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Crisis!!! Stumble Upon = Massive Blip In My Campaign
I have stumbled upon this website that is fantastic, and is exactly what I am trying to accomplish minus the Social Network. I have spent months searching the web making sure that this kind of website doesn’t exist. This was extremely hard to find, and now that I am finished the major research for my campaign, this stumble has put a slight dent in my plans and has made me nervous about my entire campaign.
Then again to think about it, this website is just situated for Scotland yougth. So maybe then my thinking shouldn’t be for the whole of the U.K. Maybe I should start at home, and just stick to Ireland.
This Information on this website is exactly what I want to give to the LGBTQ Youth. The have the Advice for all the Sexual Orientations and Have the advice for the Friends and Family too. They are right on track to what I want to achieve. Though they do not have a social network along side of the Information. They do however have parents and friends who help with giving advice to other parents that are struggling with the sexual orientation of their child. They have a series of youth groups though out scotland and have events on going thought out the year. The only campaign I can see that they have running now is one for equal marriage. I understand why they are looking at this, but this is one of the few things that I want to stay away from. I want to focus mainly on help the youth coming out and understanding their sexuality.
Im thinking there may be a possibility of contacting this group and asking for some information for my website and saking how their funding works etc. The important questions I still need to answer.
Like I said they don’t have a Social Network But they Do have a fourm but its not as popular as they would like they only have 6 members.
This is the link to The Rainbow Project Which is based over Northern Ireland, and focuses on just the health of gay men. So it may be better for me to launch my campaign throughout Ireland as there is nothing like my campaign. So Im thinking now starting at home is the way to go.
BuddyPress – Possible Help Policing My Social Network
BuddyPress was conceived in 2008 while working to add social networking features to a WordPress MU powered site. The first official stable release was in May 2009. The platform has grown and morphed considerably since then, into the dynamic, easily extensible package you see today.
Just like its parent project WordPress, BuddyPress is a completely open source endeavor. Everything from the core code, to the documentation, themes and plugin extensions are all built by the BuddyPress community. This means anyone can help the project by contributing their time and knowledge.
What can I use BuddyPress for?
BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:
- A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
- An internal communication tool for your company.
- A niche social network for your interest topic.
- A focused social network for your new product.
If you’re using BuddyPress in a unique or interesting way, be sure to let people know on the forums. We’re always interested.
BuddyPress is not “all or nothing”
BuddyPress provides a range of features that work right out of the box. However, you might decide that you only want to make use of a couple of features to start with. This is really simple using BuddyPress as you can turn off the features you don’t want with a click of a button. When you disable features, your site’s theme will auto adjust, showing only the menu items, pages and buttons for the features you have enabled.
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This site is built on WordPress and BuddyPress (we believe in the software we build!). Please consider registering and becoming part of the BuddyPress community. By doing this you’ll be able to contribute to the documentation, ask questions in the forum as well as build your BuddyPress profile so other BuddyPress developers and contributors can keep in touch with you.
Reactions to Obama’s endorsement of equal marriage begin to flow
Politicians and gay rights activists have begun to react to President Obama’s announcement today that he supports equal marriage for same-sex couples.
Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement: “His presidency has shown that our nation can move beyond its shameful history of discrimination and injustice. In him, millions of young Americans have seen that their futures will not be limited by what makes them different. In supporting marriage equality, President Obama extends that message of hope to a generation of young lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, helping them understand that they too can be who they are and flourish as part of the American community.”
The presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential elections, Mitt Romney, said during his campaign: “I have had the same view I’ve had since, well, since running for office … I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.,” though he added that he realised this was a “very tender and sensitive topic.”
Rick Santorum, who bowed out of the presidential race earlier in the year, released a statement on his website: “Obama has consistently fought against protecting the institution of marriage from radical social engineering.”
The gay advocacy group, Log Cabin Republicans, was harsher in its judgement: “Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.”
Meanwhile, the White House has been at pains to emphasise that this is a personal position and not a political position, which some commentators have said does not go far enough.
Here, in the UK, Out4marriage, a new UK based global campaign for equal marriage said: “We are pleased to see that President Obama has finally given his personal support to the right of gay couples to marry with the same rights as a heterosexual couple.
We note, that President Obama is backing equal marriage on a personal basis and is not pledging to introduce legislation to give all couples the right to marry. This stands in contrast to the equal marriage enjoyed by gay couples in Canada, Belgium, Norway, Argentina, The Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and South Africa.
We hope that President Obama’s support might cause David Cameron to speed up the enactment of his pledge to introduce equal marriage in England and Wales. Unlike in the United States, equal marriage is supported across the political spectrum as represented by the multi-party support we have enjoyed in this our first day of campaigning.
It is a particular delight that on a day where we have started to ask the public to say that ‘love is the same, straight or gay’ and ‘come Out4Marriage’, the most powerful man in the world has done exactly that.”
Breaking News: President Obama confirms support for equal marriage
Barack Obama, the president of the United States, has announced in an interview with ABC News that he thinks gay couples should have the same legal right to marry as heterosexual couples.
In an interview with Robin Roberts, he said that his views have ‘evolved’ over the past few years, based on conversations with staff members, gay and lesbian service members, and people in his own family.
According to ABC News, Mr Obama said: ”I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
He added that this was a personal opinion, but he would still leave the decision to individual states. “It’s interesting, some of this is also generational,” he said. “You know when I go to college campuses, sometimes I talk to college Republicans who think that I have terrible policies on the economy, on foreign policy, but are very clear that when it comes to same sex equality or, you know, sexual orientation that they believe in equality. They are much more comfortable with it.
“You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.”
Mr Obama had faced mounting pressure to state his own position on the issue, which he had previously described as ‘evolving,’ as both his vice president, Joe Biden, and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, came out in support of equal marriage over the weekend.
Previously, Mr Obama had cited his Christian faith to oppose gender-neutral marriage, though until today, he has supported civil unions. This represents a marked shift in his opinions, coming especially just a day after the North Carolina referendum which outlawed all same-sex unions. He had also faced criticism from gay rights activists over his refusal to sign an executive order that would ban discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity in federal employment.
Mr Romney, his opponent, used his campaign today to emphasise his opposition to marriage equality.
Nikolai Alekseev first to be convicted of ‘gay propaganda’ in St Petersburg
Gay rights campaigner Nikolai Alekseev has become the first man to be convicted under St Petersburg’s recent ‘gay propaganda’ laws.
Mr Alekseev was said to have been fined 5,000 roubles, just over £100, by a court in Russia’s second city for the promotion of homosexuality among minors, AP reports.
The law was approved in February; this is the first time a citizen has been successfully prosecuted under it.
Mr Alekseev had held up a sign reading “Homosexuality is not a perversion” outside the Smolny Institute in April in public view.
A former journalist, Mr Alekseev turned his attention to full-time gay rights campaigning in 2005, setting up the gay rights advocacy group GayRussia.ru.
He has appeared regularly on Russian television and has been honoured for his work by LGBT organisations worldwide.
He has been arrested on numerous occasions for holding illegal Pride marches and gay rights demonstrations and launched lawsuits against Moscow authorities for banning the events and had announced his intention to retire last year.
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