GetEQUAL Commits Second Act Of Civil Disobedience In Front Of White House, Texas Appeal Court Hears Attorney General Argument Regarding Gay Divorce Petition, David Bahati Banned From United Kingdom If Anti-Homosexual Bill Passed, Cole Goforth Can Now Wear Pro-Gay Clothing To School, Russian Neo-Nazis Mistake Bubble Blowers For Gays And Attack

GetEQUAL has organized another attack on the American military policy prohibiting gay men and women from serving openly, Lt. Dan Choi, Capt Jim Pietrangelo, Petty Officer Larry Whitt, Petty Officer Autumn Sandeen, Cadet Mara Boyd, and Cpl. Evelyn Thomas chaining themselves to the White House fence shortly before noon Tuesday. All six have since been arrested.

From Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday, an appeal will be heard by the state Attorney General Greg Abbot against family court Judge Tena Callahan and her decision late last fall to hear the case of two Dallas men –known only as J.B. and H.B. – to end their Massachusetts marriage, and Callahan’s argument that the Texas ban on gay marriage is in fact a violation of the United States Constitution. Abbot intends to argue that a court in Texas cannot dissolve a marriage it does not legally recognize. A voter amendment to the state constitution and the Texas Family Code prohibit either same sex marriages or civil unions.

If the David Bahati authored Anti-Homosexual Bill of 2009 passes Ugandan parliament, the MP will not be banned from travelling to the United Kingdom, civil servants in the Foreign Office, the Department for International Development and the Borders Agency planning to block Bahati’s visa. The bill proposes the death penalty in instances of “aggravated homosexuality” and its grotesque violence towards gay men and women and those with HIV has been continually condemned by countries like Britain, Canada, France, and the United States, as well as by several religious organizations.

Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union Tennessee chapter and Lambda Legal said that they have received assurances from administrators at Greenbrier High School that they will cease censorship of student tee shirts communicating a pro-gay message, prompted by the school’s decision on April 5th to send home Cole Goforth, a freshman, for wearing a tee shirt that read "I Love Lady Gay Gay", told, at the time, that he could not wear a tee shirt in support of marriage equality because it was “disruptive.” The ACLU threatened to sue the school, and said that Cole Goforth “had long been subjected to daily anti-gay harassment at school, including threats of physical violence. Goforth was not only unable to get relief from the school, he was told by school employees that he had ‘brought (harassment) on himself by coming out (as gay)’”

In St. Petersburg, Russia Sunday, a group of suspected neo-Nazis mistook a flash mob group for a gay pride group, and attacked. Five hundred participants gathered on the steps of Gorkovskaya metro station and along the surround Alexandrovsky Park around 4:00 pm and began blowing bubbles. Thirty men descended upon them, beating them and firing rubber bullets. Riot police were called, the attackers dispersed, and the police detained, according to reports, about thirty bubble blowers for five hours on suspicion they walked on the grass, a charge they all denied. Calls to the police press office have yet to be answered.