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Olivia to open LGBT senior resorts

In another great story from Planet Out, Larry Buhl is reporting that Olivia, a pioneer in LGBT cruses, is moving into the resort and retirement community business for LGBT seniors.

According to Amy Errett, CEO of Olivia, the move is a natural extension of their business.
"We create safe, exclusive trips with amenities, and now we want to create resort living with amenities for active seniors who want to be in a community," she told the PlanetOut Network. "We haven't marketed this, but already our demand is enormous."

-Josh Wilkins

Your gay, we don't have anyone else, now go fight!

Christopher Curtis @ PlanetOut Network is reporting that the military running out of troops is now letting (or forcing) openly gay and lesbian troops serve in the armed forces.

A military spokesperson has reportedly admitted that openly gay and lesbian troops are being sent into combat in Iraq, despite the military's "don't ask, don't tell" ban on homosexual soldiers.

Kim Waldron, of the U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort McPherson, told the Washington Blade newspaper: "The bottom line is some people are using sexual orientation to avoid deployment. So in this case, with the Reserve and Guard forces, if a soldier 'tells,' they still have to go to war and the homosexual issue is postponed until they return to the U.S. and the unit is demobilized."

I can smell the hypocrisy all the way from Iraq! I spotted this story at Yahoo! News Top stories. If anyone happens to see it on any major news networks or websites please let me know. I am really interested to see when and how the major networks cover this important event.
-Josh Wilkins

Baylor University crushes gay author's Starbucks musing

The conservative Baptists Baylor University forced campus Starbucks to stop using a cup that featured a quote from gay author Armistead Maupin. The quote which is part of Starbucks "The Way I See It" musings reads as follows:

"My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short."

Concerned Women for America, a national Christian women's organization, says Starbucks, which is based in Seattle, is promoting a homosexual agenda with the cup.

Cade Hammond, president of the board of directors for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Central Texas, said he sees pulling the cups as unnecessarily restrictive.

Check this story out at The Seattle Times