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<?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="/style/rss/rss_feed.css" type="text/css" media="screen" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Clipmarks | Lesbian Clips</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/tags/lesbian/</link><feedUrl>http://rss.clipmarks.com/tags/lesbian/</feedUrl><ttl>15</ttl><description>Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>North Korea To Drop Gay Nuclear Bomb On USA</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/2548FFE4-5893-46E2-97D2-E03D5B9751C6/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/foxyarse/"&gt;foxyarse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Many women are jumping into bed with girlfriends, just to get used to the idea of being lesbian.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A bizarre consequence of the Gay Nuke is that it turns gay people straight. Many thousands of gays have enlisted in the military in the last few weeks. Thousands of gays have also offered to die as suicide bombers against the Gay Nuke. No one wants The Unthinkable to happen! &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i55148" title="http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i55148"&gt;www.thespoof.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H1&gt;North Korea To Drop Gay Nuclear Bomb On USA&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV id="articleimageinner"&gt;
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            Pyongyang NK-- President Kim Il Jong of North Korea has a secret weapon in his arsenal and plans to use it July 4th.  The 'Dear Leader' has the Gay Nuclear Bomb, and once it explodes, all the straight people in the USA will be totally gay.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Gay Nuke works very much like a Neutron Bomb.  Once it explodes, the Gay Nuke's radiation targets DNA and activates dormant gay genes that exist in everyone. There is no immunity or cure.  The Gay Nuke is also very efficient; it only takes one detonation to affect everyone in America.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The Gay Nuke terrifies military planners.  It could make a brigade of Marines gayer than a Barbi Doll convention in an instant.  They fear soldiers will put on impromptu Broadway musicals like 'Cats' rather than fight.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Many straight men and women are terrified of the Gay Nuke too, and are starting to panic.  Husbands are starting to experiment with their wives' makeup, just in case&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/north+korea/" rel="tag"&gt;north korea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bomb/" rel="tag"&gt;bomb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay/" rel="tag"&gt;gay&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i55148</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:30:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>San Francisco LGBT Parade 2009 Pics 2</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C3E3C36F-B021-4715-BB25-691A0B2CE622/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/leigh_marn_picssanfran/"&gt;leigh_marn_picssanfran&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Awesome collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sfphotorama.com/tag/gay-pride-parade-2009/" title="http://www.sfphotorama.com/tag/gay-pride-parade-2009/"&gt;www.sfphotorama.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Awesome collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.sfphotorama.com/tag/gay-pride-parade-2009/</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:19:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>San Francisco LGBT Parade 2009 Pics 4</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1CDC5614-314E-4011-A8C7-80AC5298884A/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tom_cortes_gayprideparade/"&gt;tom_cortes_gayprideparade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Last link with ar great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-4/" title="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-4/"&gt;www.sfphotorama.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Last link with ar great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-4/</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:46:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Delhi Court Rules to Decriminalize Homosexuality</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/3F165609-D4D5-4A97-924A-5F02DA825362/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Deepti/"&gt;Deepti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  At last! &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11794" title="http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11794"&gt;www.feminist.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The Delhi High Court ruled today to decriminalize sexual activity between consenting same sex partners in New Delhi, India’s capital. This groundbreaking decision was made after eight years of proceedings and campaigning from gay rights activists. The first lawsuit seeking legalization of homosexuality in New Delhi was filed in 2001 by a gay rights NGO, the Naz Foundation&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The Court's decision was immediately criticised by India's leading religious leaders, who have fought to keep sexual acts between same sex partners criminal. But gay rights activists believe the ruling will protect New Delhi's gay community from criminal charges and police harassment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Homosexuality has been illegal in New Delhi since the British colonial era, which classified it as "against the order of nature." Before today’s ruling, 10 years was a typical punishment for gay sex&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay/" rel="tag"&gt;gay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/homosexual/" rel="tag"&gt;homosexual&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/india/" rel="tag"&gt;india&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/legal/" rel="tag"&gt;legal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/lesbian/" rel="tag"&gt;lesbian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sex/" rel="tag"&gt;sex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11794</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:55:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Children of gay couples speak out</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/745ED496-91D4-475F-A3E7-9C830264D4D3/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/wiccantexan/"&gt;wiccantexan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/28/gayby/index.html" title="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/28/gayby/index.html"&gt;www.cnn.