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| Non-profit name | Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays |
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| Founded date | 1972, New York City, New York, United States |
| Area served | Global |
| Focus | LGBT activism |
| Method | Campaigning, Advocacy, Support groups, Public speaking |
| Homepage | www.PFLAG.org |
In 2002 PFLAG welcomed intersex persons and their families as fully participating members.
PFLAG has more than 500 affiliates throughout the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 11 other countries.
The acronym PFLAG is pronounced "P-FLAG" (), and until removal of the hyphen in 1993 was officially styled in that manner.
The idea for the organization arose out of Jeanne Manford's marching with her gay son Morty, carrying a sign saying: "Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children" in New York City's Christopher Street Liberation Day Gay Pride Parade (now known as Heritage of Pride) which started two years prior. People came up to Manford during and after the parade, applauding her actions and inspiring her to form a support group for gays and lesbians and their families. In time the scope of the organization – which turned into POG (Parents of Gays), later P-FLAG, and beginning in 1993, PFLAG – expanded to include bisexuals, and ultimately, transgender people.
PFLAG has grown to comprise 500 chapters and 250,000 members in the United States.
In the mid-1990s, "Project Open Mind" caused some controversy from Pat Robertson. He threatened to sue PFLAG and any television station that aired the project's ads, which showed clips of anti-LGBT quotes from several people, including Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and United States Sen. Jesse Helms. The ads can currently be seen on the Commercial Closet webpage.
The 2007 PFLAG National Convention, sponsored by IBM, was planned for October 11 through October 17, 2007 in McLean, Virginia. The theme is "Family Voices Moving Equality Forward."
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Other links: Families Joined by Love - Books and resources for LGBT Families.
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| Name | Wendy Melvoin |
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| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Born | January 26, 1964 |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Genre | Alternative, funk, R&B;, rock, pop, New Wave, Minneapolis sound |
| Occupation | Musician, arranger, composer, songwriter, record producer |
| Years active | 1980–Present |
| Label | Columbia, SME Records, Virgin, EMI, World Domination |
| Associated acts | The Revolution, Wendy & Lisa |
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Wendy Melvoin (born January 26, 1964) is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Prince as part of his band The Revolution, and for her collaboration with Lisa Coleman as one half of the duo Wendy & Lisa.
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman composed music for the first season of TV series Heroes. In September 2008, they announced that they would be releasing an album consisting entirely of the score from Heroes, entitled .
Melvoin also contributed guitars to Madonna's 2008 album Hard Candy on the song "She's Not Me" and is mentioned by name during the song. She contributed heavily to Neil Finn's second solo album One Nil, co-writing many tracks and playing drums and bass on several. She is credited for guitar work on most of the tracks on Rob Thomas' first solo album, ...Something to Be.
In April 2009, Melvoin gave an interview with Out magazine declaring that she was a lesbian and had a past relationship with Lisa Coleman. Currently, her partner is writer/film director Lisa Cholodenko.
Melvoin and Coleman were awarded with an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title in 2010 for their theme to Nurse Jackie.
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| Name | Sally Kern |
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| State house | Oklahoma |
| District | 84th |
| Term start | January 4, 2005 |
| Term end | |
| Predecessor | Bill Graves |
| Birth date | November 27, 1946 |
| Birth place | Jonesboro, Arkansas |
| Constituency | Oklahoma State District 84 |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Steve Kern |
| Profession | Politician, teacher |
| Religion | Independent Baptist |
2008 Race for Oklahoma House of Representatives – District 84
2006 Race for Oklahoma House of Representatives – District 84
2004 Race for Oklahoma House of Representatives – District 84
Kern co-authored the Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act that included the provision "Students shall not be penalized or rewarded on account of the religious content of their work", which was vetoed by Governor Brad Henry.
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After receiving attention for the remarks, Kern said "I said nothing that was not true" and refused to apologize. She received a standing ovation from fellow Republican legislators in a private meeting a few days later. In response to Kern's comments, hundreds of gay and lesbian rights supporters protested at the Oklahoma State Capitol. Over 1500 people later turned out at the Capitol to support her.
