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Q: What do I do if I went to a naked beach and got burned?  Should I be worried about anything? A:  Ouch!  If you missed a few spots and got a little overexposure, then super skin hydration will be more key than ever.   Drink lots of water, take shorter, cooler showers to prevent further drying of the skin on the body, and look for gentle, fragrance-free skin formulas with deeply skin soothing ingredients like Squalane and Shea Butter. [1] Chris Salgardo was appointed president of Kiehl’s USA [2]in 2006. Salgardo, who started his career in the cosmetics division of Chanel, and as sales director for Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, also served as president of shu uemura and Giorgio Armani Beauty. [1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/man-beach-top.jpg [2] http://www.365gay.comwww.kiehls.com/_us/_en/men/index.aspx

Duane Hurley's Friend: Stabbing victim not a pedophile
CNN (blog)
Daniel Kovarbasich, the teen charged in his murder claims Hurley had sexually abused him. "I don't believe the allegations that were brought out. ...

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Same-sex relationships increase self-esteem, decrease homophobia in teens
PhysOrg.com
Involvement in a same-sex relationship boosted self-esteem in teen males and lowered internalized homophobia in teen females who identified as gay, ...

The Daily Show interviewed Pastor Scott Lively, the president of Defend the Family [1] about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Lively explained that gays and lesbians shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the military because they are particularly vicious. He referenced the “fact” that the Nazis used gay troops because they were particularly “savage.” “The Nazis were not only gay, the Nazis met in a gay bar,” said Lively. Watch as the Daily Show’s Jason Jones discusses the “exceptionally brutal and savage” homosexuals with Lively, and then with former Lieutenant Dan Choi. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart [2] Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Gay Reichs [3] www.thedailyshow.com [4] Daily Show Full Episodes [5] Political Humor [6] Tea Party [7] Keeping track of all of these savages is hard work for Lively, who said, “I would have loved to just been hanging out on the beach some place but instead I got stuck with dealing with homosexual Nazis.” [1] http://www.defendthefamily.com/ [2] http://www.thedailyshow.com [3] http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-28-2010/gay-reichs [4] http://www.thedailyshow.com/ [5] http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/ [6] http://www.indecisionforever.com/ [7] http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/Tea+Party

The front and center seat in the White House press room is up for grabs. Journalist Helen Thomas has covered the White House since Eisenhower’s last years. She was the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, and President Obama called her “an institution [1]” in Washington. [2] Thomas, who turns 90 next week, announced her retirement on June 7 after she made remarks [3] calling for Jews to “go home” and “get the hell out of Palestine.” She later apologized for her statements. Thomas’s retirement opened the front and center seat in the press room, and Fox, NPR and Bloomberg News are all vying for the seat. The White House Correspondents’ Association [4] is expected to decide on the matter on August 2 [5]. Representatives from the three networks wrote [6] to the Correspondents’ Association explaining why their stations should get the seat. Fox News Washington Managing Editor Bill Sammon wrote [7], "Now that Helen has retired, I'm hopeful the WHCA will make good on those assurances and approve Fox's long-expected move to that seat. All five TV networks —  ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FNC — now support this move. Even Helen herself is on record saying the seat should go to Fox." David Sweeney, NPR [8]’s managing editor, emphasized the station’s vast audience and dedicated journalism. “Since the 1970s, NPR has had a full-time White House correspondent… Over the past decade, NPR has traveled with the president on every foreign trip and the great preponderance of domestic trips. Even in these difficult economic times, as many other news organizations are forced to cut back, NPR routinely represents the radio pool on trips other news organizations cannot take.” Bloomberg News’ executive editor Albert Hunt wrote that the decision should not be made based on “seniority, ideology, or tradition [9]” but on merit. He sited Bloomberg News as “the fastest growing news organization in the world” and emphasized the diversity of issues the network has covered. In Hunt’s letter, he directly countered Fox’s claims [10] to the seat. “Among the earlier supporters they claim is Helen Thomas. Yet only a week ago a top Fox News anchorman, in a broadcast interview, declared it would be “poetic justice” to give Helen’s seat to Fox as she was left-leaning, and presumably Fox the opposite.” Many liberals oppose the seat going to Fox, accusing the network of intense bias and racism. The seat, they feel, would legitimize the station. Liberal activist group CREDO Action [11] is calling on members to encourage the White House Correspondents’ Association to keep Fox out of the premiere seat. In a mass email, CREDO wrote, “It's bad enough that we have to fight the constant smear campaigns and appeals to racial paranoia from FOX and the right-wing media. We can't let them have the best seat in the White House press briefing room and the legitimacy that it confers.” The group said that it already has 230,000 signatures against Fox getting the seat. [1] http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/101923-obama-calls-thomas-comments-offensive-but-praises-career [2] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/news-white-house-helen-thomas_Press_Briefing_Room_top.jpg [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQcQdWBqt14 [4] http://www.whca.net/ [5] http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100719/pl_yblog_upshot/npr-now-vying-for-front-row-white-house-seat [6] http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100616/bs_ynews/ynews_bs2653 [7] http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/0/91/091c5f78b6ead03e21a0a70b524eec66.jpeg [8] http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/c/2c/c2c5dca583680ece5e236fd7caa60305.png [9] http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/f/a4/fa43de4f7af5c0abaf19487e6f1b7126.jpeg [10] http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/d/36/d366a7f04fbefcb3129e2f2b17217d87.jpeg [11] http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/fox_or_npr/?r=5836&id=10287-2470600-zn.Rj1x

