Date: July 3rd 2009

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These are the stories in the July 3, 2009 issue.

Cleveland Pride at 21, & Stonewall at 40
Cleveland--Forty years, God! began the Rev. Don King, in the invocation opening the Cleveland Pride festival.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703091.htm

Weekend-long Columbus Pride is the largest ever
Columbus--A change of venue and a different weekend for a trademark event would seem great hardships for most organizations. For Stonewall Columbus, it simply presented the opportunity to make Columbus Pride bigger and better than ever.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703092.htm

Equality bill hits a snag
Houses second Democrat wants vote delayed for her statewide run
Columbus--A state equality bill that was expected to get a vote this summer could be delayed for over a year if the Ohio Houses second-highest Democrat gets her way.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703093.htm

Ohio schools are unsafe for LGBT kids, report says
Ohio schools were not a safe place for many LGBT secondary students, says a research brief released by the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network on June 17.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703094.htm

ENDA is back
Federal anti-bias measure has a chance to pass this time
Washington, D.C.--Two Ohio lawmakers joined their gay and lesbian colleagues Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jared Polis of Colorado bringing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act back to the House of Representatives.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703095.htm

Delaware is 21st state to pass lesbian-gay bias law
Dover, Delaware--State lawmakers sent a sexual orientation nondiscrimination bill to the governor on June 25, passing it through both houses of the legislature in only an hour.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/stories09/july/0703096.htm

Evenings Out
Touring all those forbidden places
Change comes fast both in and out of Tim Millers new piece
Cleveland--Hailed for their humor and passion, Tim Miller's performances have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world.
Lay of the Land is Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed performance look at the State of the Queer Union. This newest of his solo pieces takes on a fierce and funny examination of citizenship, the marriage equality battles and who eats and who gets eaten. Framed by a No on Prop. 8 protest in downtown Los Angeles, Miller makes pit stops as Abraham and his gay son Isaac are spread out on a 1970s suburban Formica kitchen, the county courthouse explodes in pink jury summons that call queer identity to judgment, and a vision of a Heimlich maneuver that helps America get that homophobia that is choking her out of her throat.
http://gaypeopleschronicle.com/evenings_out/evenings_out.htm

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