Kern claimed to have received death threats that caused her to hire a bodyguard. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation officer who reviewed Kern's emails said, "I wouldn't characterize them as death threats."
Kern authored an op-ed counterpoint piece in the June 24, 2009 issue of the Oklahoma Gazette in which she argued, "Granting marriage status to homosexuals who comprise little more than 3 percent of the population would be like granting all applicants admission to a prestigious college just because a few meet the qualifications. That school’s status would fall. Likewise, the status of marriage will fall if same-sex marriage is legalized."
In late June 2009 Kern authored the "Oklahoma Citizens Proclamation for Morality" implicitly blaming gay marriage and President Barack Obama's official acknowledgment of Gay Pride month (among other things) for the economic crisis which was then ongoing. At the official signing ceremony for the proclamation, Kern's opponents booed and chanted, while her supporters countered with Christian hymns.
During her 2010 re-election campaign, she made the sexual orientation and gender of her opponent an open topic in a campaign flyer mailed to residents of her district.
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| Name | Michael Manning |
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| Birth date | 1943 |
| Birth place | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Death date | 22 August 2008 |
| Death place | Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
| Known for | Anti-corruption campaigner |
| Occupation | Public servant and economist |
| Nationality | Papua New Guinean |
| Spouse | Relly Manning |
Michael John Manning, OBE He was a naturalized citizen of Papua New Guinea.
Manning's father, Alan Manning, became a protege and supporter of Ben Chifley and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) following his return from World War II. Alan Manning ran for office as an Australian Labor Party candidate three times, losing on each try. Manning's report also stated that PNG had lost control of large parts of its territory. Somare, who viewed Manning's statements as an attack on MPs, blasted him saying "Mr. Manning’s latest outburst in the media direct attack on the intelligence and commonsense of the people of Papua New Guinea who have mandated us to represent them in Parliament."
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| Birth date | June 05, 1964 |
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| Birth place | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Yearsactive | 1994–present |
Cholodenko has also worked in television, with her adaptation of the novel Cavedweller for Showtime earning Independent Spirit Award nominations for Kyra Sedgwick and Aidan Quinn. She also directed episodes of , Six Feet Under and The L Word.
In 2009, Cholodenko directed the film The Kids Are All Right, which she co-wrote with Stuart Blumberg.
It takes a special kind of director to trust an actor, and to open themselves up to having an actor bring something that maybe wasn't what they saw or thought. Lisa is a rare director that knows actors, by the time you've finished your first week of shooting, probably know the characters better than the writer or the director. She creates a safe environment, and she casts well. She knows what to bring out of people.Because of that, you feel free to move and live between the lines. She lingers on a scene. She loves behavior. She's not afraid to explore. You're not getting, "Well, the line is actually... I really just want you to say the line like it is." It's not that formal. You get a chance to stretch yourself out. That's a fun way of working.
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| Name | Dustin Lance Black |
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| Caption | Dustin Lance Black at the 81st Academy Awards. |
| Birthdate | June 10, 1974 |
| Birthplace | Sacramento, California |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director, film producer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television '96 |
| Notableworks | Big Love (2006 – present)Milk (2008) |
| Awards | Academy AwardsBest Original Screenplay2008 Milk |
Dustin Lance Black (born 10 June 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He has won two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the television series Big Love and an Academy Award for the 2008 film Milk.
Growing up surrounded by Mormon culture and military bases, Black worried about his sexuality. He told himself, "I'm going to hell. And if I ever admit it, I'll be hurt, and I'll be brought down" when he found himself attracted to a boy in his neighborhood at the age of six or seven. Black attended the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater, Film, and Television (UCLA) while apprenticing with stage directors, taking acting jobs and working on theater lighting crews. He graduated with honors from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television in 1996.
Black had first visited San Francisco in the early 1990s and was inspired by city supervisor Harvey Milk's representation of the gay community while diagnoses of AIDS among gay people were increasing. He had first viewed Rob Epstein's documentary The Times of Harvey Milk when he was in college, and thought, "I just want to do something with this, why hasn't someone done something with this?" but Black showed the script to Jones, who passed it on to his friend Gus Van Sant, who signed on to direct the feature.
