Chris Geidner explains at Metro Weekly: The long anticipated ruling is expected to address three issues: (1) whether former U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself from hearing the case because he is gay and had a long-time partner with whom he was not married; (2) whether the proponents of Proposition 8 have the right to appeal …
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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch
Clip description: “Another crazy week, with news in the Prop 8 case and major advances in Washington, New Jersey, and Maryland. And yet another court has slapped down NOM’s attempts to evade financial disclosure laws.”
Read More »UMass Students React To Super Bowl
I wouldn’t quite call it a “riot,” but maybe throwing beer bottles at cops qualifies. Dumbassery on parade.(Tipped by JMG reader Chelsea)
Read More »Hackers Hit Komen Site
Details.
Read More »A Map For Chris “Let Them Vote” Christie
He’s since issued an insincere apology, but likely with Chris Christie in mind, today Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera posts several maps showing the state of civil rights before landmark court rulings and legislative decisions.
Read More »Maureen Dowd On Callista Gingrich
“The 45-year-old Callista has created an entirely new model for a spouse, standing mute in her primary color suits and triple-strand pearls looking at the 68-year-old Newt for the whole event, her platinum carapace inclined deferentially toward his shaggy gray mane. While a trophy wife is admired by her man, the admiring eyes of a Transformational Wife are there to …
Read More »TRAILER: Kidnapped For Christ
From the film’s about page: The film centers on the story of David, a straight-A student from Colorado who was sent to Escuela Caribe in May of 2006 after coming out to his parents as gay. Like many others, David was taken in the night without warning by a “transport service” and was never told where he was going or …
Read More »Gardasil May Protect Against Anal Cancer
In a small study involving HIV-negative gay men, the HPV vaccine Gardasil was shown to reduce the risk of anal cancer. The vaccine reduced the risk of lesion recurrence by approximately 50% in the first two years after immunisation. There was some evidence that the protective effects of the vaccine waned after this point. “This is the first study to …
Read More »The Brotherhood Of NBC
I really really liked this.
Read More »NYPD Breaks Up HRC Gala Protest
Despite having been given assurances that they could peaceably protest on the sidewalk outside Manhattan’s glitzy Waldorf-Astoria, on Saturday the NYPD broke up the Occupy Wall Street demonstration during the Human Rights Campaign $650/plate gala to honor Goldman Sachs. Via press release: In NYC Saturday night, February 4, 2012, approximately 80 LGBT grassroots activists from a variety of groups united …
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