Finally, after years of avoiding any official confirmation, Jodie Foster just came out at the Golden Globe Awards. Receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for the many, many great films she has made over the past four decades, an obviously nervous Foste…
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Archives for January 13, 2013
Posts from January 13, 2013
Illinois Business Leaders: Marriage Equality Makes Cents
The Chicago Tribune reports that more than 40 Illinois-based companies and their leading executives have penned an open letter making the economic case for marriage equality in the Land of Lincoln: "To be competitive, a state must create an equi…
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News: Iran, Lone Gunman, Rhode Island, ‘The Gay All Black’
From The Guardian, a first-hand account of growing up gay in Iran: “I struggled. I was sure that I was sick. I thought all these desires were unholy and sinful. I sought a thousand different ways to rid myself of these thoughts, but alas it was…
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Colin Powell Defends Hagel, Chides Racist Republicans: VIDEO
Colin Powell, the former Secretary of State, defended Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel on Meet the Press today. Asked about Hagel's past remarks about gay people being unfit to represent the United States abroad, and whether those remarks wo…
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One-Half Of Gay Superhero Couple Comes Out In ‘Supurbia #4’
There is truly no rest for the weary in comic book-cum-soap opera Supurbia, Grace Randolph’s consistently entertaining monthly title from Boom! Studios. The poor heroes get home from fighting crime only to find an endless labyrinth of personal…
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Hundreds Of Thousands Protest Marriage Equality In Paris: VIDEO
Police estimate about 120,000 people took to Paris' streets today to protest marriage equality there. Organizers, mostly Catholics or Muslims who believe in "traditional marriage" and secular activists who oppose same-sex couples raisin…
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Anonymous Tweets Gay Love At Westboro
Hacktivist collective Anonymous' war against the anti-gay zealots at Westboro Baptist Church continues, and it is blissful. [Via JMG]…
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Topless Femen Activists Arrested Protesting Pope’s Anti-Gay Policies
Four women from Femen, the oft-topless activist group that fights for women's and LGBT rights, were arrested at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican while the Pope was speaking today. Baring their chests, and with slogans like "In Gay We Tr…
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In His Short Life, Aaron Swartz Refused To Be Categorized
The New York Times today has a very detailed, very well-written and very touching obituary for Aaron Swartz, the master coder who invented RSS, forever changing the way we use the internet, and who took his own life on Friday. Here is a snippet about…
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