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		<title>Courts: Gov. Can&#8217;t Be Forced to Appeal Prop. 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Sept. 11 deadline to appeal a District Judge Vaughn Walker&#8217;s ruling overturning California&#8217;s Proposition 8 approaches, the chances that the measure banning same-sex measure will have a valid defendant seem increasingly slim.
Both Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have stated that they are not interested in defending the measure. And it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s First In-Flight Gay Wedding to be Held in (above) Sweden</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21402</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been announced by Scandinavian airline SAS that they will host the first-ever in-flight gay ceremony. The question over who will tie the knot is still &#8220;up in the air,&#8221; reports New York Daily News, as SAS looks for the perfect couple to participate in the mile-high ceremony from Stockholm to New York. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mrs. Launches Saturday with First-Time Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dance night]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland has been popping out new queer nights like a randy rabbit lately but Mrs. &#8212; Mississippi Studios&#8217; new costume-centric dance night &#8212; is a party we can really get behind.
Mrs. taps into the performing spirit of Portland&#8217;s queers with monthly themes and titles awarded to the homo who best represents them. The first installment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disko Warp Kicks off Kumoricon at Ground Kontrol Tomorrow Night!</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21394</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Disko Warp Records will bring their refined palates&#8217; worth of Euro-dance, happy hardcore and beat-happy jams to Ground Kontrol tomorrow night for the official pre-party for Kumoricon 2010!
In celebration of Oregon&#8217;s largest anime convention, Disko Warp is inviting Oregon&#8217;s sexy, nerdy, anime-loving queers to Ground Kontrol for an evening of radical video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homomentum Coming to Fez in November</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21389</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fez Ballroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homomentum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Voltage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pants Off Producctions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿The monthly queer cabaret Homomentum is set to return from a summer hiatus with a new night and venue. Max Voltage of Pants Off Productions announced Thursday that Homomentum will run November-April, every first Friday at the Fez Ballroom.
Also new in Homomentum&#8217;s second season is compensation for performers. Each act will receive $20-$50 depending on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian School Drops &#8220;Gay&#8221; from Classic Children&#8217;s Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree&#8221; &#8211; a popular campfire and children&#8217;s song in Australia &#8211; has received a bit of an augmentation, at least in one school. Principal Garry Martin of Le Page Primary School in Melbourne said he  instructed students to substitute the line &#8220;Fun your life must be&#8221; for  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The North Star: Exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Borgen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Vanity Fair&#8217;s scathing story on Sarah Palin started circulating the internet. Writer Michael David Gross followed Palin around the country (on her &#8220;road show,&#8221; as he calls it), documenting her every move, examining her every speech, and interviewing (or, rather, trying to) anyone who is or ever has been close to her. While most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nikki Araguz Case Weighs Heavy on Tex. Transfolks</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21371</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikki Araguz, a transgender widow in Texas, is currently fighting a legal battle to maintain death benefits following her firefighter husband&#8217;s death. Her late husband&#8217;s ex-wife and parents are suing to prevent Araguz from receiving the benefits, arguing that her marriage was void because she was born male and Texas does not recognize same-sex marriage.
Transgender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive Interview with Portland Singing Sensation Niki Villiarimo</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21370</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of weeks ago, Portland-by-way-of-Hawaii crooner Niki Villiarimo journeyed down to San Francisco to audition for American Idol for the second time in three years. Having come off of a stirring third place finish in Red Cap Garage&#8217;s first Portland Idol competition in late July (a competition won by the very deserving Tamra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Minister&#8217;s Adviser Quits Amidst Gay Rumors</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21366</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Myers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Secretary William Hague]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain Foreign Secretary William Hague said a male special adviser with whom he shared a hotel room had resigned Wednesday over &#8220;malicious&#8221; claims that they had an &#8220;inappropriate relationship,&#8221; reports the Associated Free Press. Following days of newspaper and Internet chatter about Hague&#8217;s relationship with adviser Christopher Myers, along with rumors of Hague&#8217;s marriage being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travels in a Gay Nation Profiles LGBTQ Americans</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21356</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Schurr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note: The following book review comes to us from Robert Geary. His look at Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans (U. of Wisconsin Press), by Philip Gambone, follows.
Mr. Gambone&#8217;s spare writing prompts me to wonder if he, an observer of our community, missed the riches of a Liberal Arts education. Why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foursquare Offers STI Testing Badge</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21357</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Get Yourself Tested]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the stalker-friendly Facebook application Foursquare is using its powers for good.
The app, which awards &#8220;badges&#8221; for frequent &#8220;check-ins&#8221; to places like the bar or the gym, will allows you to announce to friends when you &#8220;check in&#8221; to the bar, the gym or the office, now offers a special badge for those who check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dating Game and Naughty Wrestling at Red Cap Tomorrow Night!</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21350</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Prado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poison Waters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dating Game returns this week with your benevolent host Poison Waters at Red Cap Garage! Every Thursday through November 11 for an admission of just $3, you can try your luck in the dating pool, or get your Lube Wrestling on immediately following intermission, or both &#8211; something like this:
The swimming pool and slippery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sassy G at Interstate Farmers Market Today</title>
		<link>http://blogout.justout.com/?p=21345</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Schurr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now&#8217;s the time to put up or shut up: put up the season and enjoy it all winter long, that is.
Just Out&#8217;s resident Sassy Gardener, LeAnn Locher, loves food preserving almost as much as she loves gardening. If you&#8217;ve been wondering how to get started in home canning, now is the perfect time with peach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter, Paul and Mary to NOM: Not Your Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Rook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This land is not the land of antigays, at least not if you ask Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey.
The surviving members of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary have asked the National Organization for Marriage to stop using their iconic song &#8220;This Land Is Your Land&#8221; during its antigay &#8220;Summer for Marriage&#8221; tour, The [...]]]></description>
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