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Paul Babeu, Pinal County Sheriff, Hosts Press Conference to Address New Times Story. Admits He's Gay.

Submitted by ONE Community on February 18, 2012 - 4:12pm
Paul Babeu, Pinal County Sheriff, Hosts Press Conference to Address New Times Story. Admits He's Gay.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu just announced at a press conference that he is a gay man and that he is no longer a part of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign.

"I called the Romney campaign, and I told him I'm going to step away from the campaign," Babeu told a crowd of reporters. He says the campaign told him: "We support your decision, sheriff."

Babeu was serving as the Arizona co-chair of the Mitt Romney for President campaign.

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said, "Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign so he can focus on the allegations against him. We support his decision," the Huffington Post reported. Read more »

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Washington, New Jersey move toward same-sex marriage

Submitted by ONE Community on February 14, 2012 - 6:23am

By Tom Watkins, CNN
updated 5:13 AM EST, Tue February 14, 2012

(CNN) -- Proponents of same-sex marriage got a boost on two fronts Monday, when the governor of Washington signed a bill legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples and the New Jersey state Senate voted 24-16 in favor of a similar bill.
The New Jersey bill now goes to the Assembly, which is slated to vote Thursday. "We're cautiously optimistic" about its chances for passage, said Steven Goldstein, a spokesman for Garden State Equality, which has lobbied for the bill.
But the legislation is threatened in both states.   Read more »

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Sheriff Babeu on gay marriage

Submitted by ONE Community on February 21, 2012 - 2:27pm

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Human Rights Campaign announces the recipients of the 2012 Equality Awards

Submitted by ONE Community on February 20, 2012 - 1:21pm
Human Rights Campaign announces the recipients of the 2012 Equality Awards

Three awardees include lesbian, transsexual and allied women.

PHOENIX—At the 2012 Human Rights Campaign Phoenix Gala, the organization’s biggest event of the year, three women will be commended for their contributions to the LGBT community as recipients of the HRC Individual Equality Award.

Dr. Rebecca Allison, Angela Hughey and Nicole Stanton represent the diversity of the support of gay rights—whether a transsexual, lesbian or allied individual, they all have contributed immensely to the LGBT community.

This year will mark the organization’s eighth annual celebration, bringing together an array of local supporters to “Be a Part of Equality,” the 2012 gala’s theme. Read more »

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Claims against Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu elicit mixed reactions

Submitted by ONE Community on February 20, 2012 - 1:15pm
Claims against Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu elicit mixed reactions

From AZCentral.com

Paul Babeu, the lawman who wants to become a lawmaker, faced mixed fortunes a day after categorically denying allegations he abused power to protect the secret that he is gay. Read more »

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Minneapolis-area Lutherans oppose marriage amendment

Submitted by ONE Community on February 20, 2012 - 8:55am
Minneapolis-area Lutherans oppose marriage amendment

From The Star Tribune:

The Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA voted to oppose changing the state Constitution to ban gay marriage. 

Minneapolis-area Lutherans on Friday went on record against changing the state Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

Their vote made them one of the largest faith groups yet to formally oppose the amendment that will go before voters Nov. 6, which would ban same-sex marriage in Minnesota. Close to 700 Lutherans, representing congregations in the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, voted on a resolution opposing the amendment at the group's annual assembly at a Prior Lake church. Read more »

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ABT’s Theatre for Young Audiences Presents The Adventures of Stuart Little

Submitted by ONE Community on February 18, 2012 - 4:51pm
ABT’s Theatre for Young Audiences Presents The Adventures of Stuart Little

Peoria, Arizona (February 16, 2012)

Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT) opens its second Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) show of the season on Saturday, March 24, with The Adventures of Stuart Little.

This charming and wonderful children’s story written by E.B. White has been adapted for the stage as a one-act play by Joseph Robinette (Anne of Green Gables and Charlotte’s Web).  In a letter White wrote in a response to inquiries from readers, he stated, “… many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I had a dream about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse.  That’s how the story of Stuart Little started.” Read more »

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Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation

Submitted by ONE Community on February 18, 2012 - 10:49am
Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation

Phoenix New Times By Monica Alonzo Thursday, Feb 16 2012

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.

The latest of the alleged threats were made through Babeu's personal attorney, who's also running the sheriff's campaign for Congress in District 4, the ex-lover says. Read more »

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Presbyterian court reviews lesbian pastor's rebuke

Submitted by ONE Community on February 17, 2012 - 8:14pm
Presbyterian court reviews lesbian pastor's rebuke

From Reuters:

A lesbian minister rebuked by the U.S. Presbyterian Church for blessing the weddings of same-sex couples in California faced the denomination's highest court on Friday for a hearing she hopes will lift her censure.

The ecclesiastical appeal for the Rev. Jane Spahr, 69, caps the latest of her decades-long series of conflicts with church authorities over greater acceptance of homosexuality in Christianity and in the lives of its followers. Read more »

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Gay and Gray: What We Need to Know About Aging Gay Men

Submitted by ONE Community on February 17, 2012 - 8:03pm

In 2011 the Institute of Medicine released a historic report documenting the health disparities faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. This report was call to action for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to address the burgeoning and often underserved health needs of the LGBT population. In the United States these health disparities coincide with an epidemiological shift: the aging of the American population. Due to increases in life expectancy and aging of the "baby boomer" generation, or those born between 1946 and 1964, approximately one third of the United States population will be 55 years or older by 2014.

While no direct population figures exists, extrapolations drawn from multiple sources suggests that within the population of older Americans, approximately 1.2 to 1.4 million will be older gay men, a figure more pronounced in urban areas such as New York City, where it is estimated that approximately 5 percent of gay men are 50 or older. A significant proportion of these older gay men, both nationally and in New York City, live with HIV, and as a group this generation of gay men, to whom I have previously referred as "the AIDS generation," have all been directly impacted by the epidemic. Read more »

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