Bush gives $500 Million to fight gay marriage as deficit reduction tactic
President Bush signed legislation giving $500 million to faith-based programs to promote and strengthen opposite-sex marriage, a provision that's part of the deficit reduction bill passed by Congress. How this reduced the deficit is anybody's guess. Bush himself noted, “It allows faith-based groups that provide social services to receive federal funding without changing the way they hire,” Bush noted at the White House signing ceremony. Translation: We're giving money to groups that specifically discriminate in their hiring process. Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Wade Horn said that the financial windfall is not intended to specifically oppose same-sex marriage, although the President is a major supporter of a proposed amendment to ban gay marriage in the Constitution. Like I said yesterday, Bill Frist is bringing it in June. Yep, it's happening all over again.
Fresh from his big stint in the Big Brother Celebrity UK house, Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns has announced that he's tying the knot with his partner Michael Simpson. For those who watched Big Brother, Burns always had a photo of Simpson attached to his person throughout the series. The couple showed off their identical diamante skull rings - designed by Vivienne Westwood - live on Richard and Judy's show (pictured). Regarding the rings 
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· Ontario The University of Western Ontario's new Pride Library computers have a unique search engine that accommodates "queer lingo" - just one of the features of Canada's first library devoted to the academic study of "diversexuality." It 
· Australia: While it's winter here in San Francisco, it's summer in St. Kilda, making it an ideal time for 
Todd Holland met Ashley Moore a year before her transition and while Moore was preparing for her gender reassignment surgery, she was also starting 
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Lee Tamahori, the major film director who brought the James Bond hit "Die Another Day" and "XXX: State of the Union" to the big screen, 
Circuit Court Judge M. Brooke Murdock in Baltimore 
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"Call these the gay Globes," said TV Guide's Tom O'Neil before the show started and it turned out to be just that and then some. "Brokeback Mountain" won the Best Dramatic Film award last night at the 
Film critic Richard Knight 
Suspended Internal Revenue Service agent Erica Edwards, who said her downfall started when she told bosses she planned to undergo sex-change surgery and 
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Sarah Jones, a transsexual, is set to be ordained as a priest by the Church of England this weekend and the Bishop of Hereford is standing by the decision calling Jones a "superb candidate" who had the gender realignment surgery "many years ago - long before she explored the possibility of being ordained," 
A new documentary series on the Sundance Channel, TransGeneration, takes a look at 
Fans of shemale porn are grieving as a suicide rumor has been tragically confirmed. Only a few days ago Camilla de Castro posted a message 
Four years ago, South Korean superstar Harisu starred in an advertisement for a cosmetic company. In the ad, gazing at the camera, she laughed and tilted her head back to reveal an Adam’s apple - only the Adam’s apple had to be computer generated because hers had already been removed. The advertisement created a huge sensation, especially when Harisu went public with the fact that she is a transsexual, and she's been on the world map ever since. She's written two books – her autobiography "Harisu, Eve from Adam" and "Goddess of Metamorphosis," as well as become a recording artist and launched an acting career. Li Ee Kee 
Mianne Bagger, the first transsexual golfer to compete on the Ladies' European Tour, shrugged off the disappointment of a poor rookie season to finally 
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a transgender inclusive hate crimes amendment yesterday, despite noise from gay critics who said that including the trans community would sabotage the bill's future. While a sexual orientation hate crimes bill has passed the Senate three times before and the House has held two procedural votes on hate crimes legislation, this is the first time an explicitly written transgender inclusive bill has been passed by the House or the Senate. That's the good news.
A lesbian, bisexual and transgendered women's group called the 
The verdict is in and while it's a good news/bad news scenario, with the first trial resulting in a hung jury all around today's news is more of a victory. The Alameda County jury 
Sharli'e Dominique, the transgendered Hurricane Katrina evacuee who was jailed for five days for using the women's restroom showers at Reed Arena, has been released after the county attorney declined to press charges. Dominique, formerly Arpollo Vicks, was arrested by Texas A&M University Police for criminal trespassing. She said she simply was trying to take a shower in the facility she felt most comfortable using, something of a no brainer, after spending five harrowing days living with little food and water on an Interstate 10 bridge.
So there was this San Francisco group battling it out with a group from Stockton, California, to be the new home for World War II battleship the U.S.S. Iowa, and in affect to make SF the favorite, Merylin Wong, called for the ship to host a museum honoring the contribution to the American military of LGBT veterans. "It's a reflection of community support," she contended. "They're gays, etc. a component of San Francisco's population, and they want that ship in San Francisco."
Jose Merel, accused of killing transgender teen Gwen Araujo, 
Nobody's too happy about Estanislao Martinez's (pictured) four-year sentence in the 
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I told you that Nadia Almada, the transsexual winner of Big Brother in the UK, was entering the Big Brother Australia house as an intruder. What I didn't know is that she was doing so as a freshly madeover blonde bombshell 28 pounds lighter. Almada vowed not to divulge her past unless the matter came up - and she did the same on the UK version and lasted the entire run without revealing her sex change. And she said last night she planned to do the same this time, unless the issue came up in the house. She arrived, met the three remaining housemates - Tim, Vesna and Greg - and a mere two hours later Vesna 
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