Monthly Archives: September 2013

Burning Man’s Church Trap

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Sen. Bernie Sanders On Syria

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Evan Wolfson Endorses Christine Quinn

Unlike Dustin Lance Black and George Takei, Freedom To Marry head Evan Wolfson actually lives in New York City.

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Quote Of The Day – Lynn Ellins

“Let me put it this way, some people have balls, some people don’t, alright? Some of them truly believe that they need direction from on high and they’re not willing to do a constitutional analysis. Some of them are philosophically opposed so they wouldn’t do it unless they were brought to the shed and whacked.” – Dona Ana County Clerk …

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Half Of The US Lives In These Counties

Business Insider: “Using Census data, we’ve figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000.” The list of counties is at the link.

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LAUNCHED: “Marry Me In Minneapolis”

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, seen above officiating at Minnesota’s first same-sex wedding, is in Chicago today to launch “Marry Me In Minneapolis,” a campaign that invites Illinoisans to visit his city for their gay marriages. Rybak’s message is that Chicagoans no longer have to make a long and expensive trip to the coasts to get married, just the six-hour drive …

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BRITAIN: Gay Group Nominates Lively & Robertson For 2013 Bigot Of The Year

The British LGBT rights group Stonewall has short-listed Scott Lively and Pat Robertson for their 2013 Bigot Of The Year award.  Gay Star News recaps the three other nominees: British vicar George Gebauer stunned parents Aimi and Victoria Leggett when he refused to baptize their baby because they both wanted to be named as the child’s mothers. Not only that, …

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Headlines Of The Day

Perkins is doubtlessly thrilled. Hit the headlines for the stories.

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Your WUT Moment For The Day

240K views in two days.

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Chelsea To Get “SuperPier”

Back in April, I reported that Chelsea’s Pier 57, which last year hosted an indoor version of NYC Pride’s famed Pier Dance, had been leased to retail developers who promise a massive $200M makeover.  This week the project’s management announced that the new complex will be called SuperPier. From the press release: SuperPier, when complete in the spring of 2015, …

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Martha Wash – It’s My Time

I’ve been streaming this track all summer and finally there’s a video. A dance remix EP has also just gone live on iTunes.

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RUSSIA: Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Take Children Away From Gay Parents

A member of Russia’s Duma has introduced a bill that would allow the state to to remove children from the homes of their gay parents. Pink News reports: Lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov has proposed a bill that will would deny gay parents custody over their own children. If passed it would make “non traditional sexual orientation” a basis for the deprivation …

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London’s “Fryscraper” Melts Cars

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Brian Brown Has The Cuomo Sadz

“Does anyone really need to guess? It’s payback. Come on. Cuomo talks a lot about corruption, but when his buddies vote his way, he’s more than willing to give them a high-paying job in the administration. That’s all this is. Give me a break.” – Hate group leader Brian Brown, in his 15th consecutive case of the sadz. This time …

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An Alternative NYC Subway Map

I came across this schematic version of the NYC subway map last night. Its creator spoke to Gothamist last month: “Personally, I think that every large network should always issue two maps, a good geographical map and a good diagram so that people can choose which they prefer. Paris and Berlin offer both, London only a diagram, New York only …

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Matt Barber On “Moochelle”

Two days ago the decidedly not slim Barber called the First Lady “Moochelle.” Looks like he got some blowback from his own people.

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Perkins Cheers Texas National Guard

“Major General John Nichols, the commanding general of Texas Military Forces, made it clear that the state’s marriage law came first. If Guardsmen want to take advantage of the Pentagon’s directive, Nichols said they’d have to enroll at a federal installation. In a letter to local service members, he stood his ground on the Texas Constitution, which only recognizes man-woman …

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TRAILER: Salinger

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Open Thread Thursday

Tell us about your summer. Any big travel? Burning Man?

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Yet Another Weiner Incident [UPDATED]

UDPATE: The Weiner campaign has released a longer video of today’s confrontation in which the Orthodox Jewish man heckling him can be heard slamming Weiner for being “married to an Arab.” UPDATE NOTE: The video below, which was picked up by numerous sites, was posted by blogger Jacob Kornbluh and it is not known if he edited out the “married …

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