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Jesse Levey is a Republican activist who says he believes in family values, small government and his lesbian mothers' right to marry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; Levey is part of the "gayby boom" generation. The 29-year-old management consultant is the son of a lesbian couple who chose to have a child through artificial insemination. He's their only child.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/wiccantexan/512/0A993C9F-CC05-4464-A09E-8473C845AAAF.jpg" alt="Jeff DeGroot on hiking trip with his mothers, Elisabeth, on his left, and Meg Grear, on his right." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; Critics of same-sex marriage say people such as Levey will grow up shunned and sexually confused. Yet he says he's a "well-adjusted heterosexual" whose upbringing proves that love, not gender, makes a family.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; It damages the children, says Dale O'Leary, author of "One Man, One Woman: A Catholics Guide to Defending Marriage." She says that all children have a natural desire for a parent of each gender.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; O'Leary says she doesn't personally know any same-sex parents or their children. That's the problem, some children of same-sex children say. So many people are talking about them; not enough are talking to them, they say.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay/" rel="tag"&gt;gay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/lesbian/" rel="tag"&gt;lesbian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay+marriage/" rel="tag"&gt;gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/family/" rel="tag"&gt;family&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/children/" rel="tag"&gt;children&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/28/gayby/index.html</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:34:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>San Francisco LGBT Parade 2009 Pics 3</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C7D3EF8C-4A05-43E6-8F91-39965ACA4ADF/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tom_cortes_gayprideparade/"&gt;tom_cortes_gayprideparade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  And another great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-3/" title="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-3/"&gt;www.sfphotorama.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;And another great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-3/</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>San Francisco LGBT Parade 2009 Pics 1</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C3DC2CAA-733A-4728-940E-6CAF277703FB/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tom_cortes_gayprideparade/"&gt;tom_cortes_gayprideparade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-pics-1/" title="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-pics-1/"&gt;www.sfphotorama.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-pics-1/</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An Open Letter</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/476E505D-F577-4660-84B9-C115735F398C/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/debbyski/"&gt;debbyski&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  "Every day, LGBT Americans face discrimination and are being denied their constitutional rights. There is no one in public life who could, and based on your stated principles and promises should, do more to move America forward toward becoming a country in which LGBT people are respected and treated as fully equal under our Constitution and laws.&lt;br/&gt;We ask for your leadership and voice. When you lead, we will back you with every bit of heart and determination we can muster." &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_obama_lgbt_letter" title="http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_obama_lgbt_letter"&gt;site.pfaw.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Dear President Obama:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;I am writing to respectfully urge you to bring the energetic moral vision that you championed as a presidential candidate to the cause of equality for gay and lesbian Americans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;That vision energized not only gays and lesbians, but many other fair-minded Americans who recognize discrimination as a national moral failing&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; That vision would be even more powerful coming from you as president, but since your election we have heard very little.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Any reasonable person is aware of the extraordinary challenges that faced the nation as you took office, including a dire financial crisis that has cost millions of Americans their jobs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; Mr. President, you are uniquely capable of communicating to the American public the moral and constitutional values at stake in ending discrimination against gay Americans.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_obama_lgbt_letter</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:18:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gay PRIDE MONTH AT THE WHITE HOUSE</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/35B9AF60-B5E1-48AE-A2C1-D5E0B0790144/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tweezer/"&gt;tweezer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/politics&amp;id=6890821" title="http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/politics&amp;id=6890821"&gt;abclocal.go.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;
President Obama vowed to be a champion of same-sex rights. But his words are not getting a warm embrace by many in California who voted to ban same sex marriage.  And some in the gay community are also upset with the Obama administration. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; Obama's words still don't sit well with some frustrated gay rights groups, including those here in the Central Valley. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; Members of the gay and lesbian community cheered as President Obama made history Monday, becoming the first sitting president to recognize gay pride month during a White House reception. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;
