Tweet Same-sex couples will be considered “family relationships” in immigration proceedings, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a move that could help stem the deportation of those in gay or lesbian binational relationships. Read more about it at: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/28/14140024-us-immigration-chief-same-sex-ties-are-family-ties
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Activist playwright Wayne Self is a Huffington Post blogger, GLAAD media partner, and composer whose essays and plays have, at times, catapulted him to national prominence on issue ranging from religious culture to LGBT equality. His latest musical, Upstairs, about the deadliest crime against LGBT people in U.S. history, the 1973 arson fire at the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, premieres in New Orleans this June on the 40th anniversary of the fire.
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Monthly Archives: September 2012
US immigration chief: Same-sex ties are family ties
Chick-Fil-A Veteran: Employees ‘Expect To Get Patted On The Back’ For Anti-Gay Hate
Tweet A 9-year veteran of Chick-Fil-A describes the working environment there… read all about it at The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/chick-fil-a-veteran-employees-expect-to-get-patted-on-the-back-for-anti-gay-hate/politics/2012/09/28/49923
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Support for gay marriage jumps in Illinois
Tweet Compared to results from two years ago in the 2010, the number of Illinois residents who say gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to marry is up ten points. Read all about it at: http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/33590944
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TODAY: National Voter Registration Day — Here’s How You Can Make Sure Everyone Votes
Tweet The New Civil Rights Movement has an excellent post on ensuring you and everyone you know are registered and able to vote in this fall’s important election. Check it out here: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/today-national-voter-registration-day-heres-how-you-can-make-sure-everyone-votes/politics/2012/09/25/49687
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The Chick Fellatio Ep. IV: A New Hope? Nope.
Tweet Dear Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno, Emily Dickinson said, “Hope is the thing with feathers.” She never dealt with Chick-fil-A. You got it right when you called their latest statement to Mike Huckabee “disturbing.” After all, the statement denied any “concessions” it had made to you in negotiations to end its harmful giving practices...
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Romney’s donations to “charity” include funding for anti-gay groups and promoters of ex-gay therapy.
Tweet “As soon as Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns were released, newspapers unleashed a flood of credulous stories touting his supposedly large charitable contributions.” But there was a dark under-belly to those contributions… read the whole story here: http://www.thenation.com/blog/170105/romneys-ungenerous-donations
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The Facts on Chick-fil-A’s Harmful Giving
Tweet by Wayne Self Here are the facts on Chick-fil-A’s harmful giving. On the Family Research Council and criminalization of same-gender sexual activity: From the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website. (Some may attack the credibility of the Southern Poverty Law center as “liberal”. If they do, please direct them here to learn what an Ad Hominem attack is...
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Theocrat: Prologue
Tweet by Hank Cannon I woke up swathed in suffocating darkness. Panicking, I screamed, struggled and cursed and I was out in diffuse light, standing next to a table where green tinted, white beaked shadows backed away from a shape on a table obscured by a dark tarp. Thick braided cords of light...
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Transguy: Packing Privilege
Tweet by Ryan Legg NB: When I use the terms ‘men’ and ‘women’ in this essay, I’m using them to refer to anyone who identifies in that particular way, regardless of chromosomal makeup or downstairs plumbing. — Let’s talk about privilege. I’m a white guy living in North America. Even better, I’m able-bodied, of...
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Dog Magic
Tweet by Michael Baugh No one knows for sure why we bond so closely with our pets. For me it was a dog, Juno. Three years after her death I still pine for her, write about her, and shed tears for her if the right song comes on at the wrong time. I will...
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