Black's film Pedro, profiling the life of AIDS activist and reality television personality Pedro Zamora, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Coming up, Paris Barclay is slated to direct his screenplay A Life Like Mine and Gus van Sant is set to direct his film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Black is set to direct his own script What's Wrong with Virginia, to star Jennifer Connelly. He has also written the screenplay for the biopic Hoover to be released in 2012 directed by Clint Eastwood.
On February 22, 2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Milk at the 81st Academy Awards. He wore a White Knot to the ceremony as a symbol of solidarity with the marriage equality movement. In his acceptance speech at the Oscar ceremony, he said:
Black marched in the National Equality March and delivered a speech in front of the Congress Building to an estimated crowd of 200,000 LGBT rights activists on October 11, 2009.
In 2010, Black narrated , a documentary about the involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in California's Proposition 8.
In June 2009, photographs of Black engaging in unprotected sex were published by Internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton. Black released a statement saying: "It is unfortunate that individuals and other outside parties are trying to profit from material which is clearly private." His statement also emphasized the importance of responsible sexual practices. On 23 July 2009, Black filed a lawsuit against photo agency Starzlife, alleging the organization illegally obtained the pictures and distributed them without his permission. He is claiming invasion of privacy and copyright infringement and asking for $3 million in damages, as well as any profit the company made from the photos.
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| Caption | Lynch at the Glee premiere party, May 11, 2009 |
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| Birth date | July 14, 1960 |
| Birth place | Dolton, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, comedian, singer |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse | She was raised in an Irish Catholic family and attended Thornridge High School. Since then, she has starred in a series of films including Role Models, , Alvin & the Chipmunks, , Space Chimps, The Rocker, The Hammer, Another Cinderella Story, , and Spring Breakdown. |
| Colwidth | 30em |
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| Name | Donna Mills |
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| Caption | Donna Mills in 1990 |
| Birthname | Donna Jean Miller |
| Birthdate | December 11, 1942 |
| Birthplace | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Yearsactive | 1966–present |
| Occupation | Actress |
Donna Mills (born December 11, 1942) is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.
In 1971, Mills co-starred with Clint Eastwood in the thriller Play Misty For Me, which has remained her most prominent movie role to date. Prior to signing up a contract for Universal Studios in 1972 (much like her future Knots Landing co-stars Joan Van Ark and Kevin Dobson did at the same time), Mills spent much of the 1970s appearing as a guest television shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii Five-O, The Love Boat, CHiPs, The Oregon Trail, Quincy, M.E., Thriller, Police Woman, and Fantasy Island, as well as several made-for-TV movies.
In 1980, she landed her most prominent role — that of scheming, manipulative Abby Cunningham on the long-running primetime soap opera Knots Landing, a role she played until 1989. After leaving the series, Mills concentrated on TV movies, several of which she co-produced. She returned to Knots Landing for its final episode in 1993, and again for the reunion mini-series Knots Landing: Back To The Cul-De-Sac in 1997. In between, she had a brief recurring guest role as Josie Bissett's mother on the popular 1990s soap opera Melrose Place. In more recent years, Mills has continued to make TV movies as well as guest appearances in series such as Cold Case and Nip/Tuck (in which she guest-starred with fellow Knots Landing star Joan Van Ark).
In 2005, she reunited with the Knots Landing cast for the reunion, Knots Landing: Together Again, in which the stars reminisced about the show.
Outside of acting, in 1986 Mills released "The Eyes Have It", an instructional video for achieving several different make-up looks. She went on to release her own line of cosmetics of the same name.
Mills appeared in a cover-featured (non-nude) pictorial for the November 1989 edition of Playboy Magazine.
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| Caption | Madigan at the 41st Emmy Awards, September 1989 |
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| Birthname | Amy Marie Madigan |
| Birth date | September 11, 1950 |
| Birth place | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Spouse | Ed Harris (1983–present) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Yearsactive | 1981 – present |
Amy Marie Madigan (born September 11, 1950) is an American actress who is known for her role as Annie Kinsella in the 1989 film Field of Dreams and Iris Crowe in the HBO television series Carnivale.
Madigan will appear in four episodes of Season 3 of Fringe as Olivia's mother.
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