According to the U.S. Census, the number of Italian-born residents of Manhattan’s Little Italy is now zero. A census survey released in December determined that the proportion of Italian-Americans among the 8,600 residents in the same two-dozen-square-block area of Lower Manhattan had shrunk to about 5 percent. And, incredibly, the census could not find a single resident who had been …
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Matt Barber: GOProud Has United Conservatives Against Gays
HomoQuotable – Michael Lucas
“I’m preparing to organize a boycott that would certainly involve some of the [NYC LGBT] Center’s most generous donors. It was an inexcusable decision on the Center’s part to associate itself with a hate group like Israeli Apartheid Week, but there’s still time for them to reverse course and begin restoring their reputation.” “At first I thought this was a …
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BRITAIN: Turnabout For Gay Hotels
After a British court fined the owners of a bed-and-breakfast for turning away gay couples, attention has turned to gay hotels and guesthouses who may similarly discourage the patronage of heterosexuals. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is examining whether “gay-only” guesthouses breach new laws designed to prevent people being treated unfairly in the provision of goods or services. Last …
Read More »Bad News For NOM: Supreme Court Lets Stand WA Campaign Disclosure Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a Washington state anti-assisted suicide group that has refused to disclose the names of its donors. Last week NOM lost a similar battle to cloak its donors in Maine and some have expected them to take their appeal to SCOTUS. The court on Tuesday let stand without comment a …
Read More »Sarah Palin Has A Fake Facebook Account
So that she can praise herself on her own official page. Wonkette has the scoop: Sarah Palin has apparently created a second Facebook account with her Gmail address so that this fake “Lou Sarah” person can praise the other Sarah Palin on Facebook. The Gmail address is available for anyone to see in this leaked manuscript about Sarah Palin, and …
Read More »Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single
You might enjoy this bit of music trivia – five seconds of every #1 pop song ever. You may surprised to realize that you can sing along to every bit of it. Part two begins in 1983.
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Another 80s retro electro flashback.
Read More »Holy Ghost Wrecking Machines
WTF is going on here? UPDATE: Right Wing Watch points us to their post about this nutter, Pastor Todd Bentley, founder of the dominionist group Joel’s Army and BFF of anti-gay freak show Lou Engle. From a 2008 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center: Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, …
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