Monthly Archives: April 2013

French Papers React To Marriage Vote

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TODAY: Final French Marriage Vote, Police Place Water Cannons Outside Parliament
UPDATE: The Final Debate Has Begun
UPDATE II: Marriage PASSES 331-225!!!

Today at about 11:30AM New York City time, the French National Assembly will make the final legislative vote on same-sex marriage.  As the anti-gay protests have grown increasingly violent and especially in light of yesterday’s death threat against the president of the Assembly, police are taking “extraordinary” security measures. Paris police have stepped up security ahead of a final parliamentary …

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Hashtag Trending On French Twitter:
“Homosexuals Must Be Killed”

Gay Star News reports: A Twitter hashtag loosely translated as ‘Homosexuals must be killed’ is going viral before France’s National Assembly votes on gay marriage today (23 April). It is unknown where ‘Il Faut Tuer Les Homosexuels’ started from, but thousands of social networking users are tweeting about the trending topic. As Yagg.com points out, many are pointing to a …

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Visage – Shameless Fashion

One of the most famous groups of the early 80s New Romantic period releases their first new album in almost 30 years on May 6th.  The first single is OK, but it’s no Fade To Grey. This promo clip provides a convenient scrolling biography of the band.

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Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) To Retire

The Washington Post reports: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is retiring rather than seek re-election in 2014, according to two senior Democratic strategists familiar with his plans. First elected in 1978, Baucus has been the top Democrat on the powerful committee since 2001. The likely Democratic candidate to succeed him would be former governor Brian Schweitzer, sources said. …

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Press Release Of The Day

Great news from Freedom To Marry: Today all five Republicans in the Rhode Island Senate announced their support for S38, the marriage bill to end the statewide exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, and their intention to vote for it on the floor. The bill passed easily in the Rhode Island House of Representatives in January, and the state’s Senate …

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Downton Abbey: The Musical

Entertainment Weekly reports: In the parody video below, filmed at the legendary Studio 54 in New York, actor and comedian Colin Andrew Mochrie (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) plays Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes (billed in the video as Julian Alexander Kitchner-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford), who explains his decision to create a Downton musical in between cuts of …

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ENDA To Be Reintroduced On Thursday

On Thursday the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) will be reintroduced in both the House and Senate. Chris Johnson reports at Washington Blade: The bill will be reintroduced in the House by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), the most senior openly gay member of the chamber, who’s taking over the legislation now that former Rep. Barney Frank has retired. In the Senate, …

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NOM Launches Last Minute Bid Against Marriage In Delaware & Rhode Island

Yesterday afternoon NOM posted two separate items urging supporters to contact state legislators in advance to today’s marriage votes in the full Delaware House and Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee. From the Delaware post: The Delaware state Constitution does NOT offer citizens the right to overrule legislators through a voter initiative or constitutional amendment referendum. With nearly 2-1 Democratic majorities …

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Three Years Of Sun In Three Minutes

NASA explains: In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun’s rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two …

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NEVADA: State Senator Comes Out As Marriage Ban Repeal Advances

Yesterday the Nevada Senate became the very first state legislative body to overturn a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The finish line, however, is more than three years away. Chris Geidner reports at Buzzfeed: After a little more than an hour of debate in which one senator publicly declared that he was gay for the first time, the Nevada Senate …

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Anthony Weiner Returns To Twitter

Former Rep. Anthony Weiner returned to the scene of his downfall yesterday. He’s posted just two tweets so far and both link to a document titled 64 Ideas To Keep NYC The Capital Of The Middle Class.

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Hillbilly National Airport

In two weeks Little Rock National Airport officially becomes Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport in the first such re-naming for a former president and first lady.   There’s already a new nickname. “Locals are calling it the Hillbilly Airport,” one insider tells Confidenti@l. “And project managers certainly don’t want an airport named after our President called Hillbilly. In the South. …

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TRAILER: The Hunger Games 2

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David Barton: Same-Sex Marriage Is Totally Unconstitutional Because Jesus

“The Declaration erects the moral standard by talking about the laws of nature and of nature’s god.  Marriage has always been defined not only as a law of nature – now, it’s not necessarily in nature, but they called it a natural law that you should be married to one man, one woman because that is what divine law says; …

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TONIGHT: Manif Pour Tous To Stage March On French National Assembly

The final vote is today.

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Jesus Was The Original Hipster

Because he wore Chucks, apparently. Adweek writes about the new campaign from the Diocese of Brooklyn: The ad doesn’t explain this statement other than to suggest Jesus wore robes and was probably somewhat dirty a lot of the time—also (in a bit of clear revisionism) that he wore Converse sneakers. The point is rather that he was incredibly cool, though …

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Folsom Street East 2013: Canceled

The organizers of Folsom Street East announced this afternoon that this year’s event has been canceled. It is with sadness that the Producers and Board of Directors of Folsom Street East have to announce that the 17th annual Folsom Street East Street Festival this June is going to be cancelled. Though we continue to receive support for this community-building and …

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Richie Havens Dead At 72

Richie Havens has died at the age 72.   “The Roots Agency represented Richie Havens for many years and regrets to post of his passing on April 22, 2013,” the agency posted on its website. “His fiery, poignant, soulful singing style has remained unique and ageless since his historic appearance at Woodstock in 1969,” the agency continued. “For four decades, Havens …

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DE House To Vote On Marriage Tomorrow

Tomorrow the full Delaware House will vote on its marriage equality bill. State Rep. Melanie George Smith (D-Bear,) who introduced HB 75 on April 11, remains hopeful the bill will pass. “I’m confident that we have a majority of Delaware representatives — so over 21 out of the 41 — that will do the right thing and vote to support …

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