Archives for June 6, 2014

Posts from June 6, 2014

Weekend Movies: The Fault in Our Stars (and a little Maleficent)

Ubiquitous Shailene Woodley. This time with cancer. BY NATHANIEL ROGERS Shailene Woodley is everywhere. Which… well, I hope you like looking at her face. Not content to be the face of the post-Hunger Games YA dystopia fever (D…
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Wisconsin’s Ban on Gay Marriage

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb (pictured) has struck down Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage. From the ruling: It is DECLARED that art. XIII, § 13 of the Wisconsin Constitution violates plaintiffs' fundamental right to marry and…
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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #1594

DEPT. OF BAD GUESSES: Beach Boys edition. SOMETHING ATE THIS SHARK: But what? THIS WEEK: In unnecessary censorship. JAMES BERRY: Biphobia. For recent Guides to the Tube, click HERE.…
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News: Zachary Quinto, The Moon, Demi Lovato, Cupcakes

NCLR says it won't support ENDA because of religious exemption. Researchers claim to have found evidence of the planet 'Theia', which crashed into Earth billions of years ago to form the Moon. VIDEO: Demi Lovato knows that aliens and merm…
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News: Zachary Quinto, The Moon, Demi Lovato, Cupcakes

Lucky Charms for LGBT Pride, Diversity: VIDEO

General Mills/Lucky Charms has launched its #LuckyToBe social media campaign to celebrate LGBT Pride and the diversity that makes the world a colorful place. "We don't all look the same, believe the same things, or love the same people. And…
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Out Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan Jumps in to Oakland Mayoral Race

Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan, who came in third in the city's 2010 mayoral race, has decided to run again, joining more than a dozen people challenging Mayor Jean Quan this fall, the SF Chronicle reports: Kaplan, 43, told The Chronicle tha…
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Proposition 8, ‘Instant History’, And The Plaintiff Heroes

BY DAVID MIXNER At a dinner party the other night, a guest spoke up and said, "The Proposition 8 case has almost become its own industry. They have the plays, the movies, the documentaries, the books and soon to come will be the coffee cups and…
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Judge Dismisses Most of NOM Lawsuit Against IRS

BY LISA KEEN A federal district court judge on June 3 dismissed most of a lawsuit by the National Organization for Marriage that claimed an employee of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service deliberately leaked a confidential tax document from NOM to a po…
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HIV ‘Criminals’ Cut Free of GPS Monitoring Devices After Iowa Removes Outdated Law: VIDEO

At this week's HIV is Not a Crime conference at Grinnell College, Nick Rhoades and Donald Bogardus were cut free from their GPS monitoring devices on stage in a symbolic celebration of the legislature overturning Iowa's outdated HIV criminali…
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