2004 in Review - LINKS

Below are some links to a variety of sites looking back at the year. I will be adding Queer Thoughts Year In Review in the next few days!

Canada
INDEPTH: YEAR IN REVIEW 2004
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/yearinreview2004
Overview
CBC News Online December 22, 2004

The continuing U.S. occupation of Iraq saw the deaths of more than 1,000 American troops and thousands of Iraqis. Images of prisoner abuse prompted apologies from American leaders. And a bitter election year in the U.S. ended with the re-election of George W. Bush as president.

LGBTQ
365gay - 2004 The Year In Review
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/specialcoverage/2004.htm

Gay Marriage

2004 was the year of gay marriage - a roller coaster ride of marriages granted, denied, fought for, and begun.

Canada
Macleans - 2004: the year in review
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/article.jsp?content=20041227_95496_95496

The annual follies, from Bush to Parrish, swarming cicadas to Swedish undies

LGBTQ
National Year In Review: Weddings and Setbacks
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=6916

This was the year of marriage rights—again. And the subject is likely to cop top honors for several more years to come before the final chapter is written. But in some senses they may all seem a tad anticlimactic when compared with 2004.

LGBTQ
A look back at the news of 2004 - Gay.com
http://www.gay.com/content/slideshow/?coll=419&navpath=/channels/news/slideshow/

Reacting to a landmark November 2003 ruling in Massachusetts, President Bush began 2004 by making a startling reference to what would become the defining issue of the year: same-sex marriage. During his State of the Union speech last January, he criticized the "activist judges" of Massachusetts by saying, "If judges insist on forcing their arbitrary will upon the people, the only alternative left to the people would be the constitutional process."


Canada
Canoe News - Year in Review
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Special/2004/2004newsdiary.html

Conrad Black launches $850-million defamation suit against members of Hollinger International board, claiming he has been made a “loathsome laughingstock” by media coverage of accusations against him. San Francisco becomes first U.S. jurisdiction to issue marriage licences to gay couples.

Christian Right
LifeSiteNews.com Year in Review - 2004
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/dec/04122207.html
This year has without doubt been the most hectic year in terms of developments in the culture wars. Other than the Bush victory which was likely the biggest newsmaker of the year, Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ, ranked as one of the most talked about developments.