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Continued from page 3 Washington Blade is back
Washington, D.C.-After five months, one of the most respected LGBT newspapers in the nation will return to the newsstands.
The Washington Blade was shuttered in November after Window Media, its parent company, closed it and their sister publications, including the Southern Voice.
The employees of the Blade created a new newspaper, DC Agenda, and put out weekly issues starting a week after the Blade offices were shuttered.
In February, the employees acquired the assets of the Washington Blade from bankruptcy court, including the name and the paper's 40-year archive. They reverted to the original name, and "DC Agenda" will now be the entertainment section, as of the April 30 issue.
Chicago Free Press closes
Chicago-A day before the Washington Blade returned from the graveyard, the Chicago Free Press failed to publish their weekly issue.
Publisher David Costanzo has dropped funding from the publication due to health concerns, and managing editor Kerrie Kennedy confirmed that the paper is now defunct, according to ChicagoPride.com.
"It was CFP's staff of talented and award-winning writers who gave people a reason to pick up the paper every week. Many of them-Paul Varnell, Jennifer Vanasco, Larry Bommer and Web Behrens have been writing for the paper since its inception," she said in a
statement.
While the closing of the newspaper is a blow to Chicago's LGBT community, the Windy City Times, the community's other LGBT periodical, will celebrate its 25th anniversary later this year.
Partners included in immigration bill
Washington, D.C.-The outline for a comprehensive immigration reform package contains a measure that would allow citizens and legal residents to sponsor their partners for U.S. citizenship, in the same way heterosexual spouses can.
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The outline is an attempt on the part of Democratic Senate leadership to find another Republican sponsor after Sen. Lindsey Graham withdrew himself from negotiations.
"Today's inclusive framework is an historic step forward for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender binational families," said Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality. "Now, it is time to turn these principles into laws. We will fight to ensure that the Uniting American Families Act is an indelible part of the immigration reform bill."
The plan, however, is meeting with opposition from civil liberties and privacy advocates, because it also calls for a national identification card complete with data like fingerprints to tie it to a citizen or resident legally allowed to work in the country. The national ID card plan is an attempt to gain support from those expressing concern over illegal immigrants.
LGBT advocates also point out that the card could present problems for legal residents or citizens who are undergoing gender transition, since the card would reflect them as being one gender while they would be presenting as another.
Justices skeptical of secret petitions
Washington, D.C.-Conservatives and liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court found themselves apparently on the same side while listening to oral arguments over whether a Washington state law requiring the release of petition signers' names is constitutional.
Backers of an unsuccessful bid to repeal the state's domestic partner law want to conceal the names on their petitions, claiming that signers could be open to harassment and threats of violence.
Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative intellectual appointed to the court by Ronald Reagan, asked attorney James Bopp Jr., "What about just wanting to know their names so you can criticize them? Is that such a bad thing for democracy?"
The New York Times also noted that Justice Anthony Kennedy pointed out that economic boycotts and picketing, the most likely ramification of releasing
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the names on the petitions, are constitutionally protected. "It's a First Amendment activity," he said.
Kennedy is another Reagan appointee; he is often a swing vote in close decisions, although he tends to vote with the conservatives on the bench.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, perhaps the most liberal jurist on the court, pointed out that the organizers of the petition drives often use the names themselves for fundraising purposes, or sell them to other organizations with similar slants. Bopp conceded that to be the case.
She also pointed out Bopp's own brief identified three possibilities: people sign because they believe in the issue, believe the issue should be decided by the voters, or to get the petition-gatherer to leave them alone.
Bopp, however, denied the third option until Ginsburg read it aloud from his brief.
Justice Samuel Alito, a George W. Bush appointee, seemed sympathetic to Bopp's cause, but Chief Justice John Roberts seemed leery of an overarching decision creating a uniform rule.
Court: Boy Scouts are a religious group
Washington, D.C.-The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a California case that established the Boy Scouts as a religious organization, ineligible for sweetheart deals from the gov-
ernment.
U.S. District Court Judge Napoleon Jones Jr. ruled that San Diego could not lease camp space in Balboa Park to the Boy Scouts because the lease violated laws prohibiting the promotion of religion.
The ruling came in a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a lesbian couple and an agnostic couple that each had sons of Scouting age.
The Boy Scouts of America bar gay men from leadership positions, and require Scouts to swear a pledge to God. In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that
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the group, as a private organization, has the right to discriminate against gays and atheists. However, in the aftermath of that decision, a number of suits have been filed across the country in opposition to preferential treatment shown to the group.
In Philadelphia, the city council is attempting to remove the local Scouts. organization from a Beaux Arts building where they pay only $1 a year in rent. The market rate for renting the city-owned structure would be $160,000 a year, according to a city assessment. The Scouts estimated $59,000.
Gay league sued for discrimination
Seattle-Did a gay sports tournament violate Washington state's anti-bias laws by disqualifying a team with three "nongay" members?
That is the question behind a suit filed on April 20 on behalf of Steven Apilado, LaRon Charles and Jon Russ.
The three men were players on D2, a team in the San Francisco Gay Softball League. They made it to the championship game in a 2008 tournament in Washington, losing to a Los Angeles team.
However, the Atlanta Mudcats, who D2 had defeated in the semifinals, filed a complaint that there were too many heterosexuals on the team.
The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance's rules state that à team can only have two non-gay members. After the Mudcats' complaint, the trio was called into a conference room and asked intrusive questions about their sex lives. D2 was ultimately stripped of its secondplace finish.
Charles asked the 25 people in the conference room if he could identify as bisexual, and was told, "This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The men are being represented by the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Compiled by Brian DeWitt, Anthony Glassman and Patti Harris.
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