http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bisexual/ en-us Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:49:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1709651/posts Malcolm X was born 80 years ago today, on 19 May 1925. But amid the commemorations, controversy is brewing. Some black activists are enraged by suggestions that their hero might have been gay - or at least bisexual. The controversy has been stirring since the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America (Station Hill, New York) in 1991. Based on interviews with Malcolm's closest boyhood and adult friends, Perry suggests that the US black nationalist leader was not as robustly heterosexual as his Nation of Islam (NoI) colleagues have always insisted.... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1709651/posts#comment Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410869/posts Here’s something for you ponder, as more and more comes out about Tiger Woods, including, at last report, the possibility that one of his many lovers has photographs of him naked that she’s selling to Playgirl (move over Levi Johnston, and his teensy weiner!). Apparently, “everyone” knew about Tiger Woods’ affairs and his behavior off the course, but the MSM narrative was that Woods “is a hero” and the Woods brand was something the MSM protected at all costs — refusing to write negative stories about him, or tell the truth about any of his shennanigans. “Everyone” knew Woods was... Hillbuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410869/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361390/posts If Barack Obama had campaigned on what he has actually done in his first 300 days in office, would he have been elected? That's the question so many are asking today. If Obama had told us he would appoint 34 czars, reporting only to himself and not vetted or confirmed in the constitutional way, building a powerful unitary executive branch of government, would he have been elected? What if he had told us that his green jobs czar had been a Communist, that the science czar wrote in a college textbook that compulsory "green abortions" are an acceptable way to... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361390/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333096/posts Explosive news coming out of the just released deposition of former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. According to the released transcripts, Edmonds testified as follows: "[T]his Congresswoman's married with children, grown children, but she is bisexual. ... So they have sent Turkish female agents, and that Turkish female agents work for Turkish government, and have sexual relationship with this Congresswoman in her townhouse ... and the entire episodes of their sexual conduct was being filmed because the entire house, this Congressional woman's house was bugged... EconomicPolicyJournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333096/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 00:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262700/posts Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 1, 2009 LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH, 2009 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Forty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that had become all too common for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Out of this resistance, the LGBT rights movement in America was born. During LGBT Pride... WHITEHOUSE.GOV - "BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2262700/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168205/posts Metro Weekly: Washington, DC's gay and lesbian magazine Inauguration Celebration GLBT Groups to hold inaugural ball at Mayflower Hotel by Yusef Najafi email A coalition of GLBT-advocacy organizations, including the nation's largest, the Human Rights Campaign, have announced plans to celebrate Inauguration Day 2009 with a party, ''Out For Equality: The LGBT community commemoration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Inauguration,'' at D.C.'s Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. ''This is the dawn of a new political era of hope and engagement in the life of this country,'' said Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Fund,... metro weekly dot com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168205/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164381/posts Chlamydia infections now top 1.1 million, more than ever recorded. Syphilis cases are up for the 7th year in a row. And gonorrhea is not declining as hoped. Rates of the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia are climbing in the U.S., and rates of syphilis -- once on the verge of elimination -- rose for the seventh consecutive year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in its annual report on STDs. Gonorrhea rates did not increase, but they ceased falling a few years ago, frustrating goals set by public health leaders. Chlamydia infections in the United States now... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164381/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts Hayward Parents Upset Over Anti-Gay Slur Pledge HAYWARD (AP) ― A Bay Area elementary school got caught in the crossfire of a ballot initiative seeking to outlaw same-sex marriage in California on Tuesday after a kindergarten teacher asked her pupils to sign pledge cards promising not to use anti-gay slurs. ProtectMarriage.com, the coalition of social and religious conservative groups sponsoring Proposition 8, offered the episode at Faith Ringgold Elementary School in Hayward as proof for its claim that the measure is needed to prevent public schools from discussing gay unions with students. "Since the words 'between a man and a... AP via KPIX - CBS5 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118563/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2077817/posts For those who are or claim to be unfamiliar with the Larry Sinclair story, let me summarize it as briefly as possible. Larry Sinclair, who now lives in Duluth, Minnesota, claims to have spent parts of the evenings of Nov. 6 and Nov. 7, 1999 with Senator Obama in Chicago. At least as far back as 1986 Sinclair has been in trouble with the law, arrested for a variety of things (fraud seemingly at the top of the list), and had been up to that time in and out of prison. He is an openly gay man, and he seems... Social Observations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2077817/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:41:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046873/posts Larry Hunter claims he is a "lifelong conservative." Yet, in his recent New York Daily News article, he also says he is voting for Barack Obama for president. The two simply cannot coexist. One has to be obliterated in favor of the other. And, regardless of the facile reasoning Hunter gives for his apostasy, this article does nothing to support any supposed conservative cause. It does, however, give the media something to crow about. Larry Hunter begins by assuring us of his conservative credentials. A supply sider from the Reagan White House, Hunter had a 5-year-long stint as chief economist... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046873/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:43:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046715/posts I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama. When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in? The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046715/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:45:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044151/posts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said in interview excerpts released Friday that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should be executed, if he is ever captured alive. The Illinois Senator told CNN that the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks in 2001 should face the full weight of US and global justice. "I am not a cheerleader for the death penalty," Obama said. "I think it has to be reserved for only the most heinous crimes, but I certainly think plotting and engineering the death of 3,000 Americans justifies such an approach." "I think this is a big hypothetical, though... