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Monthly Archives: October 2008
No on Prop 8! Join the Fight Now!!!!
The US election is one week away and we in the HP Alliance are ready to do EVERYTHING we can to encourage voters in California to keep same sex marriage legal. Right now, we are losing that battle. The momentum in the polls shows that Proposition 8, designed to ban same sex marriage is winning. [...]
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HPA Donor Featured In Front Cover of the Wall Street Journal
Thomas Fleming is an HP Alliance donor. This summer he raised 300 dollars for the HP Alliance and wanted half of that money to go to the HPA and half to STAND’s Civilian Protection. We honored that request and were honored that Thomas cared so much about the HP Alliance. Recently Thomas was running for [...]
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Legalizing Love In Connecticut and Norway
I forgot to ever write a post celebrating the fact that love is now legal in Connecticut. When I say this, of course, I don’t mean to imply that the only way people can love each other romantically is through marriage. Or that love is only romantic. But I do mean to imply that not [...]
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A Thank You to the Candidates
In a post after the first presidential debate, I posted a petition to get the candidate’s to speak about genocide, global poverty, and AIDS. It was very disappointing that the only presidential debate that was supposed to focus exclusively on foreign policy did not bring up these issues one time. But then things changed. In [...]
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Not that there's any thing wrong with it…
Many of us who are in the LGBT community or who are LGBT supporters are familiar with saying, “There’s nothing wrong with being gay.” We remember the phrase from Seinfeld where Jerry keeps emphatically denying that he’s gay and then afterward says, “Not that there’s any thing wrong with it.’ True. There’s nothing wrong with [...]
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Dumbledore is Gay
One year ago a young girl (October 19) in Carnegie Hall asked JK Rowling if Dumbledore had ever found romantic love. In answering her question, Jo let her (and the rest of us) know that Dumbledore was gay. After a brief stunned silence, the room broke out into cheers. We know now that Dumbledore was [...]
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Wizard Rock the Vote Merch
If you go here and scroll down, you’ll find that you can order a total of 4 HPA and Wrock the Vote buttons for 5 dollars (including shipping) or 4 buttons and three Dumbledore Wants You Posters for 10 dollars (plus shipping). Whoo Hoo!!!
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Congratulations Tita!
Tita, the head of our forums section got married today! She wrote about her getting married here and why we need people to support same sex marriage, legalize love, and for Californians to vote no on Proposition 8 this November. Please go here to congratulate Tita on her marriage. Here’s something she has to say:
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WRTV: Tonight's Debate
Tonight at 9 pm EST is the last debate for the US presidential election (Canada had their election yesterday). Rate how the media covers the debate at ratethedebates.org
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Breast Cancer Awareness
Christina Applegate, an actress that I grew up watching, just made a very difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. Breast cancer awareness is an issue that we should all take very seriously. As important as regular mammograms are, for some women like Christina Applegate whose mother died of breast cancer, it was important that [...]
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