Sadly this week bought the California Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Proposition 8 in their State to put a halt to same sex marriages but to let the existing 18,000 marriages stay in effect. If they were voting to actually keep same sex marriage maybe the decision would have been different but they were voting [...]
May
24
UAFA Gets Congressional Hearing
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Surprising news came this week when Immigration Equality announced a congressional hearing, on June 3rd, for the Uniting American Families Act. This is the first time in it’s history that this act has had a congressional hearing and it will finally give some hope to the many people who are in limbo because of the [...]
May
24
Proposition 8 Decision on Tuesday
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This coming Tuesday the Supreme Court of California will finally make what seems the long-waited decision on Proposition 8. 365gay has a good news article on the background to this, what they are voting for, and what this possibly means to 18,000 couples. The decision will be followed by Rally’s in many cities in the [...]
May
18
Eurovision Violence
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Thought I would just follow up on my post the other day about Eurovision and the possibility of Russian authorities causing trouble for activists who wanted to highlight the countries poor human rights records towards gay people. Behind the well orchestrated Eurovision event that the general public saw on TV was the evil of the [...]
May
17
Star Trek Review
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This is my review of the new Star Trek movie, like hundreds of other people sharing their comments over the internet through twitter, forum’s and their blogs I thought I would do the same too. It certainly did have a different look and feel compared to most other Star Trek’s, the graphics, camera movements, usage [...]
May
14
Eurovision
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Never really been into Eurovision, I can hardly bring myself to observe it from afar because it is simply so dreadful. The one good thing about being in Canada is that I cannot see that is going to broadcast here – YES! Is it dreadful because it was previously hosted by Terry Wogan with his [...]
May
10
Vancouver Restaurant Reviews
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dinehere.ca seems to be the place for getting reviews on Vancouver restaurants so I have signed up and started placing my thoughts on there too. Go to my profile to see my reviews. The restaurants I like the most so far is one in our neighborhood which is called Loks, quite expensive but good Chinese [...]
May
10
Missed Free Comic Book Day!
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Well I seem to miss Free Comic Book Day every year and I don’t know why, I guess other stuff happens. Lucky for me there has always been something to pick up either the Thursday (in the UK) or Wednesday (in North America) after the actual event. This year I was able to pick up [...]
May
9
US Immigration Reform in 2009?
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Well I am not holding my breath and even if it does come would they include the interests of same sex binational couples? The chair of the Senate Sub-Committee on Immigration has stated however that there would be Immigration Reform within the year [source: Daily News]. It will be interesting to see this one develops [...]
May
9
Same Sex Marriage
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Canada was the fourth country in the world to recognize same sex marriage which came into effect nationally on July 20th, 2005. Unfortunately very few countries have made wise decisions and gone down this path. In my own country UK Civil Partnerships were introduced in December 2005 but unfortunately marriage was rejected on 31 July [...]
May
5
McHappy Day – Give Direct to the Charities!
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Quite befuddled why people would want to buy a McDonalds in order to benefit Children’s Charities. McHappy is May 6th here in Canada in which McDonalds will donate just $1 for every Big Mac, Happy Meal or McMuffin (and maybe other disgusting so-called food items) that are sold. I don’t think McDonalds marketing machine goes [...]