Queer News Roundup

I’m about to go on vacation, so instead of a big post on an issue currently facing the Queer community, I have decided to do a Queer News Roundup instead! Enjoy!

• Army Lieutenant Dan Choi has been officially discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. He vows to continue fighting this legislation. If you’ll remember, Choi became famous after coming out on Rachel Maddow’s show last year.
• Seven gay couples in Montana have banded together to sue the state, claiming the state is violating the Montana constitution by denying rights to those in a committed relationship. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle published a lovely article about two of those couples.
• And in more news about suing states, six couples from Hawaii are suing that state, seeking equal rights under the law. This, following Governor Lingle’s decision to overturn the domestic partnership legislation that would have granted similar rights and responsibilities of marriage to gay couples.
• Popular sketch comedy troupe, Second City, posted a video on Youtube mocking a hiker’s enthusiastic Yosemite video “Double Rainbow.” Youtube requested that Second City censor the video, because it contained two women kissing.
• Janis Fullilove, whose name is perhaps painfully applicable to her situation, has received death threats, and even a dead cat on her lawn, purportedly in response to her support of the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance in Memphis, Tennessee.
• The Episcopal Church is working on a liturgical rite for gay couples.
• One woman has made her feelings known to Target, after the formerly queer-positive corporation donated $150,000 to anti-gay politician Tom Emmer’s Minnesota gubernatorial campaign.
  
• After Argentina legalized same-sex marriage last week, the first gay couples have wed in that country.