Around the Commonwealth

EKU Public Forum

Feb 23rd, 2011 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

The Alphabet Center, the new gay-straight alliance at Eastern Kentucky University will post a public forum of fairness and equality in Kentucky tomorrow from 6 pm – 9 pm.



Has support for gay and lesbian people in Kentucky grown?

Feb 10th, 2011 | By Tony Begley, Contributor and Literary Editor | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Despite a survey released by Kentucky Fairness Alliance, Lexington Fairness, Louisville Fairness Campaign, and the ACLU of Kentucky that support for gay and lesbian causes have grown in Kentucky, Kentucky Equality Federation disagrees because nothing has changed.



John T. Kemper, III. and supporters attack the gay and lesbian community

Nov 18th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

If Republicans fail to hold-on to their new gay voters, the additional seats they pictured up in the Kentucky House of Representatives and control of the U.S. House of Representatives could be short lived, and if Kemper’s attitude is any indication, it will be.



Louisville break-ins gay motivated?

Oct 31st, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

On October 20th Louisville Fairness Campaign was quick to jump the gun and call two Louisville break-ins “hate crimes,” or at a minimum as a result of the people’s sexual orientation. On October 26th however, Louisville Metro Police arrested a 15-year-old boy on charges stemming from an October 20th break-in at his grandfather’s home in Crestwood.



Lexington-Herald Leader disgraces itself in endorsing Stan Lee

Oct 15th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

By endorsing Lee, the Lexington-Herald Leader is either desperate to finally endorse a Republican, or homophobic themselves. The Lexington-Herald Leader article endorsing Stan Lee itself gives people ample reason to vote for Vanderpool.



New Kentucky and National AIDS crisis; one in 5 gay men are infected

Sep 25th, 2010 | By Guest User 3 | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

One in five gay men in the United States has HIV, and almost half of those who carry the virus are unaware that they are infected, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. 2005 – 2008′s numbers showed AIDS once again spiraling out of control with white homosexual males living in Lexington and Louisville being the primary cases in the commonwealth.



Anti-gay groups says school bullying laws are actually pro-gay

Aug 31st, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

Focus on the Family has a message for gay rights activists: stay off the playground. Candi Cushman, an education analyst for the James Dobson-founded group, told The Denver Post this weekend that gay rights advocates have inserted their agenda into anti-bullying efforts at the expense of “Christian values.”



Whitley County Judge Executive passes resolution against gay marriage

Aug 20th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News, Lead Story

Whitley County Judge-Executive Pat White Jr. is hoping to spark a national movement in order to pass and ratify an amendment to the United States Constitution establishing marriage as only being recognized as a union between a man and a woman in the United States of America.



Juvenile acquitted in alleged attack on gay Jackson teen; trial for the adults scheduled for Thursday

Aug 18th, 2010 | By News Tips: tips@unitedwestandky.com | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that District Judge Henria Bailey-Lewis acquitted the juvenile at her trial on Monday. The girl’s name has not been released because she was 17 in April, when the alleged crime occurred. Her trial was closed, but her attorney, Sharon K. Allen Gay, said she received permission to release information about the verdict. The teen and two 18-year-old friends, Corinne Schwab and Ashley Sams, were charged in April with attempted murder and kidnapping in a case involving Cheyenne Williams. The trial for Schwab and Sams, is scheduled for Thursday.



Kentucky Senate President Williams: Republican victories in two Kentucky congressional races

Aug 8th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Around the Commonwealth, Kentucky Guardian News

WFPL News reports that Kentucky Senate President David Williams was busy during the weekend, making speeches and taking about Republicans taking additional seats in the Kentucky Senate. No pro-LGBTI legislation has made it through the Republican controlled Senate.



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