Pride 2010 to include youth section

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It’s one of those awkward tensions about the High Holy Days of June: with so much of the traditional pride festivities centered around getting drunk and picking up people at bars, beer gardens, clubs, etc, it’s generally harder for youth to participate in Pride the way the rest of us over-21-year-olds can. Continue Reading

LGBT Minnesotans rally against Prop. 8 leaders at University of St. Thomas

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Maggie Gallagher, leader of the National Organization for Marriage, a leading mind behind California’s Proposition 8, and top contender for Most Villified Opponent of LGBT Equality was in St Paul on Saturday morning, but you’d hardly realize it reading the newspaper. Or by following the DFL gubenatorial candidates courting the LGBT vote. Of the 10 DFLers seeking their party’s endorsement for the November race, only State Senator John Marty, a long-time ally of the Minnesota LGBT community, turned up at a rally held near the University of St Thomas auditorium where Gallagher was speaking. 
“Minnesotans are fair-minded people that understand that all people should be equally under the law,” Marty said in a press statement. “It is because of my faith, not in spite of it, that I think we should promote marriage and work to strengthen families of same-sex couples just as we do opposite-sex couples. ”
About 300 people turned out along with Senator Marty and State Rep. Maria Rudd for coffee, sticky buns, and an early Saturday morning protest against Gallagher, who was speaking at the invitation of the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, and against the University of St Thomas’ decision to allow Gallagher to speak on its campus. Continue Reading