All week long, Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe has been answering questions about his sexuality from Australia's newspapers, who seemed to have just discovered now that the diver has lived with his Brazilian housemate, Daniel Mendes, for the last three years and was photographed with him while the two vacationed together in Brazil, as friends do [...]
I know it's wrong to get so much pleasure out of crazy boycott's run by the American Family Association. It's just that when it comes to finding out the latest cool and gay marketing campaigns, they're our first source. Take for instance two new Pepsi commercials out now that have prompted AFA to declare a [...]
Now don't get us wrong. Hooters is one of our favorite places to go for wings and oyster shooters and we've been to more ironic gay birthday parties at the boobs and beer joint than we care to count, but with news that Hooters is getting competition from joints like Twink Peaks and Bone Daddy's, [...]
If you have not had the delight to come to the well-attended Integration event put on by Queer Fresno on Thursdays at Samba in the historic Tower District, then you sure are missing out. Where else can you start off with a pre-weekend event then in the fun, fresh, and fantastic venue of Samba? You can eat [...]
Bill O’Reilly is an a-hole and I love it when someone puts him in his place. By Courtney Hazlett The Scoop msnbc.com Jessica Alba is setting the record straight: Sweden was neutral during World War II. Alba and Fox TV show host Bill O’Reilly traded punches last week after the presidential inauguration. After Alba told a Fox reporter that [...]
Anyone who has traveled to thriving metropolitan areas filled with people from all walks of life would know that an efficient public transportation system is the cornerstone to a community of commerce. Imagine, a transportation system that is so proficient that even at it’s worst, one would not be disturbed by its faults simply because the authority [...]
OK. I'm aware of a lot of dumb stereotypes of homos by macho, ignorant straight guys, but this has to be the most moronic thing I've ever heard. Most of the gay folks I know consume meat, and most of the vegetarians I know are straight progressives. Is there some trend up in NYC where this all got conflated in the mind of this Wall Street Cro-Magnon? (
NYDN):
Ryan Pacifico is suing Calyon in the Americas, charging that his one-time boss at the French financial firm presided over a testosterone-fueled trading desk, where he was mocked for avoiding meat and wearing snug-fitting shorts during triathlons. "A trading floor is certainly a manly man's world," Pacifico said. "I just never expected someone to think it's gay to be a vegetarian or to constantly poke fun at me."
His boss, Robert Catalanello, sounds like a real winner of a guy in the complaint.
Catalanello's alleged abuse is the meat of the nine-page complaint, which accuses the boss of saying, "Who the f--- cares?" when another trader questioned what Pacifico would eat during an outing to a steakhouse. "It's his fault for being a vegetarian homo," Catalanello is accused of saying. The suit also charges that the boss crudely poked fun at Pacifico last March during a conversation about steakhouses.
"You don't even eat steak, dude," Catalanello is accused of saying. "At what point in time did you realize you were gay?"
H/t, Joe.My.God It must be depressing for the Log Cabin Republicans to find out that even after the ass-kicking the party received for its socially retrograde views, that in the race to anoint a new leader of the party they are using anti-gay tactics that feature the LCRs as the pariah to smear candidates with. Apparently former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele is perceived as too moderate
for the fringe base.
The RNC Chair race continues to push the party organization toward it's conservative base, and the latest salvo comes from James Bopp Jr., a committeeman and conservative litigator from Indiana, who isn't committed to a candidate but doesn''t seem to be a fan of Michael Steele. The hand-annotated, 13-page .pdf, emailed to RNC members, goes after Michael Steele for his association with two toxic parties: Former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, who has called for a return to the center, and the Log Cabin Republicans the gay GOP group.
The anti-gay nonsense is so ludicrous that
a simple email exchange by Patrick Sammon with a GOP operative is an issue for these clowns. This party is in freefall.
Posted over at my blog yesterday, but thought folks here might be interested in the latest salvo in Arizona's marriage equality scuffle.
A gay commitment ceremony planner in Phoenix has filed a proposal to create "civil partnerships" in Arizona that would entail all the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage but leave the magic word "marriage" to the straights. It's the usual list of visitation and inheritance rights, plus marriage-like requirements for financial support of spouse and children, as well as provisions for legal dissolutions mimicking divorce without calling it that. He even included a bit barring the partnership ceremonies from being performed during any religious service in order to calm fears among the more hysterical Christian set that their churches would be co-opted for leather bear weddings every Saturday in June (although that probably means the proposal automatically flunks constitutional muster, but I do appreciate the effort).
Cathi Herrod isn't biting.
Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, which backed both earlier ballot measures, said her group will oppose this plan to create what she called "marriage counterfeits."
"Marriage — and the benefits of marriage — should be reserved for one man and one woman," Herrod said.
So another day, another plea for special rights from the people who backed a constitutional amendment that was marketed as only being about protecting sacred sacred marriage from the homos, and goodness me of course isn't about taking anyone's rights away and certainly isn't going to keep anyone from hiring very expensive lawyers to cobble together some documents that don't cover every contingency and may or may not stand up in the face of opposition from conservative ICU nurses or distant Baptist relatives you met once who are more entitled to your property after you die than is your partner of thirty years. Of course it's not about that.
Except, of course, when it is.
It looks like our neighbors to the north are planning to expand their Domestic Partnership program, while keeping up their campaign for marriage equality. Read the news at the Seattle Times website.
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Wondering how to celebrate the February 4th anniversary of Oregon's ground-breaking Domestic Partnership law? How about taking in compelling and timely film? Local community activist and filmmaker Brooks Nelson will be premiering his film "Switch: A Community in Transition" at 7pis film "Switch: A Community in Transition" at 7pm in on Feb 4 at the Hollywood Theater in Portland.
PFLAG Canada Accepts $20,000 Donation From Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK (Marketwire) — In a generous expression of its continued commitment to issues of equality and social justice, the staff from the Canadian Auto Workers Union has donated $20,000 to PFLAG Canada. PFLAG Canada supports diversity initiatives in schools and the workplace by [...]
According to a press release issued this week by Wiley-Blackwell / BJU International and one UK researcher byresearcher by the name of Dr Polyxeni Dimitropoulou: ‘Frequent sex and masturbation in 20s and 30s linked to higher prostate cancer risk — But study also shows that risks diminish with age, particularly in a man’s 50s’ — I [...]
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