Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., announced today she is a candidate for the U.S. Senate, pledging in a video released by her campaign to fight for Wisconsin’s middle-class families. Baldwin would be the first openly LGBT American to serve in the Senate. “I’ve been honest about my sexual orientation my entire adult life,” Baldwin said, adding that she believed the election would be about the people of Wisconsin rather than her personal life. Watch her announcement video at GayPolitics.com
Wisconsin Rep Tammy Baldwin
First openly GLBT American to possibly serve in the Senate
Rep. Kern Says Gays Are Still National Threat, Worse Than Terrorism
Amidst the country’s reflection and remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, Oklahoma State
Rep. Sally Kern has sparked outrage amongst the gay community in wake of her book tour in which she reinforced her attack on gays, explaining the LGBT community is worse than the act of terrorism. Kern’s explains that her book titled,
“The Stoning of Sally Kern: The Liberal Attack on Christian Conservatism and Why We Must Take a Stand,” was written in response to the backlash she received in 2008 when at that time she also attacked the gay community with similar claptrap in a nationally released video. Kern had expressed that school children were being “indoctrinated” into the gay lifestyle, and that gays are more of a threat than terrorists themselves, the Washington Post reports.
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Rep Kern likes herself
Iran Carries Out Death Sentences for 3 Accused of Sodomy
An Iranian official reportedly announced that three men were hanged in Iran on Sunday for what authorities referred to as “lavat” — a phrase used in Islamic law to refer to sodomy. Human rights groups say the announcement was unusual because gay people are normally charged with crimes such as rape in order to deflect international attention from their death sentences. One researcher said at least one of the cases involved a sexual relationship between two men.
Mother of Gay 9/11 Hero Becomes LGBT Activist
Alice Hoagland is happy that Osama bin Laden was found and killed under President Barack Obama’s watch, but she knows what she’d say to the president if they ever meet: “I hope you will encourage the promulgation of marriage equality across the country.” Hoagland is the mother of Mark Bingham, an openly gay man who lost his life on Sept. 11, 2001, when he and others on United Flight 93 thwarted terrorists’ plans to crash the plane into the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
New GLBT Activist, Alice Hoagland with gay son and killed 9/11 Hero, Mark Bingham
