Bob Costas took a moment during NBC's coverage last night to comment on the state of human rights in Russia, one the first times during the Sochi Olympics wherein the network has acknowledged the issue on air. Said the newscaster: The Sochi games…
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Archives for February 22, 2014
Posts from February 22, 2014
First Marriages Take Place in Chicago, Cook County
The first same-sex couples was married in Cook County, Illinois yesterday, just hours after a federal judge ruled that gay couples could start marrying immediately. WLS-TV explains how the very first gay couple to marry made their decisi…
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Virginia Delegate Mark Sickles: ‘I Am A Proud, Gay Man’
Virginia Delegate Mark D. Sickles publicly came out in an opinion piece published in the Washington Post yesterday. This makes him the second openly gay member of the state legislature. He writes: My life is hardly a secret to political f…
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NASA Image Shows 88 Percent Ice Cover on Great Lakes: PHOTO
The polar vortex has caused record ice coverage on the Great Lakes this year. NASA published this photo taken by its Aqua satellite on February 19, 2014: Ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes reached 88 percent in mid-February 2014—levels not obse…
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Michael Sam Holds First Press Conference, Says He Wants To Be Seen As ‘Michael Sam The Football Player’: Video
Missouri defensive end and NFL draft prospect Michael Sam held his very first press conference today since he publicly came out as gay. Some highlights are below. On gay slurs in the locker room: “I’ve been in locker rooms where all kinds of slu…
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Russian Gay Activist Disrupts Scott Lively’s Speech at Anti-LGBT Event in D.C. – VIDEO
At a ‘pro-family’ press conference in D.C. on Friday, evangelist Scott Lively was caught on camera being heckled by Viacheslav Revin, a Russian gay activist and refugee in the U.S. Queer Russia reports: Revin disrupted Scott Lively’s presentation and…
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Movies: Elaine Stritch is Still Here in the Must-See ‘Shoot Me’
Stritch gets ready for another show… and then another… and then another BY NATHANIEL ROGERS I saw Elaine Stritch’s famous one woman Broadway show “At Liberty” in the last days of 2001 a couple of years after moving to New York. I’m…
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Owners Of Arizona Pizzeria Flex Their Rights
Via Rocco's Little Chicago Pizzeria in Tuscon, comes an inventive way to protest the hateful discrimination bill approved by the House on Thursday. Owner Anthony Rocco DiGrazia on why he put up the sign: "The response…
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Ukrainian President Flees Kiev, Presidential Palace Seized
Major developments this morning in Ukraine, where opposition leaders have taken control of the presidential palace and parliament has voted to remove president Viktor F. Yanukovych from his post. The New York Times reports: Oppositi…
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Police Arrest 32 LGBT Activists At Idaho State Capitol
Thirty-two people demanding Idaho lawmakers add the words "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" to that state's anti-discrimination laws were arrested at the state Capitol on Thursday. The Associated Press reports:…
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