President Obama vowed to be a champion of same-sex rights. But his words are not getting a warm embrace by many in California who voted to ban same sex marriage.  And some in the gay community are also upset with the Obama administration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt; Some heterosexuals who support gay rights are also critical of the president's pace on major issues.  &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/human+rights+religion+politics+gay+pride/" rel="tag"&gt;human rights religion politics gay pride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/politics&amp;id=6890821</clipSource><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:47:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Catholic Church needs to clean up its act</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9BE2BEC4-BF3D-4986-96BD-839810118444/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/foxyarse/"&gt;foxyarse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.onlinejournal.com/TheocracyAlert/html/092705seesholtz.html" title="http://www.onlinejournal.com/TheocracyAlert/html/092705seesholtz.html"&gt;www.onlinejournal.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;I&gt;Theocracy Alert&lt;/I&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;The Roman Catholic Church of Corruption&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;B&gt;By Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P align="left"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt;September 27, 2005—Dante reserved the lowest circle of hell—&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/utopia/circle9.html"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" color="#000099" size="-1"&gt;the circle of treachery&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt;—for those who violated trust. He placed quite a few priests, church leaders, and popes there. They’ll be getting lots of company . . . &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt;The larger than usual &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/12707654.htm"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" color="#000099" size="-1"&gt;headline&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt; of the Philadelphia Inquirer lastThursday read, “An ‘Immoral’ Cover-up.” A grand jury indicted the Philadelphia archdiocese in a 418-page &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.philadelphiadistrictattorney.com/pages/1/index.htm"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" color="#000099" size="-1"&gt;report&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt; detailing rampant pedophilia and sexual abuse as well as decades of well planned, sinister cover-up orchestrated by two Philadelphia cardinals, (the late) John Krol and (recently retired) Anthony Bevilacqua. Krol was and Bevilacqua is an outspoken critic of homosexuality and civil rights for gay and lesbian Americans.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-serif,sans-serif" size="-1"&gt;Here are just a few of the documented examples of what predator priests did under the protection of Krol and Bevilacqua:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/catholic+church/" rel="tag"&gt;catholic church&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/corruption/" rel="tag"&gt;corruption&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sex+abuse/" rel="tag"&gt;sex abuse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.onlinejournal.com/TheocracyAlert/html/092705seesholtz.html</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:57:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>San Francisco LGBT Parade 2009 Pics 2</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C149A510-C017-4BDC-8E61-3AAFD1F48DFE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/tom_cortes_gayprideparade/"&gt;tom_cortes_gayprideparade&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Another great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-2/" title="http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-2/"&gt;www.sfphotorama.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Another great collection of pictures from the 2009 San Francisco Gay Lesbian pride parade. Lots of pictures here to scroll through all documented on this great blog. I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.sfphotorama.com/san-francisco-lgbt-parade-2009-collection-of-pics-2/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:38:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Martina Navratilova Sabotages Gay Marriage</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5A8EB5A7-A369-4469-BD56-74588CEBCA19/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Spiritualmonkey/"&gt;Spiritualmonkey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  I bartended at then &lt;a href="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/287298.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;NCLR 30th anniversary&lt;/a&gt; where Navratilova was the GoH.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Lexica/"&gt;Lexica&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; I just celebrated out 11th wedding anniversary. We've attended gay marriage rallys and wholly support the idea of marriage. I wear a &lt;a href="http://whiteknot.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt; white knot&lt;/a&gt; on my backpack. I'm very much in favor of marriage rights. This shit is hard work, and I support those who sign up "For better or worse".&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;But Navratalova's cynical towards marriage and commitment is ashes is my mouth.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Her attitude and actions would be just as reprehensible if she were het. It's just that people are working for &lt;a href="http://tongodeon.livejournal.com/808736.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;basic civil rights&lt;/a&gt;, and Martina is taking advantage of being rich to fuck off on her "we will build a life together" commitments.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;That's despicable. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/06/29/martina_navratilova/" title="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/06/29/martina_navratilova/"&gt;www.salon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;June 29, 2009 |   A famous multimillionaire athlete falls in love. He invites his new girlfriend to live and travel with him; he registers hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property and assets in her name; he lavishes her with gifts, assures her of his undying love and even goes so far as to marry her in a private ceremony. Eight years later, the athlete has cast his wife out of his life, denied her every financial claim and left her with little more than the clothes on her back.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here’s a question. Would any court in the land deny this wife restitution? And in the court of public opinion, would anyone take the side of a husband so stingy and unfeeling?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Let us now switch the husband’s gender. He is now a she: a lesbian tennis star willing to use the legal system to extract herself from another unhappy relationship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;If this were a no-fault heterosexual divorce, the law would unequivocally side with Layton, awarding her alimony and some division of property.