He can even claim that he isn’t lying! Because being the good God-fearing Christian that he is, he would hate to be called a liar. Se that comment about “freedom”? That really means religious freedom, and that means keeping marriage safe from the homosexuals. That means supporting religious people who don’t want to sign marriage licenses, or make wedding cakes or otherwise provide services to gay people.
I don’t know why we know so little about the great work that groups like ACT UP did, and perhaps this book will illuminate this, but too soon for me to tell, having only completed the Forward. Do we not know, because no one thought it important enough to document and pass along/teach? Do we not know, because the larger culture is stil uncomfortable with a very queer movement, and the stigma of AIDS still creates a blockage to adequate discourse?
This is from a Salon article about Occupy Des Moines: Welcome to the latest and perhaps most unique iteration of Occupy Wall Street, where a splinter cell of Occupy Des Moines protestors, many of them former Obama supporters, are heading the movement’s first significant injection of street politics into electoral politics. And if what’s happening in Iowa augurs anything for the 2012 cycle, Democrats nationwide will be facing a vote of no confidence from former[Read More…]
Saw this via Twitter: Follow GLBTadvocates for more good stuff!
Especially as I sit in QUILTBAG meetings, I realize that this younger generation of activists have all the right motivations and passion, but in many ways are re-inventing the wheel all over, sometimes spinning their wheels. Got me wondering if there were any great boks out there to help articulate the lessons learned from ACT UP or other grass roots movements.
I love this time of year where I can look back over the past year and see what it means based on what has happened on the blog. In general, it was a very good year for my blog with pageviews up, the loyalty of my visitors also up. The year also showed site visits down, but that may be due at least in part to the fact that the number of posts for the[Read More…]
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta (left) shares a historic kiss with her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, at Fort Story in Virginia Beach on Wednesday. It’s a tradition at Navy homecomings that one sailor is chosen by raffle to be first off the ship to kiss a loved one. This time, for the first time, the reunited couple was same-sex. The picture is worth a million words! Follow the link[Read More…]
The entire apology is a good read, and here is just the start of it. “On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community’s successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage,” reads the letter from John Medeiros. “We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own[Read More…]
Gingrich is a danger to the American people, not only because he is at war with Islam, but because, he can not distinguish the divisions between the Constitution, and Religious Law in general.
PA HB 934 is a discriminatory, unnecessary, and costly effort that will limit access to vote by many Pennsylvanians, and now it has passed out of the Senate Government committee. Here is more about the bill: https://equalitypartners.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/pa-senate-discriminatory-hb93-voter-id-bill/