Monthly Archives: May 2014

FLORIDA: State Rep Says Standardized Testing Is Meant To Turn Kids Gay

Florida’s Commission of Education yesterday denounced a GOP state legislator who claims that standardized testing is designed to turn students gay. Via the Associated Press: American Institutes for Research is administering new statewide tests for students in Florida. The testing aligns with the nationwide Common Core standards that some states have accepted while others have rejected. Republican Rep. Charles Van …

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Andrew Solomon’s TED Talk On Bullying, Name-Calling, And Growing Up Gay

Via the TED Talk website: Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since. In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon gives a powerful call to …

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BREAKING: Pennsylvania Governor WILL NOT Appeal Marriage Equality Ruling!

“I have thoroughly reviewed Judge Jones’ opinion in the Whitewood case. Given the high legal threshold set forth by Judge Jones in this case, the case is extremely unlikely to succeed on appeal. Therefore, after review of the opinion and on the advice of my Commonwealth legal team, I have decided not to appeal Judge Jones’ decision. As a Roman …

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MONTANA: First Marriage Suit Filed, Dem Gov. Steve Bullock Welcomes Action

Via the Associated Press: Four gay couples are suing Montana over its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. That leaves North Dakota and South Dakota as the only two states with gay marriage bans and no lawsuits seeking to overturn them. The Montana lawsuit was being filed Wednesday in federal court in Great Falls, with help from the Montana ACLU. It …

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Russell Crowe Rejects Brunei Boycott

The New York Post reports that the Sultan-owned Beverly Hotel is now a ghost town and hundreds of workers have been taken off the schedule “Business really began dropping off six weeks ago,” one employee told me. “We knew it was coming. But then it exploded with the celebrity boycott.” Much of the 650-person staff has been told to stay …

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eBay: Change Your Passwords Now

Via the Telegraph: Online auction site eBay is telling all 233M of its users to change their passwords following a “cyber attack” which compromised a database of account information. It is thought that hackers managed to access some eBay employee log-ins which gave access to the company’s corporate network. From there the attackers were able to access the database containing …

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FLORIDA: Marriage Hearing Set For July

Via Equality Florida: Our Marriage Equality Lawsuit Hearing has been scheduled for July 2nd at 4pm in front of Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel. The suit is on behalf of six South Florida same-sex couples and the Equality Florida Institute challenging that Amendment 2 and other Florida laws banning marriage equality are unconstitutional. The initial lawsuit was filed in January, …

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Linda Harvey: Truvada For HIV Prevention Will Lead To Racial Cleansing

“Again, our country’s most well educated professionals will subvert common sense, the results of research, and any inclination to do what’s objectively right, to political correctness. Abstinence is off the table. And the joke is on us, the adults, because we are sacrificing our precious children as a result. Especially at risk from a protocol like PReP are young minority …

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One Million Moms Claims “Victory” Over Poorly Rated Television Shows

Just in via email: Joe, We have so much to be grateful for and to celebrate. There are several wins to announce! After we began consistently contacting the sponsors of the shows “Bad Teacher,” “Dracula” and “Dads,” the announcement recently was made that these programs have been canceled after only one season! One Million Moms continues to stand up for …

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CDC Launches New HIV Campaign

The Centers for Disease Control has launched a new series of 30-second PSAs on HIV prevention, some of which mention “new options like medicines that prevent HIV” – a reference to Truvada. The Human Rights Campaign applauds: “We commend the CDC for launching this campaign and look forward to working with them and others to raise awareness about HIV prevention …

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GALLUP: 55% Back Gay Marriage

Gallup reports: Americans’ support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%. Marriage equality advocates have had a string of legal successes over the past year, most recently this week in Pennsylvania and Oregon where federal judges struck down bans on gay marriage. Two successive Gallup polls in 2012 saw support climb …

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Larry Kramer’s Fight For The Normal Heart

The HBO movie debuts on Sunday at 9PM.

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CALIFORNIA: Assembly To Hear Bill Mandating Condom Use In Porn

The California Assembly will today hear AB1576, a bill that mandates condom use in all porn productions statewide. A similar law was approved by Los Angeles County in 2012. The bill is sponsored by Assembly member Isadora Hall, who is a Baptist minister. Its chief proponent outside the legislature is the combative Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which has made …

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Teabaggers Had A Not So Super Tuesday

Tea Party candidates were universally trounced in yesterday’s GOP primaries. Last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell decisively beat his tea party challenger by 24 percentage points. It’s the latest big beat for the tea party, and further proof of a growing trend. While the tea party has been successful when pushing candidates to the right in open seat Republican …

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Stereogamous & Shaun Wright – Sweat

These guys have just been booked to play Folsom.

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NOM Loses Again, Ninth Circuit Court Upholds Prop 8 Donor Disclosure Law

NOM has lost again. In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the California law which requires that names of donors to public ballot measures be made public. Sponsors of Proposition 8, the now-overturned initiative allowing only opposite-sex couples to marry in the state, complied with the disclosure law during the 2008 campaign and said some …

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At The Pittsburgh Celebration

Stick around for the proposal.

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Philadelphia Archbishop Has The Sadz

“The federal district court decision striking down Pennsylvania’s Defense of Marriage Act is a mistake with long-term, negative consequences. Like many other Pennsylvanians, I hope that an appeal will be made promptly. Laws that defend the traditional definition of marriage were enacted for sound reasons—namely to defend the rights of children and contribute to the well-being of the larger community. …

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The Knife Without You

A typically bizarre clip from Swedish weirdster Fever Ray and her brother. From their coming EP Shaken Up Versions, which will be remixes from their catalog.

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More Douchery From Pat Sajak

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