The Smithsonian has expressed an interest in acquiring the hoodie worn by Trayvon Martin on the night he was murdered. Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture told The Washington Post Martin’s hoodie represents an to further the discussion about race in America. “It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin …
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Christie Vs Paul, Round Five
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has rejected a peace offering by Sen. Rand Paul after their tit-for-tat feud stretched into a full week of returned insults. “We’re going to have to patch things up if we can sit down,” Paul said in an interview on Fox News. “I am inviting him for a beer, anytime he would like to come …
Read More »Anti-Quinn Group Posts Video Denouncing Her Support For NYPD Head Ray Kelly
WARNING: This video includes a scene in which the NYPD shoots a dog on an East Village street. Details of that incident are here. NOTE: This video was posted to a YouTube account with the name “BradHoylman2014.” In fact, openly gay state Sen. Hoylman has endorsed Christine Quinn.
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Anti-Gay Hate Group Tells Clerks In MN & RI They Don’t Have To Marry Gays
Just one day after NOM’s Brian Brown issued a spittle-flecked denouncement of the “lawless” politicians who defy same-sex marriage bans, Alliance Defending Freedom has issued a notice to clerks in Rhode Island and Minnesota, offering them free legal defense if they defy local marriage laws. Alliance Defending Freedom is advising officials responsible for issuing marriage licenses in Rhode Island and …
Read More »PENNSYLVANIA: “Fuck All You Libtards” Gun Nut Rural Sheriff Suspended
The crackpot rural Pennsylvania sheriff whose machine-gun-firing “fuck all you libtards” video went viral, has been suspended after a town meeting reportedly attended by thousands of supporters. The borough council in the coal town of Gilberton said that police Chief Mark Kessler used “borough property for non-borough purposes without prior borough permission” when he made the video where he’s seen …
Read More »NEW YORK CITY: Chelsea’s Rawhide Location To Become Pizza Chain Outlet
Back in March, I reported that Chelsea’s iconic Rawhide bar was closing after 34 years in business. Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York reports on what is going in at that location: Crain’s reports that Chelsea’s iconic gay leather bar is “being replaced by a West coast pizza chain, in another sign of the gentrification of the area around the popular High …
Read More »Marriages Begin In Rhode Island
Dozens of couples married in Minnesota last night at the stroke of midnight, but it appears that Rhode Island’s marriages just started this morning. Officials around Rhode Island began issuing licenses when offices opened at 8:30 a.m., including in Newport. A couple that have been together for 41 years, Federico Santi and John Gacher, arrived first thing at the Newport …
Read More »Kristin Chenoweth Sings About Weiner
Fabulous: “You will be popular, the right kind of popular. I’ll teach to zip your fly, you won’t be that guy, with a camera down his pants.”
Read More »CALIFORNIA: Catholic School Fires Gay Man After His Wedding Makes News
A Catholic high school in San Bernadino has fired a teacher after his same-sex wedding was covered by the local news. School administrators declined to discuss the firing on camera. But they did issue a statement that read, in part, “We respect and protect privacy interests and, to be respectful of those involved, the school does not comment on confidential …
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