According to 365gay.com, postings on a Web site believed to be made by Colorado Church shooter Matthew Murray stating that he is bisexual were recently removed. The Web site was for people who have left evangelical churches. Several of the posts alluded to his sexuality and a couple posts mentioned the hypocrisy of Ted Haggard, who was exposed as being gay by a male escort. Haggard was the former pastor for New Life Church, where one of the shootings took place.
In Florida, sponsors of an anti-gay marriage ban may have gathered enough signatures to place the proposed amendment on the ballot next year. The 611,009 collected signatures still need to be verified for the measure, which would prevent judges from overturning Florida's anti-gay marriage laws, to be placed on the November 2008 ballot. If passed, Florida will become the 28th state to pass such an amendment, according to the Associated Press.
After a young D.C. gay man was violently attacked in a subway and the Metro transit investigating the crime initially didn't classify it as a hate crime, a D.C. councilmember is asking for some changes, according to Washington Blade. The councilmember is asking subway authorities to review their policies for investigating bias-motivated crimes.
A lesbian who wed her partner in Massachusetts filed for divorce in Rhode Island's Superior Court. She filed a week after the state's Supreme Court said that the lesbian couple's divorce case couldn't go forward in Family Court because the court was never given the power to dissolve same-sex marriages when it was created in the '60s.
Republican presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani recently revealed his thoughts on gay relationships on an episode of Meet the Press. 'No, I don't believe it's sinful,'
he said. 'My moral views come from the Catholic Church. The way that somebody leads their life is not sinful. It is the acts that people perform that are sinful, not the orientation.'
It might take a while before California Supreme Court will declare whether or not same-sex marriage is legal. Chief Justice Ronald George recently told San Jose Mercury News that it could take a while because there is a 'vast amount' of literature to read from all of the 'friend of the court' briefs it has received from 145 different organizations. George said the court expects to hear the case sometime next year, however.
A medical examiner's report reveals that two gay men who were found dead four days apart from each other in a Washington, D.C., apartment in September died from 'acute intoxication,' Washington Blade reported. It has not been determined whether or not the deaths were accidental, but the report reveals that the men died from intoxication from drugs or alcohol. One of the men, Dean Johnson, was a legendary New York performer, and was leader of the band Velvet Mafia.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) received a $25,000 grant from AT&T to support its ongoing work to ensure fair representation in the media. AT&T previously supported the organization's 'Digital Initiative' internet activism campaign.
According to Human Rights Campaign, 28 retired, high-ranking military leaders signed onto a letter calling for the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' on the 14th anniversary of its signing. This is the largest number of former military leaders to voice their opposition of the anti-gay policy at one time.
