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Punish Big Donor to Anti-Marriage Amendment Signature Drive

nobody@vox.com(Richard) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:05:38 -0700

In apparent response to media inquiries, PlanetOut Inc., the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and the Human Rights Campaign acted swiftly April 22 and 23 to dissociate themselves from the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego. PlanetOut, GLAAD and Global Hyatt Corp. have partnered to offer a Pride 2008 “GLAAD Package” rate at 26 hotels nationally and to stage “Pride Rocks” parties at three hotels, in San Diego, San Francisco and Boston.

In March, Manchester told the San Diego Union-Tribune that his Roman Catholic faith drove him to donate to the anti-same-sex-marriage movement. “When they say that we cannot say that a marriage is between a man and a woman, that’s where I draw the line,” Manchester said.

The Human Rights Campaign took action against Global Hyatt on April 23, demanding that its “Best Companies for GLBT Equality 2007” logo be removed from Hyatt material referencing the San Diego hotel. “We do not condone his (Doug Manchester’s) participation in any efforts to write discrimination into the California state constitution,” the nation’s largest gay rights group said.

“We’re very concerned that the wrong impression is being made ... that there is a connection between the Manchester Grand Hyatt and San Diego Pride.”
DeHarte said Doug Manchester “basically has said ... he welcomes (gay) people to go eat and drink and stay at the hotel and at the same time he’s writing a check to fund the constitutional ban. We want the public to be aware of Manchester’s role in funding the constitutional amendment.”

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Gay event @ Petco

nobody@vox.com(Richard) — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:50:27 -0700

Enjoy an evening of Padres baseball at a discounted price in the same section as fellow Pride supporters and volunteers. San Diego Pride supporters and volunteers will be recognized for organizing the group event with a scoreboard welcome and the Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego will sing the National Anthem.

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We were met by protesters and protesters of the protest. That would be the pic I took of the one for my side. It was a big deal and this is the Sign On San Diego story, if you want to read it. Here is a quote from the story. "San Diego Pride is promoting the night as “Out in Petco Park” and the Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego will perform the national anthem before the game, which will be shown on ESPN.
San Diego Pride's response to the hubbub: It's people enjoying a game together, not a drag show."

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Gay event @ Petco

nobody@vox.com(Richard) — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:16:31 -0700

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Alaina Alexander's Gay Pride

nobody@vox.com(Richard) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:17:22 -0700

In time for worldwide gay pride celebrations, "American Idol" wannabeen Alaina Alexander has written an original song to accompany a video, "Life Interrupted," which shows the faces and names of victims of gay bashing and other hate crimes, including two teenage victims recently hanged in Iran.

The victims include heterosexuals who lost their lives to homophobia.

Here is the video, with thanks to tmz.com

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