On Saturday, October 24th, Congresswoman Shelley Berkely is taking her constituents up on their demands for a townhall meeting focused on healthcare. The meeting will take place on the first floor of the UNLV Student Union from 3pm - 4pm.

I'm going to be there early to find parking and to make sure that I get a good seat, so I'll update you all on what happens. I'm sure that the crazies are going to be there so I'm going there to support Congresswoman Berkeley.

Bless God and bless the Gays!

I compiled a list of the 17 House Democratics and the lone Senate Democrat  that voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Act, and I think that LGBT voters in those states to ask themselves who is truly representing them in Washington.

You'll find the list below:
State-District # Last name, First name

-House-
OK-2 Boren, Dan Boren's Congressional Email
AL-2 Bright, Bobby Bright's Congressional Email
PA-10 Carney, Christopher Carney's Congressional Email
MS-1 Childers, Travis Childer's Congressional Email
AL-7 Davis, Artur Davis's Congressional Email
TN-4 Davis, Lincoln Davis's Congressional Email
IN-2 Donnelly, Joe Donnelly's Congressional Email
IN-8 Ellsworth, Brad Ellsworth's Congressional Email
TN-6 Gordon, Barton Gordon's Congressional Email
AL-5 Griffith, Parker Griffith's Congressional Email
NC-7 McIntyre, Mike McIntyre's Congressional Email
LA-3 Melancon, Charles Melancon's Congressional Email
MN-7 Peterson, Collin Peterson's Congressional Email
AR-4 Ross, Mike Ross's Congressional Email
NC-11 Shuler, Heath Shuler's Congressional Email
TN-8 Tanner, John Tanner's Congressional Email
MS-4 Taylor, Gene Taylor's Congressional Email

-Senate-
WI- Feingold, Russ Feingold's Senatorial Email
Here's a quote from Senator Feingold's webpage regarding equal rights;

"I am committed to ensuring that all Americans enjoy the rights and protections guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Americans are entitled to due process and equal protection under the law regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation."

Can someone tell me then why he would vote against this legislation? To his credit, he is a strong supporter of the Emplyer's Non-Discrimination Act, but he let us down here... where it counts.

They voted against expanding hate crime protection to the LGBT community, and they need to answer to the people of their states!

A DC man was sentenced to an inexcusable 180 day jail sentence for the vicious attack on a gay man that resulted in his death a week later from his injuries. Robert Hannah will walk out of jail a free man in 180 days, but where will Tony Hunter be? His body will be buried in the ground... is this justice?

A murderer throws out the "Gay panic defense", claiming that Hunter grabbed his groin and his butt, and the jury/judge let him go scott free. That's the American Judicial system, the US Attorney's office for DC released a 14 page memo stating the government's reasons for not pursing manslaughter charges, claiming that the testimony from Hunter's witness wasn't substantial, and also that there isn't enough evidence to prove that Hunter's death was caused by hitting his head on the pavement during the assault or the blows to the head from Robert Hannah.

So if Tony Hunter would have been standing up and was pummeled to death by Robert Hannah, the US Attorney for DC would probably have released a statement stating that there isn't enough evidence to prove that Hunter's death wasn't a result of the wind hitting him violently as opposed to the pummeling blows to the head. THIS IS VILE!

You're telling me that you need 14 pages of jargon to explain that the beating of a gay man is okay as long as you claim that he touched you first?!??! Hannah said in court that he wishes that he would have reacted differently to being touched by a gay man, and that he's sorry.

-I'm sorry that I lynched your son, but none of this would have happened if he hadn't made me uncomfortable, sorry.-

I picked up this story from across the pond on www.pinknews.co.uk where our British brothers and sisters are calling for justice and action from their American LGBT brothers and sisters! One Brit said, "I'm surprised LGBT Americans haven't had a Riot by now!" another, "America, land of the not so free LGBT". The world is waiting for their American LGBT brothers and sisters to stand against ignorance, to stand against vile crimes against humanity, to stand against the terror and fear that rock our communities to the core with every new death. How will we respond? What will they see as the American LGBT response?

Even better questions... How many more lives have to be lost? How many more families need to be destroyed? How many more parents have to bury their children before the government hears our cries for justice?!?!

NOT ONE MORE LIFE, NOT ONE MORE FAMILY, NOT ONE MORE FUNERAL DAMNIT!!!!!

Mobilize, unite, and organize to stand up to Congress! Make them listen! Go to www.equalityacrossamerica.org to see how you can become involved with a movement in your area, or how you can start one!

God bless America - (I can't hide my disgust in my closer right now)

That's the solution that the African nation of Uganda has presented in their house of Parliament yesterday, the bill is called, the "Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009", and it calls for the execution of any individuals with HIV from having sex with someone of the same sex, it calls for the execution of LGBT's that have sex with disabled people and those who have sex with LGBT's under the age of 18. The bill also goes as far as to enforce life imprisonment for those found or accused of having gay sex or same-sex relations, apparently that's already a law in Uganda, but this bill offers that law more jurisdiction and power. "Promoting Homosexuality" would be illegal in all forms under this law, removing any gay publications, having a shelter for LGBT's, providing services for LGBT's, and "aiding and abetting" homosexuals are crimes that would bring imprisonment under this legislation... gays are now outlaws in Uganda!

I've checked the big websites for their tale on this and their call to action, but there is nothing! I've had to reach across the Atlantic to find anything pertninet other than a few domestic LGBT sites called www.gayagenda.com & www.akawilliam.com those are some of the only domestic sites that I saw to have the story represented.

These are crimes against humanity, and thankfully the Human Rights Watch is on the scene and preparing to mobilize both domestically in the African state as well as globally against this injustice and deliberate attempt to perform a genocide against the LGBT community which is only 500,000 in a country of 34million citizens. This is rediculous, this is evil, and this is something that we can't let go unchallenged, go to this link HRW.org and sign the petition demanding the intervention form the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon now!

It's something small that we can do, but we need to pressure the international community and force them into action for our LGBT brothers and sisters that could very well be exterminated should this legislation go unchallenged by the international community.

Bless God and Bless the Gays! 

So I'm here in the capitol, and I just left a meeting with Chip Arndt, political big whig with the Democratic party for the LGBT community, and I'm going tomorrow morning to meet up with some other activists to get my press rights so that I can cover and report on everything that's going on here in the capitol.

I'm going to try my best to get a feel for what's really going on here... I've talked to dozens of people already tonight that are feeling the march and are in support of what we're doing! Score! I've also met some pretty unfriendly indfividuals that had some colorful words to say about what was going down this weekend.

No matter.

I'm going to try and get my way into the nitty gritty of the events, and I'll be writing an article for QVegas for the November issue, so stay posted here for updates, go to my Facebook page and my Twitter acounts (go my social stream page) for more to the minute updates on the efforts on the ground here in the capitol.

This is truly a momentous occassion and I'm humbled to be here reporting on it and participating in history.

God bless America.

PS
The religious right is going to protest the President's dinner with the LGBT community tomorrow and they're also going to be alongside us at the march on sunday so keep us in your thoughts as we go against the biggots!