It is my pleasure to announce that we are moving up in the world. Beginning Tuesday, August 5, and for the entire month of August, Pink Tuesday will happen at Tommy’s. Click the link; watch the video.

This is a class act, Queers. Let’s be sure we make ourselves proud!

130 N. Encina Street, Visalia, 93291

Every Tuesday, 6pm - 9pm.

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Well dear ones, I have a new topic for the Queer pages, and I hope I can keep on top of everything.

Life gets a bit hectic sometimes, so if I get behind remind me that I need to blog.

As for my new topic, it is called Ask Anastayzia Beaverhousen!  A spoof of that wonderful show about gays and their hags that used to be on the national television station who’s logo happens to be a pea-cock.  Oh dear look at me I am saying all sorts of nasty phrases on here and I haven’t even gotten my first ask question yet.

Well, I will always make light of life first when responding to your questions, then I will be more serious for you.  If you ever have a question for me email me at ask-anastayzia-b@sbcglobal.net

I want people to be able to look at life with a little more fun and then have to face the problem seriously.

So until my next message lovelies, 

Hey Poodle! this may have been the greatest day of my life. I love errands. They’re like mini-adventures for undesirables.

Don’t be an undesirable. Drink, eat, and be a Mary.

Love always,

Anastayzia Beaverhousen

HOUSTON — There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.

“We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said.

Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren’t talking about just suppressing HIV – they’re talking about destroying it permanently by arming the immune system with a new weapon lab tests have shown to be effective.

Read more.

Dear fellow Queers:

It is deffinately happening in California.  I got the email below in my inbox today and am so extatic. There is a major business in California that agrees with us.  THey are more than happy and ready to see the laws change and continue to allow gays and lebians all over California become legally married.

So if you are a PG&E customer, tell them thank you when you send in your payment next time.

Michael

Dear Michael, We’ve got big news! Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has made a quarter million dollar contribution to the No On Prop 8 campaign to defeat the ballot measure that would single out same-sex couples and exclude them from marriage. In a news conference held Tuesday, PG&E Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Nancy McFadden also announced the corporation would become a founding member of the Equality for All Business Council in support of the No On Prop 8 campaign and called on other businesses to follow their lead in supporting fairness, freedom, and equality for all Californians. We are thrilled to partner with PG&E to ensure that the laws of our state are not used to treat people unfairly. Across California, individuals and businesses like PG&E are pledging to vote NO on Prop 8 because they know it’s wrong to single out one group of people to be treated differently. It is important that we show our thanks and support for businesses, like PG&E, when they do the right thing.  Please take a moment to call them and say thank you.  They can be reached at 1-800-743-5000. And, please, forward this to a friend. Sincerely, Dale Kelly Bankhead Campaign Manager No on Prop 8, Equality For All

From Equality California, via PFLAG:

I’d like to share some good news about Proposition 8! This week, the California Attorney General’s office announced changes to the title and summary of the proposition. Here’s what voters will read in November:

Proposition 8
ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY.
INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Changes California Constitution to eliminate right of same-sex couples to marry. Provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Fiscal Impact: Over the next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact to state and local governments.

Although the changes to the proposed amendment are subject to legal challenge, this summary accurately describes what the proposition will do. Prop. 8 would eliminate a constitutional right guaranteed to same-gender couples and would decrease revenues coming in to the state from marriages between same-gender couples.

Since this language is accurate and truthful, you can bet that the anti-marriage brigades will be in court with it no later than Wednesday.

From Advocate, via Gay.com. (Gay.com. Hmmm. Have I heard of that?)

Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Massachusetts state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill granting married same-sex couples equal Medicaid benefits, gay rights group MassEquality reported.

Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to sign the bill, which was passed by the state House on July 15.

The lawmakers’ actions defy the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bans legally wed same-sex couples from receiving federally provided benefits such as Medicaid, the “safety-net” health care program administered by the states.

Supporters say Massachusetts can circumvent federal law by using only state dollars to pay for gay couples’ benefits.

There’s more.