10. May 2011 by admin.

Uptown Sports Management, an Ontario, Canada-based agency which represents a number of NHL players attacked New York Ranger forward Sean Avery for getting involved with the campaign for marriage equality in New York.

 

 

Avery recorded a video for New Yorkers for Marriage Equality which we played yesterday.

 

Wrote the agency in a tweet: "Very sad to read Sean Avery’s misguided support of same-gender ‘marriage’. Legal or not, it will always be wrong." The tweet was followed up by two more denying anti-gay bigotry, and saying, "This is my personal viewpoint. I Do not hate anyone."

 

 

According to CBS, Todd Reynolds, the firm’s Vice President and son of the owner, is in charge of the agency’s Twitter feed.

UPDATE:

     

Reynolds spoke with  Cybulski & Company on TSN Radio 1050 and gave this statement:

"There’s certainly a voice for the other side on this particular issue.  And I believe in morality and I believe in right and wrong.   "But I’m a little disappointed in some of the response. If you oppose a viewpoint, you’re immediately targeted by some people as a hater, a bigot, intolerant, homophobic and many other terms.

 

Don Reynolds, the agency president and Todd’s father, gave some more obscene quotes to the National Post, saying he stands by his son’s tweet, and then comparing same-sex marriage to bestiality:

“It’s sad. I mean, my personal position is that I do not support gay marriage, and I think it’s wrong, as well. It’s not politically correct to, I guess, give your opinion about a thing like that. It’s politically correct on the other side, for people to say, ‘sure, I support gay marriage.’ But the majority, I think, of Canadians would say that they don’t agree with gay marriage – that man and woman were created to be married, not man and man or man and horse, you know?”

 

On the other hand, sports agents and hockey professionals are also coming out in support of Avery. Outsports has posted a few responses.

 

Paul Bissonnette, an NHL player for the Phoenix Coyotes, has chimed in as well.

Change.org has created a petition demanding Uptown Sports apologize.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/#ixzz1Lws945Ep

 

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Navy: Base Facilities May be Used for Same-Sex Marriages

 

Navy chapels can be used for same-sex marriages, and Navy chaplains are allowed, though not required, to perform those ceremonies in states where same-sex marriage is legal..

 

 

Citing “additional legal review” by Navy attorneys, the Chief of Navy Chaplains, Admiral Michael Tidd said the Navy “has concluded that, generally speaking, base facility use is sexual orientation neutral.”

 

“If the base is located in a state where same-sex marriage is legal, then the base facilities may be used to celebrate the marriage,” added Tidd.

 

The admiral’s memo also gives Navy chaplains permission to marry same-sex couples – but would not force them to perform ceremonies if those ceremonies are not within the chaplains religious beliefs.

 

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Study Finds Higher Reported Instances of Cancer in Gay Men

 

Results of a study based around the California Health Interview survey have been published in the journal Cancer and reveal an inconclusive set of statistics about disparities in reported cancer rates in gay and straight men, Reuters reports:

                 

 

Out of 51,000 men, about 3,700 said they had been diagnosed with cancer as an adult. While just over 8 percent of gay men reported a history of cancer, that figure was only 5 percent in straight men. The disparity could not be attributed to differences in race, age, or income between gay and straight men.

 

About 7,300 out of 71,000 women in the study had been diagnosed with cancer, but overall cancer rates did not differ among lesbian, bisexual, and straight women.

 

What’s causing the disparity is unclear:

Ulrike Boehmer, the study’s lead author from the Boston University School of Public Health, said higher rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be related to the increased risk of cancer in gay men, but the study couldn’t address that question specifically.

 

[Liz] Margolies [executive director of The National LGBT Cancer Network] thinks there is more going on. "Gay men as a group have a bunch of risk factors for cancer," she said.

 

For instance, gay men and lesbian women are more likely to smoke and abuse alcohol than straight men and women. They’re also more likely to avoid going to see their doctor for routine physicals or cancer screening, Margolies added - since healthcare providers may not all be tolerant and accepting of their identity.

 

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/05/study-finds-higher-reported-instances-of-cancer-in-gay-men.html

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Politico: Obama Sees Groundswell of Gay Money, Support

 

Obama’s successes with "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" and his recent decision to reject portions of DOMA "and…smaller steps, like gay partner hospital visits and hate crimes legislation, concrete and important gestures that simply weren’t made during the Bush administration" have reversed gay and lesbian disillusionment with President Obama, Politico’s Ben Smith and Maggie Haberman write.

 

 

This, combined with a fundraising which includes several key gay appointees, places him in a powerful position to look to this community for money as other segments grow disillusioned.

 

“He’s coming back up in the estimation of the gay community pretty rapidly, and I think justifiably,” said Ethan Geto, a New York lobbyist and key figure in Dean’s gay fundraising, who said many gay supporters had hoped “Don’t Ask” would be repealed during the president’s first year in office. “When things didn’t happen in (that) time frame and on the track that Obama had held out hope for, people got very disillusioned,” said Geto. “This was the time to strike.”

 

They write: "Gay donors, though, have only intensified their support, and are expected to participate in unprecedented numbers in a “LGBT Gala” DNC fundraiser scheduled for June 23 in New York."

 

http://www.towleroad.com/2011/05/politico-obama-sees-groundswell-of-gay-money-support.html

 

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Playwright and Activist Doric Wilson Dies at 72

 

Playbill reports on the death of playwright, off-Broadway figure, and LGBT activist Doric Wilson.

An excerpt from their obituary:

 

 

Doric Wilson was present on June 28, 1969, when riots broke out at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village. 

 

Mr. Wilson had already been an active participant in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the decade.

 

Following the riot, he became active in Gay Activist Alliance and, as a "star" bartender and helped open post-Stonewall gay bars like The Spike, TY’s and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret.

 

In 1974, Doric Wilson, along with others formed TOSOS (The Other Side of Silence), the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience.

 

 

 

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