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December 16th, 2009
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Author: Audio has been released of Obama's voicemail message for Houston mayor-elect Annise Parker following her victory last weekend. Parker was reportedly conducting an interview at the time of the call.
Said Obama: "Madam Mayor-elect, this is President Barack Obama. I'm just calling to
congratulate you on an extraordinary victory. A victory for the people
of Houston as well as yourself. I think you're going to be
just a great mayor, so hopefully we'll get a chance to see each other
soon or talk. But I wanted to let you know that we're watching and very
proud."
Listen, AFTER THE JUMP…
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Chronicle: Gays celebrate acceptance in Annise Parker's victory.
Kellan Lutz to remake Marky Mark Calvin Klein campaign?
Brian Wehrle, a gay man from Atlanta, has been missing since September. His car has been found in Chattanooga. "Wehrle, a 40-year-old land surveyor in Atlanta and owner of a farm two hours north, disappeared from his parents house in Carrollton Sept. 23 as floodwaters rose across North Georgia. He left behind money, his cell phone, medication and an overnight bag 'as if he was going to be right back,' Jeff Rolsten, Wehrle’s partner of 13 years, tells the Chattanooga Times-Free Press."
Poor Megan Mullally.
Florida neo-Nazi to be re-tried. "The 23-year-old is accused of stabbing two people in 2006, killing one.
He was a member of the American Nazis then, living in a compound on
Teak Street surrounded by guarded fences and adorned with swastikas and
rebel flags. The neighbor next door, Patricia Wells, had a black friend
who sometimes visited and an openly gay son, which sparked the ire of
the white supremacists next door."
First look: How I Met Your Mother, the musical…
Porn star twin Taleon Goffney gets three years for NJ burglaries.
New York Film Critics Circle announces award nominations: The Hurt Locker gets Best Film, Best Director.
Gay lawyer convicted of marriage fraud for marrying his same-sex Peruvian partner to a woman, seeks pardon and reinstatement.
Sean Faris loses his shirt for Men's Health.
"Thug" faces life sentence for UK knife attack on gay couple: "The attack at their home left one dead and the other fighting for his life, the Old Bailey heard.
Frail Gerald Edwards, 59, was stabbed four times and died in the blood-covered flat in March.
Chris Bevan, 56, also suffered 'catastrophic injuries' but escaped death when he fled and alerted neighbours in Page Heath Villas, Bromley, south-east London.
He was stabbed and received open-heart massage at the scene after his heart stopped."
Female albatrosses incubating egg in New Zealand.
Courtney Love loses custody of daughter.
Bigots blow gasket as 50 show up for high school auditions for William Finn musical Falsettos, which features two gay couples, a straight couple, and a 12-year-old boy.
This year's offensive right-wing Christmas tune.
Canada's Pink Triangle Press has its YouTube account suspended for posting inappropriate videos: "The videos featured footage from the Church Street Fetish Fair and the Northbound Leather Fetish Party. Notices sent by YouTube reportedly cited 'nudity' and 'sexually
gratuitous' imagery. Xtra! Toronto said 'YouTube did not respond to
multiple requests for comment' on the matter."
King County health officials: HIV/AIDS, other STDs on increase in Seattle.
iPhone users urged to take down AT&T: "The mission (written as though dreamed up by Apple engineers) is dubbed Operation Chokehold, and it’s designed to encourage iPhone owners to use the most data-intensive apps for a full hour starting at 12 p.m. PST on Friday, December, 18, 2009. The ultimate goal being to bring down the network and 'send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments.'"
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CNN interviewed Houston mayor-elect Annise Parker following her victory on Saturday.
Says Parker: "What I hope that this election signals is something larger than me and the GLBT community. It's that Houston is a wonderful diverse international city that values people for what they can do more than who they are."
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
Earlier…
WATCH: Annise Parker's Victory speech in Houston Mayoral Race [tr]
Houston Becomes Largest US City to Elect Openly Gay Mayor [tr]
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Here's Annise Parker's victory speech after last night's decisive win: "Parker coasted to a comfortable victory with 52.8 percent of the vote to 47.2 percent for Locke. Turnout was 16.5 percent."
