Monthly Archives: November 2008

HomoQuotable – Jasmyne Cannick

“I am a perfect example of why the fight against Proposition 8, which amends California’s Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, failed to win black support. I am black. I am a political activist who cares deeply about social justice issues. I am a lesbian. This year, I canvassed the streets of South Los Angeles and Compton, knocking on doors, talking …

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Moscow Promises Safety For Gays At Eurovision 2009

Even though gay rights marches have been banned there, Moscow authorities say that gay Eurovision fans will be safe when the city hosts the contest next year. Activists aren’t convinced. A leading Russian gay rights activist has accused the Moscow authorities of “pure hypocrisy” after an official gave assurances about the safety of gay people attending next year’s Eurovision Song …

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Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) Says Obama Will Be A Fascist Dictator

Rep. Paul Broun says that Barack Obama’s is planning a Gestapo-like civilian force to impose a dictatorship. “He’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Paul Broun said. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may —- may not, I hope not —- but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy …

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“Gay Anarchists” Disrupt Church Service

This story from Michigan is so bizarre, I’m not sure what it was meant to achieve. A gay anarchist group infiltrated the Mt. Hope Church in Eaton County Sunday morning, disrupting a service by pulling a fire alarm, dropping leaflets and yelling at parishioners, a pastor said. The group, Bash Back, was simultaneously picketing outside the church, beating on buckets …

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CA Lawmakers Call For Prop 8 Overturn

California legislators are banding together in a call for the overturn of Proposition 8. More than one-third of California’s lawmakers added their voices Monday to the chorus calling on the state’s highest court to overturn the prohibition on same-sex marriage approved by voters last week. Forty-four members of the California Legislature filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support one of the …

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Mormons Are Posthumously Baptizing Dead Jews, Living Jews Not Amused

From the You Can’t Make It Up file: Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to …

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Tonight: Sign Making At The NYC LBGT Center For Tomorrow’s Mormon Protest

In advance to tomorrow’s marriage equality rally at the Mormon temple on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, pre-protest organizing and sign making will take place tonight at the NYC LGBT Center. Via Eric Leven: We need folks to come help and make posters on Tuesday night at the LGBT Center on 13th Street between 7th Avenue and Greenwich. We have room …

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Palm Springs: Prop 8 Protest Gets Nasty

When a woman counter-protested against marriage equality advocates in Palm Springs, the giant cross she was carrying was ripped from her hands and thrown to the ground and stomped upon. Really ugly scene.

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Keith Olbermann Gives Most Amazing Defense Of Marriage Equality Ever Heard

I dare you to watch this and not weep.

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The People’s Premiere Of Milk

Last night at the Castro Theater I attended the “People’s Premiere” of Milk, the Harvey Milk biopic by Gus Van Zant that opens nationwide on November 26th, the day before the 30th anniversary of Milk’s assassination. My longtime buddy Robert Cameron is the VP of Brand Marketing for Levi Strauss, the presenting sponsor of this premiere, and he was kind …

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Obama To End Abstinence-Based AIDS Education And Family Planning

Some excellent early news on the Obama administration comes via Wonk Room: Advisers to President-elect Barack Obama are indicating that “Obama will reverse U.S. family planning and AIDS prevention strategies that have long linked global funding to anti-abortion and abstinence education.” The Obama reversal is a return to an approach that is based on solid evidence and public health rather …

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It Was A Million To One Shot, Doc

Via the Telegraph: A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom – and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked. The clergyman, in his 50s, told nurses he had been hanging curtains when he fell backwards on to his kitchen table. He happened to be nude at the time of the …

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Blame The Catholics Too

According to the SF Chronicle, the Mormon Church didn’t join into the marriage equality battle until the Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco invited them. Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he …

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Never EVER Cross A Show Queen

The title of this post is lifted from John Aravosis at AmericaBlog who reports: A friend tells me that there’s a BIG musical theater in Sacramento, California called the California Music theater. It’s been around for decades and, you might be shocked by this, but apparently there are gays who work in musical theater. Well, anyway, word get around in …

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Drew Barrymore Speaks Out On Prop 8

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Morning View – Prayer Station

Dr. Jeff sends in this shot of the Prayer Station he came across on the Upper East Side. It’s an art installation. Dylan Mortimer’s work deals with how private faith functions in the public realm. The interactive Public Prayer Booth is a synthesis of a telephone booth and a prayer station. The viewer can flip down a kneeler and engage …

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Gonna Dress You Up In Mylar

Last night my buddy Leif Wauters (below right, with the silver claw) took me to Oakland for a giant sci-fi themed 40th birthday party for local bear Noel Casale, pictured here showing his expired Logan’s Run light. The party was held at Bench And Bar, a cavernous gay Latino club which was wall-to-wall mylar and tin-foil adorned bears. Crazy, fun, …

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AIDS Cure Breakthrough?

An accidental discovery in Germany may provide a breakthrough in curing AIDS. The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the far edges of AIDS research might someday cure the disease. The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin, is still recovering from his …

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Maddow On The Black Vote For Prop 8

Rachel Maddow and Melissa Harris-Lacewell discuss whether Prop 8 was properly explained to African-Americans.

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