Yesterday I reported that the tiny Arizona town of Bisbee had approved civil unions. Here's a video (via jmg) of the meeting leading up to the City Council's 5-2 vote to recognize them. In the video, several people get up and declare homosexu…
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Archives for April 4, 2013
Posts from April 4, 2013
David Letterman Lets His Anger About Anti-Gay Discrimination Rip in Discussion with Rachel Maddow: VIDEO
David Letterman had a sit down with Rachel Maddow last night and let his opinion about marriage equality and frustration over anti-gay discrimination rip: "I'm just sick and tired, and I think it has really crossed the line of being nonsense…
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Texas A&M Student Senate Passes Measure Allowing Religion-Based Discrimination Against Campus GLBT Center
The Texas A&M Student Senate last night voted 35-28 in favor of a measure allowing students to opt out of funding the campus GLBT Resource Center if they have religious objections, the Dallas Voice reports: Less than 24 hours before the vote, the…
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Bryan Fischer Blasts Bill O’Reilly as a ‘Pompous, Arrogant Windbag’ for Calling Him a ‘Bible Banger’: VIDEO
The American Family Association's lead spokeshater Bryan Fischer is outraged at Bill O'Reilly for his remarks that anti-gay activists are losing the marriage battle, particularly his designation of them as "Bible thumpers", Right Wi…
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A Touching Video Tribute to Australia’s Fight for LGBT Equality: WATCH
A compilation of Aussie pop culture, news items and politics on the topic of equality. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP… (via dna magazine)…
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Piers Morgan Asks Michael Reagan About Anti-Gay Remarks: ‘If I Don’t Mention Those Things You Don’t Invite Me On” – VIDEO
In a column published earlier this week, Ronald Reagan's son Michael demanded "moral outrage" from churches over same-sex marriage and said it's a "slippery slope" to alternative relationships and amoral things like polyga…
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A New Trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ Has Arrived: VIDEO
A new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby has hit the web today and features music from Beyoncé x André 3000, Florence + The Machine, and a moody track from Lana Del Rey. Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP……
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Jon Stewart Mocks Dr. Ben Carson’s Anti-Gay Remarks and GOP Efforts to Rebrand: VIDEO
Jon Stewart checked in last night on the Republican Party's effort to rebrand its image and notes that since then they've failed spectacularly, labeling immigrants "wetbacks", comparing gays to pedophiles, polygamists, and people wh…
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Daughter Patti Davis: Ronald Reagan Would Have Supported Marriage for Gay Couples
Patti Davis, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, says he would have supported marriage equality, she tells the NYT: But Ms. Davis, now 60, offered several reasons her father, who would have been 102 this year, would have bucked his party…
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PFLAG Founder Jeanne Manford Honored in Plaque on NYC Church Where Organization Was Born
PFLAG founder Jeanne Manford, who died in January at 92, and founded Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) in 1972, has been honored in a plaque that will be affixed later this year to the Greenwich Village church where the orga…
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