5.08.07 organizing across sexual orientation lines

Obama: Fully Fund HIV-AIDS. Protesters die-in at Social Forum 2010 (with video)

According to HealthGap, a new study published in Lancet shows that treatment with anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) decreased likelihood of transmission of HV by 92%.

Despite this finding, the Obama Administration is failing to live up to it's promises to fully find HIV-AIDS prevention and treatment worldwide. Without more funding, millions of people will die, unnecessarily, from HIV-AIDS. In New York, Governor Patterson is threatening to veto a law providing housing assistance to people with AIDS.

We Cannot Be But As God Has Made Us: Desmond Tutu Receives Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Award

Desmond Tutu
Authors: Desmond Tutu

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How tragic that our church, the Episcopal Church, should be so obsessed with this particular issue of human sexuality, at a time when God's children all over are facing massive, massive problems.

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How to Mobilize Students to Ally for Safe Schools: The Growth of Gay Straight Alliances

GLSEN members, Philadelphia. Photo: Conrad Ventur

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"You're gay and I'm straight, so let's call it a Gay-Straight Alliance."

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Justice Is Indivisible: Non-Discrimination Must Include Gender Identity

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Authors: Donna Rose

Summary:

Why I resigned from the Board of an organization I love.

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Organizing for Justice, Not "Just Us": Electoral Politics for Lasting Social Change

Students 4 Peace
Authors: Mandy Carter

Summary:

Social justice organizing is about changing hearts and minds, and about changing public policy.

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The Perfect Storm: Why Progressives Must Reframe the Narrow Terms of Marriage Politics

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Authors: Kay Whitlock

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Last year, an eclectic group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer organizers, scholars, funders, writers, and other cultural workers came together to discuss marriage and family politics as they exist in thea United States today. Their statement, "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision for All Our Families & Relationships" can be read in its entirety at www.beyondmarriage.org, and has been endorsed by hundreds of pro-LGBT movers and shakers throughout the country. In the article that follows, one of the statement's 19 authors -- speaking for herself and not the entire group -- summarizes this new vision and assesses its relevance in light of recent political developments.

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