Tag Archives: Seattle

Seattle’s Famed Bears Tie The Knot

Larry Duncan (left) and Randell Shepherd, whose marriage license photo rocketed around the world last week, ditched their country bear gear for the official ceremony on Sunday. (Tipped by JMG reader Bob)

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VIDEO: Same-Sex Weddings Performed During Seattle Chorus Concert

Clip description via JMG reader Sean Chapin: “December 9, 2012 was the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in the state of Washington. During the holiday concert on December 9 for Seattle Men’s Chorus (SMC), two couples were married on stage. Neil Hoyt (member of SMC) and his partner of 24 years, Donald Jenny, were married first. Then Jane …

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Yesterday In Seattle

Via email from Sean Chapin: This picture is of the Seattle Mens’ and Women’s Chorus (they’re gay-identifying choruses). During their weekend concert, one gay and one lesbian couple both with the longest relationships got married onstage, coinciding with the day when marriages became legal in Washington. From what I heard, the lesbian couple pictured here have been together for over …

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SEATTLE: 140 Gay Couples To Marry At City Hall On December 9th

Dan Savage is thrilled: More than 140 couples have registered to marry at City Hall on December 9, the first day that all couples will be free to legally marry in Washington state. All the available slots did book up quickly. Mayor McGinn and his team and the judges who are donating their time—all of whom have been wonderful—extended the …

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Seattle Marches For Marriage

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SF Rated America’s Best City 2012

So says Business Week: With assistance from Bloomberg Rankings, Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on leisure attributes (the number of restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, professional sports teams, and park acres by population); educational attributes (public school performance, the number of colleges, and graduate degree holders), economic factors (2011 income and June and July 2012 unemployment), crime, …

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WASHINGTON: Seattle Times Launches Campaign Backing Same-Sex Marriage

The Seattle Times has taken the unprecedented step of launching its own social media campaign in support of same-sex marriage. Do you support same-sex marriage? Join The Seattle Times editorial board’s social media campaign to approve Referendum 74 on the Nov. 6 ballot. In your Sunday Seattle Times newspaper on Sept. 16, turn to the opinion section. Look for the …

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Savage Vs Brown Was Last Night

The long-awaited dinner debate between Dan Savage and Brian Brown took place last night in Dan’s Seattle home. Many of you had sent me emails, tweets and Facebook messages wondering whether that dinner would ever take place, but Dan had asked that I not mention the exact date so the event could take place in a calm environment without confrontations …

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SEATTLE: Occupy Activists Dump $5000 In Marked Bills From A Hotel Window

Via Seattle Times: Activists tossed $5,000 off a downtown Seattle building Wednesday to protest money in politics. Dollar bills came swirling down just after 5 p.m. at Seventh Avenue and Pike Street, to the delight of tourists. The money was printed with the words “money as speech silences us all,” a statement of protest against court rulings that consider political …

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Talk About A Spoiler

Seattle’s Slog reports that last month a local theater employee gave away a key plot point in Prometheus as patrons presented their tickets. A man named Jorge who attended a recent showing of Prometheus got a politically charged spoiler alert from the employee who was tearing his tickets. “I have to warn you,” Jorge recalls the employee telling him and …

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Seattle Cops – It Gets Better

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Pride Weather Forecast

New York City.San Francisco.Chicago.Seattle.Houston.Minneapolis.

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Vatican Orders Crackdown On U.S. Nuns: You Aren’t Hating Homosexuals Enough

The Vatican has strongly reprimanded America’s 55,000 nuns, saying that they are not being vocal enough with denouncements of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. In many ways, the Vatican’s actions against the LCWR encapsulated the kind of hard line that many expected Benedict — the Vatican’s former doctrinal czar — to take when he was elected in 2005. “The current doctrinal …

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SEATTLE: Congregation Gives Standing Ovation To Priest Against Petition Drive

When Seattle’s Father Tim Clark told his congregation that he would not permit petitions to repeal same-sex marriage, he got a standing ovation. The parish became the sixth in Seattle to opt out of the petition drive for Referendum 74 that has been endorsed and foisted on parishes by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain. “I am happy to report that Our …

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Gay Journalist Eli Sanders Wins Pulitzer Prize For Story Of Lesbian’s Murder

Seattle Stranger reporter Eli Sanders has won the Pulitzer Prize for his story about the woman who survived an attacker who raped and killed her partner. (In 2009 the killer told the court: “God told me to rape and kill those lesbians.”) Here’s an excerpt from Sanders’ article: The reason for her sitting on the witness stand of a packed …

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Seattle Catholic Church Rejects Petitions

At least one Catholic church in the Seattle area is rejecting Archbishop J. Peter Sartain’s edict to collect petition signatures in support of repealing same-sex marriage.

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Starbucks Accepts Giant Thank You Card

Starbucks execs were on hand today when activists from the Sum Of Us delivered a giant “Thank You” card noting the almost 650,000 people who have shown their gratitude for supporting LGBT civil equality.

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Today In Christian Love™

Slog’s Dominic Holden posts the message that came with the above photo. Last week the University of Washington’s FoQus group for Queer Students held a food drive for the Lifelong Aids Alliance. We raised a lot of money and food that they desperately needed, all the while being picketed, loudly, in the middle of Red Square by church folk, who …

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Another Gay Military Homecoming

JMG reader Seattle Mike tips us to this: Sean Sutton, left, greets his boyfriend of 2 years, U.S. Navy sailor Jonathan Jewell, E5, with a kiss after Jewell returned from a seven month deployment aboard the USS Stennis on Friday, March 2, 2012 in Bremerton, Wash. The USS Stennis returned to its home port in Bremerton Friday, completing a seven-month …

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