BY ARI EZRA WALDMAN This term at the Supreme Court will decide what gay rights law will look like for a decade. But, before we get to the substance, we have to deal with some procedure: On Friday, November 30, the justices will meet to de…
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Archives for November 29, 2012
Posts from November 29, 2012
Michigan School Suspends Teacher For Playing Pro-Gay ‘Same Love’: VIDEO
South Lyon’s Centennial Middle School in Michigan suspended performing arts teacher Susan Johnson for letting a student play Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ pro-marriage equality song “Same Love.” Even though the song is about celebrating everyone, the sc…
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Homophobia, Income Inequality Hinder HIV Services
The Global Forum on MSM & HIV’s latest report shows once again that economic inequality and homophobia inhibits access to condoms, lubricants and other HIV-related preventions and treatments. And, not surprisingly, so too does homophobia, p…
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Bryan Fischer Claims Michelangelo Signorile Supports Anti-Gay Death Penalty: VIDEO
Hateful radio host Bryan Fischer is trying to justify his support for Uganda’s hideously anti-gay law by claiming, falsely, that progressive and out radio host Michelangelo Signorile endorses a death penalty for gay people. Yes, that’s right: gay rad…
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Fortress Of Attitude Release ‘PS: Gay Car’ VIDEO
What do you do if you get a letter describing your car and your parking job as “gay”? And what if the anonymous sender says, no, he has nothing against gay people, but your parking spot just totally gay, and then even puts a post script reading “gay…
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Nate Silver Talks Shop At Google HQ: VIDEO
Nate Silver, the world’s most beloved statistician, stopped by Google’s California headquarters to discuss his new book, The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st Century, how to deal with internet trolls and why past predict…
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President Obama Signs World AIDS Day Proclamation
President Obama today signed an official proclamation recognizing this year's World AIDS Day. "Creating an AIDS-free generation is a shared responsibility," the commander-in-chief said in his prepared remarks. More from the remarks, whi…
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Join Cleve Jones and ONE’s Fight Against HIV/AIDS
In anticipating of World AIDS Day this weekend, activist Cleve Jones called on a few of his friends, including Colin Farrell, Kellan Lutz and Zoe Saldana Lark Voorhies, to participate in a new video series for the group ONE’s campaign fight against H…
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Civil Unions Headed To Colorado Sooner Rather Than Later
With many anti-gay Republicans routed out of Colorado’s state government, LGBT activists and Democratic officials are confident they can finally pass civil unions there. And according to the Denver Post, they’re going to start almost imme…
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Creationists Ain’t Going To Like This: VIDEO
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown from AsapSCIENCE put together this video compressing the planet’s 4.5 billion years of history into the span of 24 hours. We’re only a little after noon. Watch and learn AFTER THE JUMP.…
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