Monthly Archives: May 2009

30+ House Reps Introduce DC DOMA

Two Democrats and about 30 Republican House members have co-sponsored a Defense Of Marriage Act for Washington DC in response to the DC City Council’s recent vote to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. A Republican-led group of lawmakers wants to define marriage in the District of Columbia as between a man and a woman. The group introduced a bill …

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BREAKING: Prop 8 Ruling TUESDAY

IT’S ON. (PDF) The California Supreme Court will issue its ruling on Proposition 8 at 10am Tuesday, west coast time.

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Meghan Mccain Tweets And Writes In Support Of Same-Sex Marriage In NY

From rising GOP star Meghan McCain’s opinion piece in today’s NY Daily News: As Republicans, we understand the importance of strong communities. Last week, the New York Assembly passed the marriage bill with the support of five Republican Assembly members. Now, the bill goes before the state Senate, where Republican senators will make the difference on whether the bill becomes …

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Maine’s Catholic Diocese May Be Violating Tax Laws In Gay Marriage Attack

Maine activists have filed a complaint with the IRS charging that the Maine Catholic diocese is violating its tax exempt status by funding a ballot referendum drive to repeal same-sex marriage. The Empowering Spirits Foundation said its challenge was filed Wednesday at an Internal Revenue Service office in Dallas. The San Diego-based group said the diocese is engaging in political …

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Washington State Domestic Partners Repeal Effort Will Be….Weighty

The haters behind Referendum 71, the petition effort to repeal Washington state’s new “everything but marriage” domestic partners law, have a little problem on their hands. State law requires that repeal petitions carry the full wording of the law they are trying to turn back. But how are they going to accomplish that when the domestic partners bill is 114 …

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Idols Rock iTunes Chart

Three tracks from Kris Allen, one from Adam Lambert, one from last year’s winner David Cook, as well some of the guest performers from American Idol’s final all crowd the top of today’s iTunes national downloads chart, although Wednesday’s premiere of Glee provides the country’s top downloaded tune – a cover of Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. Really. Via Billboard: Multiple …

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Baghdad: U.S. Embassy To Host Pride Party As Local Gays Cower In Darkness

The U.S. Embassy in Baghad will be hosting a gay pride celebration which include a drag show. Meanwhile local gays continue to be rounded up and murdered. Insensitive? Change has certainly come to Baghdad. And it appears that includes the U.S. Embassy, where they are holding what the invitation says is the first-ever U.S. Embassy Gay Pride Theme Party next …

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Male Pair Auditions On Season Premiere Of So You Think You Can Dance

And homophobia reigns. In a first for the show, last night’s season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance featured a male couple (one straight, one gay). Who both fell on their asses. Damn. The judges didn’t like the idea of a male pair at all, with one saying, “I think you’d probably alienate our audience” and “I like …

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Texas Mayor Resigns To Move To Mexico With Undocumented Immigrant Partner

Mayor J.W. Lown of San Angelo, Texas sent a FedEx to his city council to let them know he had moved to Mexico so that he could be with his partner, who had been in the United States illegally. J W Lown was elected in 2003 as the city’s youngest ever mayor at the age of 32. He has been …

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Dog-O-Matic

From the French, a coin-operated dog wash. Maybe this works for those cheese-eating surrender dogs they have in France, but I think American dogs would take a very dim view of being shoved into a washing machine. (Via – By The Bayou)

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White Nights Riot: 30th Anniversary

Thirty years ago last night, in the largest violent disturbance in the history of the LGBT movement, thousands of gay people rioted in the streets of San Francisco after Supervisor Dan White was given only a 7-year sentence for the murder of Harvey Milk. After the crowd burned more than a dozen police cruisers in front of City Hall, dozens …

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Bankruptcy For GM

General Motors will get another $30B in bailout loans as it steers the company into bankruptcy next week. The Obama administration is preparing to send General Motors into bankruptcy as early as the end of next week under a plan that would give the automaker tens of billions of dollars more in public financing as the company seeks to shrink …

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Natalie Cole Gets New Kidney

Natalie Cole, who was clearly in pain and out of breath during a recent American Idol appearance, received a kidney transplant yesterday in Los Angeles. Cole, the 59-year-old daughter of R&B legend Nat “King” Cole, underwent surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The kidney came from a deceased organ donor, the spokeswoman said in a statement. …

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Ana Marie Cox On Maddow Re: DADT

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Vancouver Salutes Michael Phelps…

..with their doobie-shaped Olympic torch. (Via – BStewart23)

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Quote Of The Day – Ron Reagan Jr.

“Limbaugh hasn’t had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he’s compensating for something? Now, I wouldn’t pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection—none of that stuff—to me, off limits until! until! Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else—once you …

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Illinois Close On Civil Unions

The Washington Blade is reporting that the Illinois General Assembly is set to approve civil unions next week. Rick Garcia, political director for Equality Illinois, said Thursday he’s “absolutely” expecting the full state House and the Senate to pass a civil union measure either Tuesday or Wednesday. The bill has support from Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D). The House Youth …

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Spatial Relationships

Here’s a visual depiction of the city space required to provide transportation to 72 people. (Via – Richard Florida)

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NAMES Project Creator Cleve Jones Endorses Call For March On Washington

Cleve Jones, the creator of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt and former campaign worker for Harvey Milk, has endorsed David Mixner’s call for a new March On Washington. Via Towleroad: “Sadly, at the very moment we are poised to reach our greatest goals, President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress have turned their backs, forgotten their promises and …

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Birthers Launch Billboard Campaign

Sponsored by Christianist site World Net Daily, the “birthers,” a particularly nasty subset of wingnuts who believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, have launched a national billboard campaign demanding “Where’s The Birth Certificate?” The idea behind the billboard campaign is to make sure Obama cannot avoid this question any longer. He must be asked to …

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