Uganda stops paper outing gays

UGANDA: Court Bans Media From Outings
A Ugandan court has ruled that local media may not name "suspected Homosexuals" and has awarded damages to those named by Rolling Stone, a newspaper unrelated to the U.S.-based music title. The request for the ban was filed by three people from Gay Rights group, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), whose pictures and towns of residence were published in a previous issue of Rolling Stone. High Court judge, Vincent Musoke-Kibuuke also ruled that the petitioners' lives were threatened since the story...

Uganda court rules media cannot 'out' gay Ugandans...
KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda's High Court has ruled that the media should not publish the names and photos of gay Ugandans following a vitriolic campaign in the east African country which urged citizens to hang those featured. Justice Kibuuka Musoke on Monday ordered Uganda's Rolling Stone magazine to pay $650 in damages and court costs for each of the three Activists who sued the magazine. Musoke also ordered a permanent injunction preventing the magazine from publishing any further names of ...

Uganda court rules media cannot 'out' gay Ugandans
Uganda's High Court has ruled that the media should not publish the names and photos of gay Ugandans following a vitriolic campaign which urged citizens to hang those featured. Justice Kibuuka Musoke ordered Uganda's Rolling Stone magazine to pay $650 in damages and court costs for each of the three men who sued the magazine. The men were only three of 100 Ugandans listed in the magazine in October. They said they were attacked after they were identified as gay underneath a banner headline readi...

Uganda court rules media cannot 'out' gay Ugandans
KAMPALA, Uganda - Uganda's High Court has ruled that the media should not publish the names and photos of gay Ugandans following a vitriolic campaign in the east African country which urged citizens to hang those featured. Justice Kibuuka Musoke on Monday ordered Uganda's Rolling Stone magazine to pay $650 in damages and court costs for each of the three Activists who sued the magazine. Musoke also ordered a permanent injunction preventing the magazine from publishing any further names of ...

Uganda media can't publish identities of homosexuals, high court says
Source: CNN Kampala, Uganda (CNN) -- The Ugandan High Court has banned all media outlets in the country from publishing lists identifying people they claim are gay after Advocacy Groups filed a Lawsuit. The order came three months after Rolling Stone -- a local Tabloid which has no relation to the iconic U.S. music magazine -- published a list of people it said were gay, urging readers to report them to police. Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/04/uganda.g... Activist News ...

Ugandans win damages over anti-gay article
A Ugandan man reads the headline of the Rolling Stone newspaper, which calls for gay people to be hanged. Photograph: Stringer/AP A group of Ugandans identified as Homosexual in a newspaper article headlined "Hang Them" have won damages and a court injunction ordering the paper not to repeat the exercise, Human Rights groups said today. A High Court judge ruled that the story in the Rolling Stone newspaper, which printed addresses and photographs of some of the 100 people it named as "Uganda...

Conversation with a straight Presbyterian ally
Over the holidays I had the opportunity to speak with an old friend who is on staff in a Presbyterian church (PCUSA) in northern New Jersey. She's been a straight ally for over 30 years, so I was curious to know how her allyship might play out in her church and if it doesn't, what are the roadblocks. She teaches in the church's pre-school and directs the Children's choirs, so her job description doesn't necessarily put her in a natural advocacy role that, say, a pastor's or youth leader's migh...

DADT Repeal Could Foreshadow GOP Generational Split
President Obama created a stir last week when he reiterated that while he doesn't support Gay Marriage, he still struggles with the issue. He said his views are "constantly evolving." In the Republican Party, the fracture over issues concerning Homosexual individuals revealed itself more clearly in the vote for Repeal of the 17-year-old "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that prevented gays from serving openly in the Military. Of the eight Republican senators who voted for repeal, five are among t...

WaPo Ineptly Calls D.C. Gay Bars 'Stations of the Social Cross'
The Washington Post celebrated the first Gay Bar in populous Fairfax County with a splashy front-page article headlined "Rainbow flag aloft, Nightclub is Fairfax County's first gay bar." Next to the headline was a color picture of the Drag Queen "La Countess Farrington." Reporter J. Freedom du Lac may want to celebrate, but it's a poor choice of metaphors to compare the hot Homosexual night spots to the Crucifixion of Jesus. The inept religious metaphor came in compar...

Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal With Unhinged Anti-Gay Rhetoric
Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal With Anti-Gay Rhetoric Kuhner: DADT Repeal "An Act Of National Suicide." In a December 30 op-ed, Jeffrey Kuhner called the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell "an act of national suicide " : Mr. Obama - again with GOP help - succeeded in getting "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) repealed, enabling Homosexuals to serve openly in the Military. This is one of the most revolutionary and damaging acts ever done to a core American institution. It will decimate the great...

In Isolated Utah City, New Clubs for Gay Students
Last January, nine High Schools in Utah had active Gay-Straight Alliances; last month, 32 did. ST. GEORGE, Utah — Some disapproving classmates called members of the new club “Satanists.” Another asked one of the girls involved, “Do you have a disease?” But at three local High Schools here this fall, dozens of gay Students and their supporters finally convened the first Gay-Straight Alliances in the history of this conservative, largely Mormon city. It was a turning...

No Tea For Gays?
The National Association For Marriage, a group devoted to preventing gays from marrying legally, is boycotting CPAC because of the presence of a tiny splinter group of what's left of Log Cabin, GOProud. This seems a sad piece of meretricious animus - banning a fiscally conservative group because it specifically appeals to gays is not exactly a way to expand Libertarianism or frugality. But now the big dogs are wagging their tails as well: In November, the far-right American Principles Proj...