Said Parker: "This election has changed the world for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community. Just as it is about transforming the lives of all Houstonians for the better. And that's what my administration will be about."
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP…
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After a runoff campaign that got extremely homophobic and nasty near the end, Houston voters tonight have chosen an out lesbian, Annise Parker, as their mayor.
Houston Chronicle leads with:
Here's the bottom line, or maybe the punch line:
In Houston, it is now harder for a lawyer to be elected mayor than a lesbian.
In
the last two weeks of the hard-fought campaign, several mailings — one
of them funded to the tune of $40,000 by candidate Gene Locke's finance
chairman and another finance committee member — urged voters to choose
Locke because Annise Parker is a lesbian.Parker hit back with two tough mailings attacking Locke for his history as a lawyer and a lobbyist.
The
first on one side repeated line after line of what it called: “The
three words Houston taxpayers dread most: Lawyer. Lobbyist. Locke.”
More at: –Victory Fund which supported her in the past six races for city council and city controller
–Dallas Voice, which declared her winner a little earlier.
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After a runoff campaign that got extremely homophobic and nasty near the end, Houston voters tonight have chosen an out lesbian, Annise Parker, as their mayor.
Houston Chronicle reports:
Here’s the bottom line, or maybe the punch line:
In Houston, it is now harder for a lawyer to be elected mayor than a lesbian.
In
the last two weeks of the hard-fought campaign, several mailings — one
of them funded to the tune of $40,000 by candidate Gene Locke’s finance
chairman and another finance committee member — urged voters to choose
Locke because Annise Parker is a lesbian.Parker hit back with two tough mailings attacking Locke for his history as a lawyer and a lobbyist.
The
first on one side repeated line after line of what it called: “The
three words Houston taxpayers dread most: Lawyer. Lobbyist. Locke.”
More at: –Victory Fund which supported her in the past six races for city council and city controller
–Dallas Voice, which declared her winner a little earlier.
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A new Rice University poll shows promise for openly gay candidate Annise Parker in tomorrow's run-off mayoral election in Houston:
"Parker leads former city attorney Gene Locke 49 percent to 36 percent, according to a poll released Thursday by Rice University in Houston.
Parker has never made her sexual orientation a secret or a focal point during her six years on the City Council and the last six years as controller.
But it took a more prominent role in the mayor's race in the weeks leading up to the runoff as anti-gay activists and conservative religious groups have endorsed Locke and sent out mailers condemning Parker's 'homosexual behavior.'
Locke has been trying to distance himself from anti-gay attacks while courting conservative voters who could tip the race in his favor.
Rice political science professor Robert Stein, who oversaw the poll, said the attention on Parker's sexual orientation has probably hurt Locke more than her. 'It denied Locke an opportunity to win over traditional white liberal Democrats,' Stein said."
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Above, another homophobic flyer I received from a reader in Houston similar to the ones sent out by local activist Dave Wilson last week, targeting lesbian Annise Parker in the Houston mayoral race.
And there are anti-gay emails as well. Here's part of one that's being sent out by Southern Baptist pastor Rick Scarborough, furnished to us by a Towleroad reader. Scarborough heads the group Vision America, warning people that electing Annise Parker as mayor will open the floodgates to the "homosexual agenda", which includes the items listed below:
The Homosexual Agenda
as an acceptable, alternative lifestyle. This is known as
multisexualism. This enables homosexuals to recruit children to their
lifestyle.
action for homosexuals in the workplace. Cross dressers could force
employers to accept their actions at work.
speech which opposes homosexual activity. This would be considered
“hate speech” and have criminal sanctions. This would destroy 1st
Amendment free speech rights for those who oppose homosexual conduct
and the homosexual political movement.
Read the full email here.
The AP yesterday reported on the rising anti-gay rhetoric in the Houston mayoral race.
The run-off election is this Saturday, December 12.
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Annise Parker's opponent in the Houston mayoral race, Gene Locke, has been accused of bankrolling the PAC that recently sent out a flyer urging voters not to choose Parker because of her association with Houston's Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Political Caucus, the Houston Chronicle reports.
Above is one portion of the flyer (Full flyer scans here).