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VIDEO: NOM supporter claims gay men don't want monogamous relationships
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
“What do you say when activists compare [gay marriage] to the African American civil rights movement?” asked Darryl. “That's a hard question to answer, ...
2 sides square off in St. Cloud over gay marriageSt. Cloud Times
NOM's Growing DesperationHuffington Post (blog)
COMMENTARY WITH VIDEO: The sorry lies spread by NOMSan Diego Gay & Lesbian News
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Labour leadership frontrunner David Miliband has changed his mind on the issue of equal marriage rights. During an interview with PinkNews.co.uk earlier this month, he said he thought of civil partnerships as being "completely equal" to marriage.

Two thousand people marched in Jerusalem Pride's parade yesterday despite anti-gay protests. The march was described by onlookers as "subdued", as it lacked the usual colour, noise and vibrant costumes associated with Pride.

Kansas City Star
'Kids' explores family problems with intelligence, humor
Danbury News Times
The trouble the family runs into doesn't really have anything to do with the hot-button issue of gay parenting -- it starts when the 15-year-old son, ...
Movie review: Give a cheer for 'The Kids Are All Right'Asheville Citizen-Times
The Kids Are All Right (Review)Cincinnati CityBeat
Review: 'Kids Are All Right'Omaha World-Herald

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“Remind me, dear,” I said to my partner Mark on the way to the airport, “what I am absolutely, positively not doing again next year?” “You are not doing Camp next year,” he dutifully replied. We had repeated this dialogue many times in the weeks leading up to Campus Pride’s annual Leadership Camp, a week of intense workshops and other activities for LGBTQ and allied college students, which was held this year at Vanderbilt University July 20-25. This was my second year volunteering as a faculty member, and oddly enough, my second year making a pact with Mark to bar me from returning. My reluctance stemmed not from any doubts about the program’s value. Quite the contrary, Camp is one of the most worthwhile experiences I have ever had the privilege of joining. However… However, I crave my so-called “free time” in the summer for research and personal projects. It’s the only time when I can have the kind of uninterrupted schedule needed for serious writing. Moreover, I didn’t relish the thought of a week in the Nashville heat in late July, eating college cafeteria food and sleeping on a vinyl mattress in a humid dorm room. Sleeping, that is, in the rare moments when we were actually permitted rest. Our Camp schedule stretched from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day, with sessions on various aspects of LGBTQA leadership and development. At the end of each day we held faculty meetings to “process” what had occurred. Processing has its place, but after a grueling day I’d personally rather chew on tin foil than sit in a circle and share how I’m feeling. (“I’m feeling like someone who’d prefer to be sleeping right now, thanks for asking.”) [1] So what did I learn at Camp this year? I learned that there’s a brilliant group of young leaders poised to do amazing things. Indeed, they are already doing amazing things, making progress on their campuses and in their communities, often against powerful odds. I learned that neat boxes into which we place ourselves and others often do a poor job of capturing reality. I learned about privilege, a subject that I—like most privileged people—tend to avoid. I hope I learned greater sensitivity to those at the margins of our (already marginalized) community: the gender variant, the differently abled, the economically disadvantaged. I learned that there’s a time for action, and then there’s also a time for just being in the moment—to reflect, to “process,” to listen and learn. There’s a time to work within existing structures, and a time for revolution. I learned what the “srat squat” is. And that hardly anybody looks good in bright orange. I learned that insight sometimes happens in the strangest places—as it did for a friend of mine who was almost moved to tears by a drag performance in the talent show on the last night of Camp. “I had forgotten,” he told me, “about the simple value of joy.” I learned—yet again—that despite talk of a “post-gay” generation, young people still struggle to form their identities and to express those identities with confidence and integrity. They need our encouragement and support. And we need theirs, too. Truth be told, one of the things I find unsettling about Camp is that it forces me to confront my own insecurities. As the “Gay Moralist,” speaking and writing and debating about gay issues, I’ve developed a pretty hard shell. One needs it in this line of work. But one also needs to strip that shell off every once in a while and make oneself vulnerable. As we often said at Camp, disequilibrium is the price of growth. I experienced both disequilibrium and growth in my week with the campers. I learned from the speakers—including Robyn Ochs, who taught us about the varieties of sexual orientation and expression; Brian Sims, whose coming-out story as a gay all-American college football player spotlighted the better side of human nature; and transgender activist Mara Keisling, who urged us to put our voices into action and have fun in the process. But mostly I learned from the youth. Their integrity inspires me. I’m not a sentimental person, and I’m certainly not given to hyperbole. But when students describe Camp as “the best five days of my life thus far,” as so many of them did afterward, I get it. And I just might have to return. For more about Campus Pride’s work, visit http://www.campuspride.org [2]. To learn more about Camp and see photos, go to the Campus Pride blog at www.CampusPrideBlog.org [3]. John Corvino, Ph.D. is an author, speaker, and philosophy professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. His column “The Gay Moralist” appears Fridays on 365gay.com. For more about John Corvino, or to see clips from his “What’s Morally Wrong with Homosexuality?” DVD, visit www.johncorvino.com [4]. [1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/corvino-gay-camp-top.jpg [2] http://www.campuspride.org/ [3] http://www.campusprideblog.org/ [4] http://www.johncorvino.com

