Suze Orman: Don’t Let Marriage Inequality Stop You From Protecting Your Partner – VIDEO

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from ontopmag.com and afterellen.com

Money guru Suze Orman has released a new video on what gay couples can do to financially protect themselves in the absence of marriage.

In the 2-minute Ask The Expert video from NewNowNext, Orman, who is openly gay, reminds legally married couples that they are not completely protected because the federal government does not recognize the marriages of gay and lesbian couples.

“I want you all to listen to me right now, ’cause I really have some news that you need to understand,” Orman said. “Even though your state may say that you can legally get married in that state, the truth of the matter is the federal government does not, does not, and does not recognize it.”

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Developers reject winning design of NYC Aids Memorial Park Competition

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Last November was the launch for the NYC AIDS Memorial Park Design Campaign, and the organizers have chosen a winner! First place goes to ’Infinite Forest’ by studio a+i: Mateo Paiva, Lily Lim, John Thurtle, Insook Kim, Esteban Erlic. The concept has three mirrors making a triangle surrounding white birch trees and focuses more on the abstract without specific reference to names or dates.

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HAM radio operator? Gay? There’s a club for that!

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Are you a HAM radio operator?  LGBT? Then this might be the group for you!

I’ve been a licensed Amateur Radio Service operator since 1991.  In that time I’ve been on FM voice in the VHF and UHF bands, on computer-to-computer links via radio (called packet radio), on live television (yes, we can do TV!), GPS map tracking over radio (APRS), and Internet linking that allows me to use a walkie-talkie to communicate almost anywhere in the world! Even McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

All this and shortwave communications around the world are possible to licensed Amateur Radio Operators!  Check out the hobby/service. We’d be glad to have you join us.

73, KC6YRU

Rogue 2012 is coming!!! March 1-10, 2012.

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“Think about it as this swirling circus of originality and creativity that magically appears once a year to tickle, inspire and fire the imagination … unabashedly celebrating and stretching the wonders of the possible.”

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I suppose this is the reason they refer to it as the “blues”

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I know we don’t know each other very well, and this may seem like a little much so early on in our relationship, but I gotta tell you something: I’ve been a little depressed lately.  I know I’m not supposed to be and I know I don’t wanna be, but I know what I know- even if it’s wrong.

Wrong because there’s no ‘supposed to’s when it comes to feelings, right? You feel what you feel and it’s up to you to decide what you do with the feelings, but you’re not responsible for your feelings.

Or are you? Either way I feel bad about feeling depressed, so there’s that.

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New study at Fresno State seeks participants

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My name is Lisa McAlister.  I am a graduate student at California State University, Fresno, Department of Social Work Education, conducting a narrative study concerning how women who have undergone conversion therapy story its impact on their lives.

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Washington Democratic Senator Mary Margaret Haugen Announces Support for Marriage Equality

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After some deep soul searching, Senator Mary Margaret Haugen has announced that she will support marriage equality in Washington, giving the state the needed 25th vote to pass the marriage bill. The Senator talks about her deeply religious history and how, ultimately, the Golden Rule made her decide that marriage equality should move forward.

“I have very strong Christian beliefs, and personally I have always said when I accepted the Lord, I became more tolerant of others.  I stopped judging people and try to live by the Golden Rule.  This is part of my decision.  I do not believe it is my role to judge others, regardless of my personal beliefs. Continue reading →

Jennifer’s Eulogy to EricJames

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At his chosen family memorial, Jennifer McGuire, the “Mama Badger” who took Eric into her home after he was kicked out of his parent’s, gave this moving eulogy.  The crowd was in tears as it rose to its feet in applause at the end.

“As he wrote in his note to me, “Oh God, where do I begin?” I know there are people who knew him longer and there are people who may have known him better, but over the last year, and especially the last three months we lived together, EricJames was My Boy, and my heart is broken.
And I will never get over this, but We will get through it.
As much as I would love everything I say today to be cutesy antidotes and sappy remembrances, and there will be those, don’t worry, but there are also some things I need to make sure are said, said out loud, said for him, for all of us.
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Tony Perkins gets panties in a bunch over gay content in video game.

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So if you’re a gaymer, you might have noticed how videos games as of late are including gay content, Dragon Age II, Mass Effect 3, and with the latest announcement, Star Wars: The Old Republic. Pretty awesome right? Well Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, is calling out for his listeners to barrage Bioware with comments “to show companies who the Force is really with!” in a radio bulletin entitled ‘Rebel Fleet Surrenders to Gay Empire’.

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