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044151/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:46:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030942/posts WASHINGTON, June 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain failed in reaching an agreement on Friday to hold ten "town hall"-style meetings where they are supposed to answer questions directly from a small audiences. According to McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis, Obama's team only agreed to participate one town hall meeting before the Democratic national convention in late August. The Arizona Senator suggested shortly after Obama clinched nomination last week to hold 10 joint town hall meetings with Obama at locations that both teams agree to, starting with the one in... Xinhua News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030942/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:46:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028462/posts A crack team of cybernauts will form a rapid response internet “war room” to track and respond aggressively to online rumours that Barack Obama is unpatriotic and a Muslim. As he gears up for his general election fight against John McCain, Mr Obama and his chief advisers are aware of the danger of such rumours, amid polling data showing that a significant number of Americans believe he is a Muslim or are suspicious about his background. Such doubts were a factor in his poor showing with white, blue-collar voters during his primary battle with Hillary Clinton. In recent days Mr... Times of London http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028462/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027727/posts How black is too black? Millions of African-Americans celebrated Barack Obama’s historic victory, seeing in it a reflection — sudden and shocking — of their own expanded horizons. But whether Mr. Obama captures the White House in November will depend on how he is seen by white Americans. Indeed, some people argue that one of the reasons Mr. Obama was able to defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was that a large number of white voters saw him as “postracial.” In other words, Mr. Obama was black, but not too black. But where is the line? Does it change over time?... nyslimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027727/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 00:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025509/posts CHRIS MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you Roger, thank you. What a night! I'm getting giggles! It's so exciting here -- Chuck Todd, Andrea Mitchell -- because there's news in the air. News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025509/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 22:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024228/posts Hell hath no fury like a feminist scorned. Youtube via Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024228/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023606/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H11x6bMu4Y youtube.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023606/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 17:25:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023164/posts Barack Obama’s favorability ratings among white women have significantly depreciated in recent months, particularly among Democrats and independents, posing an immediate obstacle for the likely Democratic nominee as he moves to shore up his party’s base. According to a new report by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, half of white women now have a negative perception of Obama. Forty-nine percent of white women view Obama unfavorably, while only 43 percent hold a favorable opinion. In February, 36 percent of these women viewed Obama unfavorably while 56 percent had a positive perception of the likely Democratic... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023164/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 20:29:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022935/posts Obama Praised Wright, Criticized Traditional Black Churches on Homosexuality By Penny Starr CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer May 29, 2008 (CNSNews.com) - In an Apr. 10 interview with The Advocate magazine, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said "homophobic" messages are coming from the pulpits of black churches because blacks attend church more regularly than other people and interpret the Bible more traditionally. In the same interview, Obama praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and long-time spiritual adviser, for being on the right side of the homosexual debate. "There's plenty of homophobia to go around, but you have a unique... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022935/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 13:48:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020812/posts Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama owns a piece of T.J. Wells’ heart. And of his leg. You may have heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but your political convictions on your calf? That’s what Wells, a culinary arts student-to-be at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, has been doing since May 12, after the Illinois senator made a lasting impression on him during a May 4 speech at Headwaters Park. On May 12, Wells went out and got a full-color portrait of Obama tattooed on the back of his right leg – a place that was chosen, he... journalgazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2020812/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 19:54:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019886/posts The Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1996, protects states from having to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states. Ordinarily, under the "Full Faith and Credit Clause" of the Constitution, states are required to recognize "the public Acts, Records and judicial Proceedings of every other State." "Obama also believes we need to fully repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally recognized unions,"... Cybercast News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019886/posts#comment Thu, 22 May 2008 21:19:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018047/posts LOS ANGELES — Have we gone from the "Year of the Woman" to the "Year of the Sweetie"? So it appears. It's not the "sweetie" part that gets me, and I suspect a lot of other women. It's the concern that, not to sound trite, some of the guys out there, maybe including the probable Democratic nominee for President, just don't "get it." If you can remember that far back, this was supposed to be another one of those "Year of the Woman" elections, the first time a woman was entering the race as the frontrunner for her party's nomination,... FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018047/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 13:39:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016160/posts Obama calls a Michigan reporter "sweetie" when asked what he would do for the workers at the auto plant he was visiting... odd. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juy9NwI8_i0 Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016160/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 03:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014512/posts Will Barack Obama's presidential candidacy serve his state and city by finally drawing national attention to the sleazy and corrupt politics of Illinois and Chicago? It is all about context. The presumptive Democratic presidential candidate's politics were born in Chicago. Yet he is presented to the nation as not truly being of this place, as if he floats just above the political corruption here, uninfected, untouched by the stain of it or by any sin of commission or omission. It is all so very mystical. Perhaps viewing Obama as a Chicago political creature would conflict with the established national media... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2014512/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 20:55:45 GMT