“Barbra Streisand is a hypocrite. If she had made my play about AIDS, The Normal Heart, in 1986, when she first acquired the rights, only to sit on them for a full ten years without filming it, she could have done something for gay rights when we were really in the sewer of death. But no, she chose to go …
Read More »Wendy Wright is truly one of the most vile, smug, repulsive creatures you’ll ever see on television.
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My last reminder: If you are in NYC tonight please consider joining me, Jeremy Hooper, and Pam Spaulding at Therapy in Hell’s Kitchen as we co-host a special netroots fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The event runs 6pm-9pm with a $20 donation. Facebook event page here. And please join Out For Kirsten’s Facebook page. Openly gay NY state Assemblyman …
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Today Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled 8-2 that the legalization of same-sex marriage in the nation’s capital did not violate the Mexican constitution. Mexico City legalized gay marriage in March, but the ruling was challenged with the backing of the Catholic Church. Today’s decision not only squashed that challenge, it further stipulated that gay couples were free to adopt. How long …
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Elena Kagan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate this afternoon in a largely partisan vote of 63-37. Kagan becomes the fourth woman to sit on the Supreme Court, despite the ranting protestations of virtually all anti-gay groups, especially the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, who testified against Kagan before Congress. Two solid wins for the good guys in two days! …
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“Walker’s ruling, however, is not a policy brief, but a judicial decision striking down a popular provision in the California Constitution stipulating that the state only recognize unions between one man and one woman as ‘marriages.’ With his decision, the judge prevented the people from settling the controversial issue of how states could recognize same-sex couples and personally assuming the …
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Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has bowed to national outrage and issued an apology (just to his employees, so far) for funding an anti-gay Minnesota PAC to the tune of $150,000. Steinhafel’s letter says the company “will more closely scrutinize” political donations in the future. Minnesota Forward, the recipient of Target’s dough, funneled the money to anti-gay candidate for governor, Tom …
Read More »CNN’s Rick Sanchez gets all up in Tony Perkins’ grill. Not a fan of Sanchez usually, but this is good.
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