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/Spiritualmonkey/512/E38296FF-6B5A-4D05-9A13-7420B0C8FF34.jpg" alt="Martina Navratilova" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/martina-navratalova/" rel="tag"&gt;martina-navratalova&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay-marriage/" rel="tag"&gt;gay-marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/human-rights/" rel="tag"&gt;human-rights&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/06/29/martina_navratilova/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:21:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gays Thank the Religious Right</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/30E205C6-80C4-41AC-B209-9F6D25FF792F/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/baydawg/"&gt;baydawg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  the religious Right's great efforts opposing homosexual practice may have brought the whole question to the attention of the public, who are now more tolerant of lesbians and gays than they were a generation ago &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Lesbian-Activism-Movements-Contention/dp/0816649189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246237222&amp;sr=8-1" title="http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Lesbian-Activism-Movements-Contention/dp/0816649189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246237222&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;www.amazon.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/baydawg/512/9CB4C3DA-ED55-434A-A6D3-167928AF5E5A.jpg" alt="How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism (Social Movements, Protest and Contention)" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; gay rights&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;activists have spent decades fighting for their platform, seeing themselves as David against the religious right’s Goliath.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;gay activists and the religious right have established in effect a symbiotic relationship in which each side very much affects the development of its counterpart.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;a dynamic that is surprisingly necessary to both&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fundamentalists/" rel="tag"&gt;fundamentalists&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay+marriage/" rel="tag"&gt;gay marriage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/symbiosis/" rel="tag"&gt;symbiosis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.amazon.com/Religious-Lesbian-Activism-Movements-Contention/dp/0816649189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246237222&amp;sr=8-1</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:04:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>STONEWALL: 40 Years Ago Today</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FF8314EA-1855-48DD-B452-D6D95D8703AD/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/chestnut501/"&gt;chestnut501&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  "We've come a long way, babies" &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_memories_of_stonewall_are_still_alive.html" title="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_memories_of_stonewall_are_still_alive.html"&gt;www.nydailynews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="photo-description"&gt;Crowd attempts to impede police arrests at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/chestnut501/512/1C48682A-F764-44C2-AD1E-B49127360277.jpg" alt="Crowd attempts to impede police arrests at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. " /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;A bartender who was slinging drinks at the Stonewall Inn the night it was raided 40 years ago says young people need to know how far the gay-lesbian bisexual-transsexual movement has come - and what the previous generation sacrificed to get here. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;"They have no idea the older generation went to jail for them," he told the Daily News on Saturday. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Tree recalled the days of disturbance that followed the late night raid at the Stonewall Inn in &lt;A href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Greenwich+Village" title="Greenwich Village"&gt;Greenwich Village&lt;/A&gt; - which became a defining moment of the gay rights movement - as hundreds of revelers poured in and out of the Inn. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;"A lot of gay people don't realize how it all started," said &lt;A href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Hector+Cruz" title="Hector Cruz"&gt;Hector Cruz&lt;/A&gt;, 38, who stopped by the bar for a drink Saturday afternoon. "This year is more exciting, I think, because of the anniversary. People are finally talking and learning about what happened." &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/28/2009-06-28_memories_of_stonewall_are_still_alive.html</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:24:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Pink List 2009</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/74594D61-2FF6-4117-8065-B3B238AE5CE5/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/cakebelly/"&gt;cakebelly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-in-full-172245" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-in-full-172245&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2009-1721869.html" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2009-1721869.html"&gt;www.independent.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;
Before we started work on the 10th annual Independent on Sunday Pink List, we 
  asked ourselves again whether we should be doing it at all. After all, in 
  2009, equal rights are enshrined in law and there are ‘out’ gay men and 
  women at the top of every profession - or rather, they might argue, just men 
  and women at the top of their professions. So, is the list anachronistic? Is 
  it patronising to gay people? We feared it might be - and went in search of 
  a leading gay or lesbian figure to say so. None of those we contacted wanted 
  to. Their verdict? The Pink List remains indispensable, a celebration of a 
  community that is integral to the British way of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/cakebelly/512/18DB55CD-53EE-43B2-A972-C7377A4A7706.jpg" alt="Peter Mandelson topped this year's list" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P class="caption"&gt;Peter Mandelson topped this year's list&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;
On the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots - and in the week when the 
  National Portrait Gallery launches a major new exhibition of Gay Icons, this 
  list is a celebration of those people who have struggled to get us from 
  there to here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/gay+power/" rel="tag"&gt;gay power&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/list/" rel="tag"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/2009/" rel="tag"&gt;2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-iiosi-pink-list-2009-1721869.html</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:05:08 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>