Monthly Archives: November 2012

NOM Hawks Anti-Gay Tattoos

(Via Good As You)

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At New Delhi Pride 2012

The Times Of India reports that a small but exuberant crowd demonstrated this weekend at New Delhi’s fifth gay pride event. In spite of the prying eyes and shocked stares, the LGBT community in the capital came out once again in rainbow colours on Sunday to reinforce their identities. Almost three years after the judiciary decriminalized consensual sex among homosexuals, …

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NEW YORK CITY: Philly Gay Couple To Reopen Tavern On The Green

Crain’s New York Business profiles the well-connected Philadelphia gay couple who will re-open Central Park’s legendary Tavern On The Green, which closed in bankruptcy in 2009 after almost 75 years in business. Philadelphia restaurateurs Jim Caiola and David Salama celebrated this summer when they were selected by the Bloomberg administration over several local heavyweights to run Tavern on the Green. …

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Lesbian Republican “Feels No Guilt” About Her Role In The Creation Of DOMA

The New York Times reports on Kathryn Lehman, a recently out Republican lawyer who in 1996 played a role in the creation of DOMA. Today, Ms. Lehman, 53, no longer has a husband, and no longer identifies as straight. And she is a lobbyist for Freedom to Marry, which is devoted to overturning the very law she helped write, the …

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Separatists Win In Catalonia

Pro-secession parties won a commanding number of seats yesterday in Spain’s Catalonia region. Flying pro-independence flags – a lone star against yellow and red stripes – Catalan voters on Sunday handed 87 seats, almost two-thirds of the local parliament, to four different parties that want a referendum on secession. But voters also punished the movement’s figurehead, Catalan President Artur Mas. …

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Christian TV On “Ex-Gay” Therapy

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SPOILER: The Walking Dead

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.

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Bryan Fischer Cheers Uganda

Homosexuality is just as illegal in Uganda today as it ever was, but don’t let pesky little facts interfere with the American Family Association’s crusade to see every LGBT American thrown in prison.

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ABU DHABI: Christo’s Oil Barrel Work To Be World’s Largest Sculpture

Famed “wrapping artist” Christo is planning a massive oil barrel installation in Abu Dhabi that he says will be the world’s largest permanent sculpture. Via yesterday’s Guardian: A 150-metre-high, flat-topped pyramid would be taller than St Paul’s Cathedral or St Peter’s Basilica and would overshadow the Great Pyramid of Giza – creating Abu Dhabi’s answer to Egypt’s pyramids or Mecca’s …

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Mika – Underwater

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Catalonia Votes Today On Secession

Spain’s Catalonia region is voting today on secession. If the pro-secession party wins a majority, a referendum on independence would likely follow within two years. More than 8,000 polling stations opened across the northeastern region at 9 a.m. local time today to select 135 lawmakers who will decide whether to press on with regional President Artur Mas’s plan for a …

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Morning View: Upper East Side

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NEW JERSEY: Gay Groups Encourage Cory Booker To Challenge Christie In 2013

The Newark Star-Ledger today reports that both Garden State Equality and the Human Rights Campaign are encouraging Mayor Cory Booker to challenge Gov. Chris Christie in his 2013 re-election bid. Steve Goldstein, the head of New Jersey’s largest gay rights organization, says he’ll go “door to door from New Jersey to West Hollywood to raise millions of dollars” if Newark …

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On The Rising Seas

Today the New York Times posted interactive maps of a dozen coastal cities to demonstrate the flooding that will take place if the seas continue to rise due to climate change. Above is their prediction of what the New York City area might look like if the seas rise as much as 25 feet in coming centuries. (Miami would be …

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You Can’t Be A Democrat & Go To Heaven

A Kentucky public high school teacher has been reprimanded and forced to apologize after writing “You can’t be a Democrat & go to heaven” on her classroom’s white board. According to Superintendent Doug Bennett, the accused teacher, Kendra Baker, heard the statement from a student then proceeded to write it on her board. The statement was not a part of …

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Morgan Freeman For Marriage

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Scott Lively: I Support Uganda’s Life Imprisonment Plan For Homosexuals

Hate group leader Scott Lively is super-pleased that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has celebrated the 50th anniversary of independence from Britain by publicly repenting of his sins and the sins of his nation. Lively also “supports the nation’s strong stance against homosexual behavior” via its pending plan to inflict life imprisonment upon LGBT people and our allies. Via World Net …

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NOM Warns: There Are GAYS In Dorms

(Via Good As You)

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Boeing: No Pension Survivor Benefits For Washington State Gay Couples?

A union negotiator tells Seattle’s Stranger that Washington-based Boeing does not intend to extend pension survivor benefits to the husbands and wives of married gay employees. Representing 23,000 Boeing engineers and technical workers, Ray Goforth is executive director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001. He was sitting at the negotiation table today—as part …

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Morning View – Microsoft Times Square

Microsoft’s pop-up store in Times Square opened in late October to launch the Surface tablet.  Planet Hollywood occupied that corner for years but closed in June in order to split the space between a smaller version of itself and the Orlando-based Buca di Beppo, which next spring will join Applebee’s, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesday, Chevys, TGI Friday’s, and …

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