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Who I am... Who I was... and waht i had could become...
If I write it:
You ´ll not belive it.
If I try to explain:
Some can´t even hear me.
If I would just tell what i can:
Some hate, some are jelouse, some ´ll only thry to dis to feeling better.
If I love:
There is apollibility to grow...
So all want to dis the Masters, and beliving beeing Batchelor you knew all better...
Have you ever think about, that with all the hate and disses; The Masters have no more intension to form develop and cultivate a aprendist... And two aprendist are just thinking to beware the right and position, fighting eatch other, so that they maybe have definitly lost, the agility to symbiosis, witch is the highest step for an aprendist, to aknowledge, that even when he is bacame a Master, it is just the next level in a challange to learn an grow in agility and intellect...
SO while all have had so mutch fun, dissing the outsiders, is here someone who is able to be...
Friend, symbiosed trainee and learn partner, and maybe can be like a gently teen while making friendly bodycontact?
And so carreers had been destroied, chances lost, future developments sloved down for decades, ....
Hello,
I'm in need of help . My husband and I are married in Germany . I'm an American and he is German . We got married in Germany and now being that I'm a
Department of defense commissary agency  employee ( i work for the usa army europe ) It has come time for me return to the USA . I can not get a green card for him due to DOMA . It all started march 18, 2011 my husband and I got married then 8 day later I was told by my grocery manager that I wouldn't be given an over seas tour extension, no reason was given and after talking to the store deputy ( who I told about my problem in detail) he said that he was told that a reason doesn't need to be given to me. I have made 2 EEO complaints dealing with discrimination and harassment. Because Deca ( commissary ) refused to. Help me in my problem . I was told that it was my fault for marrying a local national ( my husband is German) I should have thought about the consiquences before hand. Since then I have been fired while on sick leave . While fighting to keep my family together and to get my job back I still suffer from my work related sickness . I wait for help from any legal group willing to help us . My email is centilyen@yahoo.com
My story is very simple: now we have for the first time in our lifes a president in the USA that speaks openly and personally accept gay marriage. Thousands of conservative people including the religious are moving against him in order to destroy him and his courage. What are we doing? What are we all gays and lesbians and bisexuals and transgenders are doing to support him? what? Why not take the chance! Gays of the world, please stand UP!
Press Release: Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation Established Release Date 10/11/2011 Upon the establishment of the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation, Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger states: With Jörg Litwinschuh, the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation now has a face. The foundation can begin with its work. The research and education program of the new foundation will make an important contribution toward openness in society. In an open society, there must be no discrimination against people with different lifestyles. With the aim of eliminating discrimination and establishing equal status for people with homosexual lifestyles, the federal government is standing behind the work that the Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation is now actually commencing. Background: Today, Federal Justice Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger appointed the communications consultant Jörg Litwinschuh as Chair of the new Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation. The former managing director of the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg and former head of its Integration and Migration Center comes from the Saarland. The Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation is established under civil law as an independent foundation, and is based in Berlin. It has been granted an endowment of € 10 million. The statute provides the Chair with a fixed term of five years. Members of the Board of Trustees are nominated from the German Bundestag, five federal ministries and other members of civil society organizations. Through its education and research program, the new foundation is meant to counteract social discrimination against homosexual men and women in Germany. The injustices committed by the Nazis against homosexuals should be historically processed and documented. In addition, the life and work of the foundation's namesake Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) is to be scientifically researched and presented. The Berlin physician and sexologist was a pioneer of the gay rights movement and also dealt with issues of transgender and intersex. http://www.mh-stiftung.de
Germany still treats same-sex partnerships and heterosexual marriages differently, but the EU's top court says married couples or those in registered partnerships must get the same pension benefits. see: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15066843,00.html
Alemania equipara matrimonios gay y tradicional. El tribunal de mayor rango en Alemania declaró inconstitucional una norma que obliga a los gays y las lesbianas a pagar impuestos más altos que los heterosexuales cuando reciben herencias tras la muerte de sus parejas. Para más información, ver: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5923505,00.html
Useful information about LSVD's human rights foundation, the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation
Through international networking and cooperation with partner organizations in the Global South and Eastern Europe, the Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation provides direct assistance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersexual (LGBTI) people being threatened.
We support national and international LGBTI-Human-Rights-Campaigns by providing information, raising public awareness and building alliances. We constantly work to convince those responsible for foreign policy, development cooperation and human rights policy. We support the work of human rights advocates and promote campaigns against homophobia and prosecution.
The Hirschfeld-Eddy-Foundation was founded in 2007 as the human rights foundation of the Lesbian and Gay Federation, Germany.
I'm living in a "Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaft" (it's in some parts similar to the heterosexual marriage, in others, especially adoption, reproduction and tax rights there are big unjust differences). My wife gave birth to our son two years ago and we are both legal parents to him (since 2005 there is the possibility of adoption in "eingetragenen Lebenspartnerschaften", it's similiar to adoptions possible for step parents).
We never experienced bad discriminations. Sometimes people look or ask biased questions. But most of the time we get positive reactions.
To sum up, to live as a lesbian in Germany is not causing any big problems, but I admit not every thing is perfect yet.
Anyway, if any of you planing on visiting oder living in Germany, being gay is usually no problem.
If I write it:
You ´ll not belive it.
If I try to explain:
Some can´t even hear me.
If I would just tell what i can:
Some hate, some are jelouse, some ´ll only thry to dis to feeling better.
If I love:
There is apollibility to grow...
So all want to dis the Masters, and beliving beeing Batchelor you knew all better...
Have you ever think about, that with all the hate and disses; The Masters have no more intension to form develop and cultivate a aprendist... And two aprendist are just thinking to beware the right and position, fighting eatch other, so that they maybe have definitly lost, the agility to symbiosis, witch is the highest step for an aprendist, to aknowledge, that even when he is bacame a Master, it is just the next level in a challange to learn an grow in agility and intellect...
SO while all have had so mutch fun, dissing the outsiders, is here someone who is able to be...
Friend, symbiosed trainee and learn partner, and maybe can be like a gently teen while making friendly bodycontact?
And so carreers had been destroied, chances lost, future developments sloved down for decades, ....
WHY ?
Greets SP1981