Slate recaps this newly-animated interview posted by PBS: Liberace explains his kitschy sartorial choices to journalist Jay Kent Hackleman in the summer of 1968. The conversation, which crackles with a kind of adversarial energy from the start, is telling: The interviewer’s initial annunciation of “garb” is soaked in knowing hostility, and Liberace immediately defends his super-gay style in terms of …
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NORTH CAROLINA: Magistrate Resigns Rather Than Marry Gay Couples
Via the Winston-Salem Journal: A Rockingham County magistrate submitted his resignation Thursday, saying he couldn’t marry same-sex couples because it violates his religious beliefs. Magistrate John Kallam Jr. sent a letter to Chief District Court Judge Fred Wilkins and said he couldn’t fulfill his oath of office after same-sex marriage became legal in North Carolina. His resignation is effective Oct. …
Read More »Rick Scott Does Fangate Damage Control
Scott is beyond ridiculous.
Read More »Liza With A Tree
Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS has issued this year’s fundraising holiday ornament. The zeventh ornament in our Broadway Legends ornament series—yes, that’s seventh with a “z”—is the beloved Broadway superstar Liza Minnelli! Draped in a sexy red sequined outfit, our Liza conjures up her signature 1970s Halston look when she won her second Tony Award® for The Act. With …
Read More »WYOMING: GOP Gov. Matt Mead Says State Should Not Appeal Marriage Ruling
Via the Casper Star-Tribune: Republican Gov. Matt Mead said the state shouldn’t appeal the same-sex marriage ruling due from U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. Mead spoke on the issue Thursday night during a Wyoming PBS debate in Riverton. Mead is seeking re-election Nov. 4. “The answer is no, we shouldn’t appeal the ruling,” he said. Skavdah, based in the …
Read More »Tonight In Manhattan
To celebrate #SpiritDay, the Empire State Building was illuminated purple tonight, the color that symbolizes spirit!? pic.twitter.com/XMjLii7EdI — Shane Bitney Crone (@ShaneBitney) October 16, 2014
Read More »ARIZONA: Attorney General Concedes Ninth Circuit Marriage Ruling Applies
Via Arizona Central: The fate of Arizona’s law defining marriage as between only a man and a woman rests on a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick, and a decision from Attorney General Tom Horne as to whether he will comply or continue to fight as similar laws around the country fall. Sedwick gave the parties in two …
Read More »Court To NOM: No, You Don’t Even Get Legal Fees For Your Failed IRS Lawsuit
Back in June a federal court declared that NOM had not “produced a shred of proof” that their donor information had been deliberated leaked to the Human Rights Campaign. The government did agree to pay NOM $50K for the “unintentional disclosure” of that information, prompting chairman John Eastman to hit Fox News and every teabagger site to declare victory – …
Read More »Focus On The Family On Houston
And again the wingnuts conveniently fail to disclose that the subpoenas are a standard discovery response to the lawsuit filed by the anti-gay hate group.
Read More »ALASKA: Gov. Sean Parnell Files Gay Marriage Stay Request With SCOTUS
From the filing: Should the Ninth Circuit decline to grant en banc hearing to reconsider Latta, then Alaska would have strong grounds to seek certiorari before judgment from this Court. 28 U.S.C. § 1254(1). By the time that petitioners’ en banc petition will have been decided by the Ninth Circuit, there is a reasonable likelihood that there will be a …
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