Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Telling my dad that I am gay-LIVE

Quote of the Day:

“It is wrong that in the United States of America a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million."

Anybody who says we can't change the tax code to correct that, anyone who has signed some pledge to protect every single tax loophole so long as they live, they should be called out.”

President Obama

OAB aprova proposta sobre diversidade sexual e destaca luta contra intolerância

Parabéns   OAB.
 
Com esta   aprovação OAB ( vide  abaixo)  mostra mais  uma  vez  seu  compromisso com os  princípios  da  igualdade  de  direito e  da  dignidade  humana  para  comunidade  LGBT . 
 
Uma grande  vitória    no  Brasil  contra  discriminação  e a violência  a  comunidade  LGBT.
 
É  fundamental as  parcerias  para  o enfrentarmos  deste  terrível  mal   que  é  a Homofobia.
 
Toni Reis
Presidente
 
 
 
 
OAB aprova proposta sobre diversidade sexual e destaca luta contra intolerância

Brasília, 19/09/2011 - O Pleno do Conselho Federal da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil aprovou hoje (19) em sessão plenária projeto de Proposta de Emenda à Constituição (PEC), que será encaminhado ao Congresso Nacional como contribuição da cidadania brasileira, visando o combate à discriminação e a intolerância por orientação sexual ou identidade de gênero. A aprovação foi saudada pelo presidente nacional da OAB, Ophir Cavalcante, que conduziu a sessão, como "a reafirmação de que incumbe ao advogado a luta pela paz social, pela defesa dos direitos humanos e dos princípios constitucionais de que todos são iguais perante a lei e, portanto, não podem ser discriminados". A PEC foi apresentada pela Comissão Especial da Diversidade Sexual do Conselho Federal da OAB e teve como relator o conselheiro federal Carlos Roberto de Siqueira Castro, do Rio de Janeiro.
 
Ophir Cavalcante destacou que, ao enviar esse projeto à apreciação do Poder Legislativo, a OAB expressa também seu apoio ao princípio constitucional e mundialmente reconhecido da tolerância. Dessa forma, segundo ele, o envio da proposta tem ainda o objetivo de manifestar ao Parlamento que a entidade exerce pressão legítima por uma demanda da sociedade, ao requerer aprovação de lei de proteção aos direitos de homossexuais, lésbicas, bissexuais, transexuais, travestis, transgêneros e intersexuais. Uma das principais mudanças é introduzida pela PEC ao artigo 3º, inciso IV da Constituição Federal, que trata dos objetivos fundamentais da República Federativa do Brasil. Hoje, tal inciso prevê: "promover o bem  de todos, sem preconceitos de origem, raça, sexo, cor, idade e quaisquer outras formas de preconceitos". A proposta da OAB inclui entre eles, "a orientação sexual ou identidade de gênero".

Quanto à legislação infraconstitucional que necessariamente deve se seguir à aprovação de uma PEC, nesse caso a OAB ficou de examinar em outubro próximo, um anteprojeto contendo as propostas de legislação que "consagram uma série de prerrogativas e direitos a homossexuais, lésbicas, bissexuais, transexuais, travestis, trangêneros e intersexuais e propõe também o reconhecimento das uniões homoafetivas". A Comissão Especial da Diversidade Sexual já apresentou proposta de um Estatuto regulando essas questões a partir da vigência da Emenda à Constituição. O Estatuto deve ser apreciado em sessão plenária da entidade dia 24 de outubro.

fonte http://www.oab.org.br/noticia.asp?id=22689

Via AmericaBlog Gay:



As for the barracks, Jeff, the company commander, said he expects some Marines to complain about having openly gay roommates.

As a commanding officer , it may be up to him to decide whether to approve a room change. He compared it to a white Marine having a problem with a Latino or black Marine. He wouldn't grant a room change. Instead, he'd tell the Marines to act “like grown-ups.”

Nice.

Via AmericaBlog Gay:



The origins of "don't ask, don't tell" were based largely on ignorance and discriminatory fears. With its demise, we must take the fight to other laws crafted in that same vein. 

Nationally, the federal Defense of Marriage Act comes to mind. In the Senate, Democratic Sens. Udall and Michael Bennet are co-sponsors of a measure that would repeal it. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, and Jared Polis, D-Boulder, have signed on to a companion measure in the House. 

At the state level, that means passing legislation that creates legally recognized civil unions until such time as voters agree to the repeal of Amendment 43, the 2006 measure that outlawed gay marriage in the state. 

We are on the path to progress in America. But we will not reach the end point until we have removed all of those barriers that penalize our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, based solely on their sexual orientation.

Via AmericaBlog Gay:




When Navy Lt. Gary Ross and his partner were searching for a place to get married, they settled on a site in Vermont, in part because the state is in the Eastern time zone. 

That way, the two men could recite their vows at the first possible moment after the formal repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The partners of 11 years plan to get married at the stroke of midnight, just as the ban ends.
“We feel that it’s important that as soon as we’re allowed to commit to each other that we do,” Ross said Monday. “It’s important not to hide anymore.”

Monday, September 19, 2011

Via JMG: Prop 8 Trial Tapes To Be Released


California District Court Judge James Ware has ordered the release of the video tapes of the Proposition 8 trial. The recordings will be issued on September 30th unless "a further stay is granted by the Court on timely motion or by a higher court." You may recall that Focus On The Family last month predicted that Christians might be murdered by "radical homosexuals" if the tapes were ever released.

UPDATE: The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) celebrates.
This is a significant victory for the American people, who will soon be able to see the evidence put forward by both sides in this historic federal trial. Unlike political campaigns, in a court of law, the truth and facts are all that matter. When witnesses take the stand, they are under oath and under penalty of perjury, and their statements are subjected to cross-examination and scrutiny. The public will soon see the extraordinarily weak case that the anti-marriage Proponents presented in a desperate attempt to defend this discriminatory law.

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Via JMG: Gamers Solve HIV Puzzle


The hive mind of a group of video game enthusiasts has solved a question about an AIDS-related enzyme that has long stumped virologists.
Players of the online game Foldit have helped discover the structure of an enzyme that had the scientific community stumped for a decade, representing a significant step forward in attempts to cure retroviral diseases like AIDS. The enzyme, a Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (MPMV) retroviral protease, was accurately modeled by Foldit players in just three weeks, and opens the door to development of antiretroviral drugs. Foldit makes use of players' 3D puzzle-solving abilities and competitive nature to solve problems that computers alone have been unable to do. A report, published by the University Of Washington and crediting gamers as well as researchers, says the discovery "provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral drugs."
Well done, geek heroes! Cheetos for everybody!


reposted from Joe

Via JMG: Official Notice Of DADT Repeal



reposted from Joe

The Sacramento Bee CapitolAlert ®

BREAKING NEWS

Judge decides to release Prop. 8 trial recording

A federal judge in San Francisco has decided to unseal video recordings of last year's landmark trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban.