Monday, June 30, 2014
Big Apple Pride
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gay pride week,
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Making a Hobby Out of Discrimination
Here's what Lorri Jean of the Los Angeles LGBT Center had to say about it:
“This decision is an alarming victory for fundamentalist religious forces who want to be able to use their private beliefs to harm and restrict the freedom of others who believe differently. For the first time, the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing companies that do business with the public to evade the application of federal laws because of individual belief. This flies in the face of decades of civil rights jurisprudence. It's a dangerous precedent that, in addition to harming women, puts the rights and freedoms of LGBT people at risk.”
The Center agrees with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion that calls this a “decision of startling breadth” in which the “court holds that commercial enterprises, including corporations, can opt out of any law, saving only tax laws, they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Wrecks and the City
My friend Marc recently had the gruesome misfortune of happening upon a woman who had hanged herself from a tree near his apartment in Brooklyn, so the fact that he anticipated this scene almost seems like God's way of giving him something to make up for it. God's got a sick sense of humor, right?
"Seriously, I saw these two booze bags and immediately reached for my phone, knowing they're going down in 3, 2, 1...BAM!"
Song of the Day: 'Pride (In the Name of Love)' by U2
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book soup,
books,
memoirs,
Song of the Day,
Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
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Recipe for Disaster
Friday, June 27, 2014
On the Rag, Vol. 309
A weekly look at what's making news in the free gay mags:
(UPDATE: He is Well-Strung member Christopher Marchant and you can follow him HERE.)
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blondie,
On the Rag,
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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Photos of the Day
Shia LaBoeuf and the Jordan Almond Defense
Move over, Twinkies: there's a new legal defense in town. I'm on Team Shia, thanks to this source from inside Studio 54:
Shia LaBoeuf was slapping the shit out of people at Cabaret not because he's pulling a Charlie Sheen, but because they were crunching on Jordan almonds during the performance. True story -- my friend Steve from TX is visiting NYC and was in the audience when it happened. #misophoniaI write about my battle with misophonia in my book and have this to say about Shia's behavior: If the Jordan almonds allegation is true, I think he showed great restraint!
Bottom line: Stop crunching in public and no one will get hurt.
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misophonia,
Shia LaBeouf
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Scent of a Man
Closet Cases
I am so tired of gay Republicans suddenly coming forward to express their dismay with the way their party used LGBT people as a wedge issue to win elections. What the hell did you think you'd signed up for?
From Timothy J. Burger's Politico report, where insiders estimate 70 gays and lesbians worked for George W. Bush:
For some of his gay aides, it was a struggle to reconcile the decency they usually saw up close with the frequent reminders, both large and small, that theirs was a party very publicly committed to the view that they were not entitled to the same legal protections as other Americans.
Although former staffers say they never believed Bush personally had anything against gay people, many still experienced episodes of cognitive dissonance.What does "personal" even mean to these people? OF COURSE it was personal. A constitutional amendment to rob you of your rights is inherently personal. And that was hardly the GOP's first kick in the stomach. Have they never heard of the Briggs Initiative? Do your homework, people. Now you want us to pretend like this never happened and applaud you as you cash in trying to act like you care about your gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender brothers and sisters now that it suits your needs.You make me sick.
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homophobia,
lgbt history,
lgbt rights,
president bush
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Happy Gay Pride Weekend, Everyone!
Posted by Kenneth M. Walsh at 9:30 AM 2 comments
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gay pride week,
lgbt history,
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The Gays of Our Lives
We've come a long way, baby. But we've been around for-ever! View HERE.
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lgbt history,
lgbt youth,
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Song of the Day: 'Suddnely Last Summer' by the Motels
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Song of the Day,
the motels
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Morning Wood
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beards,
hairy chests,
morning wood
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