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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 »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.”
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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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NASA explains today’s photo: The Great Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda (aka M31), a mere 2.5 million light-years distant, is the closest large spiral to our own Milky Way. Andromeda is visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch, but because its surface brightness is so low, casual skygazers can’t appreciate the galaxy’s impressive extent in planet Earth’s …
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