Author Archives: Nathan Simpson

Harvey Milk Day- Gotta give them hope!

Posted on May 22, 2013 | 2 Comments

Today is Harvey Milk Day, and a day for hope. It’s always good to revisit his speech.

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Florida Girl Arrested and Expelled for Gay Relationship

Posted on May 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

k.huntFlorida teen Kaitlyn Hunt has just experienced a grave injustice due to a technicality in the law. At the start of the school year, Kaitlyn Hunt was 17 years-old, and dating a girl three years younger than her, which is not all too uncommon in high schools these days.

The trouble comes shortly after Kaitlyn Hunt’s 18th birthday, when, her girlfriend’s parent’s had Hunt arrested for “sexual battery on a person 12-16 years old.” The girlfriend was 15 years-old at the time.

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Infographic of where same-sex couples are raising kids

Posted on May 21, 2013 | 2 Comments

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The Williams Institute has just released a study with some very interesting numbers. With New York and San Francisco being the Gay Meccas of the United States, one might assume they have the most same-sex couples raising children. However, you’d be wrong. As it turns out, the Mormon stronghold that is Salt Lake City, Utah comes in first, with 26% of same-sex couples raising kids, and homo-hating Virginia comes in a close second with 24%!

What?!

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Free Admission tomorrow at GLBT History Museum for Harvey Milk Day

Posted on May 21, 2013 | Leave a comment
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Honoring Harvey Milk at The GLBT History Museum:
Free Admission, Tours and Activities Set for May 22
California marks Harvey Milk’s birthday, May 22, as an annual statewide day of significance. The GLBT History Museum will honor the occasion this year by giving free admission to all visitors and providing special Milk-related displays and tours. In addition, the museum is extending a welcome to Bay Area schools, many of which plan GLBT history activities in conjunction with Harvey Milk Day.

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Sally Ride to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Posted on May 21, 2013 | Leave a comment

sally.rideYesterday Obama announced he is awarding Sally Ride, the United States’ first female astronaut, the Nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This award is only given to “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” I’d say that definitely describes Sally Ride.

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A country Marriage Equality song?!

Posted on May 20, 2013 | 3 Comments

Some of the better country I’ve heard recently!

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Britain's Gay Marriage Headache

Posted on May 20, 2013 | Leave a comment

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Good lord, just when I think I have a window to ditch this scene, I'm pulled back in. For a fortnight now I've been trying to write about something, anything, outside of the UK and with the gears of Westminster now steadily grinding out the latest EU nightmare, it seemed like a good time to look abroad. Scandal in America, political upheaval in Pakistan, Syria somehow finding another rung down on the ladder to hell...

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Great post about the state of marriage in Britain. Seems like our respective Conservative parties use much of the same tactics.

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