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Anti-Gay Activists Attack Justin Bieber
Lez Get Real
WBC also protested the graduation of teen Constance McMillen, who was excluded from her Prom because she was a lesbian. Most recently, the group protested ...
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An Northern Ireland-born trans woman is fighting to get refugee status in Canada because she says she could be at risk of attack if returned to her native country.

Kansas City Star
Should Gays and Lesbians Boycott Target?
Huffington Post (blog)
It was so well organized that civil rights activists were able to cripple the Montgomery public transportation system. Will a gay and lesbian boycott on ...
Mom's One Person Protest of TargetHuffington Post (blog)
Bedfellows: HRC, Target, Best Buy and Tom EmmerThe Awl
Bullseye is on Target after campaign contributionMinneapolis Star Tribune
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Roseanne actress Sara Gilbert has announced she is a lesbian. The star, who played Darlene Conner-Healy in the 1990s, was not exactly in the closet, as she has two children with TV producer Allison Adler.

Bent, at the intimate Tabard Theatre in Parsons Green, west London, tells the story of a young gay couple sent to a concentration camp after witnessing the murder of a German SA officer.

Ellen DeGeneres has announced she is leaving American Idol after being a judge for just one season. The lesbian presenter said the show was "not the right fit" for her, despite signing a five-year contract.

Anne Rice, the author of Interview with a Vampire, has "quit" Christianity over the faith's "hostile" attitudes to gay rights, women and contraception. She converted to Catholicism 12 years ago but announced on her Facebook yesterday that although she remained "committed to Christ", she no longer wanted to be part of the...

[1] Senate majority leader Harry Reid [2]is getting some heat to schedule a firm date for a Don't Ask, Don't Tell vote. “We are asking of the majority leader the same thing that we believe Senator [Carl] Levin is asking, and that is to schedule the defense authorization bill shortly after the August recess,” said Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. “We would like him to make that announcement before the Senate leaves town at the end of next week.” A Reid spokesperson says there will be a vote in September, but refused to give any certain dates. Repeal is attached to the defense authorization. In late May the House of Representatives [3] voted on the bill and it passed 234 to 194. Ahh, but don't get too excited if the Senate does get to this come September. If passed, the bill will go to conference to tweak any differences between the chambers. Then the Senate and House will vote again on what was hammered out in conference. Finally it lands on the president's desk for his signature. You old heads know all of this  because of School House Rock [4]. One big stumbling block, not related to repeal, is a new engine for the F-35 Joint Striker Fighter. The White House has warned any bill with funds for that will be vetoed. The  House version funded the engine. You need to keep annoying your elected reps until this thing is done. [1] http://www.365gay.com/wp-content/uploads/flag-2-top.jpg [2] http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/07/29/Advocates_Push_Reid_On_DADT_Vote/ [3] http://www.365gay.com/blog/052810-the-first-nail-in-dadts-demise/ [4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEJL2Uuv-oQ

USA Today
Novelist Anne Rice ditches Christianity for Christ
USA Today
I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. ...

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Stephen Green, the director of anti-gay lobby group Christian Voice, will air his homophobic views in a short Channel 4 programme on Monday.