Gates looks to ease
DADT discharges
while repeal is studied
by Chuck Colbert
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen told a Senate committee Tuesday, February 2 that they have appointed a high-level working group to report, by the end of 2010, on how the military can adapt should Congress choose to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the armed forces. (read more)
Online Extra: Political Notes:
State LGBT group set to endorse in federal races
Equality California turns its sights on federal races but expects to stay out of CA Supreme Court justices' retention issue; Justice Carlos Moreno vows to arm wrestle for a U.S. Supreme Court post; and San Jose gay group hosts comic Will Durst. (read more)
Breaking news:
SFAF's CEO
Mark Cloutier resigns
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation announced Thursday, February 4 that its CEO, Mark Cloutier, has resigned. (read more)
LGBT center
seeks $157K
loan from city
Openly gay Supervisors Bevan Dufty and David Campos are co-sponsoring a resolution that would allow a $157,500 loan for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center. (read more)
Bill would
divorce religion
from marriage
It is a breakup many LGBT activists say is long overdue, and now openly gay state Senator Mark Leno wants the state to intervene in the split. (read more)
Little money
raised to repeal
Prop 8 in 2010
The campaign to repeal Proposition 8 this year raised just over $15,000 in 2009, according to finance reports filed with the secretary of state's office this week. (read more)
AIDS Housing Alliance marks
six years
Supervisor Bevan Dufty, left, exchanges a hearty laugh with hostess Bebe Sweetbriar during the AIDS Housing Alliance/San Francisco's sixth anniversary benefit at Trigger. (read more)
Groundbreaking
lesbian health
book released
The Lesbian Health and Research Center at UCSF celebrates a decade of putting lesbian health in the national spotlight with the release of Lesbian Health 101: A Clinician's Guide, the first-ever textbook on the subject. (read more)
More on what's
happening in LGBT health
More information on IOM's report on health issues affecting the LGBT population. (read more)
Online extra:
Super Bowl
ad overhyped – again
Once a year we are left to ponder the who, what, and why of the Super Bowl and its attendant plethora of overpriced, over-thought, and over-hyped commercials. (read more)
Moscow's Luzhkov
lashes out
at gays again
Homophobic Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is at it again, lashing out at gays as a court prepares to hear the local pride organization's case against the city's banning pride events. (read more)
Online Extra: Political Notes:
San Mateo supe backs 49ers move to Santa Clara
Openly gay San Mateo County Supervisor Rich Gordon has come out in favor of seeing the San Francisco 49ers football team relocate out of the city from which it derives its name to Santa Clara. (read more)
Community activist
Benjamin Gardiner dies
Benjamin Gardiner, a longtime activist in the LGBT and recovery communities, died of heart failure on January 23. (read more)
Political Notebook:
Gay group
honors Moreno
Following his lone dissent in the California Supreme Court's May 2009 6-1 ruling upholding Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban against same-sex marriage, Justice Carlos Moreno became a hero to many in the LGBT community. (read more)
News in brief:
Black HIV awareness event Fri.
The San Francisco health department will join with various community health organizations to commemorate the 10th National Black HIV Awareness Day, which is Sunday, February 7. (read more)
