Tag Archives: Minnesota

A lesbian couple who successfully fought to attend their Minnesota high school’s Snow Days party as members of the royalty court were greeted with cheers from their classmates as they entered the room last night. Sarah Lindstrom and Desiree Shelton wore matching black suits with pink ties and held hands as they entered the Snow Days Pep Fest at Champlin …

Openly gay Minnesota high school student Lance Lundsten, 18, committed suicide this weekend. Friends are blaming bullying. Around 10 p.m. Saturday the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to an emergency call at the Lundsten’s residence in Miltona. When officers arrived, they discovered 18-year-old Lance Lundsten needing emergency medical care. Lundsten was transported to the Douglas County Hospital where he later …

Via AdRants: “For Caribou Coffee, Colle+McVoy created transit shelters in Minneapolis that look like ovens, complete with real heaters, to highlight the “Hot ‘n Wholesome” goodness of Caribou Coffee’s new menu items.”

“That is one of the tactics that they are using now, to say that by not legitimizing and normalizing homosexuality, we are creating an atmosphere in the schools that is hostile to quote-end-quote gay kids. What they are doing is just the opposite themselves. They are creating an environment where these children that are sexually confused suddenly become affirmed as …

Tonight’s Vikings-Giants game will not take place.

So much for the huge donation Target made to the campaign of anti-gay bigot Tom Emmer. Via Washington Post: Republican Tom Emmer has conceded the Minnesota governor’s race to former Sen. Mark Dayton (D), bringing a close to the last undecided governor’s race of 2010 and finalizing the playing field for the 2011 nationwide redistricting. “Minnesotans have made their choice, …

Via a press release from Marry Me Minnesota, we learn of a positive development that took place last week. On November 24th, Minnesota Fourth District Court Judge Mary S. DuFrense denied a motion by the Minnesota Family Council to intervene as defendants against a lawsuit brought by three same same-sex couples and one minor child to strike down Minnesota laws …

Larger interactive version here. We’re certainly enjoying that dark blue in California, aren’t we? Florida remains troublesome, with teabagger and Medicare fraudster Rick Scott maintaining a slight lead over Democrat Alex Sink. In Illinois state Sen. Bill Brady is in a toss-up with Gov. Pat Quinn, who had the unenviable job of taking over for Rod Blogojevich. In Minnesota former …

This is (by my count) the ninth consecutive ad from Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann in which her own name is not mentioned, other than in the opening disclaimer.

Democrat Mark Dayton’s lead over anti-gay douchebag Tom Emmer is widening. Let’s hope Target wasted all that money.

The BLEEP cracked me up.

About 25 students wearing rainbow buttons in protest of the Catholic Church’s recent anti-gay DVD campaign were denied communion on Sunday by Archbishop John Nienstedt. The St. John’s action was coordinated by students, including members of People Representing the Sexual Minority (PRiSM), which represents gay and lesbian students and their friends and allies. That Sunday, according to those at the …

“Youth who embrace homosexuality are at greater risk, because they’ve embraced an unhealthy sexual identity and lifestyle. These alternative sexual identifications or lifestyles deny the reality that we are created male and female. To live or try to live in conflict with how we are made will invariably cause problems, e.g. emotional, psychological and social. Notwithstanding gay activist assertions to …

Now playing in Minneapolis.

The Democrats are really playing rough.