Monthly Archives: November 2014

Tired Old Queen At The Movies #127

Clip recap: James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves turn in subtle and brilliant performances in Merchant Ivory’s adaptation of E. M. Forster’s romantic, gay love story; “Maurice” (1987). Published after Forester’s death and hidden for decades, it concerns the romance of a two young men at Cambridge at the turn of the century, what their love affair costs them …

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Guest Post: Carl Siciliano

“We won’t have a faggot in our house.” Those are the words M heard after his mother died of cancer. He was 16. His mom had loved and accepted him. But not his aunt and uncle. They took in his little brother, but left M to fend for himself in the streets. M lived in a town in Florida that …

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Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped In Red

Strangely enough, this new clip is from last year’s Christmas album by Clarkson. Lovely track, nevertheless.

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Garth Brooks Cancels Gig Over Ferguson

Brooks was scheduled to perform on the Tonight Show.

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Mississippi Asks Fifth Circuit To Extend Marriage Stay: Don’t Turn Us Into Utah

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and state Attorney General Jim Hood this afternoon filed a motion with the Fifth Circuit Court which demands an indefinite stay extension on yesterday’s ruling by a federal district court. That court’s stay is scheduled to expire in two weeks and according to today’s filing, unless an emergency extension is granted, there will be another “debacle” …

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Canada Joins Twitter

I wonder how much they paid the person who’s been sitting that handle all this time. Twitter officially bans the sale of its handles, but some are known to have gone for upwards of six figures.

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FLORIDA: Lawmakers Introduce Sweeping LGBT Anti-Discrimination Bill

Via Equality Florida: Earlier today, Representative Holly Raschein (R- Key Largo) and Democratic Whip Senator Joseph Abruzzo (D- Boynton Beach) filed legislation in the Florida House and Senate respectively that would prohibit discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) in employment, housing and public accommodations. Known as the Florida Competitive Workforce Act (FCWA), the legislation would amend Chapter …

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Pat Robertson: Gay Rights Are Destroying Everything The Pilgrims Worked For

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Have Yourself A Merry Little Mythmas

“Keep the yuletide gay. If your son is, keep him locked away.” (Tipped by JMG reader Doug)

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This Week’s New Yorker

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Local Haters Have The Arkansas Sadz

“This is another example of judicial tyranny. Arkansans voted overwhelmingly to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Their elected officials voted for that definition when they passed Arkansas’ Defense of Marriage Act. By issuing this ruling, one federal judge is saying seventy-five percent of Arkansas voters and lawmakers do not matter. If that isn’t tyranny, …

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The American Family Association Has The Mississippi And Arkansas Super Sadz

“The federal judiciary has mutated into a gargantuan beast, looming over liberty, freedom and the Constitution itself, and imposing its own benighted and twisted version of morality on the entire country with no legal, statutory, constitutional or moral authority. But it has no police force it can order to arrest or detain anyone. If its unconstitutional rulings are ignored, what …

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Erasure – Reason

This is the second single from The Violet Flame, which is now available. Their current tour concludes in Manhattan on December 30th and 31st at Terminal 5.  Erasure first entered the US charts 29 years ago with Who Needs Love Like That, which peaked at #8. The first single from the new album, Elevation,  peaked last month at #3.

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MISSISSIPPI: State Files Notice Of Appeal

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and state Attorney General Jim Hood today filed notice that they will appeal yesterday’s marriage ban ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court, whose jurisdiction includes that state, Louisiana, and Texas. The Fifth Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the Texas and Louisiana cases on January 5th and it seems likely that Mississippi will be …

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Most-Googled Thanksgiving Recipes

Frog eye salad. Dirt pudding. Pretzel salad. Never heard of ’em. Embiggen or go here for details.

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Emergency Heart Surgery For RBG

Via the New York Daily News: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a heart stent implanted to address artery blockage. The 81-year-old justice underwent the procedure Wednesday morning at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in D.C., the court revealed. “The coronary blockage was discovered after Justice Ginsburg experienced discomfort during routine exercise last night and was taken to the …

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Todd Starnes, Literary Bad Boy

“I called the public library and had a very nice chat with the librarian. She confirmed that my book had indeed been turned away. She said there were not enough ‘professional reviews.’ The librarian also said they had limited space for books. ‘We have a really small library,’ she said. ‘Real estate on our shelves is very valuable.’ That’s understandable. …

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Viral Video Of The Day

Via Raw Story: In the video embedded below, fundamentalist Christian home-school mom and conservative cultural critic Megan Fox — no relation to “Transformers” actress Megyn Fox — visits the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and purports to “audit” the museum for its “liberal bias.” In the description of the 30 minute video she uploaded to YouTube to document …

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TEXAS: State Claims To Be Surprised By Request To Lift Marriage Stay

Via the Houston Chronicle: Texas officials want a federal judge to uphold the state’s same-sex marriage ban, calling a request by gay couples to be allowed to immediately marry “untimely” and “out of order.” “The plaintiffs offer no explanation for why they waited so long to file their motion,”Attorney General Greg Abbott wrote in a court document filed Tuesday. “They …

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BRITAIN: Christian Group Battles For The Right To Discriminate Against Gays

Britain’s Coalition For Marriage (C4M) is continuing their battle for a “conscience clause” which would allow Christian-owned businesses to refuse to serve gay people. You might recall that during Britain’s campaign for marriage equality, C4M posted dozens of anti-gay clips in the style of the infamous Minnesota Marriage Minute series, in which a dour-faced woman contended that civilization would come …

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