Delay sought on gay appeal
The Obama Administration asks the Ninth Circuit to put on hold its review of the constitutionality of the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy on Gays in the Military. New law cited. The Obama Administration has asked the Ninth Circuit Court to put on hold, for 90 days or more, its review of the constitutionality of the 1993 federal law that bars gays and Lesbians from serving openly in the Military.  In a motion filed Wednesday, Justice Department lawyers said the Pentagon...

Gay-Straight Alliances
At New York Times, "In Utah City, New Clubs for Gay Students": ST. GEORGE, Utah — Some disapproving classmates called members of the new club “Satanists.” Another asked one of the girls involved, “Do you have a disease?” But at three local high schools here this fall, dozens of gay students and their supporters finally convened the first Gay-Straight Alliances in the history of this conservative, largely Mormon city. It was a turning point here and for the state, w...

Navy Video Scandal: Captain Honors Suspended
In the wake of the Navy video Scandal, Captain Owen Honors has been temporarily suspended pending further investigation into the lewd videos he made several years ago while No.2 on the USS Enterprise. The videos depict Honors slandering gay men and denigrating women in an attempt at humor. Get the full story on this breaking Scandal, plus pictures and the film in question below! Here you can see the ship where the films were broadcast. Gay Rights and Women’s Rights group...

Detroit's Central United Methodist Church honors 200 years of activism
Across is a stained-glass window that depicts a beardless Jesus in opposition to Nuclear War, Racial Discrimination and other social ills. They're symbols of the church's commitment to fighting for justice that has made it a nexus for political and social causes across metro Detroit that stretches back to the early 19th Century. The church spent 2010 marking its 200th anniversary as one of the two oldest Protestant congregations in Michigan, originally...

No More Mister Nice Blog
Haley Barbour FOR TEETOTALERS Newsweek devotes four freaking pages to the notion that Jon Huntsman might be the real Dark Horse in the race for the 2012 GOP nomination. It does appear that the former Governor of Utah may be running -- he just bought a fancy-schmancy house in D.C., even though he works, um, elsewhere. And he seems to think he has a chance: "You know, I'm really focused on what we're doing in our current p...

Colonel Flagg Battles the Pink Fungus
New converts to the political Right meet a predictable reaction from leftist friends.  Besides being warned we’re going over to the dark side and being threatened with social death for our abandonment of the fashionable, we are assured that “all” Conservatives are bigots and haters.  Not only have I heard that chorus many times, but I have been accused, even by some here, of thinking that way myself.  What cannot be explai

Navy's quick condemnation of Capt. Owen Honors wins praise of gay rights groups
The Navy's quick condemnation and pledge to investigate videos in which a senior officer on a nuclear-powered Aircraft Carrier used anti-gay slurs and mimicked Masturbation won the praise of Gay Rights groups Monday. Capt. Owen Honors , who commands the Norfolk-based USS Enterprise, starred in the videos that were aired on the ship's closed-circuit television system in 2006 and 2007 when he was the ship's second-in-command. In recent days, the videos have made Honors an unfortunate Internet sen...

Hopes for gay-rights gains shift to courts
WASHINGTON — Gay-rights Activists, acknowledging they will lose momentum for their agenda in Congress when Republicans assume control of the House this week, are pinning their hopes for further gains in 2011 on a series of incremental measures and a host of Federal Court cases. Last month’s historic Repeal of the ban on gays and Lesbians serving openly in the Military signaled an expanding political acceptance of fuller integration of gays into American life. Yet activists and obser...

Navy silent on Enterprise leader's fate
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. Navy Capt. Owen Honors' career likely is over after revelations he oversaw inappropriate videos that aired on the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise, experts say. Some criticized Honors for the videos that include sexual jokes, gay slurs, subordinates in drag and sailors simulating Masturbation but others have rallied to his defense, The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk reported Tuesday. News about his Oversight of the videos while second in command of the Aircraft Carrier ...

Palin Retweets Anti-DADT Comment
CNN reports: Normally, it’s what Sarah Palin tweets that makes news. This time it’s what she has re-tweeted. The former Alaska Governor Monday relayed a comment from gay conservative pundit Tammy Bruce, who was expressing her criticism over continued Republican opposition to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Military policy that won congressional Repeal late last month. Now the political world is wondering just what Palin meant to express. “But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. E

As Nation Shifts Toward Gay Rights, RNC Candidates Promise To Stay Put
The past year saw great strides forward for supporters of Gay Rights, culminating in the Repeal in December of the Military's ban on Openly Gay and Lesbian service members. Polls continue to show the American public is warming to Gay Rights, from overwhelmingly supporting the Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell to rising support for legalized Gay Marriage at the federal level. [TPM SLIDESHOW: It's Over: Senate Repeals Don't Ask, Don't Tell] It seems increasingly clear that embracing some changes i...

TRENDING: Palin re-tweet raises questions
(CNN) - Normally, it’s what Sarah Palin tweets that makes news. This time though it’s what she has re-tweeted. The former Alaska Governor Monday relayed a comment from gay conservative pundit Tammy Bruce, who was expressing her criticism over continued Republican opposition to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Military policy that won congressional Repeal late last month. "But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already-the more someone complains about the homo...

Sarah Palin Tammy Bruce Retweet Reveals A Pro-Gay Stance?
Sarah Palin stirred the Twittersphere Monday evening when she retweeted a pro-gay message by Lesbian conservative commentator Tammy Bruce concerning the "hypocrisy" of homophobic and anti-gay actions. "But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already--the more someone complains about the homos the more we should look under their bed," Bruce wrote Monday, reportedly about the dismissal of U.S. Navy Captain Owen Honors, following the release of a series of Controversial videos made aboard...