» ACLU sues Georgia school district for blocking gay-straight club (ACLU)

» Utah bill to ban gay-straight clubs causes acrimony (Salt Lake Tribune)
» Jamaica right-wingers criticize government's refusal to ban Brokeback (Pink News)
» ACLU challenges Tennessee marriage ban amendment (ACLU)
» Column: Israel ultra-left harbors homophobes as dangerous as Hamas (Yedioth Internet)
» China ban on Brokeback leads to hot DVD sales (The Globe & Mail)
» Australia Treasurer in trouble over insensitive comments (Sydney Morning Herald)
» Do mothers carry gay gene? (Gay.com)
» Scotland students campaign against gay blood donation ban (BBC)
» Log Cabin can't even decide to support one of their own (Bay Windows)
» Transgender woman poised to join Italy Parliament (left) (Reuters)
» Tajikistan HIV cases skyrocketing (Reuters)
» Member of Scotland Parliament to have civil union (London Telegraph)
» Joel Dorius, 1960s gay witchhunt victim, passes away (Los Angeles Times)
» Study labels Northern Ireland police as homophobic (Pink News)
» HIV cases fluctuate in South Florida counties (Miami Herald)
» Sichuan makes progress on HIV/AIDS education, prevention (China View)

» Utah Senate approves gay clubs ban bill (Associated Press)
» More than 3,600 gay couples tie the knot in U.K. (Gay.com)
» Being gay in Kenya (News24)

» Drives to ban gay adoption heat up in 16 states (USA Today)

» ACLU hails federal court ruling on school anti-harassment training (ACLU)

» Missouri judge rules that lesbian can be foster parent (ACLU)

» ACLU promises to appeal New York gay marriage case (ACLU)

Will South Dakota start to turn the tide on marriage amendments?

Stonewall Review Gay News
We met Jon Hoadley of South Dakotans Against Discrimination a few days ago at an Equality California event. SDAD is the statewide organization fighting South Dakota's anti-gay marriage amendment. Hoadley is bright and coherent, and he makes a compelling case for why South Dakota's marriage amendment can be defeated. We're not sold on the odds -- this is South Dakota that we're talking about, after all -- but after hearing Hoadley's plans for the campaign, we are wondering if the South Dakota amendment at least will pass by a substantially smaller margin this year than such measures did elsewhere in 2004.

Hoadley is also a member of the National Stonewall Democrats board of directors. Given his talents, and the dearth of the same among many of his colleagues (NSD largely has uncompetitive board races, and many board slots get filled by singularly unqualified people), we figure either he'll move on to something bigger, or he'll wind up running the place one day.

» Russia Muslim leader calls for killing gays (Gay Russia)

» Israeli court recognizes "joint mothers" (365Gay.com)
» Column: Homosexuality against natural order because no animals are ever gay (Daily Independent)
   › Update: The gay penguins in that German zoo are still gay (Daily Times)
» Bangladesh sinking quickly into HIV quicksand (The Daily Star)
» Wilde grandson protests Russia media homophobia (Gay.com)
» Princess Diana's ancestral home open for gay weddings (Pink News)
» Scotland holding three gay weddings per day (Pink News)
» New Jersey marriage case goes to state Supreme Court this week (Knight Ridder)
» Tabloids are harassing soccer players over private gay sex (Pink News)
» Sir Ian slams Hollywood's enforced closet door (BBC)
» Ohio gay adoption ban bill moves forward (WHIO-TV)
» Missouri woman arrested for intentional HIV exposure (Associated Press)
» Column: Gays out to destroy Christianity, and are responsible for abortions (Renew America)
» Japan court allows transgender woman to change name (Japan Economic Newswire)

» Czech President lashes out at Prime Minister for partnership support (Czech News Agency)
» Foreman tells Utah audience to get angry at discrimination's immorality (Deseret News)
» Study: Civil partnerships likely to boost health of gays and lesbians (American Chronicle)
   › Study text (Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
» Discrimination case against anti-lesbian coach drags on (Gay.com)
» China issues first guidelines on HIV (Washington Post)
» New book shows different aspects of gay life in China (China Daily)
» California Senate passes names-based HIV reporting bill (Insight News)
» Schwarzenegger faces revolting Republicans over lesbian aide (365Gay.com)
» No valentines for gay couples as Freedom to Marry Week begins (365Gay.com)
» Gay protest greets Poland President during Chicago visit (365Gay.com)
» Black AIDS crisis is a silent epidemic (KCBS-TV)

» U.A.E. sentences 26 men to 5 years for homosexuality (365Gay.com)
» Ohio legislative leaders say anti-gay adoption bill going nowhere (365Gay.com)
» Duane protests Boy Scouts access to New York Governor's mansion (365Gay.com)
» Trial to proceed for trio in vicious New Mexico gay bashing (365Gay.com)

