In a new campaign from New Zealand people are saying WTF to homophobia and asking for support to keep the LGBT supportive organisations running. You can help by donating and sharing the video with all you know. Check out their website for more info!
Because this has always been one of my all-time very favorite songs; and because Bonnie Raitt is a legend, a genius, and by far the awesomest celebrity whose acquaintance it has ever been my pleasure to make; and because I think as many people as possible should see and rejoice in this beautiful, queer-positive video, here’s this:
It seems the Target Corporation doesn’t know what to do with the issue of marriage equality. On the one side, the Minneapolis-based retailer has partnered with the Family Equality Council, donating all the proceeds from their Pride shirts up to $120,000. Now $120,00 is nothing to shake a stick at. However, back in 2010 Target donated $150,000 to the Republican PAC MN Forward, which backed anti-gay canidate Tom Emmer. So all things being equal, the pro-LGBT side of target is still owed $30,000.
Also something to note is the T-shirts are only being sold online, not in the stores. Continue reading
Qucik, who is Jack Antonoff? Here’s a hint.
LGBT Americans for Obama, a site by the Obama campaign, has posted this video,
President Obama and the fight for LGBT rights
Cesar Milan, the Dog Whisperer, has made a “It Gets Better” video. Milan came to the United States poor and unable to speak English. He even lived on the street for two months. Things have changed for Milan, and he reminds us to go with our gifts, and we each have them, and things will get better.
CNN’s Wofl Blitzer today asked former United States Secretary of State and Joint Chief of Staff Colin Powell about marriage equality, and if he agreed with the President. Powell replied that he “had no problem with it”.
Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon when Congress passed the now infamous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (and the forgotten Don’t Pursue)” policy in the mid-1990′s. He first supported the repeal of DADT, and now comes out in support of marriage equality.
God Hates No One
(gawker.com)
The notion of God, whatever or whoever s/he is, hating anything runs completely counter to any idea I’ve ever heard or could ever embrace about a Creator or the Life Force in the Universe. But sometimes you have to meet the opposing team on their playing field, in which spirit we will stipulate, for the sake of this argument, that God is an old, white Christian man with a long white beard mired in resentment and hatred towards His own creation. It’s a stretch, but stay with me.
We’ve all seen the signs: God Hates Fags! God Hates America (except for the First Amendment part)! God Hates Everyone Except Me!! They are painted and waved by the members (all related) of an itty bitty Kansas “church” that is founded on the one and only belief that homosex is the worst of all possible sins, and that God works tirelessly to destroy our nation and its citizens as retribution for “allowing” it to happen (because there might be a way to stop it). They picket at Pride parades and military funerals and basically anyplace where they figure they’ll be able to get a good spot in front of the cameras, and obsessively spew this singular message. Continue reading
As you probably already know, today is Harvey Milk Day. Today is a day for reflection. To reflect on how Harvey Milk and others advanced human rights, and the cost at which that progress sometimes comes. Stuart Milk, Harvey Milk’s nephew and president of the Harvey Milk Foundation, wrote about his uncle in the 3rd Official Harvey Milk Day Statement:
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Today my uncle would have been 82 years old, however, he gave us his life 32 years ago knowing that the first of any civil rights movement, who so clearly and loudly proclaim their right to equality, most often meets a violent and sudden end.
