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2011 THOMAS O. CASH MEMORIAL HIV/AIDS WALK

September 1st, 2011

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NH AIDS WALK

Let’s Walk Together!

The Southern NH HIV/AIDS Task Force will hold its annual Thomas O. Cash Memorial HIV/AIDS Walk on September 10, 2011 at the Greeley Park Bandshell in Nashua.

This walk-a-thon is the agency’s largest fundraiser and supports the critical programs and services being offered to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, their families, and those most at risk for being infected with the virus. The agency is the only such organziation serving the Greater Nashua area and offers case management, housing and nutritional servcies, prevention programs, specialized mental health and substance use treatment to those living with HIV/AIDS.

Registration starting at 10:00 am. The funds raised every year at the walk ensure that this community safeguard remains in place for a healthy future.

Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM

Nashua, New Hampshire

Contact: Jean Adie
603-595-8464
j.adie@aidstaskforcenh.org

2012 President Hopefuls Stand on Gay Rights

August 16th, 2011

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click on the above picture to see where the 2012 Presidential hopefuls stand on gay rights!

NH Gay Bowling League

August 15th, 2011

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gay bowling in nh

NH’s Gay Bowling League

Wednesday evenings at 7 pm at the Merrimack Ten Pin bowling alley in Merrimack, NH starting September 7th. Thirty-two weeks of fun with weekly 50/50 cash raffles.

They are looking for Permanent league bowlers and weekly subs.

For more information check out their website here!

Support GLBTQ Youth By Volunteering (Portsmouth, NH)

July 31st, 2011

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One out of six young adults feels isolated and socially awkward because of sexual orientation, and experience bullying, harassment, and hatred on a daily basis. Founded in 1993, Seacoast Outright is an entirely volunteer run support and advocacy service for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersexed, and allied youth ages 12 to 24 in the Seacoast Area. This is done by providing a safe, judgment free environment in which these youth can meet, socialize, and support one another in discussion groups or social activities.

Seacoast Outright is recruiting Board Members with a variety of skills and interests, including but not limited to Fundraising & Event Coordination, Volunteer Management, Youth Relations, Public Affairs, Nonprofit Management, Grant Writing, Strategic Planning, and Marketing and Advertising.

Board members are expected to assist in policy planning, management and procurement of resources and funding, fundraising opportunities, organizational management, volunteer screening and management, as well as participate in subcommittee activity when necessary.

Requirements: Board Members must be 25 years of age or older, pass a background check, and commit to a two year term. Candidates must have an upbeat attitude, possess critical thinking skills, be a self-starter and a team player. It is also asked that Board Members attend a four hour facilitator training session to gain a better understanding of the interactions between youth attendees and the organization, attend all scheduled Board Meetings, and a significant number of Outright sponsored events. Individual sexual orientation is unimportant, so long as you are supportive of the youth and the organization’s mission.

GayNH.com Website Updates

July 31st, 2011

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Gay New Hampshire

Greetings GayNH.com viewers!

I just wanted to add a quick update about the GayNH.com website. I took down the forums pages as I only had three people use them in six months and was more spam headache than useful to the website.

Thank you to anyone/everyone who has clicked on an advertising banner, the money isn’t a lot but helps.

The GayInNH.com gay and lesbian dating website (the GayNH.com Dating site) is our main source of income and pays for all the behind the scenes stuff necessary to keep this site up and running. The dating website is FREE to join, but the paid memberships give you everything you need and support us too!

I’m always looking for suggestions and input. So if you see an article or GLBT news affecting us in New Hampshire – please send us an email!!!

Our email address is – GayDragons@gmail.com

Thanks again for keeping GayNH.com online for TEN YEARS!!!!

Peter

Congratulations NY – Welcome to the Family!

July 25th, 2011

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The Niagara Falls goes rainbow to celebrate NY Gay Marriage!

Gay Panic Defense?? How About Straight Panic Defense??

July 22nd, 2011

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Gays protect yourselves!

Okay, so a young 14 year old boy shoots a classmate dead in school because he was “flirting with him a lot.” The 14 year old’s lawyer is using a “Gay Panic” defense, saying that his client was pushed to his limits by the deceased gay student’s advances and public comments. The lawyer is trying to say that yes, his client did shoot him but only because he was pushed to “an emotional breaking point” by the boy. He shot him TWICE in the back of the head in school class.

Now, if any other student had done the same comments or gestures to this 14 year old, everything would have been fine by his standards right?

This “Gay Panic” defense has been used in court before – the case against the murderers of transgender teen Gwen Araujo. Three men escaped first degree murder charges after legislature changed the laws quickly regarding the case. Their attorney’s claimed that their clients “panicked” when they found out Araujo was transgender and killer her.

Gay panic defenses are used because they often work, said Cynthia Lee, a law professor who wrote a 2008 UC Berkeley Law School Review article on the topic. In February 2006, a Kentucky man successfully won a lighter sentence after using a gay panic argument, according to a report by Equality California.

In the same year, a Fresno man who stabbed a transgender person 20 times agreed and was permitted to plead guilty to a reduced crime that brought a four-year sentence. The Fresno district attorney reportedly cited the difficulty of overcoming a panic strategy as a reason for offering the plea deal.

