imitation of heterosexual marriage by inventing a new term. The new term for the phenomenon to be avoided is called “couple-ism.” Since marriage is thought to be an outmoded “patriarchal” institution, taking on gender roles within a same-sex marriage is to be avoided. In other words, same-sex marriage is good...

Oct.12, 2005 (Washington) -- Children growing up in same-sex parental households do not necessarily have differences in self-esteem, gender identity, or emotional problems from children growing up in heterosexual parent homes."There are a lot of children with at least one gay or lesbian parent," says Ellen C. Perrin, MD, professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. She revealed the findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference and Exhibition.Between 1 million and 6 million children in the U.S. are being reared by committed lesbian or gay couples, she says. Children being raised by same-sex parents were...

Neighbors say the victim has a roommate; police have no motive in fatal shooting The body of a fatally shot Hurricane Katrina evacuee was found slumped in a front patio of a southwest Houston apartment early Wednesday morning, authorities said. Residents of the St. Charles Place Apartments in the 9000 block of Fondren found the 20-year-old man, who had moved into the complex about a month earlier, at about 6 a.m., police said. He had been shot in the head. Neighbors found the body leaning against the gate of the front patio of a first-floor apartment that residents said the...

Sperm donor to pay child supportFrom correspondents in Stockholm, Sweden 13-10-2005 From: Agence France-Presse A SWEDISH man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple must pay child support for the three children he fathered, Sweden's Supreme Court ruled today. The man, now 39, donated his sperm to the couple in the early 1990s. Three sons were born during the years 1992-1996, according to Swedish news agency TT which reported the ruling. The man told the court that he and the women had agreed that he would play no role in the boys' child rearing and that the two women...

Centrists from both parties reached a compromise Monday night to avoid a showdown on President Bush’s stalled judicial nominees and the Senate’s own filibuster rules, officials from both parties said.

Certain topics seem to strike a chord with Harvard students—human rights, politics, and female orgasms. Last night, over 200 students of all genders and sexual orientations lined up outside a jam-packed Adams Lower Common Room to attend a seminar on female orgasms. Matie E. Fricker—a representative from the “sexuality boutique” Grand Opening—arrived with two plastic tub-fulls of sex toys, books, and safer sex supplies. “You’re going to hear a lot about (crude reference to sexual intercourse deleted by rface) tonight,” she announced to the crowd. During her two-hour presentation, Fricker criticized negative social perspectives on female orgasms and said there...

OTTAWA-Canada's supreme court heard testimony Tuesday on a Sikh teenager who argued that fidelity to his religion would be broken if the government forces him to remove a ceremonial dagger concealed beneath his clothes at school. The case is being watched closely by some 300,000 Sikhs across Canada, some of whom have vowed to pull their children from public schools if the court rules against the boy. The Indian religion calls on its baptized males to wear the sheathed dagger as a symbol of power and truth, an object meant to cut through evil and deceit. Sikhs complain that...

Where is the first amendment for Chris Rock. Besides he is comedian, do people really take him seriously

The democrats are just stark raving mad when it comes to their War philosophy: 1) Never fight a war unless no US military personal will die. 2) Only wars conducted under Democrats are legitimate, including Vietnam started by Kennedy and escalated by Johnson and ended by their favorite villain Nixon a.k.a. the first Rathergator! 3) All Wars fought by Republican administrations must be very short, mistake free and have precise guaranteed outcomes or they are a quagmire. 4) It is only alright to remove a dictator if he lives in Europe. All African and Muslim dictators are just fine including...

Appeal to the International Criminal Court Press release - France had taken a courageous position against the war in Irak, before the United States took actions against this country. President Chirac reacted with good common sense, as a world in Peace is the most preferable and constructive, and he was relayed by millions of pacifist demonstrators in the first few weeks of 2003. This did not stop George W. Bush, President of the USA, from sending his troops and, since one year and a half, from ravaging the country as we know it today. All this under the pretext of...