Some news this week...

CNN.com - Spellings: Testing�to remain at core of school reform - Feb 2, 2005: "In her first interview since taking office, Spellings also told The Associated Press she will aggressively monitor how her agency spends money. Flaps over a hired media pundit and gay characters on an episode of a children's public television show have dominated her first days on the job."
AND she's a total intollerant, phillistine bigot! What a GREAT choice for Secretary of Education!

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "First there was beer. And, it was good. Then there was near beer. And, it was not so good. Now, there is Queer Beer. And the two Swiss businessmen behind it hope it will be great."
MMM... a little salty, but it still passes!



US

Pridesource.com/BTL News - ACLU, Fair Michigan Majority create family-issues primer: "ACLU, Fair Michigan Majority create family-issues primer
'Families Under Attack' explains why LGBT families need, deserve protection"

Pridesource.com/BTL News - Ruth Ellis: A century worth of history: "Ruth Ellis: A century worth of history"
Here's a nice story for once...

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "New Anti-Gay Attack From Ed. Secretary: 'Schools Not Place For Gay Issues'"
Here she is...
Mrs. Intollerance!

CNN.com - Tolerance talk flares after cartoon flap - Feb 3, 2005: "Cartoon characters adored by kids seized the spotlight in the latest flare-up of America's culture wars, but the debate itself poses serious questions for adults involving the depiction of gays and lesbians in materials for teaching children about diversity and tolerance."

Pridesource.com/BTL News - National News Briefs: "Spellings pulls funding from gay-friendly episode of children's show"
Once again, I'd like to add... what a bitch.

Pridesource.com/BTL News - Lavender languages and linguistics the focus of 12th annual conference: "Scholars, students and community activists from across the U.S. and the world will return to American University in Washington, D.C. for the twelfth annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference from Friday, Feb. 11 through Sunday, Feb. 13."
Well, if I can't get hired as a teacher, like my mom and dad think, maybe I can be a lavender linguist!

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "It Was Catholics Not Evangelicals Who Fueled Bush Victory New Survey Shows"



LEGAL

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "South Dakota Gay Marriage Ban Heads To House "

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Kansas To Vote On Gay Marriage Amendment"

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Idaho Gay Marriage Amendment Fails"

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "A man who admitted beating and strangling to death a gay man and then stuffing his body into a suitcase and dumping it in a lake could be on the streets in two-and-a-half years."
Anger to the umpteenth degree on this one.

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "For the second year in a row President George W. Bush used his State of the Union speech Wednesday night to call for an amendment to the US Constitution to bar same-sex marriage."

Pridesource.com/BTL News - Reach Out: Sign the petition to save the filibuster: "If the filibuster is eliminated, Bush, Cheney and 50 senators could steamroll up to four new justices onto the Supreme Court - even one or two could create a right-wing majority that would undermine the Voting Rights Act of 1965, gut the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, overturn Roe v. Wade, and much more."
If anyone has anything to say about the filibuster, its me. Keep it goin, guys!

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Alabama Anti-Gay Bill Heads To House Vote"

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Virginia Bill Banning Gay Adoption Gutted"

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Rep. Bob Adams (D-Sheridan) says that his bill to ban the state from placing children in 'homosexual homes' isn�t meant to discriminate against gays."

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Two lesbian couples are suing Colorado Springs for canceling their same-sex health benefits."

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "A lawyer for a man charged with murder in the death of a Riverside, California man says his client didn't kill Jeffery Owens - the hospital where he was taken did."
This is SICK!



HEALTH

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "A British scientist says that a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) could be ready 'within next five years'."

Gay News From 365Gay.com: "Fears that a rare sexually transmitted disease that began showing up in gay men in San Francisco last month would spread to the east coast have been realized. "
Is anyone else having deja vu here?