Locke has been
dogged by Parker, her supporters and some uncommitted Democrats for
seeking the endorsement of conservative activist Steven Hotze, who has
a long history of opposing gay candidates and causes.
A mail piece Hotze sent out last week urged voters not to choose Parker
and several others seeking municipal offices because they were
“endorsed by gay lesbian political action committee,” a reference to
Houston's Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Political Caucus. It labeled others as “radical liberals” and supported some candidates based on a record of fiscal conservatism.According to
financial documents, Hotze's political action committee received a
$20,000 donation about a week before the mail pieces went out from Ned Holmes, finance chairman of Locke's campaign, and $20,000 from James Dannenbaum, who is on Locke's finance committee.Hotze's PAC,
Conservative Republicans of Harris County, lists $56,000 in donations
between Oct. 25 and Dec. 2. Only two other donors, who contributed a
total of $16,000, are listed.The Parker camp
also decried a $50,000 donation from homebuilder Bob Perry to the
Houston Police Officers Union, which endorsed Locke and sent a mailer
attacking the controller as “soft on crime.”Parker campaign manager Adam Harris said evidence points to coordination.
Parker was the target of an ugly mailer campaign in mid-November as well, which featured an image of her with her longtime partner and asked, "Is this the image Houston wants to portray?"
A recent poll showed Parker with a slight edge over Locke. The run-off election is December 10.
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POLL: Annise Parker holds slight edge in Houston mayoral race.
Jesus Luz sells some more underwear.
Madonna cozies up to Tom Ford.
Spain apologizes to man jailed for being gay in the 70's: "Antoni Ruiz spent three months in prison under a law introduced during Gen Francisco Franco's dictatorship.
In addition to the letter, he has received 4,000 euros ($5,900; £3,600) in compensation.
Mr Ruiz estimates around 5,000 homosexuals suffered a similar fate to him during Gen Franco's dictatorship."
Kylie Minogue to release Kylie Live in New York.
Southern Utah University expands anti-discrimination policy: " The school's board of trustees unanimously voted Friday to amend its anti-discrimination policy to include protection for those with an alternative sexual orientation.
SUU and Brigham Young University were the only two institutions of higher education in the state without such a policy.
SUU Student Body President Cody Alderson praised the board's action, saying it will help ensure a safe and friendly campus atmosphere for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation.
The Student Senate on Nov. 4 passed a resolution that endorsed the policy change."
Taylor Lautner cast as superhero Max Steel.
Facebook group opposing anti-gay NY state senator George Onorato.
Youth counselor killed in gay attack at Tel Aviv LGBT youth center receives honor: "The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) has awarded Nir Katz, a youth counselor who was killed in an attack on a gay community center in Tel Aviv, a medal of commendation awarded each year to defenders of human rights. 'Nir Katz won the commendation because with his activities at the community center and other activities in which he took part he promoted the understanding of the other,' said Nirit Moskowitz of the ACRI."
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon logs a record-extending 742nd week on the Billboard charts.
Cook County, Illinois has one of the highest concentrations of openly gay judges in the country: "Last summer, the 15 jurists formally organized as the Alliance of
Illinois Judges to, among other things, lobby other circuit judges for
the appointment of more gays and lesbians as associate judges, mentor
law students and encourage the state to extend judges' pensions
benefits to domestic partners. They also plan to serve as a sounding
board for other judges looking for information and resources."
Towering "urban forest" planned for China.
Male model fix: Vladimir Ivanov.
UN leaders: the clock has ticked to zero on global warming.
Wockner: The latest on Prop 8. The Courage Campaign exited the 2010 effort to repeal Prop 8 and refuses to release new research to media,
EQCA's Geoff Kors disses 'experts,' and details new tactics. And the
Olson/Boies case heads to trial in January.
The Mercury News profiles openly gay Campbell, California mayor Evan Low: "One day his dad asked him a question: On a scale of 1 to 10 — 1 being completely gay and 10 being completely straight — what number was he? 'I'm a 10,' his dad said. 'I'm a 2 or a 3,' his son replied.
And suddenly his dad knew for sure.
Evan Low says his father, whom he considers one of his heroes, accepted his sexuality from that day forward. 'He told me, 'I raised you. You're my son, with my blood and my DNA. So it came from me.''"
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