» Column: Gays should withhold DNC support until changes made (Washington Blade)
» Judge cuts sentence in vicious gay-bashing murder (Associated Press)
» Dubuque teacher union wants partner benefits (Des Moines Register)
» Gay HIV+ ex-Giant wants investigation for exclusion (Associated Press)

» Julian Bond skipped King funeral over church's anti-gay stance (The Cavalier Daily)
» Northwest Airlines won't recognize partner for contest award (ACLU of Southern California)
» New Tory leader says he feels bad about party's homophobia (Pink News)
» Isle of Jersey debates equalization of sexual consent laws (Gay.com)
» Another country bans Brokeback (Gay.com)
» The delusional world of anti-gay huckster Paul Cameron (Southern Poverty Law Center)
   › Cameron's prescription for horny teens: Oral sex overseen by parents (Southern Poverty Law Center)
» Virginia Senate committee kills non-discrimination bill (Washington Blade)
» D.C.'s HIV rate at 5%, ten times the national rate (Advocate)
» New integrase inhibitors hold promise in HIV fight (San Francisco Chronicle)

» Tough road for anti-HIV gel (United Press International)
» Gay families challenge anti-gay initiative before Florida Supreme Court (ACLU)
» Study: Risks reduced when mothers teach daughters about HIV (AScribe Newswire)
» Orthodox Judaism still opposed to homosexuality (Washington Jewish Week)
» First survey of China gays completed (China Daily)
» China university lecture on homosexuality is popular (Xinhua)
» South Dakota man gets 15 years for intentional HIV exposure (Argus Leader)
» Injunction issued to halt harassment of gays in Hawai'i youth prison (Honolulu Star Bulletin)
» Vulnerable women getting microbicidal help to fight HIV (Chico Enterprise-Record)
» Pharma firms to reveal integrase inhibitor results this week (Bloomberg News)
» U.N. official: Slow HIV drug rollout is killing South Africa's children (Independent Online)
» HIV+ South Africa judge calls for more responsibility on AIDS (Independent Online)
» Anti-gay violence wave in Northern Ireland prompts call for vigilantism (Gay.com)
» Matthew Shepard/Point foundations award several $10,000 scholarships (Inside Bay Area)
» U.S. to loosen travel restrictions for HIV+ for Gay Games (Gay.com)
» Jerusalem Pride knife attacker sentenced to 12 years (Jerusalem Post)
» Florida doctor in court for unethical treatment of lesbian (Pink News)

» Priest outs Cardinal Egan, two other bishops (Village Voice)
» New research supporting early anti-retroviral use contradicts earlier research (Associated Press)
» Federal marriage amendment to get Senate vote soon (American Family Association)
» "Ex-gay" John Paulk dishes it up again (Southern Voice)
» Gay teens stalked, attacked in Wisconsin mall incident (NBC15 Madison)
» Czech President unlikely to sign civil unions bill (Prague Monitor)
» Students debate sexual orientation as college admissions factor (The Dartmouth)
» Dubuque adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination ordinance by 6-1 vote (Associated Press)
» San Francisco library to share gay history exhibit with the country (Bay City News Service)
» Survey: U.K. lesbians receiving lesser health care than heterosexual women (iNewswire)

» India reviewing laws' effects on gays (DNA India)
» Civil war breaks out among right-wingers over Colorado civil unions bill (Ekklesia)
» Gay-themed film becomes runaway hit in conservative South Korea (Associated Press)
» U.S. cites pedophilia concerns for anti-gay U.N. vote (PlanetOut)
» Poll: Most think anyone could have occasional same-sex attraction (United Press International)
» Column: "Ex-gay" afraid to see Brokeback (Baptist Press News)
» Column: World spends billions on arms, little on HIV/AIDS (New Era)
» HIV type is predictor in death risk (Reuters)
» Campaign battles widespread HIV misconceptions in Russia (St. Petersburg Times)
» Drug combination prevents HIV infection in monkeys (Reuters)
» ACLU warns Florida school board not to block gay-straight clubs (ACLU)
» Most new HIV infections in U.S. are among blacks (Reuters)
» Virginia legislature to consider non-discrimination bill (Washington Blade)
» Rare chlamydia strain infecting gay men (Associated Press)
» Idaho House passes constitutional marriage ban bill (Associated Press)
» Gay doctor group condemns ill treatment of Florida lesbian (San Francisco Bay Independent Media)

» Gay Oklahoma politician targeted by GOP phone smear campaign (Associated Press)
» Northern Ireland town's indifference slammed after savage anti-gay attacks (Donegal News)

» Subway Restaurants sued after firing top performer one day after HIV revealed (Lambda Legal)

» National Black Justice Coalition January newsletter (National Black Justice Coalition)
» ACLU says solicitation charges against Baptist minister should be dismissed (ACLU)
   › ACLU Friend of the Court brief (ACLU)