BY SAM GREISMAN A look back at today's top stories WINGNUTTERY Celebrity chef (and butter enthusiast) Paula Deen released two videos today begging for public forgiveness for her ridiculous racism. We shall see if anyone listens. A congressm…
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Archives for June 21, 2013
Posts from June 21, 2013
Ashton Kutcher Channels Apple Founder Steve Jobs in New Biopic: VIDEO
Here's the new trailer for jOBS, the upcoming biopic about the late Apple founder. Yahoo! writes: If the trailer is any indication, "Jobs" is a particularly abbreviated and fractured biopic; indeed, ten years go by in about a second and…
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Department of Education to Collect Anti-LGBT Bullying Data Nationwide
GLSEN's executive director Eliza Byard reports: Just a few minutes ago, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Education made a groundbreaking announcement – it intends to collect data in schools nationwide about anti-LGBT bullying as pa…
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Robyn Does Some Gender-Bending in Snoop Dogg Collaboration: VIDEO
Swedish pop star Robyn today dropped a video for "U Should Know Better", a three-year-old track featuring Snoop Dogg from her Body Talk Pt. 2 album, and the video features a pair of gender-flipped doubles for the two singers. Watch, AFTER T…
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Obama Nominates Gay Man as U.S. Ambassador to Australia
John Berry, the former director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was nominated Friday as U.S. ambassador to Australia, the White House announced on Friday. On background from the White House: John Berry served as the Director of the Office…
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Hundreds Of Anti-Gay Activists Pledge To Defy Any Supreme Court Ruling Favoring Marriage Equality
Over two hundred Christian anti-gay activists and organizations have signed a letter threatening to ignore any upcoming Supreme Court ruling favoring gay marriage. The letter, filled with inflammatory rhetoric, has been signed by a "who's wh…
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Disney Channel Announces The Network’s First Gay Characters
The Disney Channel will be passing a historic milestone early next year with the introduction of the first LGBT characters to ever appear on the channel. TV Guide reports that a 2014 episode of Good Luck Charlie will include a lesbian couple, t…
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North Carolina Repeals Law Protecting Death Row Inmates from Racial Discrimination
The Racial Justice Act doesn't sound like the kind of law that you repeal, but that's exactly what happened this week in North Carolina. CNN has more on the disheartening news out of the Tar Heel State: North Carolina's governor sa…
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Paula Deen Releases Two Statements Apologizing for Racist Remarks, Removes One: VIDEO
Paula Deen released two videos this afternoon apologizing for racist remarks she made in a deposition (transcript) for a discrimination lawsuit brought by her former employee Lisa Jackson in which she admitted to using the N-word, making racist and a…
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Prominent Blogger Says At Least 3 Anti-Gay Members Of Congress Are Gay; One Will Be Outed Soon
Mike Rogers, a blogger who gained fame in the mid 2000s by "outing" prominent anti-gay politicians, says he currently knows of three anti-gay members of the U.S. House of Representatives who are themselves gay. U.S. News reports: Rogers ref…
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