So let’s see, I’m walking down the street and I see a bunch of straight people kissing and hugging in public – I should whip out my gun and blow them all away because their openness about straight PDA freaked me out so severely because I couldn’t do it with my boyfriend right! Oooo ooo no wait, Maggie Gallagher comes to New Hampshire to preach her extremist anti-gay religion views that border on hate speech that soo infuriates my inner ability to cope with reality and she’s dead! I really didn’t mean it judge!

GLAD Takes Gilsum to Court for AMSR

July 20th, 2011

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Boston-based Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders is suing the town of Gilsum, NH to stop the town from shutting down a group home for people with HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C. GLAD is doing this for AIDS Services for the Monadnock Region (ASMR) to stop the town from taking Cleve Jones Wellness House for not paying property taxes. Five people are live the home. GLAD attorney Ben Klein said that the group home is tax exempt and shouldn’t have to pay the taxes.

Someone failed to file the application for the tax exemption on time and that when it finally did, the town refused to approve a late application, though it routinely granted exemptions to nonprofits that file late or not at all. Klein said GLAD filed its suit in Cheshire County Superior Court seeking immediate relief because the town planned to take the property this week. Last week, the town of Gilsum agreed to take no action to have the deed transferred to the town until the lawsuit is settled.

Previously GLAD sued the town of Gilsum in 2008 after the town put up roadblocks to Cleve Jones Wellness House operating on the site of a former group home for girls. The town has reacted based on fear of HIV, AIDS and incorrect assumptions for years. ”The town imposed conditions on who could live at the house,” Klein said. The case was settled and most of the restrictions were removed, he said.

The new lawsuit claims the town’s selectmen are discriminating against the home by refusing to grant its applications for tax exemptions if not filed or filed late. ”For example, the American Legion did not file an application in the years 2004-2009 and the Gilsum Congregational Church did not file an application in the years 2005, 2007, 2008 or 2009. Yet, the town of Gilsum treated their real property as tax exempt. In addition, all charitable organizations in Gilsum regularly filed the application late, sometimes as late as November and December of the tax year,” the lawsuit said. The selectmen have the option of approving late applications.

The lawsuit said the minutes of the Nov. 29, 2010, selectmen’s meeting show that after AIDS Services executive director Susan MacNeil questioned the differential treatment of her organization and the Congregational Church and American Legion, the board voted after she left not to tax the church and legion. The lawsuit claims the church and American Legion then filed applications at the board’s request.

AIDS Services did not file an application in 2007 because its executive director mistakenly believed the tax exemption was automatic, not something that must be filed annually, the lawsuit said. It was filed one month late in 2008 and three days late in 2009.

The lawsuit wants the court to find AIDS services is not liable for taxes for those three years and wants a refund of the $11,559 in taxes and interest AIDS Services paid the town last year. The lawsuit said AIDS Services had to borrow the money to pay the 2007 taxes and has been unable to repay the loan. The lawsuit said AIDS Services cannot afford to pay the 2008 taxes and got a notice the town was going to take the deed for failure to pay on July 21.

Anti Gay Marriage NY Clerk in Trouble?

July 9th, 2011

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Gay Marriages begin July 24th in New York and already there’s some BS going down. A town clerk in upstate New York recently said that she would not issue a marriage licence to any same-sex couple in her area. She felt it was against her religious beliefs. Once again we have a problem with religion and politics (government owned property & government paid employee) refusing to do what is required of her job.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, in a letter sent to town and city clerks in her jurisdiction.

“The Marriage Equality Act provides that an application for a marriage license cannot be denied on the grounds that the applicant parties are of the same sex and the law affords no discretion to public officials charged with granting marriage licenses. Therefore, any such refusal may be subject to criminal prosecution. The religious exemptions in the Marriage Equality Act are inapplicable to town and city clerks serving in their license-granting roles, and a public official’s intentional refusal to issue marriage licenses to qualified same-sex couples may constitute Official Misconduct, a Class A misdemeanor defined in section 195.00 of the New York State Penal Law.”

Brooklyn Bishop Turns Into Bigot

July 9th, 2011

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Bigoted Bishop of NY

Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, the Catholic leader of the Brooklyn diocese, has urged the Catholic institutions to decline donations and speaking engagements from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and any lawmaker who voted “yes” on the bill legalizing same-sex marriages.

Calling New York’s passage of gay marriage “another ‘nail in the coffin’ of marriage,” Bishop DiMarzio issued a statement two days after the New York gay marriage bill was approved by the Legislature demanding that “all pastors and principals to not invite any state legislator to speak or be present at any parish or school celebration.”

He has asked that any and all Catholic churches and properties do not accept donations or allow entry to political persons who vote for gay marriage rights. Isn’t this stepping into the political arena a bit? Isn’t that illegal in the USA? A violation of IRS regulations and rules? Oh yah, and if they can’t accept funds from these politicians, does that mean they need to get more money from the mobsters now? Hmmmm, the Catholic Church is headquartered where the Mafia began in Italy doesn’t it?

The Catholic bishop also said the church should now speak more “forcefully and clearly” against gay marriage.