Posts from ‘June, 2009’

Being from California, we’ve always had a thing for surfing — though we’ve never been too good at it ourselves. And being from San Francisco, we’ve always been fond of urban culture. Which is why the concept of urban-surfing is so super cool to us. And no where has urban surfing been taken to such [...]

Finally, another sign that the plight of Middle Eastern GLBT refugees is actually being taken seriously.  This month, ORAM — the Organization for Refuge, Asylum & Migration — has launched a special project to deal with the special issues facing Middle Eastern GLBT refugees. While the program will strive to get GLBT refugees to safe [...]

Yet another odd case has found its way through Israel’s traditional Rabbinical court system. A husband has been found liable to pay his wife the $1 million promise he made to her as part of their ketubah (marriage certificate) during their wedding ceremony. Traditionally, grooms declare they will pay their brides a set (often symbolic/nominal) [...]

News reports out of India today suggest that the traditional country may repeal its anti-Gay sex laws. The laws — which date back to British rule — make sex between two consenting same-sex adults punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Now a trio of key ministers are to meet to discuss revamping the [...]

Israel has taken one more step toward joining the family of nations with the debut of its first-every frat house! Yes, a couple of dozen lucky students at The Interdisciplinary Center – a private college north of Tel Aviv — have launched a chapter of the traditionally-Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi frat. Mazal! The branch’s debut [...]

The ACLU has scored another victory in the battle for equality and immigration rights. It seems as if many Hispanic-Americans in Texas were routinely being denied passports because they were delivered via midwife — and not in a conventional hospital. The U.S. State Department had denied the nine applicants passports because their lack of formal [...]

Word is coming from media/money land that action hero Vin Diesel is emerging as an unlikely — and potentially powerful — player in the current bankruptcy drama surrounding Mortal Kombat maker Midway Games. It appears as if Midway is kinda broke — and currently up for auction. The apparent winner with a $33 million bid [...]

The next time you get annoyed by folks asking for a hand-out, remember the slightly geeky dude above! He’s Christopher Cooper-Hohn — a London-based hedge fund honcho — and despite his firm having lost more than $1 billion in the past year, the man has donated over $800 million to children’s charities. Indeed, over the [...]

The super-clean Finnish capital of Helsinki is taking urban-hygiene to creepy-yet-cool new levels with the arrival of eight new talking trash bins located throughout the city. The bins thank users for not littering in seven languages and are aimed at helping newcomers both keep Helsinki clean and learn a few words of the odd local [...]

The myth that African -Americans — especially church-going folk — are responsible for the passing of Prop. 8 and the glacial progress of the Gay-marriage debate has come under some much-needed dubunking thaks to THIS article in the American Prospect. The story focuses on Washington DC’s GLBT leadership as an example of where African Americans [...]