UVA Research Request: Engaged Couples Needed!

Engaged volunteers needed!

I am looking for volunteers for a study of attitudes towards marriage and parenthood among engaged couples. The study consists of a 25-30 minute online survey. To qualify for the study, you must be 20-35 years old, live in the U.S., and plan to marry or have a commitment ceremony within the next 365 days. You and your romantic partner must not have children, and this must be the first marriage for both of you.

You can:

-Help a doctoral candidate.

-Increase the pool of scientific knowledge.

-Support research on marriage and families…and

-Spend some time thinking about your relationship!

I am working with Dr. Charlotte J. Patterson, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. This study has been approved by the University of Virginia Institutional Review Board #2009025800.

If you and/or your romantic partner are interested in participating or want further information, please email me at survey.couples@gmail.com. I will send you a link that you can use to access the study.

Thanks!

Cristina Reitz-Krueger

Doctoral Student

University of Virginia

survey.couples@gmail.com

(Please note in the email you send you found this request on gayagenda.com.  Thank you!)

PhillyBurbs: Marriage Ban Dies in Senate

Not exactly stellar news, but better than the alternative.  It looks as though an effort to change Pennsylvania’s state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage has died in the state’s senate.

According to PhillyBurbs.com:

The latest effort to amend Pennsylvania’s constitution to effectively ban gay marriage appeared dead today after three senators who supported an even broader measure two years ago changed their vote in committee.

Read more here!

Greenberg: What We Lose Without Equality

The other night my husband and I got together with some friends. Although we always look forward to an evening with this particular couple, lately our dinners, which were once so carefree, are now conducted in the shadow of sadness and potential loss. Our close friends might be forced to leave the country.

As same sex partners, not only do they lack the basic rights of any couple in love to marry, since one person is an immigrant on a student visa, they may have to move to another country that acknowledges gay rights and marriage.

Read more of this moving post by Tamara McClintock Greenberg at: Huff Po!

I could only wish that more straight people were sensitive to the reasons as to why marriage is such an important issue for members of the LGBT community…who also happen to be U.S. tax payers.

Will Gainesville Florida Become Gaynesville?

Hat tip to Lyndon Evans of Focus On The Rainbow for bringing this to our attention.  It’s highly possible at this point that Gainesville, Florida may be the next city to elect an openly gay mayor, after Annise Parker was elected in Houston earlier this year.

According to a post on Gainesville.com:

Lowe, with 4,073 votes, had nearly 11 percent more votes than Marsh, who got 2,960, he failed to get the 50 percent majority required to avert a runoff.

The five-candidate field probably had something to do with that.

Lowe said he wasn’t disappointed in the showing.

“I feel great,” Lowe said. “I’m ready to move forward.”

Lowe felt he made a “very strong case” to the voters and would continue pushing his record after serving seven years on the commission.

While his “Victory Party” at The Top restaurant on North Main Street went on as scheduled, it was a subdued affair.

Still, Eric Conrad, the spokesman for Lowe’s campaign and a University of Florida student, remained confident.

“Craig Lowe will be the next mayor of Gainesville,” Conrad said.

How ever, just as in the Houston race, those who are opposed to LGBT equality and are fearful of LGBT politicians have been busy spreading their handywork in an effort to thwart Lowe’s campaign efforts.

According to a post on City Limits, anti-gay fliers have been circulating around the city:

The pink fliers sarcastically suggest Lowe, who is openly gay, will work to get: “Gays in Women’s Restrooms,” “Gay Marriage,” “Gay Public Sex Education,” “Gay Oriented Churches,” “Gay Communities,” “Gay Civil Rights” and “Gay Parades.”

“Please help to make this town more like San Francisco, CA,” the flier reads. “Don’t let Traditional Value Activists use scare tactics against you!”

Hopefully this tactic, as it did in Houston, will fail, and as Lowe stated when asked if he’d file a complaint, “I think that the biggest recourse is with the voters.”

Craig Lowe

Maddow Vs Hayworth: “The Hunt for Intimacy”

I’ll never quite figure out how politicians can simply tell lies, and with a smile on their face. I suppose people like J.D. Hayworth are used to their Republican constituents eating up all the garbage they dish without fact checking. But then, maybe he really does have a thing for his horse…either way, in comes Rachel Maddow:

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