The South China Morning Post reports: Ten rights lawyers petitioned a key National People’s Congress commission yesterday, calling for legitimising same-sex marriage on the mainland, ahead of today’s annual International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. The lawyers, from law firms across the mainland, signed a joint letter calling for the law committee of the NPC to study the legalisation …
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TODAY: Anti-Gay Scouting Rallies
Dozens of anti-gay rallies will be held across the nation today in a last-minute bid to pressure the Boy Scouts to keep their ban on openly gay scouts and leaders. Backing the campaign, you’ll be shocked to know, is the Family Research Council.
Read More »ACLU To ABC: Have Cam & Mitch Marry
The ACLU is prodding ABC to have the gay characters on Modern Family get married. Having two main characters in a wildly popular show get married would put the issue of marriage equality in living rooms across the country and generate conversations about the importance of allowing same-sex couples to marry – the kinds of conversations that we know change …
Read More »LAUNCHED: Crowd-Sourcing Ploy To Outbid Koch Brothers For Tribune Papers
Mediaite reports: In an attempt to make sure neither the Koch brothers nor Rupert Murdoch obtain ownership of the Tribune Company and its major assets like the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, a liberal group has started a crowd-funding campaign to raise enough money to outbid both potential buyers and, in their belief, “take back the media.” “The …
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Window To Window
Residents of a luxury Tribeca building are angry about an art gallery’s exhibition of photos taken from an apartment across the street. From his second-floor apartment across the street, artist Arne Svenson secretly took photos of his neighbors through their oversized windows as they engaged in such personal things as bending over cleaning, taking naps and carrying sleeping kids to …
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Read More »Candice Glover Wins American Idol
Probably like most of you, I haven’t watched the show since Adam Lambert’s year, but in case anybody here cares, here’s last night’s announcement.
Read More »New Yorkers Rally Against Hate Crimes Outside Madison Square Garden
Hundreds of LGBT New Yorkers gathered outside Madison Square Garden last night in protest of the ongoing spree of violent anti-gay hate crimes, one of which occurred outside the famed sports venue. The protest was organized by Queer Rising and the LGBT Anti-Violence Project. Visit the Facebook page of Gay Marriage USA for many more photos and some of the …
Read More »WA Florist Counter-Sues
Last month Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a discrimination suit against florist Barronelle Stuzman for refusing to supply flowers for a same-sex wedding. Yesterday the anti-gay Alliance Defending Freedom counter-sued on her behalf. Via World Net Daily: “The Washington State Constitution, in Article 1, Section 11, absolutely protects ‘freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief, …
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