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NEWARK MAYOR Cory Booker condemns treatment of gay people.
VIDEO: Stephen Colbert and Maurice Sendak get high on markers.
LAW FIRM: H.S student has right to say gays should be put to death.
ARI EZRA WALDMAN: Law and economics of employment discrimination.
Students at Western Carolina University defend decision to stage drag show to fight anti-gay marriage amendment: “We could open up a shelter for puppies and those who hate us would still hate us; that’s no matter what we do, drag show or no drag show."
Mario Lopez dreams big.
Lesbian binational Delaware couple with two sons forced apart by DOMA: "Because of the Defense of Marriage Act, Melody is 3,500 miles away from me and there isn’t anything I can do about it – until DOMA is struck down or repealed – unless the U.S. government implements some policy changes to keep our family together."
Rick Santorum: prisoner of the gays.
NASA finds 60 planets and 11 new solar systems in tiny patch of sky: "Our galaxy is positively loaded with planets of all sizes and orbits."
George Clooney planning master prank on Brad Pitt.
Opponents of North Carolina's same-sex marriage amendment are hitting campuses Friday: "A voter registration drive aimed at defeating the amendment when it comes up for a statewide vote on May 8 kicks off on college campuses on Friday. Voters will weigh in on the matter during the state’s presidential primary elections."
Gerard Butler: Who's Brandi Glanville?
If Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth...
A banned poster for Shame.
Fear Factor episode features contestants chugging cups of donkey semen...
In December I posted about the Hershey School in Pennsylvania denying admission to an HIV-positive student. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is still on the case: "Please join AIDS Healthcare Foundation in sending a message to the Hershey Company and the Milton Hershey School that HIV/AIDS discrimination is not acceptable. Send an e-letter to 3 Hershey Company Board Members—Robert Cavanaugh, James Mead & James Nevels—who also sit on the Milton Hershey School Trust Board, and demand that Hershey denounce this discrimination and facilitate the enrollment of the HIV-positive student at its school."
Ecuador to crack down on "ex-gay" torture clinics.
First openly gay MP fights religious right in Brazil: "'These churches are advancing on hearts and minds,' said Wyllys, accusing neo-pentecostal preachers of 'demonising' gay people and the followers of African-Brazilian religions such as Umbanda in order to bolster their flocks. 'For a long time they advanced silently – and now we are starting to realise the political force they have become,' he said."
Russell Crowe stands up for Ryan Gosling...
Michael Bloomberg issues 'Gossip Girl' proclamation.
Martina Navratilova lashes out at Margaret Court: "You say it is a choice to be gay; do you mean to say you had feelings for women as well as men and chose men? That might explain your certainty on the issue."
Explosive endorsement fight at WeHo Democratic Club between John Duran and Torie Osborn.
Baltimore Archdiocese investigating priest charged with indecent exposure at adult store.
UK survey: Gay actors still worried about coming out.
How Cynthia Nixon's gay "choice" statement might play in court: "Nixon, though, is framing gay rights in a new way. It's strangely reminiscent of the 'gay cures' some religious groups have promoted. They say it doesn't matter whether homosexuality is inborn. It's still wrong, in their eyes, and so people have to "learn" to change their behavior, even if they can never change their sexual preference. A desire to philander might be "inborn" or "natural," they argue, but it still has to be overcome. Nixon, of course, is on the opposite side of that same logical coin. Why, she asks, should homosexuality be any less valid if and when it is chosen?"
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Maryland's First Lady Katie O'Malley apologized today for remarks she made at NGLTF's 24th annual Creating change Conference on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equality on Thursday night.
O'Malley was speaking about the marriage equality bill that failed to pass in Maryland last year, reportedly veering from prepared remarks to lash out at lawmakers who voted against it:
"There were some cowards that prevented it from passing."
Today, O'Malley said she "let my feelings get the better of me":
“I deeply respect that there are strongly held and differing views on marriage equality in Maryland but hope that our state’s elected officials will come together to fairly address this important issue for our families and children."
Posted 1:37 PM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, Martin O'Malley, Maryland, News, NGLTF | Permalink | Comments (13)
A new video from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies maps Earth's temperatures over the past 130 years:
The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880.The finding sustains a trend that has seen the 21st century experience nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York released an analysis of how temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from the mid-20th century. The comparison shows how Earth continues to experience higher temperatures than several decades ago. The average temperature around the globe in 2011 was 0.92 degrees F (0.51 C) higher than the mid-20th century baseline.
In this animation of temperature data from 1880-2011, reds indicate temperatures higher than the average during a baseline period of 1951-1980, while blues indicate lower temperatures than the baseline average.
2011 is the ninth warmest year on record.
Watch it, AFTER THE JUMP...
Continue reading "130 Years of Global Warming, Mapped: VIDEO"
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The folks at Gay.net did a little bit of exploring and found the 1998 commercial Michael Fassbender was referring to in a recent W Magazine story when he said:
“From the start of my career, I’ve been naked. My first job was a commercial for SAS airlines. In the spot, I wake up in a pink room next to a beautiful blonde girl and get out of bed naked. From that point forward, it’s been in all of my contracts: He must be naked in this film.”
Check it out (warning not sfw), AFTER THE JUMP...
Continue reading "Where Michael Fassbender's End Got Its Start: VIDEO"
Posted 12:09 PM EST by Andy Towle in Advertising, Michael Fassbender, News | Permalink | Comments (8)
In a radio bulletin called 'Rebel Fleet Surrenders to Gay Empire' the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins urged his listeners to bombard video game maker Bioware with comments over its decision to include gay relationships in its Star Wars: The Old Republic video game, Right Wing Watch reports:
Said Perkins:
"In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists! Hello, I'm Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. In a galaxy not so far far away, Star Wars gamers have already gone to the dark side. The new video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, has added a special feature: gay relationships. Bioware, the company that developed the game, said it's launching a same-sex romance component to satisfy some complaints. That surprised a lot of gamers, since Bioware had made it clear in 2009 that "gay" and "lesbian" don't exist in the Star Wars universe."
RWW has the audio.
Posted 11:19 AM EST by Andy Towle in News, Star Wars, Tony Perkins | Permalink | Comments (26)
This is joy.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Here, Kelsey Wynns explains how he shot it.
(via the daily what)
Continue reading "A Day at the Dog Park, from a Dog's Perspective: VIDEO"
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