April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, as I mentioned before. So first off let me apologize that I didn’t get this up earlier (special apology to UNLV’s Take Back the Campus event April 15, which I wanted to promote). Unfortunately, you can’t really plan for going to an out-of-state funeral, so I guess that’s how…
There’s just so much to get to, let’s dive right in: Support SB397! This bill, brought forward by Sen. Maggie Carlton, would create a fund for environmental clean-up and ban the use of non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags within four years. As many long-time Siren readers know, this is an issue very close to my heart.…
Here’s the update from the Nevada Women’s Lobby (full disclosure: I’m on the steering committee): “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” It’s finally happening….AJR3 will be heard in Assembly Elections Committee on Thursday, April 9 at 3:45 PM! We’ve…
Experiencing a total computer melt-down here at Siren HDQ. I am trying to post this from my cell phone. Dedication! 1. If you can get your butt to Grant Sawyer tomorrow do it to come out for SB369, otherwise known as “the brothel tax.” Actually an excise tax on services and could net state $3-4…
As if getting in trouble for texting a mistress on a government-issued cell phone (and now getting a divorce while governor) weren’t bad enough, Gov. Jim Gibbons just can’t help himself when it comes to texting. While giving testimony on his energy bill, he stops to view and deal with a text! Watch it for…
It’s an Easter miracle (early)! In an unanimous ruling Iowa’s highest court upheld a lower-court’s ruling that marriage should not be defined as only between a man and a woman. This makes Iowa the third state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage and the first in the nation’s Midwestern “Heartland” states. Iowa’s same-sex couples…
Sorry for lack of personalization of posts. Still under the weather but don’t want to let this go unmentioned: PLANNED PARENTHOOD & MTV PRESENT the WORLD PREMIERE of PEDRO on APRIL 1 WHAT: Pedro: The Movie – MTV’s World Premiere In 1994, Pedro Zamora captured the hearts of millions as the first-ever openly gay,…
My husband went to Hong Kong in February and took this picture of a local wearing an Obama t-shirt. (It’s taken a while to get it up here because of computer problems plaguing Sin City Siren HDQ.) The top story in the news while he was there was the economic stimulus package. (No. 2 story…
We only need three more states for the necessary majority (38 states) to ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment. Nevada has the opportunity to be one of those three as legislation has been introduced. At the hearing last week the opposition came out hard and in numbers. But the history of the ERA in Nevada…
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