RESOURCES.
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches serves the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community with congregations worldwide. Address: 5300 Santa Monica Blvd., #304, Los Angeles, CA 90029; Phone: (213) 464-5100. For other religions, ask your church or temple to direct you to a local chapter that supports congregations...

The 1979 March's place in history.
HOW WE ALL seem to love anniversaries! Think about the masses of folks who show up each year for Pride Marches in June, for St. Patrick's Day parades, for Mexican Independence Day celebrations. Anniversaries provide moments for civic reflection. Last May, newspapers were filled with stories assessing the meaning...

Trinidad Carnival today: local culture in a global context.
Garth L Green and Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007.254 pp. When I first started looking at Festival on the Eastern Caribbean island of Tortola almost two decades ago, there were a few articles...

Iran's gay emigres and the persistence of the closet. (International Spectrum).
As a gay person from Iran, I have been struggling for many years to lift homophobic oppression from within me and open myself up to my gay soul. Growing up in homophobic and sex-phobic Iran, I was brainwashed that heterosexuality was my only option. In my heterosexual family I...

In the nation we trust.
Today is the Republic Day of India. To mark the importance of this occasion, every year a grand parade is held in the capital, from the Rajghat, along the Vijaypath. The different regiments of the army, the Navy and the Air force march past in all their finery. The...

Bringing out the bloomers.
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard COTTAGE GROVE - Bohemia Mining Days organizers are planning a "Bloomer Parade" as part of this year's summer event, but don't expect anything resembling Portland's Rose Festival parade or the Long Tom Grange's Daffodil Drive. These bloomers have nary a...

A parade of gratitude.
Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard Last year in the days leading up to Veterans Day, Alan Ezelle of Springfield was dodging hostile fire near Baghdad, Iraq, prior to departing on a three-day leave. On Sunday, the only thing Sgt. 1st Class Ezelle was dodging was...

Towns note sacrifice; Parades and ceremonies honor war dead.
Byline: Betty Lilyestrom LEICESTER - The town observed Memorial Day yesterday with what Selectman Thomas V. Brennan Jr., master or ceremonies, described as "ceremony, not celebration." But the ceremony included a two-division parade complete with floats, a flyover by two A-10 Warthog jets and an...

White Christmas in Breckenridge.
Celebrate snow in this mining town turned ski resort in the Colorado Rockies I've always thought of Christmas as an all-or-nothing phenomenon: Either do it right--with a decked-out tree, caroling, the works--or don't do it at all (tropical getaway, anyone?). That's why I was thrilled to happen...

Now Featuring: Benton County Right to Life.
As explained in the March edition, "Chapter Profiles" will now be a regular feature of NRL News. By profiling grassroots chapters of NRLC we hope to achieve two things. First, it is important to share the good news of what our members and affiliated chapters have been able to...